Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681-85. 371

that upon the arrivall of the Lord Culpeper in Virginia, you
doe advise and deliberate with him and concur with his Lord-
ship and the General Assembly of that Colony; in such rules
and instructions, about the planting of Tobacco, as shall be
found most suitable to the present exigency of the place (the
number of Planters and the increase of Plantations considered.)
This His Majesty recommends to your Lordship to doe, by
passing the like acts, or establishing the like orders & regula-
tions, as near as is possible within the Province of Maryland,
as may best suite and agree, with those Acts and regulations,
which shall be made and passed in Virginia, touching the
planting of Tobacco there, His Majesty judging that those limi-
tations and methods w^ch may be found necessary for this
purpose in Virginia, will not answere the ends proposed unlesse
the same be established and observed in the Colony of Mary-
land likewise, this is all I have in command to write to your
Lordship at this time, having not had an opportunity to lay
your Lordship's last letters and papers of 31^st of May before
His Majestie which I will do with the soonest possible, and
shall be glad to have such an answer upon them to returne to
your Ldp, as may be to your satisfaction,
I am &c.
L. Jenkins.
To the right hon^ble Charles
Lord Baltemore, Lord Proprietor
of Maryland.
(Endorsed)
10^th August. 1682.

To the Lord Baltemore about planting Tobacco.

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.

To our Right Honorable Charles Lord Baltemore Proprietor
of Our Province of Maryland. (19 Aug. 1682.)

Right trusty and Welbeloved, Wee greet you well, Whereas
by our letters Patent bearing date the 4 day of March 1680,
We have been graciously pleased out of Our Royall Bounty
and the singular regards Wee have to the meritts and services
of Sir William Penn deceased to give and grant to our trusty
and welbeloved subject William Penn Esq^re son and heir to the
said Sir William Penn a certain tract of land in America by the
name of Pensilvania, and in as much as the same according
to the Bounds thereof expressed in our said letters Patents
borders on Maryland We think itt will very much conduce
as well to our Service and the improvement and melioration
of the said Colonies as to the benefitt of the particulars Planters
in both that the boundaries between them be set forth and
ascertained which cannot by any method be so certainly effected

P. R. O.

Colonial
Entry Book,
Vol. 52,
p. 84