xiv Introduction.

Samuel Chamberlaine (1697-1773) of Talbot, since 1740 a member of the
Council; Colonel Edward Lloyd (1711.1770) of "Wye", Queen Anne's, a
member since 1743; Benedict Calvert (1724.1788) of "Mount Airy", Prince
George's County, the natural son of Charles Calvert, Fifth Lord Baltimore,
appointed in 1748; Richard Lee (1706-1787) of Prince George's, a member
since 1745; Stephen Bordley (1709-1764), the Attorney-General, of Annapolis,
on the Council since 1759; Daniel Dulany, the Younger (1722.1797) of
Annapolis and Frederick County, appointed in 1757; Charles Hammond (1692.
1772) of Anne Arundel, later President of the Council, and Robert Jenckins
Henry (41712.1766) of Somerset, on the Council respectively since 1735
and 1756, were both too ill to attend any of the meetings of the Upper House
at this session (Arch. Md. XIV; 56). Philip Thomas (1692.1762), appointed
in 1742, died November 23, 1762; he had been too ill to sit in the Upper House
in the 1762 Assembly. Charles Goldsborough, although secretly appointed
early in 1762, did not qualify and take his seat on the Council until after the
close of the 1762 session of the Assembly (Arch. Md. XIV; 55). John Ridout
(1731.1797), who had come to Maryland with Governor Sharpe as his secre-
tary, was appointed in 1760. Philip Key (1696-1764) of St. Mary's County,
who received his appointment on the Council in the summer of 1763, died
August 20, 1764, so only served as a member of the 1763 Assembly. There
was on no occasion anything like a full attendance of the members of the
Upper House.

Certain important leaders of the popular party were missing in the new
Lower House. There are few available contemporary records to show whether
or not those missing had stood for election, or had entered the list as candidates
and had fared badly in the poll. With one exception these leaders had previously
represented counties which were strongly anti-Proprietary and had been suc-
ceeded by delegates of the same political faith. Missing in the Lower House
were Charles Carroll, the "Barrister", of Anne Arundel County, and Matthew
Tilghman, of Talbot, who had been chosen at a special election held in 1760 to
represent Queen Anne's County.

One of the few new popular party delegates who at once assumed leadership
was James Tilghman of Talbot; a few years later he moved to Philadelphia
and became a man of much importance there. The old popular leaders who had
been returned were again in full control. These were Edward Tilghman, of
Queen Anne's; William Murdock, of Prince George's; Robert Lloyd, of Queen
Anne's; Thomas Ringgold of Kent; William Smallwood and John Hanson
of Charles; and John Hammond Dorsey of Baltimore.

The Proprietary party in the house had as its leaders: Walter Dulany and
Dr. George Steuart, both of Annapolis; Charles Goldsborough of Dorchester,
whose appointment as a member of the Council was suppressed by the Governor
until after the close of the session, as he was felt to be more useful for the
time being in the Lower House than in the upper chamber; George Plater of
St. Mary's and Edmund Key of the same county, the latter in London during
the year 1762 where he was reading law in the Middle and Inner Temple, but
back in Maryland in the spring of 1763; and Henry Greenfield Sothoron, also