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the Witnesses against them, and if need be to commit such
Offender or Offenders to Prison until he or they shall be de-
livered by due Course of Law. And I do strictly charge and
require the several Sheriffs of this Province to make this my
Proclamation publick in their respective Counties in the usual
Manner as they will answer the Contrary at their Peril Given
at the City of Annapolis this 13^th Day of July in the 32^d year
of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1746.

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At a Council held in the Council Chamber on the 13^th Day
of August in the 32^d year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq
Domini 1746.
Present

His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^r Governor

The honble

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Edmund Jenings Esq^r
Col James Hollyday

Col Charles Hammond
Col Benj^a Tasker

The following Address being prepared is read and ap-
proved of.

To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty

The humble Address of the Governor and Council of
the Province of Maryland

May it please Your Majesty
We your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the
Governor and Council of the Province of Maryland beg
Leave to express Our unfeigned Joy at the just and much
desired Success which has attended Your Majesty's Arms
against those rebellious Disturbers of the Peace and Tran-
quility enjoyed under your Majesty's indulgent Government.
Not sooner Were We alarmed with that detestable Insur-
rection than we were comforted by the General Voice of the
English Nation in Defence of your Majestys Person and
Abhorrence of those traitorous Attempts; from Hence not
only a Presage arose of the Glorious Event which affords Us
this Occasion of approaching your Majesty, but also a sure
Testimony was given how Dear your Majesty's Safety is in
the hearts of Every Englishman who will distinguish between
Liberty and Slavery.
Could any Addition be to Our Joy, It must be owing to the

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Conduct of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland on
that ever memorable Day of Culloden Battle, when the Great
Contest was whether a Govern^t supported by the slavish
Maxims of forced and abject Submission should take Place of