Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75. 19

sort an opportunity of getting great estates at an Instant.
They are content that such Impositions may be put upon their
Comodity as may fully repaire any diminution in your Ma''"
Revenue that may be occasioned by the said Cessacon from
planting of Tobacco, so as they grant it will be a notable
diminution in your Ma^ties Revenue but tell you not what
Comodities, or when it shall be recompenced w^ch indeed they
could not well doe for it is well known that those Countryes
cannot produce in a long time any other Comodity, w^ch can
recompense your Ma^ty by way of Custome for such a losse.
From all which premises the Lord Baltemore humbly con-
ceives that the guilt of disobedience which these Representers
would unjustly fix upon him is by the said Order of the .25^th of
November 1664 retorted upon them whose disobedience to
that Order hath created this present trouble
He therefore humbly prayes that since the substance of
this Representation from Virginia is nothing but what hath
bin allready heard, and determined at this Board that your
Majesty will be pleased to dismiss it, and to order that the
Lord Baltemore be put to no further trouble in it.
C. Baltemore.

Rec^d & Read 16^th October 1667.

P. R. O.

Colonial Pa-
pers, Vol. 21,
No. 133.

Report concerning a Treaty between
Virginia & Maryland.
30^th October 1667.

According to the Order of this Board of the 25 of this instant
a Representation from the Governor & Councill of Virg^a
in behalf of themselves & the Colony delivered by Colonell
Moryson, and the answer of the Lord Baltemore Lord &
Proprietor of the Province of Maryland were read and con-
sidered of—
The said Governor & Councill of Virginia sett forth in the
said Representacon that in pursuance of his Ma^ties Instructions
to S^r William Berkeley in the 14^th yeare of his Ma^ties Reign
they had endeavoured by generall meanes w^th those of Mary-
land to agree upon some expedient to lessen the quantity of
Tobacco planted in those Colonies thereby to enhance the
price of that Comodity at that time become a drugg as they
pretended) of no value, that at length both those Colonies
and Carolina also had made an Act of Assembly in each
Province respectively in the year 1666, forbiding the planting
of any Tobacco at all during this present year 1667. But
the Lord Baltemore Lord & Proprietary of Maryland having
declared his dissent to the said Act in his aforesaid Province
of Maryland by an Instrument under his hand and seale at

No. 140.