324 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1657-1660.

Liber H. H.

to Vs in that Province to be for Our vse demanded Leavyed
and Payd to Our said Receiver so to be Nominated & appointed
by him the said Iosias Fendall as aforesaid, and to be after-
wards disposed of according to such instructions or directions
as Wee haue or shall give to him the said losias Fendall for
that purpose. Given vnder Our hand & Greater Seale at
Armes. The tenth day of Iuly in the five and Twenteeth
yeare of Our Dominion Ouer the s^d Province of Maryland and
in the yeare of Our Lord God one thousand sixe hundred
fifty six.

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Instructions directed by the Right Honorable Caecilius
absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland,
and Avalon, Lord Baron of Baltemore etc, To his Lordship's
Lieutenant and the rest of his Lordship's Council of the said
Province of Maryland for the time being.
Whereas upon his Lordships Complaint to his Highness the
Lord Protector, that he was interrupted in his Rights and Juris-
dictions in Maryland by Richard Bennett Esq^re and others
whereupon many Mischiefs have ensued there, his Highness
was pleased to refer the same by an Order of the second of
November 1655, to the Examinations of the Lords Commis-
sioners Whitlock and Widdrington who did accordingly examine
the matter of Fact and made their Report to his Highness
bearing date the last of May 1656. which Report together
with the Papers thereunto annexed, and the Representation of
the Governors and Assembly of Virginia were afterwards upon
the Petition of the said Richard Bennett, and Samuel Matthews,
as Agents for Virginia and the rest of the Plantations in the
Bay of Chesapeak, by an order of the 31^st of Iuly last referred
to his Highness Committee for Trade etc, to consider thereof
and to inform themselves of the State of the Case upon the
Premisses and to certify the same to his Highness together with
their Opinion And whereas his Highness said Committee for
Trade, in pursuance of the said Order did take the Premisses
into Consideration and accordingly go through the whole
Report of the said Lords Referrees, and upon perusal thereof
and further hearing of both parties did think fit for the preven-
tion of such Disturbances as might hereafter arise in Maryland
to desire the said Richard Bennett and Samuel Matthews, to
make some Proposals for the Settlement and Peace of the said
Province, which they accordingly tended to the said Committee,
and his Lordship at the Request of the said Committee gave
his respective Answers thereunto, with which Answers the said
Richard Bennett and Samuel Matthews have declared them-
selves satisfied which said Proposals and Answers, the said
Committee for Trade did on the 16^th Day of September last