494 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1728.

        Lib. X.  same I do hereby require the ministers in their respective

                 Parishes to read divine Service and to preach Sermons in their

                 respective Churches on that day suitable to the Occasion and

                 I do further Charge and Command the several Sheriffs of

                 this province to Cause this my Proclamation to be published

                 and read in the several Parish Churches and other the most

                 publick places in their respective Counties as they will Answer

                 the Contrary at their perill Given at Annapolis this 28th day

                 of May in the 14th year of his Lordship the Lord Proprietarys

                 dominion &c Annoq Dni 1728

                 Maryland SSt

                   At a Council held in the Council Chamber in the City of

                 Annapolis on Friday the fifth day of July in the year of his

                 Lordships Dominion &c Annoq Dni 1728

                                  Present

                 His Excellency Benedict Leonard Calvert Govr

                             Colo William Holland

                             Philemon Lloyd Esqr        Members of his

                 the honble  Colo M T Ward           Lordships honourable

                             Benja Tasker Esqr             Council

                             Charles Calvert Esqr

                   Read the following Representation which was referred to

                 the Consideration of this Board vizt

         p. 205  The humble Representation of the Honble Philip Lee Esqr

                 To his Excellency Charles Calvert Esqr Governor of the

                 Province of Maryland and to the honble Members of his

                 Lordships Council in the said province

                   The said Philip Lee begs Leave to represent to your Excel-

                 lency and Honours that he sometime ago Intermarried with

                 Elizabeth Sewall Widow and Relict of Henry Sewall late of

                 Saint Marys County Gent deceased who died in the Commu-

                 nion of the Church of Rome and at his decease left Nicholas

                 Sewall an infant now about the age of seven years his Son

                 and Heir of the Body of the said Elizabeth Sewall

                   That the said Elizabeth at the time of the aforesaid Inter-

                 marriage with the said Philip Professed the Popish Religion

                 but hath since Embraced the protestant Religion & Continues

                 in the profession thereof

                   That the said Nicholas Sewall the Infant remained under

                 the Guardianship and direction of the said Elizabeth as his

                 Natural Guardian to the time of the said Philips Intermarriage

                   That the said Elizabeth being desirous that the said Nich

                 olas the Infant should be educated in the Protestant Religion