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tary Governour of Maryland from granting the Comission
under Consideration and knowing likewise very well that the
said Lord Propry's Ancestors all wayes gave such Comissions
themselves and not their Lts or deputy Governours and that
the execution of those Commissions was alwayes Committed to
the Lord Proprys receiver Generall and as for the Act of the
7th and 8th of King William the Lord Propry and the Lord
Guilford his Guardian ordered him to write to the Comrs of
his Matys Customs in London in order to qualifie himself pur-
suant to that Act which he has accordingly done, as appears
by an Instrument from the said Comissioners

L. H.J,

Q 2d Whether he did not acquaint the Secretary to the Honble
Comrs of his Matys Customes when he came to present his
Comission relateing to the Naval office and to have his secur-
ity for executeing thereof approved that he would take the
oaths appointed by law when he came upon the place where
he was to execute the said Comission and whether he ever
Informed the Comrs of his Matys Customes that he was a
Roman Catholick or not.

Answer That he did not tell the Secretary of the Comrs

what he would doe when he came upon the place of Execute-
ing his Comon because he thought it needless to tell he would
doe what was necessary the granting of the Comission and
the acceptance thereof must be supposed to be in the exe-
cution attended with all necessary and Required Qualifications
and that there is no oaths required by the Statutes in the first
Quere mentioned but what he is ready and willing to take
and knows it is requisite he should take an oath for the true
and punctual discharge of his office which he is ready to doe
That the Comrs of his Matys Customes did not require him to
make a profession of his faith and that he believes it would
be look't upon as Impertinent in him to goe about it before
that board

Q. 3d How came he to take upon him the office of Escheator
General in this province (which is an office of record) and the
office of Navall officer as well as receiver general of the pub-
lick revenue of this Province when he knew his Intention of
not takeing the oaths of abjuration Injoyned to be taken and
subscribed by all persons within this Province holding or
Enjoying any office or place of trust within the same as by
the tenor of a certain Act of Assembly of this Province made
in the ad year of her late Majesty's reigne Entituled an Act for
repealing a Clause in an Act of Assembly Intituled an Act for
Establishment of religious Worship in this Province and also
for appointing the oaths of Abjuration to be taken in this
province which is now in full force and unrepealed and which

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