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    His Exncy acquaints the Board with the Right honble the Lib. C. P.

  Lords of Trade & plantations Lre of the thirtieth of Decem- p. 124

  ber 1707 & the Queens Ordr about the Counsellors giving

  Due Attendance for her Service at the Respective Councills

  Which Lre was ordered to be Entred & is as followeth Vizt

                        Amer.

    Trusty and Welbeloved Wee Greet you well Whereas Wee

  are sencible that Effectuall Care ought to be taken to oblige

  the Members of our Councill to a due Attendance therein, in

  order to prevent the Many Inconveniencys that may happen

  from the want of a Quorum of the Councill to transact Busi-

  ness as occasion may require. It is our Will & pleasure that

  if any of the Members of our sd Councill shall hereafter will-

  fully absent themselves when duly Sumoned without a just

  and lawfull Cause and shall persist therein after Admonition.

  You suspend the said Counsellors so absenting themselves

  till our further pleasure be knowne giving Us tymely Notice

  thereof.

    And Wee hereby Will and require You that this our Royall

  pleasure be signified to the Severall Members of our Councill P. 125

  in Maryland. And that it be entred in the Councill Books of

  our said province as a standing Rule. So Wee bid you fare-

  well Given at our Court at Kensington the 20th day of Novemb:

  1707. In the Sixth year of our Reign.

                 By her Matys Comand

                     Sunderland.

    The same was directed

    To Our Trusty and Welbeloved John Seymour Esqr Our

  Capt Genll and Governor in Chiefe of our Province of Mary-

  land in America.

    Or to the Comander in Chief of our said Province for the

  tyme being. Maryland.

    Advised that whereas many persons in this Province are

  disaffected to the Government & protestant Succession as

  established by Law. To the End it may be knowne what

  number of papists & reputed papists are residing in this prov-

  ince Orders Issue to the Severall Sherriffs of the Respective

  Countys to take a List of the said papists names as well

  Masters of Familys as Inmates Servants & negro's baptized in

  that Religion and return the same to his Exncy the Governour

  by the fifteenth of August next. His Exncy layd before the p. 126

  Board the Rt honble the Lords of Trade and plantations Letter

  of the 7th of May 1707. Signifying that An Act of Parlia-