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to express myself as to this in my publick Letters unless you
would be kind enough to give me some Opening by one of
yours but I will assure you that I am persuaded to countenance
the Virulent in the Lower House of Assembly or withdraw
them thence by giving them preferment will be like beheading
a Hydra where three Serpents Heads are fabled to have
immediately sprouted out in the place of one. Mr Dulany was
an Assembly man when I recommended him first. Mr Golds-
borough & Mr Tilghman I thought more able & proper per-
sons to fill his Ldps Council than any among the destinguished
Burgesses; Colo Henry is a Burgess & Mr Key was one till
very lately, but His Ldp's favouring such Gent" will never gain
him the Love of that infatuated Collection or Society. Since
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I have had the honour of serving His Ldp in this Govt I have
just as Mr Iennings left the Province appointed one County
Clerk on his Recommendation which it would have been hardly
decent in me to disregard as he had engaged his Promise
some time before. A Commissioner of the Loan Office dying
before Mr Jennings left the Province His earnest Recom-
mendation also influenced me in the Disposal of that place,
Colo Lloyd His Ldp was pleased to appoint Rent Roll Keeper
of the Western Shore by his Instructions & Mr Chamberlayne
on resigning the Naval Office of Pocomoke succeeds Colo
Lloyd in that of Oxford. The Naval Office of Pocomoke &
general Surveyor ship of the Eastern Shore is held for the
Benefit of Mrs Graham, The Sheveralties of Kent & Queen
Ann Counties are filled with two Burgesses one on Colo Lloyds
Recommendation the other on Mr Taskers; the Sheveralty of
St Marys is given at Mr Taskers Request, that of Ann Arundel
to one Mr Raitt at His Ldp's Command. These beside the
Commissarys & Land Office are all that have as well as I
remember been vacant since my Arrival excepting the Farmers
places wch have been filled where the old ones threw up by
such as we could persuade to undertake them. I know not
how I forgot to mention the Rent Roll Keepers in my List
returned they continue according to His Lclp's Instructions
Colo Lloyd for the Western Shore & Mr Tilghman for the
Eastern, Colo Lloyd has promised to let me know what is
the annual value of the Offices he holds as soon as he has
setled his years Accounts & then I will acquaint you with Colo
Hammonds & Mr Tilghmans Profitts also. I must declare in
favour of Mr Thomas that I esteem him a Man of Ability & by
wt I can find his Conduct in the late Lds time has been repre-
sented in a much worse light than it deserved; how his Ldp
will choose to shew him his Mark of Favour I leave to His
Ldps & your Determination. I do propose to oblige Mr Han-
bury & serve Mr Wolstenholme as soon as an Opportunity
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