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whereof the lesser seal of this Province is hereunto put the
first day of March In the thirty eighth year of the dominion
of Cecilius &c^a Annoq Domini 1669
To Desborrough Bennet Signed by Order from the
Deputy Lieutenants
Locus Sigilli Iohn Blomfield

Liber A. M.

Instructions from the right honble Cecilius
[Sealed] Absolute Lord and Proprietary of Maryland
and Avalon Lord Baltimore &c

To his dear Son Charles Calvert his Lordships Lieutenant
of the Province of Maryland and in his absence to his Deputy
or Deputies for the Government of the said Province

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I^st That whereas his Lordship by his Instructions of the 28^th
day of Iuly 1699 did Order that no Land should be Granted
thereafter from his Lordship in his said Province of Maryland
by virtue of any former Conditions of Plantation fo or in
respect of any person or persons transported into his said
Province under a lesser Rent then two Shillings Sterl -p Annum
to be reserved due and payable to his Lordship his heirs and
Successors Lords and Proprietaries of the said Province for
every fifty Acres of Land excepting only on the Sea board
Side on the Eastern Shore and on Deleware Bay within the
40^th degree Northerly Latitude & particularly at the Hore kill
in which places so excepted as aforesaid his Lordships Pleasure
was and is that Lands be Granted at the Yearly Rent of one
Shilling Sterling p Annum for every fifty Acres to be reserved
due and payable as aforesaid according to the Conditions of
Plantation before the said Instructions his Lordship doth now
declare order and Authorize you to pass in his name under his
great Seal there such Grants of Land as were due to any
Person or Persons being Transported into his said Province
before the said 28^th day of Iuly 1669 at the former yearly Rent
of one Shilling Sterl for every fifty Acres according to his
Lordships former Conditions of Plantation any thing in the
said Instructions of the said 28^th day of Iuly notwithstanding
but as to the appointing of Land there for and in respect of
any Person or Persons that have been or shall be transported
into his said Province since the said 28^th day of Iuly 1669 his
Lordships will and Pleasure is that his said Instructions of the
said date shall be Observed
2^dly That you endeavour to the utmost of your Power to
procure that some persons be Seated upon the said Seaboard
side on the Eastern Shore and on the said deleware Bay within

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the fortieth degree of Northerly Latitude and particularly at
the Whore kill for the further and greater encouragement of
the planting of which places his Lordship doth hereby give you

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