344 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

thought of asking M^r Calvert's Consent to dispose of his
property, as he pleased. If he had the least colour of right it
was not to be asked. If he had not the Requisition was
unnecessary. In a Letter to his Lordship of 26^th Aug^st he
seems to Apologize for a Supposed Offence, which was never
taken, at the same time not so much Denying his Lordships
Right to the Manor, as Insinuating a Claim to an Equivalent
out of the late Lords Personal Estate, upon which he waits
further Opinions from England, but this is a Claim of a
different sort, and lyes entirely between him and my Lord,
Who is prepared to give him a proper answer, whenever he
pleases to Change his attack, and in reality amounts to an
Indirect admission of his Lordships right.
But however Purchasers are to be at a certainty & when
Jealousys have been raised, are Entitled to be made easy in all
their Scruples. His Lordship therefore approves of the
Limited warranty Proposed by the Commissioners, and will
send them an additional Instruction to extend their authority
under the proper restrictions. To w^ch a further Instruction
will likewise be added in compliance with the hints of the
Commiss^rs giving a greater Latitude to the mode of the Con-
veyances by Substituting instead of "Bargain and Sale," the
words " Grant under the Great Seal recorded in the Provin-
cial Office " with a retrospect Confirmatory of any Grants you
may have already made under these Circumstances before the
Receipt of the Instruction, & extending likewise the Deriva-
tive Conveyances to any proper Instruments, duly recorded
within a Limited time. His Lordships motive to the particular
Conveyance directed was most certainly for the better security
of his alienation ffines and Quit rents, & indeed was adopted
from the Kings Instructions for the Sale of Lands in the
Ceded Islands.
I had proceeded to Close the above Letter when I was
again favoured with your Excellencies of the 6^th Aug^st and at
the same time with a Copy of Bacon's Laws for my own use,
for w^ch you will please to Accept my best thanks, & also the
8 Acts of Assembly passed last May, and the Three Private
Acts ; I have already acquainted your Excellency with the
Method taken by Lord Baltimore to Adjust matters between
M^r Dulany and myself by taking the difference upon himself,
with which we at least have Sufficient reason to be Satisfied
and I find he is so. The Office is assuredly in every other
Colony and Island executed by Deputy, and there is Scarce
one but what I have prepared Similar Instruments for, Requir-
ing the execution of the Office and the receipt of the Fees in
the Principal's name, and then Comptrolling the Generality of
the Power by the particular agreem^t, by which method, in case