Xli                   Preface.

    America erected, in memory of Gov. Nicholson, in the McCoy Building,

    Johns Hopkins University, a tablet with this inscription:

                             To

                 Commemorate the Liberality

                   and Zeal for Learning

                             of

                     FRANCIS NICHOLSON

                    Governor of Maryland

               By whose Exertions and Bounty

                    was founded in 1696

           The first Free School in the Province

                 This Tablet is Erected by

                    The Maryland Society

                           of the

                 COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA

                            1900

      To return to our Council Record:

      Nicholson's dealings with the insolent and flagitious John Coode,

    will be found more at large in the Assembly Journal. This wretch, an

    apostate clergyman of profligate life and foul and blasphemous speech,

    had been a stirrer-up of sedition in the Province ever since Fendall's

    time, and was the chief ringleader in the conspiracy that seized the

    government in 1689.

      The editor has just received, from Henry F. Thompson, Esq., the

    following interesting letter about Fendall and Coode, copied by Mr.

    Thompson from the original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

    Letter from the Chancellor of Maryland to Col. Henry Meese Mer

    chant in London Concerning the late Troubles in Maryland.

    Colonel Meese

               Yoakely being now ready to Sail, I thought it fit to

    acknowledge the receipt of your Letters this year; I have only that

    before me, which you writ by Mr. Ambrose Sanderson, and shall for

    your sake, his Functions, and his own, serve him in any thing I may;

    The rest of your letters I have left at home, so must defer my answer

    till the next Ship.

      I find by the Masters of the Ships, that the Imprisonment of Capt.