lviii Introduction.

mild, equal and auspicious Government" (p. 134). At the same time the
Upper House sent an address to the Lord Proprietary through Governor
Sharpe, requesting him to transmit their address to the King (pp. 134-135).
For some unexplainable reason the address of the Lower House to the King
is not recorded in its journal, nor has a copy of it been found.

Writing on June 11, 1767, to Frederick, Lord Baltimore, Sharpe says that
"the gentlemen of the Council [and Upper House] resident in this place are
much pleased with what your Ldp. has communicated to me relative to their
Address to the King on the Repeal of the Stamp Act & are glad to hear that
both the Addresses from this Province to the Throne arrived so opportunely as
to contradict in some measure the opinion which the Enemies of these Colonies
are industriously propagating" (ibid, 397). It was at this same session that the
Lower House passed resolves and there was also introduced a bill entitled "An
Act of Gratitude," expressive of the warm feelings of the house to Pitt, Cam-
den, Garth and other "Friends of Liberty" in both houses of Parliament for
their part in effecting repeal of the Stamp Act. But the bill was rejected in
the Upper House for reasons explained in the section which follows (pp. lviii-
lix, 6o, 210).

AN ACT OF GRATITUDE TO PITT, CAMDEN AND OTHERS

Relief over the repeal of the Stamp Act and gratitude to those leaders in
Parliament who had brought about repeal, found expression in a resolution
adopted by the Lower House on November 26, 1766, followed by the intro-
duction of a bill entitled "An Act of Gratitude to the Right Honourable William
Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the Right Honourable Charles Pratt, Lord Cam-
den". Resolves of the house disclose that "taking into their most serious
Consideration the noble and spirited Conduct" of the Earl of Chatham and
Lord Camden, the late Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and now Lord
High Chancellor of England, in supporting the rights and liberties of their
fellow subjects in Great Britain and her colonies, uninfluenced by narrow views
and local attachments, the members of the Lower House "think themselves
indispensibly obliged to transmit to Posterity the grateful Sentiments they
entertain" for both these patriots. As a monument, therefore, to these senti-
ments "and a lasting Testimony of the Gratitude of the Freemen of Maryland,
this House hath unanimously Resolved, That a Sufficient Sum of Public Money
be appropriated to purchase an elegant Marble Statue of the said Earl of

Chatham, to be set up in each Place within the City of Annapolis, as tVipe Lower

House of Assembly shall direct: (and) That the said Lord Camden be re-
quested, to permit his Picture to be taken from the Life, by some eminent
Hand, at the Expence of this Province, to be placed in the Provincial Court."
It was further resolved that 2250 dollars be applied towards the purchase of the
statue and the picture, the latter to be in a neat gilt frame, the statue and
painting to be consigned to the Speaker of the Lower House.

In addition to these tangible tokens of gratitude to Chatham and Camden,
the house further resolved that its most grateful thanks and sincere acknowl-
edgements be also presented by Mr. Charles Garth, the agent of Maryland in