Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75. 5

The Governor and Council of Virginia,
their complaint against Lord Baltemore.
(June 1667.)

To the Kings most sacred Ma^tie
And the Lords of his Ma^ties most
Hon^ble Privy Councell.

The Governor and Councell of the Collony
of Virg^a on behalf of themselves and the
said Colony doe in all
Humility p^rsent
That in November in the fourteenth yeare of yo^r Ma^ties
Reigne wee received yo^r Ma^ties Royall instrucons fully and in
every part of them expressing your Pious and Princely care
both for our protection and advancem^t—to w^ch wee doe and
ever shall yeild our most humble and ready obedience and for
w^ch wee shall for ever pay our most humble thanks to your
Ma^tie and our most earnest prayers to God for his blessings
upon yo^r Royall person and the continuance of yo^r Princely
favours to us. And because amongst many others of the said
Royall Comands & instruccons, one was that Com^rs should be
appointed to meete and treat with other Com^rs for the Province
of Maryland of the best and most effectuall meanes of lessning
those vast quantities of Tobacco made in theise partes to the
intent that from that Treaty such good rules might be established
as might advance the price of that commodity, to the encourage-
ment both of the Planter and Merchant, Wee have thought it
our duty humbly to declare unto your Majesty and the Lords of
your most hon^ble Privy Councell that in obedience to the s^d
Royall comand & allso to an Ord^r of the 29^th of June 1662 wee
did on the 12^th of May in the 15^th yeare of yo^r Ma^ties Reigne
meete & treat with certaine Commisso^rs appointed and impow-
ered from Maryland the result of w^ch Treaty was, that the best
way of preserving Tobacco (our only comodity) in price &
reputacon was to lessen the quantity w^ch was by the increase of
the numbers of Planters and their unlimited planting growne so
great as to clogg all Marketts to the apparent impoverishing
of these Colonies & the discouragement of the Merchants & th^l
the best & most practicall meanes of lessening it as aforesaid
would be by a strict prohibiting all or any to plant after the 20^th
of Iune as by the Articles of the said Treaty more fully may
appeare. But those Articles being by the said Comiss^rs sub-
mitted to the consideracon and approbation of the succeeding
Assemblies of Virg^a and Maryland they mett with a speedy &
ready confirmacon in th^t of Virg^a but had the misfortune not to
finde the same recepcon in Maryland, (but were upon very unjust
& untrue suppositions of our advantage in clime & seasons of

P. R. O.

Colonial Pa-
pers, Vol. 21,
No. 65.