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Entry Book,
Vol. 52.

ers within yo^r Lordships Province, and how you may compute
the wealth of y^r Colony in general.
22. What number of shipps, sloops or other vessels

Shipping. doe trade yearly to and from y^r Plantacon, & of what
built & burthen, & whether there be any belonging to the
country ?
23. What Obstructions do you find to the im-

Obstructions.

provement of the Trade and Navigation of the Plan-
tations of y^r Province ?
24. What advantages and improvements do you

Advantages.

observe that may be gained to your Trade and Navi-
gation?
25. What rates and duties are charged and payable
upon any Goods exported out of y^r Plantation, whether
of your own growth, or manufacture, or otherwise, as also
upon Goods imported. And likewise what other Revenue
doth or may arise within your Colony, and how the same are
applyed &c ?
26. What persuasion in Religious matters is most

Religion.

prevalent; and among the varieties w^ch you are to ex-
press, w^th proportion in number & quality of people the one
holds to the other.
27. What course is taken for the instructing of the

Churches.

people in the Christian Religion: How many
Churchs and Ministers are there within your Province, & how
many are yet wanting for the accommodation of your Colony?
What provision is there made for their maintenance as also for
releiving poor, decayed and impotent persons ? And whether
you have any Beggers or idle Vagabonds.

Liber B. B.
p. 2

25^th of May 1676.

Letter to the ArchBishop of Canterbury from
John Yco Minister in Mariland.

Most Reverend Father
Pleased to Pardon this Presumption of mine in presenting to
Yo^r serious view these Rude & indigested lines w^ch (with humble
Submission) are to acquaint Yo^r Grace with the Deplorable
estate & condition of the Province of Maryland for want of
an established Ministry here are in this Province tenn or twelve
Countys & in them at least twenty thousand Soules & but
three Protestant ministers of us th^t are Conformable to the
Doctrine & Discipline of the Church of England others there
are (I must confess) th^t Runn before they are Sent & Pretend
they are Ministers of the Gospell th^t never have a Legall call
or Ordination to such an holy office, neither (indeed) are they
qualified for it being for the most part such as never under-