Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97. 345

    Comrs of the Sr                         Lib. H. D.

            We herewith send you a Coppy of a Letter which p. 8

    ter Esq to we have written to the Governrs of the Severall Plan

    of Trade tations for your Information & Guidance in the

    Vigorously Severall points therein Contained, being Occasioned

    prosecuted

    &cacheifely by an Act lately passed in Scotland for

    Erecting a Company to Trade from thence to India

    Aifrica and America; whereof we likewise Send you a Coppy

    with a Coppy of the Address from the Lords Spirituall and

    Temporall and Commons in Parliamt Assembled, to his Maty

    and his Majesties gracious answer thereto; By all which you will

    Observe the Danger threatning his Mats Plantations, and the

    Loss likely to Attend our Trade from this Act, if the Scotch

    should under Colour thereof, Settle themselves in Plantations

    in America, which yet we dont see how they Can, So as to

    Obtain any advantge thereby, but by the Contrivance and

    Corruption of our Officers, And therefore to prevent them in

    their Designs, as we have Excited the sd Governors to a Vigor

    ous Execution of the Severall Laws made in England for the

    Security of our plantation trade, So we would Stirr you up

    thereunto; & doe Require from you a dilligent Observance of

    the sd Laws & the Ordrs and Instructions which you have

    Received in pursuance thereof, within your Station, having a

    more Especiall Eye and Reguard to such Ships and Vessells

    as may be any wayes suspected to Come from Scotl. or be

    bound thither, It being our Resolution to proceed agt Such of

    our Officers who Shall be Guilty in this Kind, with the Utmost

    Rigour and Severity.

    We rest,             Your Loving ffriends

                      Ja:    Chadwick Robert Southwell

                      Sam:   Clarke P: Ward.

    Custom House Londo

    J anry 9th 1695.

            Maryland.

          Sr

    Comrsofthe There having been an Act lately pass'd in Scot-

    Customs Lee

    to his Exncy land for Erecting a Company to Trade from thence

    to see the to India Aifrica and America, wherein many Persons

          have Interested themselves by large Subscriptions,

    Vigorously in Ordr to a Vigorous Carrying on the Trade to and

    prosecuted &ca from those parts wch in time may tend to Destroy the

          Trade and Navigation of England and Carry it to

    Scotland We did lately in Obedience to an Ordr of the Rt

    honrble the Lords Spirituall and Temporall in Parliamt Assem

    bled, Lay before their Lordps in Writing what we Conceived

    the proper means to Remedy the inconveniences Arising by