100 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75.

Liber A. M.

time and day as you shall think Convenient within ten days
after the date of thise to appoint to repair on Board the said
Ship Iohn of Weymouth riding in Patuxent River afore-
said and her to view search and survey throughly and a
Report under your hands and seals to return unto me how and
in what Condition you find as well her Keel and Bottom as also
the other Timbers and parts of her and whether you in your
Judgment upon such search think she is fitting or with Con-
venient charge may be made fitting in this Country to under-
take a Voyage for the said Port of Weymouth and if so then how
much Charge will do it and a full Account of your Proceedings
herein that you transmit unto me with all Convenient speed
under your hands and seals as aforesaid on the backside of this
my warrant and for your proceedings herein this shall be your
warrant Given under my hand & lesser Seal of this Province
the seventh day of November in the fortieth Year of the
dominion of Cecilius &c^a Annoq Dni 1671

On the Back side of the said Warrant was thus Written viz^t
Whereas we William Harris Master of the Ship Sarah and
Elizabeth of Bristol Robert Tyler Carpenter of the River
of Patuxent William Trigo Master of the Ship Patience of
Bristol Thomas Hall Masters Mate of the abovesaid Sarah
and Elizabeth and William Bailey Carpenter of the same ship

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have by virtue of this warrant Surveyed the Ship Iohn of
Weymouth now riding in the River of Patuxent
We do find according to the best of our Iudgments that the
abovesaid Ship Iohn of Weymouth have suffered much wrong
by the worms of this Countrey both in the Keele as also in the
Stem and Stern Post and other outward parts of the said ship
insomuch that she is now incapable of performing her Intended
Voyage and whereas by the said warrant we were required to
give the best of our Iudgments as to what Expences may repair
her our Opinions is that she will not be sufficiently repaired
and made Capable to go home for Weymouth under the charge
of three hundred Pounds Sterling or thereabouts if they get
Conveniencys and workmen for the same which according to
our Iudgments will not be Obtained in this Country and in
Case such provision as abovesaid may be made and such
Charge defrayed on the abovesaid Ship she being by us found
to be very Old and much decayed in the inward parts of her
we do declare that we cannot judicially say whether she may
be Capable of performing her intended Voyage or be any ways
Servicable to the Merchants or not Witness our hands and
Seals the 24^th day of November 1671
William Harris [Sealed] Robert Tyler [Sealed]
William Trigo [Sealed] Thomas Hall Sealed
Will^m Bayley [Sealed]