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On December 7, 1704, Governor John Seymour and the Council
appointed Colonel Philemon Lloyd, for the time being, to the
new office of Commissary General for War. ⁵¹ On Seymour's
applying to the Board of Trade for permission to establish such
an officer permanently, that body acquiesced and recommended a
salary of not more than £ 100 sterling a year out of the fund
for arms. They also asked Colonel Blakiston, the Provincial Agent
in England, to name a suitable incumbent. ⁵²

Accordingly Colonel Robert Finley, who had come out to Mary-
land with Blakiston in 1698, was recommended and, on July 8,
1708, was properly appointed by the Governor. He was given a
salary of £80 sterling, which he enjoyed until his death about
1714. ⁵³ Lord Baltimore's government, restored the following
year, appointed no successor.

4. THE AGENT IN ENGLAND.

This office was by its nature unavailable to residents of Mary-
land, and it existed on a satisfactory basis only during Colonel
Nathaniel Blakiston's incumbencies, from 1702 to 1709 and from
1713 to 1721. ⁵⁴ Originally appointed on his return to England
in June of the year first mentioned, at a salary of £ 120 sterling,
former Governor Blakiston failed to obtain all those concessions
the Lower House demanded. In December, 1708, they ordered
his dismissal. ⁵⁵

Urging by the Board of Trade and by the Governor and Council,
together with the necessities of the ordinary license controversy

Capt. John Young, on or before Jan. 11, 1707/8 to May, 1734; Onorio Razolini
(a Protestant convert), June 4, 1734 until his return to Italy, Aug., 1741; Richard
Tootell, Sept. 5, 1741 to Sept., 1745; John Raitt, Sept. 26, 1745 to Sept., 1748;
and Henry Walls, Sept. 29, 1748 to his death in 1767.

⁵¹ Ibid., XXVI, 378.

⁵² Cf. John Seymour to Board of Trade, July 3, 1705, and Board of Trade to
John Seymour, Feb. 4, 1705/6 (Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1704-05, art.
1210; 1706-08, art. 84); also Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plan-
tations, 1704-8/9, 209.

⁵³ Archives, XXV, 242; XXVII, 396. References to Finley as Commissary
General for War appear in the Archives until 1714.

⁵⁴ Three persons served briefly as Agents before Blakiston's appointment. Peter
Pagan of London, merchant, was appointed by an act of June, 1692, repealed in
Oct., 1694; John Povey served from 1694 to 1697; and on July 6, 1697, Micajah
Perry appears as Agent for both Virginia and Maryland (Ibid., XIX, 165, 234;
XXII, 52, 54; Maryland Historical Magazine, XII [1917], 119; Calendar of State
Papers, Colonial, 1696-97, art. 1157). The Council of Trade and Plantations urged
appointment of an Agent in 1698 and again in 1711 (Archives, XXII, 174; XXIX,
6; Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1710-11 arts. 839, 906).

⁵⁵ Archives, XXIV, 228, 262, 364; XXVII, 305.