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the Publick Service upon this Occasion you will be best able to
Settle with him a proper plan of Operation in the Excecution whereof
I most Heartily wish you all Possible Success and I do not Doubt
but that you will Carry on his Majesty's Measures in a manner
Agreeable to his Royal Expectations I am
Sir your most Obedient
Humble Servant
T Robinson.
F Baltimore. Frederick Absolute Lord & proprietor of the
province of Maryland and Avalon in America and Barren of Balte-
more in the Kingdom of Ireland To Our Trusty and well beloved
Horatio Sharpe Esq.r Lieutenant General and Chief Governor of our
said province of Maryland Greeting Whereas his Majesty from the
Great Confidence he has in your Military Skill and Abilities has
thought it for the publick Service to Constitute and Appoint you
Lieutenant Colonel of the forces Intended to be sent Against the
Forces who have Invaded his Majestys Dominions in the Province of
Virginia and other parts of America and I being Desirous to further
such his Majestys Royal Intention and to do all in my power to Op-
pose and Repel the Common Enemy and to Express the Great Satis-
faction it gives me that his Majesty has done me the Honour to shew
this his Repeated Approbation of my Choice of you for my Governor
of my Provinces of Maryland by Granting you his Own Immediate
Commission as an Officer fit and proper to be employed in so Great
and National an Undertaking and out of the Regard I have for you
and from a Sincere Inclination to promote your welfare I do hereby
Signify my Desire that you do forthwith proceed to pay all due and
punctual Obedience to his Majestys Royal Commission According
to the Tenor and true Intent and Meaning thereof and in Case his
Majestys Service in Consequence of the said Commission shall Re-
quire your Temporary Absence from my said Province I do further
Declare my free Leave and Assent thereto and that such your Ab-
sence from my said Province in Obedience to his Majestys said Com-
mission shall not in any Respect Invalidate your Commission as my
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland Provided that you Return to my
said Province to Resume the Government thereof when and as often
as his Majestys Service shall permit you so to do And it is my further
will and pleasure that during your absence out of the province upon
this great necessary and National Service the powers of Govern-
ment Over my province of Maryland be exercised by the president
or Senior Member for the Time being of my Council whom You are
to Authorize and Commissionate for that purpose when and as the
Same shall become necessary agreable to the Instructions already
received or which shall hereafter be received from me And I do
hereby Require you forthwith to Signify or Cause to be signifyed
to the Council of State and to both Houses of Assembly within my
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