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yo^r Comand as yo^w shall think fitt and Necessary, and them
soe listed when and as often as yo^w shall thinke Conuenient to
muster and traine soe that they may be in a readiness as
Occasion shall require to attend my further Comands w^th fitting
Armes and Amunicon for the Expedicon and purpose afore-
said, And in Case of any Rebellion tumult or Sedition amongst
any the soldiers or other the inhabitants in Talbott County yo^w
haue full power and Authority by this Com^con to Exercise
martiall lawes against all such Rebellious Mutinous or seditious
persons who shall refuse to subrnitt themselues to this your
Comand or to Serue in the warr or shall flye or forsake their
Ensignes or be loyterers or straglers or Otherwise howsoeuer
offending ag' the law Custome or discipline militaryly as freely
and in as Ample manner and forme as I my selfe by uertue of
his lopps Commission to me as Leiutenn^t Generall mought doe
if I were then and there p^rsonally p^rsent To haue and to hould
the said Office and Comand till the lord Proprietary his leiu-
tenn^t or Cap^t Generall for the time being shall signifye his or
theire pleasure to the Contrary and all persons whatsoeuer
are hereby Strictly charged and Comanded to yeild all due
Obedience to yo^w the said Philip Caluert Esq^r in all things apper-
taining to the Comand and Office hereby Conferred on yo^w as
they will Answer the Contrary at their perills Giuen und^r my
hand and lesser seale of this prouince of Maryland the eleuenth
day of Octob^r in the Six and thiretyth yeare of his said Lordsps
Dominion Ouer the said Prouince Annoq Domini One Thow-
sand Six hundred Sixty Seauen—
Signed Charles Caluert

Liber H. II.

The Lord Baltemores Answer to the Representation
delivered to his Majesty in Councell the 16^th of October
1667 from the Governor & Councell of the Colony of Virg^a

As to the Instructions from your Majesty of November in
y^e 14^th yeare of your Majesties Reigne 1662 mentioned in
the said Representation, he never saw the same, & knoweth
not what was therein conteined.
But as to the Order of the 29^th of Iune 1662 We did see the
same, & did thereupon give orders to his Lieutenant of his
Province of Maryland to appoint Commissioners to treat with
such Commissioners as should be chosen in Virginia to treat
about the lessening of the quantityes of Tobacco. That in
obedience to the said order Commissioners did meet from
both places, & treat in May the 15^th yeare of your Ma^ties reigne,
at which meeting a proposall was made by those of Maryland
for a Cessacon for a year but the same was then rejected by
those of Virginia they then alledging these reasons against it.

P. R. O.
Colonial Pa-
pers, Vol. 21,
No. 133.