86 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland , 1636—1647.

Liber C. B.
1636-1657.

provisions of Victuals be made for them and that a pinnace be
pressed to go for Kent sufficiently Victualled & manned and
there provide 4 hhds meale and likewise that a pinnace be sent
to the Sesquisahanoughs sufficiently Victualled and manned
and that 30 or more Good Shott with necessary Officers be
pressed out of the Province and that each of the Shott be
allowed after the rate of 100^l tob^o p month or another man in
his Room to tend his plantation and 2 Sergeants double the
said Rate and that Victuals and other necessary Accommoda-
tions for the said Soldiers and for all Others which shall go as
Volunteers be made and provided and 2 Pinnaces & i Skiff (if
there be need) shall be pressed and fitted for the transporting
and landing of the said Comp^a and that Good labouring hands
be pressed to Supply the places of such planters as shall be
pressed upon the Service and be allowed after the same rate
of 100^l p month
Signed by
Leo: Calvert
Giles Brent
John Lewger

[Commission to Giles Brent.]

Liber F.
p. 137

p. 138

Cecilius &c To our Dear and faithfull Councellor Giles
Brent Esq of S^t Maries in our Province of Maryland Greeting.
Whereas the Military band of our Colony Of S^t Maries is now
destitute of a Captain to lead and Command them and to
Exercise them in the discpline Military We much relyeing
upon your diligence Skill and knowledge, have thought fit to
commend unto yourself that care and Charge and therefore
We doe hereby Constitute ordain and appoint you to be
Captain of the Said Military band with and under our Lieuten-
ant General and to be henceforth Soe called and esteemed
authorising and withall requiring you according to the trust
and charge belonging to that place, to train and Instruct all
Inhabitants of O^r Said Colony able to bear arms (those only of
our Councel Excepted) in the art and discipline of war, on holy
days and at any other time when there Shall be need, and by
your Self or your Sergeant or other officer once monthly if you
Shall find it needfull to view at every dwelling house within
the Said Colony the provision of arms and amunition neces-
sary, and where you find any defect to amerce the party failing
at your discretion if it exceed not 30^l Tob for one defalt, and
further to punish any delinquents in any kind offending against
the discipline Military, and with the Consent or direction of our
Lieutenant General to use appoint & Command all power and
means necessary or conduceing in your discretion to the Safety