274 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1676-81.

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Colonial
Entry Book,
No. 52.

according to the bounds and degree of Northern Latitude
expressed in our said Letters Patents, by setling and fixing
certain Land Marks where they shall appear to border upon
each other for the preventing and avoiding all doubts and
controversies that may otherwise happen concerning the same.
And We &c.
Whitehall April the 2^d in the 33^d year of Our Reign.
By his Majesty's command
Conway.

[Baltimore to the Earl of Anglesey ?]

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Colonial
Papers.

28^o of Aprill 1681.
My good Lord
I have been very troublesome by 2 letters that I have already
presumed to send your Lo^p this Returne of Shipping. And
am now constreyned to be yet further by this which comes
humbly to beg your Lo^ps favor and just assistance in moving
to his Ma^ty in Councill the removing of one Christopher
Rousby a Collector here; and that he that is my Collector
may have a Comision for the additionalle duty of a penny p
pound, who will be able to serve his Ma^tie and be more faithfull
in the discharging of that place In Virginia those that are his
Ma^tie Collectors are the same that Collect the Country Dutys
there and when I was in England Sir George Dowring did move
to have my Collector made choice of to serve his Ma^ty here
but I haveing recommended this Rousby about five yeares
since to the Commisioners to succeed me in that place (for in
my fathers life time I was Collector for his Ma^tie here) I per-
suaded Sir George Dowring to permit the said Rousby to
continue untill the Commissioners or I had just cause to except
against him which for these Two years and better I have had
great cause for and have sent Letters Two yeares to the Com-
misioners about the removing of him and appointing one that
collects my Dues but by the meanes of this Knave Rousby my
Letters have been stopt and never came (as I imagine) to the
hands of the Commisioners for had they come safe to them I
should have received their answers to them I now send againe
hoping by your Lo^ps favor and assisstance to be relieved from
so great an Evill or rather a Devill for so I may terme the
present Collector to be A Fellow that ever since my Returne
to Maryland has carried himself with that Pride to severall
West Country and New England Traders and Dealers in my
province that many of them have quitted a Trade they have
long had here He has imposed fees exacted presents seized
and brought severall Masters in Trouble, notwithstanding they
have produced their Cleerings at his Ma^tie Custame Houses in
England, And all this to force them to comply with his unjust