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thereunto belonging; and we Do hereby Command all Officers &
Soldiers to obey you as Lieutenant Colonel of Foot in the West Indies
and you are to observe & follow such Orders and directions from
time to time as you shall Receive from Us, our Captain General of
our Forces or any other your Superiour officer according to the
Rules & Discipline of War, in pursuance of the Trust We hereby
Repose in You. Given at Our Court at Kinsington the fifth day of
July 1754 in the Twenty Eighth year of our Reign.
By his Majestys Command
T Robinson
Entered with the
Secretary at War.
Edw.d Lloyd
F. Baltimore
Frederick Absolute Lord & Proprietary of the Province of Mary-
land and Avalon in American and Baron of Baltimore in the King-
dom of Ireland To Our trusty and welbeloved Horatio Sharpe Esq.r
Lieutenant General and Chief Governor of our said Province of
Maryland Greeting Whereas his Majesty from the great Confidence
he has in your Military Skill & Abilities has thought it for the Pub-
lick Service to Constitute and appoint you Lieutenant Colonel of the
Forces Intended to be Sent against the Forces who have Invaded
his Majestys Dominions in the Province of Virginia and other Parts
of America and I being desirous to further such his Majestys Royal
Intention and to do all in my Power to oppose and Repel the Com-
mon Enemy and to Express the great Satisfaction it gives me that
his Majesty has done me the honour to Shew this repealed approba-
tion of my Choice of you for my Governor of my Province of Mary-
land by Granting you his own immediate Commission as an officer
fit and Proper to be Employed in so great and National an under-
taking and out of the Regard I have for You & from a Sincere
Inclination to promote your Welfare I Do hereby Signify my desire
that you do forthwith proceed to pay all due & punctual Obedience
to his Majestys Royal Commission according to the Tenor & true
Intent & meaning thereof and in Case his Majestys Service in Conse-
quence of the said Commission shall require your Temporary absence
from my said Province I do further Declare my free Leave and
Absent there to and that such Your absence from my said Province in
Obedience to his Majestys said Commission shall not in any respect
invalidate your Commission as my Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
Provided that you return to my said Province to resume the Gov-
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