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I thank you for candidly informing me, what some People expect
and desire with regard to M.r Henry Darnall, and his Brother, who
were both promoted to Places of Trust and Profit within this Gov-
ernment by my Predecessors: Had you also shewn, that they have
not duly and impartially executed such Offices, I should, indeed, have
thought that your Expectations were not in the least unreasonable.
I am told, that since M.r DarnalPs Son, who went to a foreign
University for Education, has finished his Studies and returned to
his Father, he has taken the Oaths, and by his Professions, and
Attendance on Divine Service at the Parochial Church, gives all
possible Proof of his being a sound Protestant. However, for my
own Part, I think none of our Youth should be sent or suffered to
go to Foreign Popish Seminaries; and I promise you, that whenever
you shall think proper to prepare a Bill to prevent it, I shall readily
give my Consent to its being Enacted into a Law. As to M.r Dar-
nall's Brother, I cannot learn that: he has sent any of his Family
Abroad to be Educated in Principles that he himself disavows, and
am given to understand that he suffers no "Priest to come to his
House: I will also, if such a Caution be necessary, recommend it to
him to be particularly careful to keep his Children from any Com-
pany, whose Conversation might possibly instill Notions into their
Minds, that he, as a Protestant, must condemn: And as I do not,
upon Enquiry, find, that he is at all disagreeable, or has rendered
himself obnoxious, to that Part of the People among whom the
Office he holds obliges him to reside, or that any Body could rec-
ommend a Person better qualified to discharge the Duty of that
Office, or who would do it with greater Integrity and Impartiality,
I have not fixed on any Gentleman whom I would appoint his
Successor.
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L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
April 24
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Now I have gone through that Part of your Address, which
seemed more particularly to concern myself, and which, for that
Reason, I have taken more particular Notice of; permit me to make
a few Observations on the other and less interesting Parts also: The
Prorogation of the Assembly so soon after I returned an Answer to
your first Address on this Subject, you will be pleased to remember
was at your own Request; and tho' it precluded you from the Possi-
bility of making a Reply that Session, yet it afforded you an Oppor-
tunity, and gave you Time, to examine thoroughly into the several
Facts mentioned as well in your Address as in my Answer, and
might have prevented your insisting a second Time on any Matters,
of the Truth of which you were not absolutely certain.
I cannot pass over that Period where you tell me, That tho' you
had been mistaken as to some inconsiderable Circumstances, you
think there would have been no Room to Triumph, without intimat-
ing to you, that, if that Sentence be addressed to me, it might have
been spared; for I can assure you, that tho' you should be mistaken
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