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and Create a pleasing Harmony in all the parts of the Gov-
ernment.
We acknowledge yo^r Lordships Goodness, as well in the
great care and pains which you have been pleased to take in
Informing the Houses of Assembly, of the Opinion of the
Court and the practice of the Lawyers with regard to the
Extent of the English Statutes to his Majestys Plantations
as also in your Lordships Seasonable Advice in recommend-
ing Temper Moderation and good will in the members of both
Houses towards one another, and we heartily wish that such
a Temper might always prevail amongst us. My Lord we
are very sensibly afflicted that our unhappy Debates (un-
happy we call them, because of the great heat and invidious
reflections which have been cast upon yo^r Lordships Upper
house as Enemys to the peoples liberty) which have arisen
between the houses upon the Subject of the English Statutes
should have given Your Lordship so much trouble as appears
in Your Lordships Speech to have been taken upon that head,
and yet without any the least prospect of that Success which
your Lordship might possibly expect in the Affair for the
house of Delegates are still very Sanguin upon the Affirma-
tive and insist Streniously that the English Statutes are Con-
vey'd to the People of this Province by the Terms of their
Charter of Maryland Notwithstanding the Collections made
and published in your Lordships Speech of sundry Negative
Authoritys among which the resolution of the Judges in the
Case of Blankard and Galdy and his Majestys Disallowance
of the Jamaica Act we Conceive to be the Principall. But these

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two cases my Lord as your Upper House apprehend relate
particularly to the Island of Jamaica, which Island altho one
of his Maj^ties plantations Yet being a Conquered Countrey
(as allowed in yo^r Lordships Speech) Seems to us to differ
very much from the Condition of Maryland as to what relates
to the Extent of the English Statutes; and Consequently that
those determinacons mentioned in your Lordships Speech,
may not affect Maryland in a like degree with the Inhabi-
tants of Jamaica, which is known to be a Conquest made long
ago upon the Spaniards the first Christian Inhabitants of that
place, whereas the People of Maryland are a free English
Colony, licensed to goe abroad and plant a certain Country
for the Improvement of the British trade for the Enlargem^t
of her Dominions.

But we must Acknowledge likewise that if Some of the
English Statutes which seem to be calculated to the peculiar
Circumstances of the Realm of England, should be Enforced
to take place here; they would be destructive even of that