140 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1636-1647.
[Commission to Brent and others.]

Liber P. R.
p. 159

locus + sigilli. Cecilius &c. To all &c. Know ye that
whereas heretofore I have made severall authorities & directed
one or more Commissions to severall psons in Maryland for
the well ordering & disposall from time to time of my stock or
stocks of neate & other cattell, & of all other my goods &
chattells there, & also of all rents ffines confiscaons or escheats,
tribute or other gifts from the Indians, customes or Subsidies
granted to me by any grall Assembly, & all other pfits &
emoluments belonging to me within the said Prov. of Mary-
land; & for the better managing cleering letting such farme
or farmes Mannor or Manners or other lands sett out &
designed there for my pticular vse, according to such direc-
tions & instruccons as I should from time to time send thether
for the purposes above mentioned, And whereas some of the
aforesaid psons are since depted out of the said Prov:, where-
by I may receive much preiudice in the neglect of that service;
wherefore I have thought fitt out of the confidence I have of
the integrity fidelity & good affection towards me of my trusty
& welbeloved Giles Brent Esq my Leiuten^t gen: of the said
Prov. of maryl: John Lewger Esq my Secretary, James Neale
and Thomas Gerard Esqes all of my Counsell there, and
william brainthwait gent, to constitute, and I doe hereby con-
stitute ordeine & appoint them the said Giles Brent John
Lewger James Neale Thomas Gerard and william Brainthwait
to be Commiss^rs for my Treary within the said Prov: And I
doe hereby authorise them or any two of them (whereof the
said Giles Brent to be alwaies one) to take care of, receive, &
dispose from time to time of all & every such things as are
above mentioned belonging to me within the said Prov: to my
best advantage according to such directions & instruccons as
the said Commiss^rs shall from time to time receive from me, &
in default therof, according to their best discretions. And to
appoint from time to lime, change, alter, or remove any such
officers to receive my rents & other profitts above mentioned
there, as also to look to my block of neat called; & fur the
better exequution of all other the said p^rmises, & to allow such
salary & wages to be paid to them out of the profits above
mentioned or sale yearly of some of my said neat cattell, as
they or any two of them (wherof the said G. B. to be alwaies
one) shall from time to time think fitt. And I doe hereby
ratifie & confirme what the said Commiss^rs or any two of them
(wherof the said G. B to be one) shall from time to time law-
fully doe in any of the premises as much as if I my selfe had
beene pnt & had done the same, willing & requiring the said
Commiss^rs & every of them that they or two of them at the