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of these happy tideings by Proclaiming his Present Majesty here
in the most Solemn and decent manner Our Circumstances of time
and Place could admitt off. Wherein I hope for your approbacon
and likewise your Concurrance in an address to his Majesty to be
Presented by our Lord Proprietary with our due Acknowledgments
of the Divine blessing in his Majestys happy Accession to the
Throne of his Ancestors.
Gentlemen, as I am now addressing myself to the Representative
body of the People of this Province I cannot omitt the Return of
my sincerest thanks to them for the kind Reception I have hitherto
found in this Province, it has Imprinted in my mind the most
favourable Ideas of a People Loyal to their King, Dutyfull to their
Lord Propry and benevolent to my self; may this happy disposition
towards Your King and Proprietary ever Continue among you,
inasmuch as it will secure to you his Majesty's Royall Protection,
and his Lordships kindest Indulgence on all occasions; as for my-
self their unworthy Representative here, I have had little time as
yet to meritt your favourable Consideracon of me, But if a Per-
petual Attachment to your Interest and uninterupted Endeavours
for your welfare may Justly Intitle me to It, I hope not to be de-
feated of the Reward I have soe principally in my View the fair
Opinion and Esteem of the good People of Maryland.
As you are now mett in Assembly to Consult the Publick Good,
let the Service of Almighty God and the Honour of his holy Religion
be your first and Chiefest Care, That true Religious Worship and
the Vertues becoming the Profession of Christianity may be Estab-
lished amongst us.
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In the Consideration of your Civill Interest the Present 111 state
of the Staple of this Province may require your utmost Attention,
and happily some method may be found out to render it more bene-
ficiall to us the Merchants at home Complain of our Shipping To-
bacco soe late in the year and the Slavery imposed on their sailors
by being obliged to Role it from farr to the Watersides from hence
they observe that their Ships bye here subject for many months to
the Injury of the worm, Their sailors undergoe such Fatigue from
the Excess of heat and labour, that if not lessened in number they
are at least abated in their ability to work the Ships home, and that
their Ships arrive on the English Coast in a Stormy and Dangerous
Season, If these Inconveniences attend them in their Shipping they
must in course entail others on us, Leaky Ships and bad Weather
must Damage our Tobacco, want of able hands endanger the loss
of it, and tho it arrive in Safety yet comes to a late Markett which
is Generally a bad one, Your own Interest will Suggest to you
better than I am able the proper Remedies to such evils.
Gentlemen you in your Several Countys have had the nearest
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