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On my application to their Lordshipps to be removed from
this Station, rendered unsafe and dishonourable whilst those
Commissions had force, their Lordships in due time, withdrew
those Commissions, and Placed them in the hands of Protes-
tants and required me to remain in my Station, Acknowledg-
ing they were Surprized into their former Grants to papists.
M^r Carroll was Examined by me in Councill concerning
his Imposeing on their Lordships (then unexperient in the
Affairs of Maryland) by obtaining such a Commission (which
contain'd more unlawfull powers, than are yet mentioned)
who was so farr from Acknowledging his faults of so high a
nature that, with a Haughty air he Insisted the Roman
Catholicks had a right to hold Offices and if th^t Right should
be denied them, they would appeal to Higher Powers.
Pursuant to this Declaration the Papists, as I am well
Informed, Raised Contributions and Sent their Emissaries
for Great Britain to make good their claim, and by all means,
to Endeavour my remove from this Station as a main obsticle
to their Illegal Practices, and so sure was the Faction of their
Game that my ruine was openly threatned, and one of their
accomplices (whome the Pleasure of Providence has Since
removed to Another Life) went Down on his knees, and with
a horrid Execration said, he did not Doubt to see me as fast in
Prison as ever he was (who had been so for Murder and

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Other Crimes) and my Innocent children Set a begging.
Truely this unhappy man aided by the Faction, did all th^t a
base mind could Perpetrate, to Destroy my Character and
fortune. But as he and the Papists could alledge nothing
Materiall for my Removall, which they have attempted for
Some Years past and my Greatest Crime (in their Construc-
tion) being the Defence of Your Laws, Providence has hither-
to preserved me from being wholly offered up a Sacrifice to
their Revenge, but it would take up too much of your Time
to ennumerate the particulars of their Resentments, so shall
only Observe to you, If their fury has been So outrageous to
the Person of your Governour, what must the people have
Expected from men of such Virulent and Implacable Spirits,
could they gain their ends, on those they esteem Hereticks
How Surprizing will this appear if Properly Represented,
that Such things were acted under the Auspicious Reign of his
Sacred Majesty King George the Guardian and Defender of
the faith, and in the Government of a Lord Proprietor who
has so often profest himself of the Protestant Religion under
the Tuition of his noble Guardian, always of that perswasion.
How happy might those of the Romish Communion be in
Maryland, had they accepted the terms offer'd by me in a pub-

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