At an Assembly Called by Proclamation Bearing Date the
Tenth Day of July Anno Dom 1682 To Begin and be
holden at the City of S^t Maries the Twelfth Day of
October then next following, and from thence by Proc-
lamation Bearing Date the Ninth Day of September in
the said Year Prorogued untill the four and Twentieth
Day of the aforesaid October, and from thence by Proc-
lamation bearing Date the said four and Twentieth
Day of October further Prorogued untill the Six and
Twentyeth Day of the same Month, At which said Six
and Twentieth Day of October in the Year of the
Dominion of the Right Honourable Charles &c: Annoq
Dom. 1682 the said Assembly mett and Sate at the said
City of S^t Maries where appeared in the Upper house
(Viz^t)

The Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
The honble
Philip Calvert Esq^r Chanc. Coll: Henry Darnall
Coll: Thomas Tailler Coll: William Stevens
Coll: Henry Coursey Coll William Digges
Coll Vincent Lowe Major Nicholas Sewall
And Coll: William Burgess also Enters the house according to
his Writt and takes his Place—
John LLewellin Clk—

The Delegates Members of the Lower house being called
and Admitted into this House his Lordship Declares to them
in Manner following Viz^t

Gentlemen
The Murders and severall Outrages perpretrated by the
Northern Indians for these two Years past made me think it
Absolutely Necessary to have more frequent Meetings of
Assemblies than formerly, being resolved upon such Emergen-
cies to have the Advice as well as Assistance of the Great
Council of this Province, In this Particular, (I hope) I've
already given some Testimonies
Now lest my Resolutions herein might Draw too great an

U. H. Journal
1659-98
p. 435