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Read the first time in this house & Ordered to lye on the Table
His Excellency the Governor is pleased to Communicate to this
House a Letter of his to the Lower house, which being read, the
Honble Edward Henry Calvert attended by all the members of this
House present carries the same to the Lower house, which Letter
follows in these Words

Gentⁿ of the Lower house of Assembly
On Perusal of your printed Votes, I was affected with a sensible
Pleasure, when I met with your Resolution to offer me, three half
pence p hh^d as an Earnest of your Good Will: But your succeed-
ing Votes in Relation thereto, may naturally appear a Ridicule on
any Pretensions I have to your Esteem, an Evasion of your seem-
ingly proffered Good Will, and an Affront peculiarly levelled at
me, which I shall endeavour to explain to you in the following
Manner.
From time almost out of mind, the Good People of this Province
have expressed Kindness & Respect to their Governors, by a ready
Present to them of Three half pence p hh^d during their Term of
Government; which indeed bespoke a most generous Confidence in
them, & well became their Pretensions to the Name & free Nature
of Englishmen

After such a Continued Regard paid by the Country, to their
successive Governors, His Lordship in tender Consideration of the
Earnest Application made to him, to promote the Encouragement
of the Free Schools, & judging it difficult to get the Penny p Pound,
appropriated to your own Provincial Use therein, by a remarkable
Instance of Generosity condescended to apply half of Three pence
p hh^d to the schools, which before was used to be settled on the
Governor

U. H. J.

I am well assured, His Lordship never intended by such a Con-
cession, that the succeeding Governors should appear with less
Honour tho with less Profit among you, yet did the Country give
that to my worthy Predecess^r for Three Years, which by his Lord-
ship was never expected to be rendered on Terms of less Honour
& Confidence than during the Time of His Government; Such a
Return to an Indulgent Proprietary may have been overlooked, but
can never be justifyed
Yet such was but a Dawn of an Ensuing Day, wherein Slights
& Disregards to His Lordship and His Family, were to appear in
the full Gloom of dark Envy & unreasonable Malevolence, the un-
happy Produce of some few discontented minds, thereto I have
Reason to think myself destined a remarkable Sacrifice. From
Three pence p hh^d, in Generous Confidence, given to former Gover-
nors, during their Time of Government, and afterwards reduced to

three half pence, for the scanty Term of Three Years, Your Rc-

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