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The proper Satisfaction would have been given by the Sub-
scription of the Clergy individually. That the factious Spirit
of the Sectaries has appeared in their daily and openly calling
in Question his Lordship's Right of Patronage in disposing
of the Donations of this Province your Address gives me the
first Information. Indiscretions and Irregularities of another
Kind have indeed occurred in some Parishes, but his Lord-
ship's Right has been vindicated, and the Laws are a Sufficient
Security to his Lordship and the Persons collated by him; No
degree of Support or Assistance is needed from episcopal
Authority. How far, and under what Terms the Establish-
ment of an American Bishop may be a Salutary Measure is a
Consideration of the most momentous Concern deserving the
most serious and mature Attention and being of so great and
extensive Importance, I shall take an early Opportunity of
laying the Matter before the General Assembly, together with
your Address and the Papers attending it. The Motives both
of Duty and Inclination will ever engage me to countenance
the worthy Ministers of the Established Church, and to sup-
port the just Rights of the Clergy of Maryland, holding it
at the same Time to be my indispensable Duty to protect all
quiet and peaceable Subjects of everv denomination in the
full Enjoyment of their Rights.
To the Revd Mess" McGill, Addison, Hamilton, Robt Eden.
Rosse, Neill, Reide, Allen, Hughes & Boucher
The Members of this Board further advise his Excellency,
that as an Application for a Charter for providing a Support
for the Widows of the Clergy, has been a pretext for the fre-
quent Meetings of the Clergy, to write to his Lordship the
Lord Proprietary recommending it to him to postpone the
Execution of such Charter, and that should the said Charter
arrive before his Lordship can have received such Letters,
they advise his Excellency to detain the same in his own hands
until his Lordship's pleasure can be further known.
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