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10 His Lordship doth except out of these Conditions of
Plantation all Corporations Societies Fraternities Guilds and
Bodies Politick as well Spiritual as Temporal and every of
them and do declare that he doth not intend that they or any
of them shall be Capable of or have any Benefit by Virtue of
those Conditions to Inherit Possess or Enjoy any Land within
the said Province either in their own name or Right or in the
name or names or right of any other Person or Persons what-
soever to the use Interest or Benefit of or Interest of any such
Corporation Guild Bodys Politick Societies fraternities or any
of them as aforesaid without further particular and special
License first had and Obtain'd therefore under his Lordships
hand and seal at Arms
11 In case his Lordship shall think fit to except any other
Person or Persons from having any Land within the said Pro-
vince by Virtue of these Conditions and shall Cause Notice to

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be Given to such Person or Persons of such Exception such
Person and Persons so to be excepted by his Lordship shall
not trom and alter six months next ensuing after such notice
Given as aforesaid have any future Benefit to be Capable of
hav^g any Land within the said Province by virtue of the said
Conditions for or in respect of any Person or Persons which
shall be afterwards transported into the said Province without
further special License under his Lordships hand and Seal at
Arms for the same
12 No Adventuror or Planter to or in the said Province or
any of them who shall have any Land due unto them him or
her there by Virtue of the said Conditions nor there heirs or
Assigns shall Give Grant sell Aliene or Assign any of those
Lands Tenements Heredit^mts within the said Province which
shall be Assigned or Granted unto him or them from his said
Lordship or his heirs or which such Adventurers or Planters
or any of them shall possess and Enjoy by Virtue of the said
Conditions to any Corporation Society Fraternity Guild or
Body Politick either Spiritual or Temporal or to any other
Person or Persons whatsoever in trust for them or any of them
or to such use or uses or any use or uses Comprized men-
tioned or forbidden in any of the Statutes of Mortmayne here-
tofore made in the Kingdom of England at any time before
the Reign of Henry the Eighth who was King of that Realm
without particular or special License first had and Obtain'd for
that Purpose under the hand and Seal at Arms of his Lordship
or his heirs upon pain or forfeiture of all such Lands unto his
Lordship & his Heirs
13 Every person whatsoever as shall Claim any Proportion
of Land in the said Province of Maryland by Virtue of the said

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Conditions shall demand of his Lordship or his heirs or of his
or their Lieutenant or chief Governor of the said Province for

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