364 Appendix.

LAND MATTERS. THE EXTRAVAGANT USE OF ABBREVIA-
TIONS SUGGESTS THAT IT MAY HAVE BEEN A COPY KEPT
BY THE WRITER, AND NOT THE ORIGINAL LETTER SENT. CE-
CILIUS WRITES OF THE ATTACK RECENTLY MADE AGAINST
THE PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENT OF MARYLAND BY AN
ANONYMOUS WRITER, WHO IN A SERIES OF "QUERIES",
WHICH APPEARED IN THE LONDON PUBLIC LEDGER, AT-
TACKED NOT ONLY THE PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENT BUT
ALSO CECILIUS PERSONALLY ON SUSPICION OF HIS BEING
A ROMAN CATHOLIC, AND FOR POSING AS THE PROVINCIAL
AGENT. THE LETTER ITSELF is A SOMEWHAT INCOHERENT
DEFENSE OF THE PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENT, ESPECIALLY
OF THE UPPER HOUSE, AND AN ATTACK UPON THE LOWER
HOUSE IN THE MATTER OF ITS BILL PROVIDING FOR A PRO-
VINCIAL AGENT IN ENGLAND.]

MS S Calvert
Papers
No. 1280
MdHistSoc.

London, March 28, 1764
My Dear Lord

I have rec.^d y.^rs the 26^th of Jan.^y the 9.^th Ins.^t I immediately dis-
patched Let.^rs to the Mess.^rs Hanbury & to Mr. Lyon for their
acco.^ts to you desired, w.^h by this Post I transmit you & my Acco.^ts
of paym.^ts made & y.^r artificers in London as well as y.^r Orders to
me & to others of paym.^ts on y.^r acco.^ts by the Mess.^rs Hanbury my
draughts on them.

Y.^r Observations on the Public writer ab.^t Maryland very just,
ag.^t his abuse con.^g (concerning) the Provincial plan of Governm.^t,
as near as can be & exercised (?) agreeable to our happy Constitu-
tion Both in Church & State with.^t Error upw.^ds a Hundred & Thirty
Years by y.^r Ancestors & y.^r Lord^ps, by & under y.^r Royal Charter
Now Question'd & Interrogated by an anonymous Sophistical Up-
start, who with false Logic & Assertion & with Low Craft has
attempted to slur y.^r rights & to hurt the Crown's Power thro.^h y.^r
Lord.^ps sides of y.^r Royal Charter. As to his Sarcasm on me by
false Supposition, by Error of Calendar publish'd, gives me no
desquietude., I was trained in my tender years bet: 9 & 10 in a
Protestant School, Defye the Pope, the Devil & the writter, who like
a Rattle Snake lays Couched & has venom. I fear him not, despise
him, his Rattle will discover him & I have a swish for him. I am by y^r
authority y.^r Provincial Sec.^y, I assume no character by appointm.^t
from the Province as Provincial Agent, under w.^h denomination
the Lib.^r writer fosters his Design ag.^t me, that I frustrate their
appeal ^ab.t Grivances from the Tribunal of Majesty; on the con-
trary, I have urged their, bring forth the complaints before the
sacred Prescence. Not doubting in the least But that y.^r Lord^ps
rectitude in all matters would well prove their false complaints &
set in view their spot'd principles & minds.