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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1715 / 16. 327
Reigne &c. And the first Year of his Lordships Dominion C. P. over this Province, Annoq Domini 1715.
Present His Excellency John Hart Esqr Governr of this Province &c.
Thomas Brooke Esqr Col Thomas Addison The Honble Col Wm Holland & Lt Col Sam” Young Lt Col Richd Tilghman.
Memorandum. That the Honble Edward Lloyd Esqr obtained His Excellency the Governour's leave, to be absent from the Board, at this tyme. The Honourable Thomas Brooke Esqr being present at the Board, his Excellency delivered to the said Thomas Brooke Esqr, a Letter from his Lordship, the Rt Honble the Lord Pro prietorie, and the Lord Guilford, Dated at London September the 19th 1715 and directed to Thomas Brooke Esqr and the rest of the Gentlemen, of Our Council in Maryland as follow's Viz.
Gentlemen. The Experience which You have had, in the Affairs of Our Province, gives you Ability to Serve us. The Confidence we have in Your Fidelity, has caused us, to Constitute You of Our Council, and Your Governr will herewith deliver you, Our Commission, Do Your Duty to us, and you may Expect all Favours from Srs Your affectionate Friends Guilford Baltemore Which being read. The said Thomas Brooke Esqr Col Thomas Addison and Lt Col. Richard Tilghman, tooke the Oaths to the King appointed by Act of Parliament, instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, the Oath appointed by the fifth and Sixth of Queen Anne, for securing her Matys Person and Government, and the Succession to the Crowne of Great Britain in the Protestant Line, which they Subscribed as also the Test, and then tooke the Oath of a Councellor, of State, within this Province. His Excellency acquainted the Gentlemen of his Lordship's Council, that Mary Hemsley the wife of Mr Philemon Hemsley, a liver in this Towne, having by some strange Means found or got into her Hands, a Letter wrote by a Popist Preist, in this City, to another Dated near three Years agoe, which she had kept from his Excellency's Knowledge,
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