536 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1661-1675.

Liber H. H.

knowne and enquired of, And lastly wee haue appointed
Nathaniel Heathcoate Clarke and keeper of the Records and
proceedings in this your said County Court, And therefore you
shall cause to be brought before you at the sd dayes and place
the writts prcepts process and Jndictments to yo^r Court &

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Jurisdiccon belonging that the same may be inspected and by
a due Course determined as aforesd Given at S^t Marys und^r
our greate Seale of our sd province of Maryland the Sixth day
of November in the foure and Thirtyth yeare of our Dominion
over the said province & in the yeare of our Lord One thou-
sand six hundred Sixty five, Witnes our deare Sonne and
heire Charls Calvert Esq our Leiuten^t Generall of our said
province of Maryland

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers. Vol.
XIX, No.
126.

The King to the Gov^r of Maryland.
? Nov. 1665.

Trusty & wellb. Observing the great losses o^r subjects have
susteined this last sumer in their Voyages homewards from
those parts by omitting to conforme themselves to such ord^rs
as wee had given for their returne to o^r respec^tive Govern^rs of
those our Plantacons, Wee have found fitt hereby to repeat
those o^r Comm^ds willing & requiring you forthwith upon receipt
hereof to take effectuall care that all such shipping as are
designed homewards the next Spring be ready to sett saile in
company w^th the first wind after the first of Aprill & not before.
And that in their returne they joine themselves in one entire
Fleet w^th those bound homewards from Virginia, whom wee
have by o^r letters of this date to o^r Govern^r there order^d to
make one Fleet w^th you, and to returne in company, sailing
from the place of their first Rendezvous w^ch is to be conceited
& agreed on between you & our s^d Gov^r of Virginia directly
for Fayall one of the Westerne Islands, where they shall find
such convoy as shallbe thought necessary or otherwise advise
how to governe themselves in the rest of their Voyadge home-
wards and in case it happen by any accident that at their arri-
vall at Fayall they meet w^th no such convoy or advice, then
having expected these 8 days. They are to saile directly to
the Soundings & from thence, if they meet not with other on
further advice they shall make the first convenient port of this

O^r Kingdome of England there to stay till they receive further

ord^rs, and if any ships in their Company be bound for our
Kingdome of Ireland they shall from the said Port of this o^r
Kingdome receive sufficient convoys to the parts of Ireland
whither they are bound. And in the due & punctuall execucon
of these o^r Ord^rs & comands you are yourselfe to use all pos-