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

Liber A. M.
p.I3

October 22^a 1669
On the Back side of the aforegoing Commission was thus
endorsed
Memorandum that on the day and Year aforesaid the within
written Philip Calvert Chancellor William Calvert Ierom White
and Robert Brooke Esq^rs took the Oath within mentioned
being first administred to the said Chancellor by the said
William Calvert Ierom White and Baker Brooke Esq^r and by
the said Chancellor administred to the said William Calvert
Ierom White and Baker Brooke Esq^r as herein is required and
this Commission was then at the City of Saint Marys pub-
lished by
Iohn Blomfield

At a Council held at the City of S^t Marys
the 22^d day of October 1669

Present
Philip Calvert Esq^r Chancellor
William Calvert Esq^rs
Ierom White V
Baker Brooke

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Was read his Lordships Instructions bearing the 23^a day of
Iuly One thousand six hundred and sixty nine and and accord-
ing to his Lordships first instruction his Lordships Nephew
W^m Calvert Esq^r was admitted of his Lordships Council and
Ordered that Notice be given to Samuel Chew of Herring-
ton in the County of An Arundell to appear at the next Pro-
vincial Court to take the Oath of Iustice of the said Court and
afterwards one of his Lordships Council
Ordered that all Land by the water side and three miles into
the woods above Piscattoway not surveyed be Reserved until
ten thousand Acres be laid out for his Lordships use
Ordered that from the hore kill to the degree forty North-
erly Latitude be erected into a County called by the name of
Durham and from the hore kill to Mount Scarborough be like-
wise erected into a County and Called as the Lord Proprietary
shall hereafter direct
Ordered that Notice be given to the Sheriffs of Somerset
Dorchester Talbot & Baltimore Counties that what Persons
will seat on any Lands on the Seaboard Side and Deleware
Bay from the Bounds of Virginia to the degree forty Northerly
Latitude shall for their encouragement pay only one Shilling
Sterling rent p Annum for every fifty Acres which he or they
shall take up upon Legal warrant and that the Surveyor Gen-
eral do Authorize some persons as he shall think fit to Survey
the same and lay out by former Order two Mannors for his