380 Assembly Proceedings, July 17-Aug. 10, 1716.

U. H J.
p. 162

Mr Bordley and Eleven more of the Delegates brought up
Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly
To His Excellcy John Hart Esqr Governour of Maryland

May It please your Excellency
By what your Excellency was pleased to say at the opening
of this Session We perceive those Reports are not further to
be regarded which at our last meeting induced us to address
your Excellency for a prorogation to prevent what we then
feared would have proved a fruitless Charge & Trouble.
And Since your Excellency has not received any Instructions
to the Contrary of what you were then pleased to recom-
mend, we shall proceed to the Consideration & dispatch
thereof in the best manner we are able. We heartily con-
gratulate his Lordship on his Restoration to his Government
& acknowledge his Majesty's Bounty in approving your Ex-
cellency to be our Governour, a Choice (which were It in our
own power) we ourselves should make
The great Goodness of his Majesty (so well known to all
that know him) The assurance your Excellency has given us
of his Lordship's the Lord Guilfords Resolutions to promote
the Welfare of this Province, the Character of our Lord
Proprietor, And the Experience of yourself give us Reason
to hope we shall not now be a less happy people than we
were when under the immediate Government of that Majesty
who is indeed our Faith's Defender

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Tis with great Satisfaction we find our Religion so well
Secured under a Protestant King Lord & Governour These
happy Circumstances give us a Satisfactory Assurance that
the aspiring Interest of those that term us Hereticks will not
be able to prevail against us
Your Excellency's impartiality has been convinceingly
expressed by your unbyassed Administration and since Jus-
tice & the Laws are your Excellency's Rules we hope we shall
never be so far mistaken in our Duty or Interest as to neglect
any part of our Endeavours to support your Excellency &
the Honour & Dignity of his Lordship's Government The
just Consideration your Excellency has of the Burthen of long
& frequent Assemblys gives us hopes the necessary Alter-
ations in the Stile of our Laws will not be unacceptable
We gratefully acknowledge your Excellencys great Con-
descension in parting with so considerable a Benefitt as that
of the Seals on this Occasion more for the sake of lessening
the publick Charge And in pursuance of the same End we