68 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1636-1647.

	Liber Z. & looking	glasses to the value of 16l of beaver or thereabouts and are to be traded wth the Indians : And the
	475 371 130 030 64 480	said Henry ffleete doth acknowledge himselfe to owe vnto the Lord Proprietrone hundred fiftie and five pound of tobacco due for the tenth of the said truck if it shalbe exchanged for beaver, or corne without or beyond licence; and for such part thereof as shall not be vented for beaver or
	1550	corne further then is licensed, it is to be dis- compted to the said Henry ffleete according to the proportion it had in the rating of the tenths
	Aprill 11th brought in 30 skinns only the cloth vented for beaver	and further the said Henry ffleete doth hereby oblige himselfe to pay to the Lord Proprief the full tenth part in kind of all the beaver or corne (further then he is licensed for) wch he shall buy of any Indians with or for the said truck or any part thereof. Provided that if it shall be adiudged at the Court that the said Henrv ffleete hath

		right to trade by vertue of any former licence without paying the tenth, that then this recognisance to be wholly void. And the said Henry ffleete is to be accomptable to the common stock at his returne for what he hath bought or sold in the said trade. In witnesse whereof he said Henry ffleete hath herevnto sett his hand this 28th ffebr. 1637. Henry ffleete Recogn coramme John Lewger Secretary
	P. R. O. Colonial Papers. Vol. IX, No. 87.	To the Kings most Excellent Majestie The humble Petition of Cecill Lord Baltimore. ? March. 1638. Most humbly Sheweth : That whereas your Subject being desirous to plant a Colony of English in some part of Virginia, did humbly desire to have a part of that Territory granted to him, which was referred to the consideration of some of the Lords of the Councell, who upon hearing of the old Virginia Company and your Petitioner at severall times thought fitt to advise your Majestic to grant to your petitioner that patent of Maryland, which now he enjoyeth; After the passing whereof, the said Company having procured a petition from Virginia against the said patent, sub- scribed by William Clayborne and many others, presented the same to your Majtie in May 1633, who was pleased to referr the consideration thereof to the Boord, and their Lordohipps did thereupon then heare both partys interested at large: And being desirous before they gave their judgement in the cause,