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

Liber Z.

receive further order herein from vs or o^r Lieutenant grall;
And whereas we are informed that there is a wreck hapned
on the Easterne shore within o^r Province; we doe further
hereby authorise you to inquire and examine touching the said
wreck, and whether any vntimely death of any person have
hapned herein, and by what meanes; and if you shall find any
such wreck to have hapned to take an inventary of the vessell
wrecked and of all goods therein being or belonging to her;
and the same to seise to our vse, and deliver to o^r Receivo^r
generall, forthwith vpon your returne to S^t maries; and for so
doing this shalbe your warrant. Given 26^th Aprill 1638.

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the report of Cutbert ffenwick taken 8^th may 1638
who saith that enquiring after the boate that was said to be
cast away on the Easterne shore, he learned that it was the
boate of one Rowland williams of Accomack; & that he was
killed by the Indians of those parts; and one other w^ch was in
the boate with him; & he was told by the young king of wico-
wamnen that it was the wichocomocos, or the Chesapanies, or
both; & that the king of Patuxent was within 6. miles of the
place where it was done; & that within 2 or 3 daies after the
slaughter, the said king carried away the truck & boate to
Patuxent.

p. 66

[Appointment of Cornwaleys as Deputy Governor.]

Know all men by these pnts that I Leonard Calvert Esq
Lieutenant grall of this Province, being to be absent for a
while out of this Province in virginea, have constituted and
appointed, and doe hereby elect constitute and appoint my
good frend Captaine Thomas Cornwaleys Esq. and one of the
Counsell of this Province to be in my place and steed, Leiu-
tenant generall of this Province during such my absence out of
the Province; and no further or longer. In witnesse whereof
I have herevnto sett my hand this 27^th of May 1638
Leonard Calvert.

27^th may 1638
Memorand that this day came before me Captaine Henry
ffleete, and acknowledgeth himselfe to owe vnto the Lord Pro-
priet^r one hundred pound weight of good beaver to be paid
vnto the Receivo^r of the said Lord Propriet^r vpon demand.
And if he shall not so doe then he willeth & granteth for
himselfe, his heires, exequutors admrators that the said summe
of beaver be levied vpon the lands goods & chattells of him
the said Henry ffleete wheresoever they shalbe found.