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

L. H. J.

Ordered that Coll: John Mackall and Col^o Maxwell go and
acquaint his Excy that a sufficient Number of Members are
met to make an House, who went & return & say they delivered
their Message.
Col^o Holland and Coll: Addison from the upper House
Acquaint M^r Speaker that his Excy desires him w^th the whole
House to Attend his Excy at the upper House.
Thereupon M^r Speaker with the whole House went to the
Upper House were his Excy was pleased to deliver himself

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to M^r Speaker and the Members of this House in the following
Words viz:

Gentlemen of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly
I am to acquaint you that the Right Hon^ble my Lords Guil-
ford and Baltemore have Expressed great Satisfaccon on
your proceedings in the last Generall Assembly as will fully
appeare, by their L^dps oblidging answers, to the Seperate
Addresses of both Houses and by their not Dissenting to any
one act passed in that Session.
I have Severall other matters to comunicate to you by their
L^dps Comands which I am of Opinion will be better explained
in the way of Message.

Gentlemen.
From the happy Conclusion of the last Session I pleased
my Self with the hopes, that the remaining part of that time,
I was permitted to be here in this Station wou'd have afforded
me much Satisfaction and Tranquility, and that I might have
been wholly at leasure, to have imployed my thoughts and
Actions, for the good and welfare of this province, as I had
faithfully done.
But such is the Restless and Turbulent Spirit, of some
Papists and their adherents, that they still Continue to Perse-
cute and Defame me, as they have obstinately done, from that
Period of Time, I oposed (as I was In duty bound) their
pretentions to an Equal Share of the Administration of this
Government with the Protestants, and Required those to
Qualifie themselves as the Law directs (and which they re-
fused to do) before I would permit them to Execute those
offices they by Deceiving, & Imposing on their L^dps had ille-
gally obtained, which upon better Information their L^dps in
their wisdom and Justice have since thought fit to deprive
them of
I am Authentickly informed, that M^r Carroll and M^r Mac-
nemara have made fresh Complaints to their L^dps against me,