Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 55

never before practised implied some Suspicion to his Disad-
vantage he could not reconcile himself to that part of the Plan
& intimated that he should not think of continuing Agent any
longer in Case his Compliance with such Article should be
insisted on. In answer to this I told him that as to my Under-
taking alone to examine his Accounts it was a Task I should
wish to be excused from tho as His Ldp desired it I should
readily assist with any other Gentlemen that His Ldp might
think fit to appoint for that purpose, that as to His Apprehen-
sions of an Inclination to perplex or distress him in either of
the Gentlemen nominated in His Ldp's Instructions I was
persuaded they were groundless & should they have such an
Inclination I did not see how they could give him any Trouble
or Uneasiness if his Accounts were found regular, & that in
my opinion the Instruction was so far from carrying any
Implication to his Disadvantage that it seemed rather calcu-
lated for his own Ease & Benefit & as the Introduction set
forth to prevent any Confusion or Difficulties which might
arise in case of Death from such Variety of Accounts remain-
ing more than one year unsettled : This & more to the same
purport I thought it my Duty to say to him in answer to his
Objections, my Arguments however did not seem to have
weight enough with him to induce him to alter his Opinion,
but at the End of our Conversation he expressed hopes that I
would not press him to take a final Resolution untill he could
receive an Answer to a Letter that he told me he had wrote
to you on the Subject of those Instructions, which Request I
could not refuse to comply with. Having had the Satisfaction
to receive Your Letter dated the 7^th of Jan^y last I embrace
this Opportunity to return you Thanks for it & at the same
time to inform you that in Consequence of the Permission
given me by His Ldp & signified by Your Letter dated the 26^th
of Oct^r I have ordered an Induction to be made out for the
Rev^d M^r Thornton to be Rector of Port Tobacco Parish in the
room of M^r Swift who as I sometime ago intimated to you had
signified to me his Intention to go to Ireland the Place of his
Nativity but he died before he reached it. I have also taken
the Liberty to induct the Rev^d M^r Barclay into S^t Peters Parish
Talbot County of which M^r Bacon was Rector before I pre-
sented him to All Saints, & into All Hallows vacant by the
Removal of M^r Barclay I shall induct the Rev^d M^r Maynadier
in whose Favour His Ldp was about a Year & half ago
pleased to send me an Instruction. Finding upon my having
some Conversation with M^r Goldsborough when I advised
him of his being appointed a Member of the Council that he
was willing to continue in the Lower House till after the late
Session & being of Opinion that he might be useful there I

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