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we doe require and command all the inhabitants of the oaid
hundred that they doe acknowledge respect and obey you the
said Robert wintr and the said highe Constable by you to be
appointed, respectively in yor severall offices and charges here-
by committed vnto you and him, as they will answere the con-
trary thereof at their pill. Given at St maries this last day of
march 1638 witnesse
Leonard Calvert &c.
[Appointment of John Lewger as Deputy Governor.]
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Know all men by these prits that I Leonard Calvert Esq
Lieutent grall of maryland being to be absent for a while out
of this Province in virginea have constituted and appointed,
and doe hereby assigne depute constitute and appoint my
respected friend mr John Lewger Secretary of this Province
to be in my place & steed Lieutenant grall of this Province
during such my absence, and no further or longer. In wit-
nesse whereof I have herevnto sett my hand and seale this first
day of Aprill 1638
Leonard Calvert
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The Ld Comissioners for plantations their Order Vppon Cap4
William Cleyborne & his Partners Petn agst the Ld Baltemore.
Att White-Hall the 4th of Aprill 1638.
Present
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Liber A.
p. 194
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Lo: Archbp of
Lo: Keeper
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Canterbury
Lo: Cottington
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Locus + Sigilli
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Lo: Tresurer
Lo Pryuy Seale
Ea: Marshall
Ea: of Dorsett
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Mr Treasurer
Mr Comptroler.
Mr Seer Cooke
Mr Windebanck.
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Whereas a Petn was presented to his Maty by Capt William
Clayborne, on the behalfe of himselfe & Partners. Showing
tht by uertue of a Commisn under his Matys hand & Signctt,
they diuers yeares past, discouered & planted uppon an Iland,
in the great Bay Chesapeack in Virginia, named by them the
Ile of Kent; Wheruppon they pretended they had bestowed
great charges, & tht the Ld Baltemore, as they alleaged, taking
notice of the great benefitt tht was likely to arrise to them
thereby obteyned a Pattent from his Maty comprehending the
sd Iland, wthin the lymitts thereof. And tht they had likewise
settled another Plantn uppon the mouth of a Ryur in the bot-
tome of the sd Bay, in the Sasquesahanoughs Country. wth the
sd Ld Baltemores Agents there, as they alleage sought to dis-
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