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Beneficiall to the whole pvince And if Accomplished will
Perpetuate your Lordships memory in the minds of all Good
People for Ages to Come.

May It Please y^r Lordships
Wee want .words to Express our Satisfaction at the Intire
Confidence your Lordships Declare you have in Your Great
Councill Convened in Generall Assembly And do now promise
that we will make our Chief Endeavours To Cultivate this
good understanding by all the measures of Duty and Sub-

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mission that shall be most Consistent with the true Interest of
Maryland which we Promise ourselves your Lordships will
always have at Heart as well as the Protestant Establishment
the True foundation of it.
Wee Begg leave to Applaud your Lordships Tender Com-
passion to Consciences truly Scrupulous a Principle that
Speaks you true Sonns of that Holy & Pious Church w^ch prac-
tices Charity with all Mankind And we do further Assure you
that we are Led by our Inclinations as well as Principles to the
same Compassion for all such psons of Scrupulous Con-
sciences as Demeane themselves Inoffensively in the Govern-
ment and Do not Endeavour the Perverting his Majestys
Protestant Subjects to the Superstition of the Church of
Rome.
But if any such pson should Complain of Persecution
meerely Because we do not make Particular Laws in their
favour to be a Barrier & as it were skreen them against the
Laws of Great Brittaine Wee flatter ourselves that your
Lordships will have such a Just Regard of the Sincerity of
our Proceedings that you will not upon the Suggestions or
Insinuations of any Such Evill minded pson lessen that Con-

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fidence so happily Established Between your Lordships and
your Great Councill of this pvince Convened in a Generall
Assembly.
That this Present Good understanding Between your Lord-
ships and yo^r two houses of Assembly may Long Continue is
the Hearty Desire of
Your Dutifull Tenants and most
faithfull Humble Serv^ts

Which being Approved of by this House is signed by the
Sev^ll Members thereof & sent to the Lower House to be Signed
there
Col Hynson & three others from the Lower House with the
two following Engrost bills

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