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L. H. T.
Liber No. 48
July 3
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Excellency, have occurred in Prince George's County; Two Popish
Delinquents, under Prosecution for Crimes of the most dangerous
Nature and Tendency to Society, have obtained Noli Prosequi's, and
are left at Liberty to repeat them. These Instances abovementioned,
and the constant and unwearied Application of the Jesuits to
proselyte, and consequently to corrupt and alienate, the Affections of
our Slaves from us, and to hold them in Readiness to arm at a
proper Time for our Destruction, together with every Consideration
of Danger from a powerful Foreign Enemy, are Circumstances
truly Alarming, and such as we trust will sufficiently justify this
Address to your Excellency, whose known Principles of Loyalty and
Attachment to the present happy Constitution, in Church and State,
are too conspicuous, to leave us room to doubt of your Protection
to his Majesty's faithful Protestant Subjects.
Upon the Whole, despairing, after several fruitless Attempts, to
gain a Law, for our Security against this Faction, more particularly
adapted to our Constitution and Circumstances, we hope we shall not
be liable to Censure, if we make Use of those Means of Safety,
which Providence and the Care of our Mother Country hath put
into our Hands; We therefore humbly pray, that your Excellency
would issue your Proclamation, commanding all Magistrates and
other Officers duly to execute the Penal Statutes, mentioned in the
Statute of the First of William and Mary, Chapter the I8th, against
the Roman Catholics or Papists, within this Province.
On read the said Address, the Question was put, Whether the
House approves the Address, or Not Resolved in the Affirmative.
For the Affirmative,
Reeder, Jordan, Ward,
Hicks, Moore, Addison,
Hynson, Handy, Murdock,
Gresham, Waggaman, Fraser,
Wallis, J. Goldsborough, ' Hawkins,
Hammond, Edmondson, Lloyd,
Carroll, Edge, Tilghman,
Hall, Gray, Bracco,
Gassaway, Travers, Scarborough,
Fitzhugh, Paca, Evans,
Reynolds, Tolley, Crabb,
J. Mackall, Govane, Chapline,
B. Mackall, Hyland, Beall.
Stoddert, Baker, [41]
For the Negative,
Mills, C. Goldsborough, Dulany,
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