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in the Years 1689-90. 225
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The Answer of John Coode and Kenelm Cheseldine
Agents and Commissioners from the late Convention
of their Majesties Province of Maryland on be'halfe of
the said Convention and themselves to a Paper Exhib-
itted against them: To the Kings most Excellent
Majesty by Richard Hill Henry Coursey George Wells
George Lingham, Edward Dorsey &c: The Chief and
most of which were the Protestants that opposed their
present Majesties Right and Tytle to the Allegiance
Obedience and subjection of their said Majesties sub-
jects in the said Province.
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P. R. O.
Maryland
B. I. Vol. 2,
B. E.
P-35
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3 of the Peticrs
sd Taylour
& Lillingston
in Maryld
at the
Revolution
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As to the first Allegation in the said Paper, that
they petition on behalfe of themselves and most
of the Inhabitants of the said Province is false For
they can produce no power or qualification from
any other persons whatsoever. The whole Prov-
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ince (as by Addresses from the severall Counties heretofore
delivered in and now ready to be delivered to their Majesties
fully manifesting the contrary as well as severall persons (viva
voce) to testify the same.
As to the second Allegation That the Province hath in his
Lordspp and his Father's time enjoyed a continuall peace and
that persons of all perswasions have enjoyed equall favours
from the Government is also untrue. Witness the Insurrec-
tion at the Clifts occasioned by his Lordspps Writts of
Elleccon comanding Four Representatives for each County to
be elected as an Assembly out of which Four, his Lordspp
afterwards called only two that he thought most fitt for his
Interest to be an Assembly who laid the greatest Levy upon
the People that ever was laid in that Province. Which they
refused to pay as not being laid by their legall Representatives
and for which three of them were condemned and two of them
executed. Witness also the Comotions in the said Prov-
ince upon his Lordspps arrivall there in the time of the Popish
Plott. As also upon the Indians killing divers English at the
Lower end of the Towne (being a place there so called) and
ever since have the people beene in continuall feares and
jealousies of the French and Northern Indians who often pass
by the Confines of the said Province with French Priests who
were acquainted with the English and Irish Preists there
inhabiting, and as to the equall enjoyment of favours as is
pretended. It is well known that of late yeares there have
not been any Protestants preferred to Offices were there were
Papists fitt to enjoy the same That of all perswasions there,
the Church of England have had the least encouragement and
respect.
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