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wth all our quit rents and Alienacon Fines, and doubt not but
the Planter by the Ease he will find in the payment of his rents
And the Trader by the advantagious provisoe of reshipping
free their Tobaccoes upon any Loss that shall happen to them
at Sea in their Voyage homewards will find their Benefit
thereby And that all Feuds & Animosities among Our people
will for the future be laid aside and the Province Continue to
Increase & flourish under the Family of Baltemore.
After which his Excy was pleased to Deliver himself to Mr
Speaker and the members of this House in the following
Words Viz.
Gentlemen of the Upper
& Lower Houses of Assembly
The right honble the Lord Propry and his Lpp's noble Guar-
dian the right honble the Lord Guilford having given you (in
that Speech I had now the Honour to deliver to you on their
Lpp's behalf) such Pregnant Proofs of their Own fidelity,
by their Lpp's approving and applauding your great Zeale and
loyalty for his Majesty King George and the Protestt Succes-
sion in the Illustrious House of Hannover and the ready Con-
firmacon of such Laws as were Provided for the security of
the Protestant Intrest in this Province together with that
Ardent and hearty Profession of the Lord Propry his being a
true Protestant of the Church of England I hope will obviate
the malitious Suggestions of Such as have represented his
Lordship's being a Papist in Masquerade and that this Pub-
lick and frank Declaracon of the Purity of his Lpps Faith will
engage and Secure his Lpp the hearts and Esteem of all the
good People of Maryland.
My Lords Propry and Guilford having exprest their tender
regard for the Wellfare of this Province in such Pathetick and
affectionate Terms that I am Perswaded a Repetition of some
part of them will be farr from being unacceptable to you since
that they Contain in a few Harmonius Words all tht so reas-
onable a People as you are can hope or Desire from your
Surperior. The words are these: Gent, We have at heart the
Well fare and Prosperity of the People of this Province equall
to that of our own and are determined not to do anything to
Seperate that Union which may tend so much to the Common
good.
Gentlemen. I shall lay before you what reasons mov'd their
Lpp's to disassent to that Act for laying an Additionall Duty
of four pounds p poll on Irish Servants which I hope will give
you Satisfacon.
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