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shall be Offered unto him or them by his said Lordship or his
heirs or by his or their Lieutenant or chief Governor there or
by .................................... his or their
Secretary within the said Province for the time being or shall
not perform all things which are Required by these Conditions
to be performed by every such Adventurer or Planter Then
Every such Adventurer or Planter shall for ever after loose
their Respective Rights and Pretences to the said Land
Because all Secrett trusts are usually intended to deceive
either the Government and State where they are made or some
other Persons and by Experience are found to occasion many
suits and dissentions therefore no Adventurer or Planter shall
take any Grant from his Lordship under the Great Seal of the
said Province of any Lands there by Virtue of these Conditions
in trust for any other Person or Persons or to any other use or
uses then what shall be expressed in the said several and Re-
spective Grants upon pain of forfeiture of the said Lands unto
his Lordship and his heirs when any ....... such Secrett
trust or uses shall be truly discovered
Given at London under his Lordships hand and
Greater Seal at Arms the Second day of Iuly
1649
The Oath of Fidelity and the forms of Grants before
Mentioned in the Commission and Conditions of Plan-
tation here last before entered are the same here form-
erly entered upon Record with his Lordships Conditions
of Plantation de Anno 1648 Fol

Liber C. B.

Commission p Brooke
CB:
Cecilius Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of
Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore &c^a to our
right trusty and Wellbeloved William Stone Esq^r our Lieuten-
ant of the said Province of Maryl^d and to the rest of our Council
and other Officers there and to all others whom these may
Concern Greeting whereas our trusty and well Beloved Robert
Brooke Esq^r doth this next Summers Expedition intend to
transport himself his wife Eight Sons and family and a Great
Number of other Persons into our said Province of Maryland
there to erect make and settle a Considerable Plantation now
we having good Experience of the Honour worth and abilities

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of the said Robert Brooke and of his faithfulness to us and his
real desires and intentions for the Good and Prosperity of our
said Province Know yee that we do hereby Constitute and
appoint him the said Robert Brooke to be Commander under
us and our heirs and our and their Lieutenant of the said Pro-

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