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Matthew Price Thomas Woolfe John Glantham The like Election returned of Sign'd by William Brainthwayte Robert Phillpott William Cope Thomas Bradnock Giles Basha Andrew Basha Leonard Lenorson Thomas Butler Thomas Boteler Thomas Arnold Howell Morgan Edward Cumins

Walter Cottrel Richard Browne John Bennett Christopher Thomas and Thomas Pett John Gratham John Walker John Rasell Edward Thompson Robert Lake Thomas Stint Hugh Herward John Ormesby Uavid Odcroft Robert Vaughan Iames Johnson

Liber M C

Copy of his Lordships Letter to the Assembly read the first day Corus + Sigilli Dear Brother I do hereby give you full Power and Authority from time to time in every General Assembly Summoned by you in the Province of Maryland in my name to give assent unto such Laws as you shall think fit and necessary for the Good Govern- ment of the said Province of Maryland and which shall be Consented unto and approved of by the Freemen of that Province or the Major Part of them or their deputies assembled by you there from time to time for the enacting of Laws within that Province provided that the said Laws so to be assented unto be as near as conveniently may be Agreeable & not Contrary to the Laws of England every which Law so to be assented unto by you in my name & consented unto and approved of by the Freemen as aforesaid I do hereby declare shall be in force within the said Province till I or my heirs shall signify in me or their disassent thereunto under the Great Seal of the said Province and no Longer unless after the trans- mission thereof unto us and due Consideration had thereupon I or my heirs shall think litt to Confirm the same Given under my hand & Seal at London in the Realm of England the 21st of August 1638. C. Baltimore To my dear Brother Mr. Leonard Calvert Esqr. my Lieutenant General of the Province of Maryland

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