482   Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1727.

          Lib. X.  I am Sensible of the weight that immediately falls upon

                   me by taking the Government of a Nation so Powerful at

                   Home and of such Influence and Consequence abroad but

                   my Love and Affection to this Country from my Knowledge

                   and Experience of you makes me Resolve chearfully to under

                   go all Difficulties for the Sake and good of my People

                     The Religion Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom are most

                   dear to me and the Preservation of the Constitution in Church

                   and State as it is now happily Established shall be my first and

                   always my Chief Care

                     And as the Alliances entred into by the late King my Father

                   with Foreign Powers have Contributed to the Restoring the

                   Tranquillity and preserving the Ballance of Europe I shall

                   endeavor to Cultivate those Alliances and to Improve and

                   perfect this great work for the Honour Interest and

                   Security of my People

                               London June 16th

                     Yesterday the parliament was Prorogued by Commission

                   from his present Majesty to the 27th of this Instant Iune

                     His Excellency is likewise pleased to Communicate to this

                   Board a Letter from the Governor of Pennsylvania which is

                   as follows Vizt

                   Sir

                     Yours of the third Currt gave me Great uneasiness for my

           p. 186  Omitting to send you the bad news of the Kings Death I can

                   make no other Excuse than that I never Questioned your

                   hearing the News as soon as us besides I heard our Surveyor

                   General say he designed sending you word and likewise to

                   Virginia I hope you'll pardon the Omission proclamation was

                   likewise made at New York ten or twelve days before I pro

                   claimed here for I was willing to wait for Orders from the

                   other side which is usual on the like occasions but upon second

                   thoughts I judged if there was any Error it was one on the

                   right side and therefore I appointed Thursday the 31st of the

                   last month for proclaiming his present Majesty. In the morn

                   ing I Ordered 30 Minute Guns to be fired and began them

                   about 11 in the Forenoon after they had done firing these

                   Guns my Council the Mayor of the City Aldermen and Com

                   mon Council with the principal Gentry of the Town and

                   Country Assembled at my House and went in Procession to

                   the Court House where a plat Form was erected and there

                   made proclamation with many loud Acciamations of long live

                   King George the Second Our Guns again firing a Volley the