Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97. 1 2 I

   appearing as yet no such Order, and fearing longer delay of Lib. H. D.

   interring the same may prove obnoxious to the parts here

   abouts; therefore Ordered that imediate care be taken for

   preparing a Vault to lay the said Bodies in, and that the

   Ceremony of interring the same be performed at the next

   Provinciall Court with all the decency & Grandure the consti

   tution and circumstance of Affairs will admitt off; And that

   three brass Guns, being all that's to be had be in readiness

   and the Militia of the adjacent parts.

     It being discoursed at the Board that there had been a

   Rumour & Report in England how that this Province of

   Maryland (vpon the death of the late Governour Copley)

   would in all probability have been in as great confusion and

   distraction as it was in the time of the Revolution if in case

   his Exncy Sr Edmond Andros Governour of Virginia had not Whitehall

   come over to appease and settle the same in quiet; and it

   being further Noised in Virginia that if his Exncy Edmond

   Andros had not a second time come over at the last Provin

   ciall Court here held the said Court must necessarily have

   fallen for want of sufficient number of Justices to hold the

   same whereby a totall failure of Justice must consequently

   have followed—

   (}overnrs His Exncy desired to know and be informed from

   Queries to

   the Councill the Board whether these things were so or not; sup

   relating to posing severall of the Gentlemen here present to be

   Andros's at the transaction of all these Affairs, therefore willed

   coming over them to give some Account in relation to the

   hither &ca

        W:   premises—

   Councills To which the Gentlemen of the Councill now

     Answer to the Governrs present do respectively answer as follows, Vizt That

   Quaeries vpon the death of the late Governour Copley which

   relating to Sr Edmond happened the 9th of September, the Gentlemen of

          the Councill (to witt) Sr Thomas Laurence, Coll

   Nehemiah Blakiston, Coll Nicholas Greenberry, Coll Charles Whitehall

   Hutchins, Coll David Browne, Thomas Tench Esqr Capt John

   Addison Capt John Courts & Thomas Brooke Esqr were mett

   at the City of St Maries the 20th following To which the

   Assembly of the Province was by the late Governours Procla

   mation called to Meet likewise by the time aforesaid and in a p. 44

   dispute between Sr Thomas Laurence and Coll Blakiston con

   cerning the Right to the Presidentship of the Province of

   Maryland had Agreed to a Conference with the Assembly in

   Order to an Amicable Agreement for setieing the Governmt

   according to the Kings Commission as appears by the Journall

   of the House of the said Assembly but vpon a Letter sent