216 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

Letters that your Ldp was unwilling to disgust him I really
know not what to do in the Affair but submit it entirely to
your Ldp's pleasure. In the mean time however if Col^o Lloyd
does not soon set about it I will myself have an Agent's Office
built, tho he should not afterwards make any use of it. In
my Letter of this Date to M^r Calvert I have transmitted a
Letter which I lately received from M^r Holliday whom your
Ldp upon my Recommendation was pleased to appoint a
Member of the Council, by which Letter your Ldp will per-
ceive he is so attached to a private quiet & retired Life as to
decline the honour intended him, for which I am really sorry
for I entertain a very good Opinion of him & have much
reason to be satisfied with his Behaviour on all Occasions, but
since he is averse to qualifying as a Member of the Upper
House & there is by that means still a Vacancy in the Council
I beg leave to recommend to your Ldp as a Gentleman very
worthy & proper to fill it M^r John Brice who has been many
years Chief Justice of the Provincial Court & is a Man of good
Abilities & Fortune he was till lately Clerk of this County but
as he has now resigned that Office to his Son the Objection
there was before to his being appointed one of the Council no
longer subsists & I hope he will meet with Your Ldp's Appro-
bation. I should also be glad to receive your Ldp's permis-
sion to induct into some vacant Parish one M^r Reade a Native
of Virginia who was educated at the Williamsburg College &
has lately taken Orders as he is recommended to me in a
particular manner by M^r Plater who was educated there with
him & by other Gentlemen of Virginia & this Province. There
is also a Gentleman of this Province one Major Jenifer who
was some time a Member of Assembly for Charles County
where he has long been a Justice of Peace & carried on a
good Deal of Business whom I should with your Ldp's Per-
mission be glad to shew favour to if any suitable Office not
already promised should become vacant & give me an Oppor-
tunity. Having nothing else to trouble your Ldp about at
this time for we have no news worth communicating & we
should now be very quiet in North America if it was not for
the general Murmur against the Stamp Act I have only to
add my best Wishes for your Ldp's Health & Happiness &
to assure your Ldp that I am &c.

[Sharpe to Calvert]

Copy of 139^th Letter to M^r Calvert. Dated the 16^th Aug^st
1765 transmitted by Capt Buchanan
Sir
I embrace the first Opportunity that has offered since your
Letters of the 1^st & 21^st of May came to hand to acknowledge