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will and command that if any Order hath or shall without our
knowledge hereafter be given, and any Quo warranto or other
Writt or commencement of suite, hath or shall be made and
sued thereupon or otherwise, for the infringing, avoyding or
overthrowing of either of the aforesaid Letters Pattents, for or
in respect of any clause or matter therein contayned; the same
forthwith to cease and to be made voyd, so as the said now
Lord Baltimore and his heires, may be no way prejudiced
thereby; And for so doing this or a true and Authenticall
Coppy hereof, testified under the hand of one of our Principall
Secretaries of State, shalbe to you and every of you a sufficient
Warrant in that behalfe. Given under our Signett at our
Court at White hall the day of May in the 13^th yeare of
our Raigne.

To our right trusty and right welbeloved our Commissioners
for forreigne Plantations, our keeper of our great Seale of
England, and our Keep^r of our Privy Seale, for the time being:
To our right trusty and welbeloved our Principall Secretaries
of State, our Cheife Justices, and all our Judges of any of our
Courts of Judicature whatsoever for the time being: To our
trusty and welbeloved our Attorney and Sollicitor Generall,
and the rest of our learned Councell in the Law for the time
being, and to all other our Officers and Ministers whom it may
concerne.

P. R. O.
Colonial
Papers. Vol.
IX, No. 55.

Dni. 1637
Shipped for the Isle of Kent upon the S^t Thomas by Thomas
Cornwallis Esq; three pieces of blew truck cloth, & 2 dozen of
trucking Axes which the said Thomas Cornwallis doth acknow-
ledge himself bound to the Lord Proprietor in Two hundred
pound — not to trade Sell or put off the said Cloth or axes or
any part or parcell of them to or with any Indian or Salvage
whatsoever further then he shall have Licence therefore from
the Lieutenant General of this Province.
Tho: Cornwallis
N. B — The above Entry is Crossed
out in the Orriginal Record Book
locus + siglli Know all persons whom it concerneth, that I have
& hereby do give free Liberty and Licence to Thomas Corn-
wallis Esqr; and one of the Council of this Province to trade
with any the Indians of this Province for corne or Roanoke or
peake, and the same to utter and Sell to any of the Inhabitants
of this Province, and no further or otherwise, this Licence to
endure untill I shall signifie the Contrary. In Wittness whereof
I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this 30^th of December

1637
Leonard Calvert

Liber Z.
L. O. R.
No. 2.
p.1