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   sons I doubt not but your Lordshipps may perceive, being P. R. O.

   they are wholy bowyed up by a gainsaying & restless party.

     And now, my Lords, Colonel John Addison Mr Robert

   Smith & Mr Iames Sanders, three of her Matys Councill here

   being dead Since the last appointment, and Colonel Robert

   Q uary lives in Pensylvania a good distance hence, & has

   so much publique Business on his hands; ‘tis allmost impos

   sible to have his Advice or Assistance when wanted, & that

   Mr Thomas Brooke one of the Boarde never comes to Coun

   cill there is a necessity to have the Vacancys of that Boarde

   Supply'd. And Since there are but four left on this side

   the Bay to meete on any Emergency whatever, and those on

   the other side many tymes in bad Weather not able to come,

   I humbly propose Colonel John Contee to be One, who lives

   in the midst of the most considerable Papists in Charles

   County, and presume Your Lordships will judge it reason

   able to have a person of Spiritt & Authority where there is

   So absolute an Occasion althô he was not named in the List

   of the twelve, and Samuel Young Esqr Colonel Thomas

   Greenfield, & Seth Biggs Esqr if her Matye and your honble

   Boarde thinke fitt to remove Mr Thomas Brooke who has two

   owne Brothers Iesuites in the Province, & himselfe but a late

   Convert, & Still a favourer of that party. My Lords, One of

   the twelve formerly named is dead, to witt, Mr Henry Cour

   sey, others refuse to act having streight lac'd Consciences,

   Colonel Bigger unable to ride on horsback hither, & others

   I designe within the number of the four Itinerant Judges as

   Colonel Thomas Smith &c. And humbly lay the four before-

   mentioned before your Lordps Consideration as persons of

   good fortune and probity. And presume for the aforegoing

   reasons to present a fresh List of twelve, having now a better

   knowledge of persons and things in this province then could

   be well imagined I should have So Suddainly after my arri

   vall here.

     The Law for Ordinary Lycences will expire the next Ses

   sion of Assembly, So that I wayte Your Lordps farther direc

   tions in that matter; for I am confident the Assembly will be

   very unwilling to anex that perquisite to Sr Ihomas Laurences

   her Matys Secrys Office without Some Order to oblige them

   So to do.

     Richard Clarke and his prodigall Companions lately sett an

   Expedient on foote to retrieve Some of their Shatter'd for

   tunes, and carry on their base designes which was forgeing

   and counterfeiting a considerable Quantity of false money

   like unto the peices of the Eight of Spaine and the Dollars

   of the Low Countrys which they made of pewter glass and

   other rnixt Mettall; but the Cheate being presently detected,