370 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739.

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

Commission was procured by the Interest of the said Tench Francis
from Edmund Jenings Esq^r Secretary of Maryland or his Attorney
in Fact, but the same was signed by the said Jenings. Upon the
Obtaining of which Commission the said Thomas Bullen Entered
into a Bond with the said Tench and Richard Francis as Sureties to
the said Edmund Jenings conditioned for payment unto the said
Edmund Jenings of the tenth part of the Fees that should arise on the
said Office of Clerk of Talbot County aforesaid and further that he
the said Thomas Bullen with Risden Bozman and the said Tench
Francis as his Securities Entered into Bond to the County Court
aforesaid agreable to the Act of Assembly in that case made and
Provided and that after he had the Commission entered into the
Securities aforesaid he Executed the place of Clerk of the said
County from the first day of June 1734 until the 10^th day of July
1738 and during the said time discharged the Business of Clerk
aforesaid under the Conditions and Articles aforesaid and during
which time also the said Tench Francis received all the profits of the
office save the Salary contracted to be by the said Tench Francis
paid to the said Thomas Bullen and the tenth part to be by the said
Thomas Bullen paid to the said Secretary which the said Thomas
yearly paid by an Order on the Sheriff of the said County that after
the said Thomas had been some time in the Land Office the said
Tench Francis told him the said Thomas that he had paid Two
hundred Pound for the same and in some time after on discourse
between the said Tench Francis and the said Thomas he the said
Tench told him that the said Jenings had publick said that he the
said Jenings had received of him the said Tench One hundred pounds
for the said Office that some time in the year 1738 the said Thomas
Bullen being summoned to attend the Honourable the House of
Delegates then sitting in Annapolis John Leeds of Talbot County
came to him the said Thomas and told him that M^r Tench Francis
wanted to speak with him upon which he went to the House of the
said Richard Francis and the said Tench came to the door and took
him into A Room and told him the said Thomas Bullen that the
said Leeds had been with him and had offered him a Sum of Money
for the Clerks place aforesaid and that he the said Thomas must
Resign it upon which the said Thomas told him it was hard to resign
at that Time when the country were in a ferment about the matter
and that if he must resign he would choose to do it when the matter
was over and quiet and which would be in a few months In answer
to which the said Tench said that it must be then for that he intended
to leave the parts and Resolved to go to Philadelphia upon which
the said Thomas told him the people would Sacrifice him the said
Thomas, and asked what would become of him In answer to which
the said Francis told him that he should come to no harm or be
hurt on which the said Thomas told him he would Resign whereupon
the said Tench desired him the said Thomas to go to the said Leeds