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          Lib. X.  themselves upon which he replied if I persisted in that mind

                   no Patents should be sent to be recorded in the Secrys Office

                   this Year & further threatned that he would cause my Lord

                   to alter his method of letting his Lands in this Province & to

                   do it by some other sort of Assurance than by Patents as

                   usual & to Show he was in earnest after having said the same

                   thing to my Self on board the Fleet at the capes wrote to Mr

                   Willm Taylard July 27th after this manner

                     I find Sir Thomas and I cannot agree about the Division of

                   the Fees therefore the trouble of recording the Patents will be

                   saved to you this Year for I am resolved now he is so un-

                   reasonably Stiff to try another course when I am come home

                   at my return to Annapolis towards the Latter End of August

                   taking no notice of the dispute betwixt us I wrote to Colo

                   Darnal & sending the Accot of the Pattents under Mr Carrols

                   hand by Mr Ino Freeman received the Colonels Answer the 4th

                   of September following & refer the Copy of my Letter and his

                   answer to the Consideration of this honble Board but finding

                   Colo Darnal take no further notice of the matter on the 12th of

                   October last upon Application to the honble Mr President &

                   the Council I obtained an Order to the Colonel to Bring in the

           p. 308  Patents to be recorded in my Office according to the Kings

                   Order to this the Colo Replied that having been ill those

                   Patents had not been sent but should so soon as he was capable

                   of to Mr Carrols house as by his Letter to Mr Bladen &

                   to my Self of October 4th 1702 but perceiving that all was

                   Artifice and Delusion on Colo Darnals part I applied Again

                   to the honble Board Novr 13th and had a further Order re

                   quiring his Appearance at the next Council in Case his

                   Promises were not complied with in the mean time—but

                   nothing being done Colo Darnal did appear before the honble

                   the President Colo Hammond & Mr Sanders 28 of January

                   last & notwithstanding I pressed he might then dispatch them

                   being himself in good health & the Weather good & Mr

                   Carrols house so nigh & not withstanding that Mr President

                   Offered him time to do it by the latter end of March now

                   coming that the Patents might be recorded before the next

                   Provincial Court to be then delivered to the respective Pur

                   chasers Concerned yet did not the said Colo Darnal refuse both

                   these proposals giving no reason for his refusal but that my

                   Lord Baltimore & his Officers were not to be tyed up or

                   limited to any certain time but to do it when they can con-

                   venient or Words to that Effect

                     I do therefore in behalf of her sacred Majesty of the

                   Country & of my selfe in due discharge of my Office lay the

                   Premises before the honble Board and do desire that A

                   peremptory Command may forthwith issue forth requiring the