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offers, wherefore I would beg the favour of you to hear no
Application for the Sheveralty of this County when it shall
become vacant which will not be near these three years. To
succeed Doctor Steuart in the Loan Office would by no means
suit him as that requires the Commissioners to be almost con-
stantly resident in Town & Mr Wolstenholme's Business often
calls him abroad. Mr Wm Thomas also lives in this County
which will I am afraid put it out of my Power to serve him for
some time. Time will not permit me to write to Mr Hanbury
& acknowledge the Receipt of his Letter by Mr Harrison till
the next Opportunity but you will very much oblige me by
presenting my Respects & making my Excuse to him lest he
should otherwise think me negligent or forgetful. As His Ldp
was pleased to write in express Terms his Expectations that an
annual Present should be made Mr Wogan by the Judges of
the Land Office I could not presume to propose any other
means, had there been a possibility of my securing any other
Office for that purpose as you was pleased to hint. Your
Desire in favour of Mr Harrison on Accot of his Alliance I
shall gladly comply with but as he also resides in this County
I am entirely at a loss by what means I can as yet do it. I
have taken this Opportunity of inclosing you Bills as hereto-
fore for your use & Disposal, tho I had no opportunity of
securing such a Sum as you desired for Mrs Hide when I made
former Remittances yet I was unwilling to delay what you
desired in respect to her, but I will with your Approbation repay
myself the three sums that I have now advanced out of the Fees
that have arisen in the Land Office since Mr Youngs Decease,
& for the future out of any other Offices that may happen to
be similarly circumstanced. —
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[Sharpe to Baltimore.]
March 12th 1755
My Ld
As I have writ fully to your Ldps Secy on the provincial
Transactions & private Concerns in Answer to the Instructions
that I had a few Days since the Satisfaction to receive from
your Ldp I flatter myself I shall be excused for not being
troublesome or tedious by a particular Detail & Account in this
Letter of such matters as I have now communicated to Mr
Calvert to be submitted to your Ldp according to your Ldps
Instructions, inclosed with Mr Calverts last I had also the
pleasure to receive a Lettr which yourself had vouchsafed to
honour me with for that kind Testimony of your Ldps favour
I beg leave to make my most grateful Acknowledgments & at
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