Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75. 99

Ordered that the Clerk of the Council send to M^r Rousby
to Give him Notice to appear before the Board on the sixth of
December next to inform the Board of his Request touching
a parcell of Land Surveyed formerly for M^r Richard Collet
by Richard Fitzallen in Talbot County
The Board being inform'd that in a Certificate of Survey
made by George Yates a deputy Surveyor in Ann Arundel
County for one Iohn Howellton the 17^th of May 1670 their is
a mistake in the said Certificate Viz^t it is said in the said Cer-

Liber A. M.

tificate beginning at a bounded Oak being the Northernmost
Bounded Tree of a parcell of Land laid out for Gabriel Scot
it ought to have been Gabriel Parrot & by the said Yates was
so intended though mistaken Ordered that the said mistake be
mended in the Patent and upon record by the Clerk of the
Office

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Then was delivered unto his Excellency and Council his
Excellencys warrant for the Surveying of the Ship Iohn of
Weymouth which followeth in these words viz^t

Maryland ss^t

Locus Sigilli By his Excellency the Captain General Charles
Calvert
Whereas William Harris Master of the Ship Iohn of Wey-
mouth and the rest of the said Ships Company have this day
petitioned me for that whereas they shipped themselves on
Board the said Ship at the Port of Weymouth in the Kingdom
of England about twelve months since bound for this Province
and meeting with stress of weather upon the Coasts of Virginia
were forced to bear away for the Barbado's where unlading
their Cargo they anew Laded with Barbado's Commodities and
Came for this Province and here Arrived the seventh day of
August last past and Came to an Anchor in Patuxent River
where the said Ship rideth to this day and for that the said Ship
proving very leaky the said Master with the Carpenter and the
Rest of the Company of the said Ship did unhang the Rudder
of the said Ship which they found to be much eaten with the
worms and making a Narrow Search into the sides and Bottom
of the said Ship found her so eaten with the worm that they
think her not fitting to go to Sea and being afraid to venture
for Weymouth back in her have in their said Petition humbly
besought me to grant an order to some Masters of Ships and

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their Carpenters to view the said Ship and make Report unto
me if she be fitting to go to Sea or not
These are therefore in the name of the right honble the Lord
Proprietary to require and desire you William Harris Master
of the Good Ship the Iohn and Margarett of Bristol and Robert
Tyler Carpenter of Patuxent and William Trigo Master of the
good Ship the Ann and Joice of Bristol and W^m Bry at such

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