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those Penaltys & tends to deprive them of the Common Right of all
other Clergymen of being of the Vestry of their Parishes unless y^r
pet^ers give constant attendance at the Vestry as is by no means neces-
sary & as wou'd be very often prejudicial & Inconvenient to them.
Wherefore y^r pet^er humbly prays y^r Ldsp's consideration of the s^d
Supplementary Act & th^t the same be Dissented to & totally repealed.
And y^r pet^er shall ever pray &c^a
Jan^ry the 22^d 1729 Jacob Henderson

The s^d petition being presented & read his Ldsp was pleased to
hear the s^d complaint & finding it unjust & a hardship on the Clergy
Dissented to the s^d Act Jan^ry 30^th 1729.

His Ldsp's Answer to the Clergy's Address

Calvert
Paper
No. 2954

Baltimore
I am favour'd with your kind Address, and well Pleased with the
Confidence you Express of my Care & Protection of the Church,
from which I assure you, nothing shall alienate me; and I make no
doubt of your good Offices towards Promoting a perfect understand-
ing between the Proprietor & his Tenants; Peace & Harmony being
the great Characteristicks of our Mother Church.

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To the R^t Hon^ble Charles Lord Baltimore, Lord Proprietary of
the Province of Maryland.
The Petition of Jacob Henderson Clerk, in behalf of himself & the
rest of the Clergy of Maryland.

Sheweth
That several Acts of Assembly were heretofore made & past in
that Province for Establishing the Religious Worship, & Settling a
suitable Maintenance for the Support of the Clergy of the Church of
England, there, which rec^d his late Maj^ty K: William's Royal Dissent
& Disallowance as improper.
Whereupon his s^d late Maj^ty thought fit to Direct his Lords
Comm^rs for Trade & Plantations to prepare here a proper Draught
of an Act for these purposes, to be sent over & passed there.
And after the same had been laid before his said Maj^ty in Council,
& some persons who oppos'd it, heard before his Maj^ty in Co^ll, that
Draught by Order in Co^l of the 5^th of June 1701 was transmitted to
Maryland, & was there Passed by the Gov^r & Assembly about the
25^th of March 1702.
And the same being return'd hither was here approv'd confirm'd,
finally Enacted & ratified by Order of her late Maj^ty in Co^l of the 18^th
of Jan^ry 1702

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