490 Assembly Proceedings, April 5-22, 1720.

U. H. J.

Post Meridiem
The House meet according to Adjournment

Present
His Excellency the Governour

Esq^r Brooke
Col Young
Esq^rHall
Col Addison

Esq^r Lloyd
Col Tilghman
Esq^r Lowe
Col Ward

and
Esq^r Bordley

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this House his Let-
ter to M^r Speaker with the Letter of the Com^rs of Customs to
their Lord^ps with his Lordship's Precept to restore Tho^s
Macnemara to his Practice and his Excys Speech thereupon
on Laying Down the Scales which are as follows Viz

M^r Speaker
I Desire you will acq^t the House that I inclose you a Copy
of a Letter from his Maj^tys Com™ of the Customs directed
to the R^t Honble the Lord Guilford the first part of that Lett^r
Contains an Answer to your Address of Grievances (in
which I had no part) It lyes therefore on the Assembly to
answer for themselves, but I cann^t help remarking I am very
ill treated in that Letter on the Representation of a Gentlⁿ
who has already been but too much a favourer of a Faction
here as has been made Apparent by a member of your House
M^r Rousby to the Commissioners of the Customs This I
speak from my own Knowledge, having Seconded that Gentle-

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man's Remonstrance to them with Letters to my Friends The
Success of which is Evidently known. I say I am ill treated
when because you Complain of Grievances to your Country
an Occasion is taken from thence to Accuse my Character 'tho
I thank God It can be only on Misrepresentation and in Gen-
erall terms, yet the Conclusion of the Com" Letters seem to
Levell directly at my Administration in the Chancery Court
for I am no further Concerned in the Recovery of the money
and the Effects due to his Majesty in this Province then as a
Judge of Equity, and for my Conscience I am Answerable to
my God alone And Defy the most Invidious of my Enemies to
make out Either partiality or Corruption against me And
Surely I should have made my Court with a very ill grace to
so just and Good a King as his Maj^ty is if I should have given
up the Property of his Subjects meerly because his Name was
Made use of by those employed under him.
This was one Cause why I gave up the Seals, but what more
Imediately Obliged me to that Resignation is herewith inclosed