170 Assembly Proceedings, April 22-May 10, 1718.

U. H. J.

Proprietaries Just Authority is Preserved and Guarded under
Your Administration.
We are S^r
Your most Humble Serv^t
Guilford
Baltemore

Their Lordships Letter to M^r Macnemara is as foll^s viz.
S^r London Feb^r 4^th 1717

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We are sorry to hear that the Obligations laid on you by
the hands of our Gov^r in the Navall Office of Patuxent has
not the Effect we could have wished But that you Continue
to Carry on Either of YourSelf or by Contrivance of Others
the old Animosity you had ag^t him by Entering into new
Schemes and Projects as much as in you Lies to Blemish his
Reputation.

But that which more Immediately concerns us is that you
should pay so Little regard and Respect to the Authority of
the Proprietary in the p son of his Keeper of the Great Scale
of the Province Sitting in the Chancery Court as we find you
have Done by the Perticular ffacts sett forth in his Answer
to Your Petition for which He has as we Think very justly
Susperid'd you from your Practice there (the Cases of the
Crown only Excepted) till you make Your Due Submission
As we have Considered the Order for Your Suspention
your Petⁿ thereon and the Gov^rs Answer to it together with
the p ceedings of our Councill upon his Acquainting them
with what he had Done therein from whence amongst Other
Things We Perceive this is not the first Time you have
Brought yourSelf into the same Condition tho' for your Own
sake we hope it will be the Last so we have duly weighed
your Complaining Letter and the Certificates there Inclosed
And upon the whole have Determined you Ought to make a
due Submission in Court before you are restored to your

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Practice there in such Terms and manner as the Keeper of
our Great Scale of the Province shall Prescribe which in Your
Letter you tell us you will do if we Conceive you Ought w^ch we
do Conceive you Ought And the rather Because we are willing
the People of our Province should reap the Benefitt of that
Capacity and Abilities your Enemies allow you to have to
serve the Clyents.
The Request you have made us in Your Letter and by M^r
Coleman to Grant you a Licence to Execute the Navall Office
by a Deputy or Serv' in your Absence, is by no means what
we approve of and as you have Taken an Oath to Execute it