Journal of the Upper house of Assembly
held at the house of John Larkin at the Ridge
in Ann Arundell County the Second Day of October
Annoq. Domini 1683

At an Assembly Called by Proclamation to Sitt on this Day
being the Second Day of October at the house of John Larkin
at the Ridge in Ann Arundell County (after Severall Proroga-
tions thereof formerly Made) at which Said Second Day of
October in the Eighth Year of the Dominion of the Right
Honourable Charles Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the
Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore
&c. Annoq. Domini 1683, The Said Assembly mett and Sat at
the house of John Larkin aforesaid where then appeared in
the Upper House
The Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
The honourable
Coll. Henry Coursey Coll William Burgess
Coll. Henry Darnall Major Nicholas Sewall
Coll William Stevens Mr. John Darnall

The Members of the Lower house were called to the Upper
house being the Room over the Court Room where his Lord-
ship the Lord Proprietary Declares to them to the effect
following—

U. H. Journal
1659-98
p. 488

His Lordship further Declares to them that he had by Com-
mission Constituted Major Charles Boteler their Clerk of the
Lower house, The Members of the Lower house Depart
And this Adjourned till to Morrow Morning
Nine of the Clock

Wednesday 3 October 1683.
The house mett again and present as before—

Then was Thomas Grunwin Sworn Clark of the Upper
house of Assembly which Oath follows in these Words Viz^t—

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