254 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761.

Lib. J. R.
&. U. S.

Governm^t you will be pleased to give Orders for that Purpose
and to intimate to me at what Time and Place one of our
Sheriffs might be directed to attend and receive them. As
our Provincial Court will sit the eleventh of April next I hope
they can be. brought hither before that Time and if you will
be so kind as to give Orders that the Evidences attend the
Tryal, Protections for them shall be delivered to the Sheriff
that might be ordered to receive the prisoners
I am Sir, your most humble & most obed^t Servant
To the honble John Blair Esq: Hor.. Sharpe

Ordered that the Clerk of the Provincial Court issue Pro-
tections for Jacob Lane Richard Lane, Friend Cox, David
Morgan and William Lockhart, as Witnesses to the next
provincial Court on Behalf of Thomas Cresap.

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Letter.
New York February 13.. 1758.
Sir

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As I am directed by his Majesty to apply to the several
Governments in North America for such Aid and Assistance
as are necessary for carrying on the War in this Country
which is likewise fully expressed in the several Letters trans-
mitted by his Majesty's Secretaries of State, down from Sir
Thomas Robinson's Letters to them of the twenty sixth of
October 1754: to this Time directing that they should corre-
spond and co-operate with his Majesty's Commander in Chief
for the Time being in North America, and that they will use
their utmost Endeavours to induce their Councils and As-
semblies to give the necessary Orders for raising their
Quotas of Men with the greatest Expedition, so that they
may be ready to march to such places as the Commander
in Chief shall direct.
In Consequence of which Orders I do now apply to you
to use your utmost Endeavour with your Council and As-
sembly to furnish a Body of four hundred good Men and that
as many of them as possible should be used to ranging, to
act in Conjunction with his Majesty's Forces the next Spring,
in carrying on vigorous and offensive Measures against the
Enemy over and above what is necessary for the Defence
of your own Forts on the Frontiers of your Province, and
this Body should be ready to march by the Beginning of
April.
As this will occasion the raising an additional Number
to what your Province now have, I would propose to you