252 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769.

Lib. C. B

No. 20

. this Honourable Board, on Wednesday the 26^th of this Instant,
and that the Clerk acquaint the Parties thereof that they may
attend if they please, or produce before that time what further
Evidence they may think necessary.
His Excellency having been pleased to lay before this Board
a paper Signed B: A, Published in the Pennsilvania Chronicle
N^o 87 in which are the following Words Viz. Yet this is the
Man, who, in the Possession of an honourable and lucrative
Office of £1500 a year, insults his Noble and generous Bene-
factor by his words, defies him by his Actions, and wrests the
Government of the Province out of his Hands by the fury of a
Mob. But if Vestries assume to themselves illegal Powers,
and Arbitrary Privileges, it is the duty of Lord Baltimore's
great Officers of State to see that the Laws be duly executed,
and his Prerogative kept inviolate; and the Security of his
Prerogative will be the Security of my Property. And like-
wise Communicated the following Letters to and from the
Reverend M^r Bennett Allen.

Sir 26^th September 1768.
I shall desire the Members of the Council, who live at a
distance, to meet here the 10^th of next Month, and shall think
it incumbent on Me when they are here, to take Notice of the
Piece lately Published in the Pennsilvania Chronicle, and
republished in the last Maryland Gazette, in which M^r Walter
Dulany, as I apprehend, or some Person that enjoys an Hon-
ourable and lucrative Office in this Government, is positively
accused of raising the Mob in Frederick Town, at the time you
went thither to take Possession of All Saints Parish. If you
can undertake to prove that Fact, and what else is asserted or
Suggested in that Piece relative to the Conduct of the Person
accused, it would, I think, be well for you to do so on that
Occasion, that his Behaviour might be properly certified to the
Lord Proprietary.
I am &c
To the Reverend M^r Bennett Allen. Hor. Sharpe

Sir
After having taken the best Advice upon the Subject of
Your Excellency's Letter, I find I lie under no obligation to
appear before the Council to make good any charges contained
in the Piece alluded to by Your Excellency, and that my obey-
ing a Summons of that kind (tho' I were able to prove them to

the Satisfaction of the world,) would be of a dangerous Tend

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ency. I am likewise advised that it is apprehended, that no
Court in this Province can take cognizance of a paper printed