Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681 -85 /6. 123

John Brookes petition next read as follows Viz.

To the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary and his honble
Council
The humble Petition of John Brooke of Dorchester County
Humbly Sheweth
Unto your Lordship that your Petitioner being desirous to
Seat a plantation in Delaware Bay and being fully perswaded
that the same is your Lordships Just Right is willing under
your Lordship to seat there in Order thereunto he hath
endeavoured to procure some Rights to perform your Lord-
ships Conditions of Plantations but cannot procure any as yet
so that without your Lordships special Favour he hath no
ways at present left to forward his Intentions
Wherefore your Petitioner humbly Supplicates your Lord-
ship to grant him a special Warrant for Twelve Hundred
Acres and that the same may be laid out for him in some
Convenient Time in the Place or Bay aforesaid and that your
Lordship willl be farther pleased to allow him twelve months
time to make good his Rights for the same. And your Peti-
tioner as in duty Bound shall pray.
His Lordship in answer saith that he will Consider of this
Petition.
To the R^t hon^ble the Lord Prop^ry
The humble Petition of Joseph Norwood of Anne
Arrundell County.
Humbly Sheweth
That your Pet^r being an Inhabitant in Seavern River, and
having severall Conveniencys there to keepe a fferry, and
withall the consent & approbation of most of the Inhabitants
there, and hath for some time past fferryed over severall of
the Inhabitants of the s^d County, but hath as yett noe
Authority or lycense to doe or keepe the same
Your Pet^r therefore humbly Supplicates your L^spp to grant
him a lycense to keepe a Publick fferry in the River aforesaid,
and that yo^r L^spp will be pleased to grant the profitts thereof
to your Pet^r and that noe other pson by any pretence whatso-
ever shall have any lycense or priviledge thereunto in the River
aforesaid but your Pet^r dureing your L^spps pleasure
And yo^r Pet^r as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c^a

underneath the above petition was thus written (viz)
Lett the Pet^r have a lycense for the fferry in Anne Arrundell
River at 6^d p man and horse and that noe pson else sett over
any for pay.
Nov^r 17^th 1682. C: Baltemore
To John Llewellin Clk of the
Councill
This.

Liber R.