13. *Col. William Calvert, com. 10 Dec. 1673 and sworn 16 March 1673/4;
recom. by Charles, the new Lord Proprietary, 5 April l676 (AM, XV, 31, 74);
drowned about 26 May 1682. Under the latter commission he ceased to be Naval
Officer; and on 10 June 1676 he was given instead the ordinary license fines
and a saddle on attorneys to the Provincial Court (AM, XV, 79).

14. *Maj. Nicholas Sewall of St. Mary's County (Cath., son of Col. Henry
Sewall above) and *John Darnall of Anne Arundel County (Cath ), com. and sworn
Joint Secretaries, 5 Feb. 1682/3 (AM, XVII, 130); Darnall died 14 Dec. 1684.

15. *Maj. Nicholas Sewall remained sole Secretary on Darnall's death.

16. *Maj. Nicholas Sewall and his brother-in-law *Col. William Digges of
St. Mary's County (Prot., wife and children Cath.), com. jointly, 12 August and
sworn 28 Nov. 1685 (AM, XVII, 433); deprived of office by the Committee of the
Protestant Freemen, 1 Aug. 1689. The Secretaryship then fell into abeyance.
Digges died in 1697 and Sewall in 1737.

17. Sir Thomas Lawrence of Chelsea, Middlesex, Bart., (Prot.) com. by
the crown, 5 Sept 1591 and sworn 30 Sept, 1692 (AM, VIII, 289, 366; Prov. Ct.
Rec., 1, WRC #1, f. 570); suspended from office, 27 March, and imprisoned 8
April 1693; released 22 Sept 1693 and restored as Secretary on 2 May 1694.
(AM, VIII, 499; XIX, 8, 14; XX, 53). Went home to England in October, 1694
appointing Col. Thomas Brooke II his deputy; returned to Maryland in Aug. 1696;
left again for England in May, 1698 and there resided in favor of his son (AM,
XIX, 99; XX, 475; XXIII, 423).

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