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His Excellencys Answer to the aforegoing Petition Viz.

Annapolis 12 October 1717
On reading your Petition of this day concerning my Sus-
pending you from your practiceing in the Chancery Court save
what relates to the business of the Crown The first part of it
is granted Viz.

An Appeal to the Right Honble the Lord Proprietary of this
Province though you first prayed it to his majesty in Councill
Contrary to my Sentiments, and now seem to arrogate to
yourSelf my opinion
And as to your prayer that particular Facts & Instances
may be Expressed of your misbehaviour I have Already given
you so often Verbal notices of your manifest Contempt and
undecent Behaviour in the Chancery Court that nothing can
be a Stronger mark of your Obstinacy than to plead Ignorance
of them.
However for the sake of Giving you an Opportunity to be
Sorry for the affronts you have Offered to the Authority of
that Court And to Induce you to make that Submission which
is Expected from you, And without which I cannot Recede
from the Order for your Suspension without prostrating the
Honour of the Court, I shall give you some Instances of your
Late misbehaviour.
This Chancery Court when you officiously & without any
Call interrupted me that you might disswade M^r Carroll from

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answering the Interrogatories then proposed to him on behalf
of the Honble the Commissioners for the forfeited Estates I
caused you to be Silent for that time And the next day upon
your giveing Ill Language to another Practitioner in the face
of the Court I told you that I would maintain the Honour of
the Court and that no Persons shoud presume to make Reflec-
tions there and you Continuing to Justify yourSelf, I then
spoke of your manner of opposeing my Interrogateing M^r
Carroll the Preceding day And of several former passages in
this Court But shall not undertake to Express the Indecent &
Contumacious Tones and Gestures you think fitt to use when
you have a mind to shew your disrespect. The Judges or
Persons Present can only be Convinced of these by seeing and
observing them, for which you must needs know you ought to
Express a Sorrow. Your Repeated Provocations then urged
me to Speak to you in proper terms for your Intolerable In-
solence and Contempt on that as well as former Occasions
and again to Assert the Authority of the Court. The only
Answers you gave to what ever I affirmed was in the most

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