c. Provision for trade in Virginia or Maryland If he be minded to furnish himselfe with Cattell in Virginia his best way is to carry a superfluitie of wollen or linnen cloth callicoes sayes hatts shooes stockings and all sorts of clothing of Wine Sugar Prunes Rasins Currance Honey Spice and Grocery wares with which hee may procure himselfe cattell there according to the stocke he dealeth withall About 4. or 5. Pound laid out heere in commodities will there buy a Cow and betweene 20. and 30. shillings a breeding Sow The like Commodities will furnish him either there or in Maryland with Hogges Poultry and Corne. Hee may doe well also to carry a superfluity of Knives Combes and Bracelets to trade with the women Natives and some Hatchets Howes and Axes to trade with the men for Venison Fish Turkies Corne Fawnes to store a Parke c. Provision for his House Iron and Locks and Hinges and bolts c. Mustard-seede Glasse and Leade for his windowes Mault for beere a Hogshead of Beefe or Porke Two or three Firkins of Butter a hundred or two of old Cheeses a gallon of honey Soape and Candles Iron wedges Pookes for Rennet to make cheese a good Mastiffe c. Provision for Husbandry Seede Wheate Rie Barley and Oates the best way to preserue it from heating at sea is to carry it in the eare Kernells of Peares and Apples especially of Pepins Pearemaines and Dusons for the making hereafter of Cider and Perry the stones and seedes of all those fruits and rootes and herbes which he desireth to have Good store of claver grasse seede to make good meadow Provision for Fishing and Fowling Inprimis necessaries for a boate of 3. or 4. Tunne as Spikes Nayles Pitch Tarre Ocome Canuis for a sayle Ropes Anchor Iron for the Ruther Fishing-lines for Cod and Macrills c. Cod-hookes and Macrill-hookes a Seane or Basse-net Herring-netts Leade Fowling-pieces of sixe foote Powder and Shott and Flint Stones a good Water-Spaniell c. A direction for choice of seruants IN the taking of servants he may doe well to furnish himselfe with as many as he can of usefull and necessary Arts A Carpenter of all others the most necessary A Mill-wright Ship-wright Boate-wright Wheele-wright Brick-maker Brick-layer Potter one that can cleave Lath and Pale and make Pipe-slaves c. A Ioyner Cooper Turner Sawyer Smith Cutler Leather-dresser Miller Fisherman and Gardiner These will be of most use but any lusty young able man that is willing to labour and take paines although he have no particular trade will be beneficiall enough to his Master And in case any Adventurer shall be unprovided of such men to supply his number hee may have directions at the place where these bookes are to bee had how and where hee may provide himselfe of as many as hee please The forme of binding a servant This Indenture made the _____ day of _____ in the _____ day of _____ yeere of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles c. betweene _____ day of _____ of the one party and _____ day of _____ on the other party Witnesseth that the said _____ doth hereby covenant promise and grant to and with the said _____ his Executors and Assignes to serve him from the day of the date hereof â—â—till his first and next arrivall in Maryland and after for and during the tearme of _____ yeeres in such service and imployment as he the said _____ or his assignes shall there imploy him according to the custome of the Countrey in the like kind In consideration whereof the said _____ doth promise and grant to and with the said _____ to pay for his passing and to find him with Meat Drinke Apparell and Lodging with other necessaries during the said terme and at the end of the said terme to give him one whole yeeres provision of Corne and fifty acres of Land according to the order of the countrey In witnesse whereof the said _____ hath hereunto put his hand and seale the day and yeere above written Sealed and delivered in the presence of H _____ The usuall terme of binding a servant is for five yeers but for any artificer or one that shall deserve more then ordinary the Adventurer shall doe well to shorten that time and adde encouragements of another nature as he shall see cause rather then to want such usefull men A Forme of a Bill of Lading to be taken from the Master of the Sip by every Aduenterer for the better securing of the transportation of his goods SHipped by the grace of God in good order and well conditioned by _____ in and upon the good Ship called the _____ whereof is master under God for this present voyage _____ and now riding at anker in the _____ and by Gods grace bound for _____ to say being marked and numbred as in the margent and are to be delivered in the like good order and well conditioned at the Port of Saint Maries in Maryland the danger of the Seas onely excepted vnto _____ or to assignes paying fraught for the said goods with primage and avarage accustomed In witnesse whereof the Master or Purser of the said ship hath affirmed to three Bills of Lading all of this tenor and date the one of which three bills being accomplished the other two to stand void And so God send the good Ship to her desired Port in safety Amen Dated in _____ There is order taken for convenient houses to be set up at Saint Maries where all strangers may at their first comming bee entertained with lodging and other fitting accommodations for themselves and their goods till they can better provide for themselves The names of the Gentlemen adventurers that are gone in person to this Plantation Mr. his Lordships brothers Leonard Calvert the governor George Calvert Commissioners Ierome Hawley Esq Thomas Cornewallis Esq Richard Gerard son to Sir Thomas Gerard Knight and Baronet sonnes of the Lady Anne Wintour Edward Wintour Freder Wintour Henry Wiseman son to Sir Thomas Wiseman Knight Iohn Saunders Edward Cranfield Henry Greene. Nicholas Ferfax Iohn Baxter Thomas Dorrell Captaine Iohn Hill Iohn Medcalfe William Saire HONI SOIT †QVI MAL †Y †PENSE CR THE CHARTER OF MARY LAND CHARLES By the Grace of GOD King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith c. To all to whom these Presents shall come greeting WHEREAS Our right Trusty and Wellbeloved Subject Cecilius Caluert Baron of Baltemore in our Kingdom of Ireland Sonne and heire of Sir George Caluert Knight late Baron of Baltemore in the same Kingdome of Ireland pursuing his Fathers intentions being excited with a laudable and pious zeale for the propagation of the Christian Faith and the enlargement of our Empire and Dominion hath humbly besought leave of Vs by his industry and charge to transport an ample Colony of the English Nation unto a certaine Countrey hereafter described in the parts of America not yet cultivated and planted though in some parts
A RELATION OF MARYLAND Together VVith A Map of the Countrey The Conditions of Plantation His Majesties Charter to the Lord Baltemore translated into English These Bookes are to bee had at Master William Peasley Esq his house on the back-side of Drury-Lane neere the Cock-pit Playhouse or in his absence at Master Iohn Morgans house in high Holbourne over against the Dolphin London September the 8. Anno Dom. 1635. CHAP. I. A RELATION Of the Lord BALTEMORE'S Plantation in Maryland HIs most Excellent Majestie Having by His Letters Patents under the Great Seale of England granted a certaine Countrey in America now called Maryland in honour of our gratious Queene unto the Lord Baltemore with divers Priviledges and encouragements to all those that should aduenture with his Lordship in the planting of that Cōntrey the benefit and honour of such an action was readily apprehended by divers Gentlemen of good birth and qualitie who thereupon resolued to aduenture their persons and a good part of their fortunes with his Lordship in the pursuite of so noble and in all likelihood so aduantagious an enterprize His Lordship was at first resolued to goe in person but the more important reasons perswading his stay at home hee appointed his brother Mr. Leonard Caluert to goe Governour in his stead with whom he joyned in Commission Mr. Ierome Hawley and Mr. Thomas Cornwallis two worthy and able Gentlemen These with the other Gentlemen aduenturers and their seruants to the number of neere 200. people imbarked thēselues for the voyage in the good ship called the Arke of 300. tunne upward which was attended by his Lordships Pinnace called the Dove of about 50. tunne And so on Friday the 22. of November 1633. a small gale of winde comming gently from the North-West they weighed from the Cowes in the Isle of Wight about ten in the morning And having stayed by the way Twenty dayes at the Barbada's and Fourteene dayes at Saint Christophers upon some necessary occasions they arrived at Point Comfort in Virginia on the foure twentyeth of February following They had Letters from his Majesty in favor of them to the Governour of Virginia in obedience whereunto he used them with much courtesie and humanitie At this time one Captaine Cleyborne one of the Councel of Virginia comming from the parts whether they intended to goe told them that all the Natives were in preparation of defence by reason of a rumor some had raised amongst them that 6. shippes were to come with many people who would drive all the inhabitants out of the Countrey On the 3. of March they left Point Comfort 2. dayes after they came to Patowmeck river which is about 24. leagues distant there they began to give names to places and called the Southerne point of that River Saint Gregories and the Northerne point Saint Michaels They sayled up the River till they came to Heron Iland which is about 14. leagues and there came to an Anchor under an Island neere unto it which they called S. Clements Where they set up a Crosse and tooke possession of this Countrey for our Saviour and for our Soveraigne Lord the King of England Heere the Governor thought fit for the ship to stay vntill hee had discovered more of the Countrey and so hee tooke two Pinnaces and went up the River some 4. leagues and landed on the South side where he found the Indians fled for feare from thence hee sayled some 9. leagues higher to Patowmeck Towne where the Werowance being a child Archibau his vnckle who governed him and his Countrey for him gave all the company good wellcome and one of the company having entered into a little discourse with him touching the errours of their religion hee seemed well pleased therewith and at his going away desired him to returne thither againe saying he should live with him his men should hunt for him and hee would divide all with him From hence the Governor went to Pasehatoway about 20. leagues higher where he found many Indians assembled and heere he met with one Captaine Henry Fleete an English-man who had lived many yeeres among the Indians and by that meanes spake the Countrey language very well and was much esteemed of by the natives Him our Governour sent a shore to invite the Werowance to a parley who thereupon came with him aboard privatly where he was courteously entertained and after some parley being demanded by the Governour whether hee would be content that he and his people should set downe in his Countrey in case he should find a place conuenient for him his answere was that he would not bid him goe neither would hee bid him stay but that he might use his owne discretion While this Werowance was aboard many of his people came to the water side fearing that he might be surprised whereupon the Werowance commanded two Indians that came with him to goe on shore to quit them of this feare but they answered they feared they wou'd kill them The Werowance therefore shewed himselfe upon the decke and told them hee was in safety wherewith they were satisfied Whilest the Governour was abroad the neighbouring Indians where the ship lay began to cast off feare and to come to their Court of guard which they kept night and day upon Saint Clements I le partly to defend their barge which was brought in pieces out of England and there made up and partly to defend their men which were imployed in felling of trees and cleaving pales for a Palizado and at last they ventured to come aboard the ship The Governour finding it not fit for many reasons to seate himselfe as yet so high in the River resolued to returne backe againe and to take a more exact view of the lower parts and so leaving the Ship Pinnaces there he tooke his Barge as most fit to search the Creekes and small rivers and was conducted by Captaine Fleete who knew well the Countrey to a River on the North-side of Patomeck river within 4. or 5. leagues from the mouth thereof which they called Saint Georges River They went up this river about 4. Leagues and anchored at the Towne of Yoacomaco from whence the Indians of that part of the Countrey are called the Yoacomacoes At their comming to this place the Governour went on shoare and treated friendly with the Werowance there and acquainted him with the intent of his comming thither to which hee made little answere as it is their manner to any new or suddaine question but entertained him and his company that night in his house and gave him his owne bed to lie on which is a matt layd on boords and the next day went to shew him the country and that day being spent in viewing the places about that towne and the fresh waters which there are very plentifull and excellent good but the maine rivers are salt the Governor determined to make the first Colony there and so gave order for
people to the English at Monaponson and hope you will not make the rash act of a few young men which was done in heate a quarrell to their Nation who desire to live in peace and love with you and are ready to make satisfaction for the Injury desiring to know what will give you content and that they will returne such things as were then taken from thence But withall they desire you not to thinke that they doe this for feare for they have warres with the Sasquehanocks who have by a surprise lately killed many of their men but they would not sue to them for peace intending to revenge the injuries as they could find opportunitie yet their desire was to have peace with the English The Governour returned answere to the Wicomesse since you acknowledge the Injury and are sorry for it and onely desire to know what I expect for satisfaction I tell you I expect that those men who have done this out-rage should be delivered unto me to doe with them as I shall thinke fit and likewise that you restore all such things as you then tooke from the English and withall charged him with a second Injury attempted upon some of his owne People since that time by the Wicomesses The Wicomesse after a little pause replyed It is the manner amongst us Indians that if any such like accident happen wee doe redeeme the life of a man that is so slaine with a 100. armes length of Roaroke which is a sort of Beades that they make and use for money and since that you are heere strangers and come into our Countrey you should rather conforme your selues to the Customes of our Countrey then impose yours upon us But as for the second matter I know nothing of it nor can give any answere thereunto The Governour then told him It seemes you come not sufficiently instructed in the businesse which wee have with the Wicomesses therefore tell them what I have said and that I expect a speedy answere and so dismist him It fell in the way of my discourse to speake of the Indian money of those parts It is of two sorts Wompompeag and Roanoake both of them are made of a Fish-shell that they gather by the Sea side Wompompeag is of the greater sort and Roanoake of the lesser and the Wompompeag is three times the value of Roanoake and these serue as Gold and Siluer doe heere they barter also one commoditie for another and are very glad of trafficke and commerce so farre as to supply their necessities They shew no great desire of heaping wealth yet some they will have to be buryed with them If they were Christians and would live so free from covetousnesse and many other vices which abound in Christendome they would be a brave people I therefore conclude that since God Almighty hath made this Countrey so large and fruitfull and that the people be such as you have heard them described It is much more Prudence and Charity to Civilize and make them Christians then to kill robbe and hunt them from place to place as you would doe a wolfe By reducing of them God shall be serued his Majesties Empire enlarged by the addition of many thousand Subjects as well as of large Territories our Nation honoured and the Planters themselues enriched by the trafficke and commerce which may be had with them and in many other things they may be usefull but prejudiciall they cannot be if it be not through their owne faults by negligence of fortifying themselues and not conseruing military discipline CHAP. VI. Conditions propounded by the Lord Baltemore to such as shall goe or adventure into Maryland I. WHAT person soever subject to our soveraigne Lord the King of England shal be at the charge to transport into the Province of Maryland himselfe or his deputy with any number of able men betweene the ages of 16 and 50 each man being provided in all things necessary for a Plantatiō which together with their transportation will amount to about 20 l. a man as by an aestimate hereafter following may appeare there shal be assigned unto every such adventurer for every five men which he shall so transport thither a proportion of good land within the said Province containing in quantity 1000 acres of English measure which shall be erected into a Mannor and be conveyed to him his heires and assignes for ever with all such royalties and priviledges as are usually belonging to Mannors in England rendring and paying yerely unto his Lordship and his heires for every such Mannor a quit rent of 20 shillings to be paid in the Commodities of the Countrey and such other services as shall be generally agreed upon for publike uses and the common good II. What person soever as aforesaid shall transport himselfe or any lesse number of servants then five aged and provided as aforesaid he shall have assigned to him his heires and assignes for ever for himselfe 100 acres of good land within the said Province and for and in respect of every such seruant 100 acres more be be holden of his Lordship in freehold paying therefore a yeerely quit rent of 2 shillings for every hundred acres in the Commodities of the Countrey III. Any married man that shall transport himselfe his wife and children shall have assigned unto him his heires and assignes for ever in freehold as aforesaid for himselfe 100 acres and for his wife 100 acres and for every child that he shall carry over under the age of 16 yeeres 50 acres paying for a quit rent 12 pence for every fifty acres IIII. Any woman that shall transport herselfe or any children under the age of sixe yeeres shall have the like Conditions as aforesaid V. Any one that shall carry over any women servants under the age of fourty yeeres shall have for and in respect of every such woman servant 50 acres paying onely a quit rent as aforesaid CHAP. VII Instructions and advertisements for such as shall intend to goe or send to plant in Maryland THis Countrey of Maryland lieth from England to the Southwest about 1200 leagues by Sea the voyage is sometimes performed thither in 5 or 6 weekes but ordinarily it is two moneths voyage and oftner within that time then beyond it The returne from thence to England is ordinarily made in a moneth and seldome exceeds sixe weekes The best time of the yeere for going thither is to be there by Michaelmas or at furthest by Christmas for he that comes by that time shall have time enough to build him a house and to prepare ground sufficient to plant in the spring following But there is conveniency of passage thither in most moneths of the yeere and any one that will send unto Mr. Peasleys or Master Morgans house may there be informed of the certaine time when any of his Lordships company is to goe away and so save the charge of unnecessary attendance here in London A particular of such necessary provisions as every
thereof inhabited by certaine barbarous people having no knowledge of Almighty God and hath humbly besought our Royall Majestie to give grant and confirme all the said Countrey with certaine Priviledges and Iurisdictions requisite for the good government and state of his Colony and Countrey aforesaid to him and his heires for ever KNOW YEE therefore that Wee favouring the Pious and Noble purpose of the said Barons of Baltemore of our speciall grace certaine knowledge and meere motion have given granted and confirmed and by this our present Charter for Vs Our Heires and Successors doe give grant and confirme unto the said Cecilius now Baron of Baltemore his heires and Assignes all that part of a Penjnsula lying in the parts of America betweene the Ocean on the East and the Bay of Chesopeack on the West and divided from the other part thereof by a right line drawne from the Promontory or Cape of Land called Watkins Point situate in the foresaid Bay neere the river of Wighâ—â— on the West unto the maine Ocean on the East and betweene that bound on the South unto that part of Delaware Bay on the North which lieth under the fortieth degree of Northerly Latitude from the Equinoctiall where New-England ends And all that tract of land betweene the bounds aforesaid that is to say passing from the foresaid Bay called Delaware Bay in a right line by the degree aforesaid unto the true Meridian of the first fountaine of the River of Pattowmeck and from thence trending toward the South unto the farther banke of the fore-said River and following the West and South side thereof unto a certaine place called Cinquack situate neere the mouth of the said River where it falls into the Bay of Chesopeack and from thence by a straight line unto the foresaid Promontory and place called Watkins Point So that all that tract of land divided by the line aforesaid drawne betweene the maine Ocean and Watkins Point unto the Promontory called Cape Charles and all its apurtenances doe remaine intirely excepted to us our heires and Successors for ever WEE DOE also grant and confirme unto the said now Lord Baltemore his heires and Assignes all Ilands and Iletts within the limitts aforesaid and all and singular the Ilands and Iletts which are or shall be in the Ocean within 10. Leagues from the Easterne shoare of the said Countrey towards the East with all and singular Ports Harbors Bayes Rivers and Inletts belonging unto the Countrey or Ilands aforesaid And all the Soile lands Fields Woods Mountaines Fennes Lakes Rivers Bayes and Inletts situate or being within the bounds and limits aforesaid with the fishing of all sorts of fish Whales Sturgeons and all other royal fishes in the Sea Bays Inletts or Rivers within the premises and the fish therein taken and moreover all Veines Mines and Quarries aswell discovered as not discovered of Gold Siluer Gemmes and pretious stones and all other whatsoever be it of Stones Mettalls or of any other thing or matter whatsoever found or to bee found within the Countrey Iles and limits aforesaid And Furthermore the Patronages and Aduowsons of all Churches which as Christian Religion shall encrease within the Countrey Iles Iletts and limits aforesaid shall happen hereafter to bee erected together with licence and power to build and found Churches Chappell 's and Oratories in convenient and fit places within the premises and to cause them to be dedicated and consecrated according to the Ecclesiasticall Lawes of our Kingdome of England Together with all and singular the like and as ample rights Iurisdictions Priviledges Prerogatives Royalties Liberties Immunities Royall rights and franchises of what kind soever temporall as well by Sea as by land within the Countrey Iles Iletts and limits aforesaid To have exercise use and enjoy the same as amply as any Bishop of Durham within the Bishoprick or County Palatine of Durham in our Kingdome of England hath at any time heretofore had held used or enjoyed or of right ought or might have had held used or enjoyed AND HIM the said now Lord Baltemore his Heires and Assignes Wee doe by these Presents for Vs Our Heires and Successors make create and constitute the true and absolute Lords and Proprietaries of the Countrey aforesaid and of all other the Premises except before excepted saving alwayes the faith and allegeance and Soveraigne dominion due unto Vs Our Heires and Successors TO HAVE hold possesse and enjoy the sayd Countrey Iles Iletts and other the Premises unto the said now Lord Baltemore his heires and assignes to the sole and proper use and behoofe of him the said now Lord Baltemore his heires and assignes for ever TO BEE holden of Vs Our Heires and Successors Kings of England as of Our Castle of Windsor in Our County of Berkshire in free and common soccage by fealty onely for all seruices and not in Capite or by Knights seruice YEELDING and paying therefore to Vs our Heires and Successors two Indian Arrowes of those parts to be delivered at Our said Castle of Windsor every yeere on the Tuesday in Easter weeke and also the fifth part of all Gold and Siluer Oare within the limits aforesaid which shall from time to time happen to be found NOW THAT the said Countrey thus by Vs granted and described may be eminent above all other parts of the said territory and dignified with larger titles Know yee that wee of our further grace certaine knowledge and meere motion have thought fit to erect the same Countrey and Ilands into a Province as out of the fullnesse of Our royall Power and Prerogative Wee doe for Vs Our Heires and Successors erect and incorporate them into a Province and doe call it Mary land and so from henceforth will have it called AND FORASMVCH as Wee have hereby made and ordained the foresaid now Lord Baltemore the true Lord and Proprietary of all the Province aforesaid Know yee therefore moreover that Wee reposing especiall trust and confidence in the fidelitie wisedome Iustice and Provident circumspection of the said now Lord Baltemore for Vs Our Heires and Successors doe grant free full and absolute power by vertue of these Presents to him and his heires for the good and happy government of the said Province to ordaine make enact and under his and their seales to publish any Lawes whatsoever appertaining either unto the publike State of the said Province or unto the private utility of particular Persons according unto their best discretions of and with the aduise assent and approbation of the Free-men of the said Province or the greater part of them or of their delegates or deputies whom for the enacting of the said Lawes when and as often as neede shall require We will that the said now Lord Baltemore and his heires shall assemble in such sort and forme as to him or them shall seeme best And the same lawes duly to execute upon all people within the said Province and limits thereof for
make satisfaction WEE doe furthermore will appoint and ordaine and by these Presents for Vs Our Heires and Successors We doe grant unto the said now Lord Baltemore his heires and assignes that he the said Lord Baltemore his heires and assignes may from time to time for ever have and enjoy the Customes and Subsidies in the Ports Harbours and other Creekes and places aforesaid within the Province aforesaid payable or due for merchandizes and wares there to be laded or unladed the said Customes and Subsidies to be reasonably assessed upon any occasion by themselves and the people there as aforesaid to whom we give power by these Presents for Vs Our Heires and Successors upon just cause and in a due proportion to assesse and impose the same AND FVRTHER of Our speciall grace and of Our certaine knowledge and meere motion Wee have given granted and confirmed and by these Presents for Vs Our Heires and Successors doe give grant and confirme unto the said now Lord Baltemore his heires and assignes full and absolute licence power and authoritie that hee the said now Lord Baltemore his heires and assignes from time to time hereafter for ever at his or their will and pleasure may assigne aliene grant demise or enfeoffe of the Premises so many and such parts and parcells to him or them that shall be willing to purchase the same as they shall thinke fit TO HAVE and to hold to them the sayd person or persons willing to take or purchase the same their heires and assignes in fee simple or fee taile or for terme of life or lives or yeeres to bee held of the said now Lord Baltemore his heires and assignes by such seruices customes and rents as shall seeme fit to the said now Lord Baltemore his heires and assignes and not immediately of Vs Our Heires or Successors and to the same person or persons and to all and every of them Wee doe give and grant by these Presents for Vs Our Heires and Successors licence authoritie and power that such person or persons may take the premises or any parcell thereof of the foresaid now Lord Baltemore his heires or assignes and the same hold to themselues their heires or assignes in what estate of inheritance soever in fee simple or in fee taile or otherwise as to them and the now Lord Baltemore his heires and assignes shall seeme expedient of the said now Lord Baltemore his heires and assignes the statute made in the Parliament of Edward Sonne of King Henry late King of England Our Predecessor commonly called the Statute Quia emptores terrarum lately published in Our Kingdome of England or any other Statute Acte Ordinance Vse Law or Custome or any other thing cause or matter thereupon heretofore had done published ordained or provided to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And by these Presents Wee give and grant licence unto the said now Lord Baltemore and his heires to erect any parcells of land within the Province aforesaid into Mannors and in every of the said Mannors to have and to hold a Court Baron with all things whatsoever which to a Court Baron doe belong and to have and hold viewe of Franck-pledge for the conseruation of the peace and the better government of those Parts by themselues or their stewards or by the Lords for the time being of other Mannors to bee deputed when they shall bee erected and in the same to use all things belonging to View of Franck-Pledge AND FVRTHER Our pleasure is and by these Presents for Vs Our Heires and Successors wee doe covenant and grant to and with the said now Lord Baltemore his heires and assignes That Wee Our Heires and Successors shall at no time hereafter set or make or cause to be set any Imposition Custome or other Taxation Rate or Contribution whatsoever in or upon the dwellers and inhabitants of the foresaid Province for their Lands Tenements goods or Chattells within the said Province or in or upon any goods or merchandizes within the said Province or to be laden or unladen within any the Ports or harbours of the said Province And Our pleasure is and for Vs Our Heires and Successors Wee charge and command that this Our Declaration shall be hence forward from time to time received and allowed in all Our Courts and before all the Iudges of Vs Our Heires and Successors for a sufficient and lawfull discharge payment and acquittance Commanding all and singular our Officers and Ministers of Vs our Heires and Successors and enjoyning them upon paine of Our high displeasure that they doe not presume at any time to attempt any thing to the contrary of the premises or that they doe in any sort with stand the same but that they be at all times ayding and assisting as is fitting unto the said now Lord Baltemore and his heires and to the Inhabitants and Merchants of Maryland aforesaid their seruants ministers factors and assignes in the full use and fruition of the benefit of this Our Charter AND FVRTHER Our pleasure is and by these Presents for Vs our Heires and Successors VVee doe grant unto the said now Lord Baltemore his heires and assignes and to the Tenants and Inhabitants of the said Province of Mary-land both present and to come and to every of them that the said Province Tenants and Inhabitants of the said Colony or Countrey shall not from henceforth bee held or reputed as a member or a part of the land of Virginia or of any other Colony whatsoever now transported or hereafter to be transported nor shall be depending on or subject to their government in any thing from whom Wee doe separate that and them and Our pleasure is by these Presents that they bee separated and that they be subject immediately to Our Crowne of England as depending thereof for ever AND IF PERCHANCE hereafter it should happen that any doubts or questions should arise concerning the true sence and understanding of any word clause or senteÌ„ce contained in this Our present Charter Wee will ordaine and command that at all times and in all things such Interpretation bee made thereof and allowed in any of Our Courts whatsoever as shall be judged most aduantagious and favourable unto the the said now Lord Baltemore his heires and assignes PROVIDED alwayes that no Interpretation bee admitted thereof by which Gods Holy and Truely Christian Religion or the allegeance due unto Vs Our Heires and Successors may in any thing suffer any prejudice or diminution ALTHOVGH expresse mention bee not made in these Presents of the true yeerely value or certainty of the premises or of any part thereof or of other gifts and grants made by Vs Our Heires and Predecessors unto the said now Lord Baltemore or any Statute Acte Ordinance Provision Proclamation or restraint heretofore had made published ordained or provided or any other thing cause or matter whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding IN WITNESSE whereof Wee have caused these Our Letters to bee made Pattents Witnesse Our selfe at Westminster the Twentieth day of Iune In the Eighth yeere of Our Reigne Patowmeck is a great River of the Province of Maryland on which they intendâ—d to seate the first Colony So called from the aboundance of that Fowle there The Dove and one hyred in Virginâ—a So they call their Princes So they call the chiefe men of Accompt amongst them * A tearme they use for their Boates. Their Religion The bounds Iurisdiction of a Count Palatine Tenure Rent Power to enact Lawes Licence to goe to Mary land People borne in Maryland made Denizens of England Lincence to transport goods and merchandise Power of warr and peace Martiall Law Power to conferre honor Power to create Tenures