Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75. 97

said County you having first taken the Oath of Fidelity to his
Lordship the Lord Proprietary of this Province and the Oath
of a Coroner hereunder written before some Iustice of the

Peace of the said County which you are Required forthwith to
do Given under my hand and seal the 13^th day of October
in the 40^th Year of the dominion of Cecilius &c^a Annoq Domini
1671 Charles Calvert

The Coroners Oath

You shall swear that you will well and truly serve the right
Honble the Lord Proprietary of this Province and the People
of the said Province as one of his Lordships Coroners of this
County of S^t Marys and therein you shall diligently and truly
do and accomplish all and every thing and things appertaining
to your Office after the best of your Skill and Power both for
his Lordships Profit and the good of the Inhabitants within
the said County and be Content with the fees allowed by Act
of Assembly in this Province
So help me God &c^a

Eodem die
The like Commission then issued unto Captain William
Boarman and M^r Benjamin Sally to be Coroners for the upper
parts of the County of S^t Marys

Liber A. M.

Eodem die
The like Commission issued unto M^r William Stevens of
Little Choptank to be Coroner in Dorchester County

p. 77

Maryland ss^t
Locus Sigilli By his Excellency the General

I have thought fitt to add to your Commission W^m Wrough-
ton Thomas Paddyson and Thomas Skinner of your County
Gent to be Commissioners of your said County whereof William
Wroughton to be of the Quorum the which Commissioners I
do hereby Order and Empower you to swear according to
usual form and to admit them in your County and County
Court as his Lordships Commissioners and Iustices of Peace in
the said County in as full and ample manner as any of you
that are Constituted by Commission under the Great Seal of
this Province and of this all Persons are to take Notice Given
under my hand and Seal at Arms this 16^th day of October in
the fortieth Year of the dominion of Cecilius &c^a Annoq
Domini 1671
Cha Calvert
To his Lordships Comms^rs of the
County of Dorchester or any four
of them

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