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L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
April 24
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self they will avoid every Act or Appearance that may give Umbrage
to the Magistrates, People, or Myself, or make on us the least unfa-
vourable Impression.
But to conclude this, the last Answer I hope of the Sort I shall
ever be under a Necessity of making to Gentlemen, whose Represen-
tations, Opinions, and Desires, either collectively or separately, will
always have their due Weight with me; I desire and hope nothing
that I have been obliged to say in my own Justification, will be con-
strued or thought Severity or Tasking. You may depend that it shall
be my constant Study and Endeavour to take such Measures as will
afford no Room for Reflections on my Conduct. And I most ear-
nestly hope, that you will also proceed in such a Manner as will enable
us all to justify ourselves before his Sacred Majesty, our most
Gracious Sovereign, whose paternal Care we have so often and so
sensibly of late experienced, and who expects and desires no more of
us than what common Prudence, and the least Regard for our own
Safety and Welfare should lead, nay, would compel us unasked to
perform.
24.th April 1756 Hor.o Sharpe.
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There was annexed to the aforegoing Message the following
Deposition, viz.
Prince-George's County, ss.
The Deposition of Henry Darnall, Esq; taken this 29th Day of
March, 1756, before me the Subscriber, one of his Lordship's Jus-
tices of the Peace for Prince-George's County aforesaid.
This Deponent, being sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty
God, declares, That some short Time after a Presentment had been
made, by the Grand Jury of Prince-George's County, against a cer-
tain Ruth Bevan or Ruth Blanford, the Wife of Charles Bevan
Blanford, concerning some Goods, which, it was said, that she
the said Ruth had taken up of M.r Samuel Roundell, by Means of a
counterfeited Letter, signed with the Name of Charles Bevan, Uncle
to the aforesaid Charles Bevan Blanford, as it is said, a certain
Thomas Sansbury, Father to the said Ruth, applied himself to this
Deponent, then Attorney-General of the Province of Maryland, and
after lamenting in very pathetic Terms the Misfortunes and Dis-
grace that such a Prosecution might bring upon his Family, intreated
and much importuned this Deponent to put a Stop to the Proceed-
ings against his said Daughter, saying, that he had heard it was in
this Deponent's Power so to do: That this Deponent assured the said
Sansbury, that he wou'd or cou'd not stay the said Proceedings; but,
that if he, said Sansbury, inclined so much to save the Credit of his
said Daughter, he had best apply himself to M.r Roundell, and in
making him the said Roundell Satisfaction for the Goods his
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