APPENDIX.

The Copy of the Order of Council hereunder mention'd as sent
Gov^r Ogle Sept^ber the 2^d 1737
At the Court at Hampton Court the 18^th day of August 1737

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Present

The King's

most Excellent Majesty

Arch B-p of Canterbury

Earl Fitzwalter

Lord Chancellor

Lord Monson

Lord President

M^r Speaker

Lord Privy Seal

M^r Chancellor of the Exchequer

Lord Chamberlain

H^ry Pelham Esq^re

Earl of Pembroke

S^r Char^s Wager

Earl of Cholmondeley

Step" Pointz Esq^re

Earl of Hay

Whereas two petitions from the Province of Maryland have been
presented to his Maj^ty at this Board, the One, from the Governor
& Council, & the other, from the Commissary & Clergy of that
Province, which Petitions represent (amongst other things) That
there is a suit now depending in his Majesty High Court of Chancery
of Great Britain between the Lord Baltimore Proprietor of Mary-
land, & the Family of the Penns who are the present Proprietors
of Pensylvania, concerning the Validity of certain Articles of
Agreem^t enter 'd into between them for Adjusting the Boundaries
of their respective provinces; That pending the said Suit, great
Disorders & Outrages have been committed upon the Borders of the
Province of Maryland by the Inhabitants of the Province of Pensyl-
vania, who have set fire to the House of one Cresap when himself.
Wife Children & six others were in it, & burnt the same to the
ground, & that whilst the said persons endeavour'd to escape the
Flames, several Guns were fir'd at them, whereby one man was
kill'd & others wounded, & several were taken prisoners & carried

to the Goals in Pensilvania; Wherefore the Pet^ers most humbly pray
(amongst other Things) His Majesty's most gracious Interposition
& Commands for the Preservation of the Peace on the Borders of
the s^d Province, And whereas the Lords of the Committee of Coun-
cil, to whom his Majesty referr'd the consideration of the said
Petitions, have made their Report thereupon to his Majesty at this
Board. His Majesty this day took the s^d Report into his Royal

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