ROYAL ASSEMBLY OF 1692-1693

Lionel Copley, governor (D-2)

Thomas Lawrence, acting governor, as president of the Council 2 '
Edmund Andros, acting governor 2 '

FIRST SESSION May 10-June 9, 1692
SECOND SESSION September 20-26, 1693

		UPPER	HOUSE
	Thomas Lawrence '	Nicholas Greenberry	David Browne	John Courts
	Henry Jowles (Ds-2)	Charles Hutchins	Thomas Tench	Thomas Brooke
	Nehemiah Blakiston	George Robotham	John Addison	James Frisby (DNS, Ds-2) '

			LOWER HOUSE
	ST MARY'S	CALVERT	TALBOT	John Brooke (D-2)
	Kenelm Chescldyne,	Thomas Greenheld	Robert Smith	Thomas Ennalls
	speaker	Thomas Tasker	William Finney	Edward Pindar (D-2)
	John Campbell	Henry Mitchell	Hugh Sherwood	ST MARY'S CITY
	Philip Clarke	John Bigger	John Edmundson (Ds-1) 4	Edward Wynn (D-2)
	John Watson	CHARLES	Thomas Robins (E-1)	Robert Mason (S-2)
	KENT	William Dent	SOMERSET	CECIL
	William Harris	Henry Hawkins	William Whittington	William Dare (Ds-1) 4
	Hans Hanson Elias King	James Smallwood Philip Hoskins	John Huett(Ds-l)4 Thomas Everden (Ds-1) 4	St. Leger Codd(Ds-l)4 Edward Jones 4
	Samuel Wheeler ANNE ARUNDEL	BALTIMORE George Ashman	John Goddin (Ds-1) 4 Roger Woolford (E- 1)	George Warmer (Ds- 1)4 James Wroth (E-1)
	John Hammond	Edward Boothby	John Bozman (E-1)	Thomas Theakston (E-1)
	Henry Ridgeley	Francis Watkins	Lazarus Maddox (E-1)	Robert Crooke (E-1)
	James Saunders	Thomas Staley	DORCHESTER
	John Dorsey		Henry Trippe

			Committee Service
	ACCOUNTS (JOINT)	AGGRIEVANCES	ELECTIONS AND PRIVILEGES	Hutchins (2)
	Addison (1)	Watson (1)	Hammond (1)	Tench (2)
	Tench (O	Smith (1)	Pindar (1)	Browne (2)
	Mason (1)	HoskinsO, 2)	Harris (1)	Dent (1)
	Hammond (1)	Dent (2, chm.)	Clarke (1)	Clarke (1)
	Harris (1)	Hammond (2)	Brooke(1)	Smith (1)
	Pindar (1) Tripped )	Greenfield (2) Boothby (2)	LAWS (JOINT) Jowles (1)	Trippe(1) Greenfield (O
	Whittington (1)	Whittington (2)	Greenberry (1)	Whittington (1)
			Addison (1)	Boothby (1)

' Sir Thomas Lawrence, the provincial secretary, had not arrived in Maryland at the time of the first session. In March
of 1693, approximately six months after Lawrence's arrival, Governor Copley suspended him from the Council and
imprisoned him for alleged opposition to the royal government in a power struggle between the two men. The Lower
House ordered Lawrence's release from prison on September 22, 1693. It is uncertain who had been serving as acting
governor in the power struggle since Copley's death on September 12, 1693, but Lawrence now resumed his position as
senior councillor and presided in the Upper House until the arrival of Gov. Edmund Andros from Virginia on Septem-
ber 26. Andros claimed succession by virtue of his commission and served as acting governor through the remainder of
this session. Andros's right to that post was later successfully challenged by Lawrence.

Suspended from the Council by Governor Copley in November 1692 for alleged improper behavior in accepting a
clerkship, and did not sit in the second session.

¹ Suspended from the Council by Governor Copley on July 9, 1692, for his alleged opposition to the government of the
Protestant Associators and to the new royal government. Frisby had not attended the first session.
⁴ Edmundson, Everden, Goddin, and Warner were discharged because as Quakers they were unable to subscribe to the
oaths required of delegates. Huett, as a minister and "man in sacred orders," was ruled ineligible by English law to sit
in the Assembly. The Lower House voted to discharge Codd for his opposition to the revolution and Protestant As-
sociators' government. Dare, under suspicion for similar opposition, refused to provide security for his good behavior
and was not seated. Jones, also suspected of opposition to the Protestant Associators' government, gave security and
hdd his seat.

32