Letter of Transmittal. xi

III are presented several petitions about the ship. They seem to show that
perhaps the lawmakers were unduly alarmed.

The Committee on Publications is indebted to Mrs. Vivian E. Barnes for
help in searching for appendix material and for general aid and counsel on
Archives procedure.

The next volume of the Archives will contain the Proceedings of the Pro-
vincial Court from 1671 to 1674.

The Committee on Publications announces with regret that Dr. Raphael
Semmes has resigned as editor of the Archives of Maryland. Dr. Semmes in
the two preceding volumes brought to his work not only broad scholarship
and legal knowledge but great familiarity with Maryland colonial history. He
is succeeded as editor by Dr. Elizabeth Merritt, Ph.D. in history of the Johns
Hopkins University, whose help to past editors is gratefully remembered.

Respectfully submitted,

J. HALL PLEASANTS, Chairman,
CHARLES A. BARKER,
HARRISON TILGHMAN,
JOSEPH KATZ,
GEORGE Ross VEAZEY.