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       Lib. H. D.     Mats loving subjects to be aiding & assisting to you the said

             Daniell Pierce in the due Execution of your sd Office. And

             for your trouble pains & care herein you are hereby allowed

             & Lu have paid you the sufflc of Twelve pounds sterl yearly

             during the continuance of this Commission; Given vnder my

             hand & Seal at the port of Annapolis the 5th day of March, in

             the Eigth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord King Wil

             liam the third &Ca Annoq Domini 1695/6

               The Oath of Trade & Navigation vsually Administred vnto

             the severall Collectors Navall Officers & Riding Surveyors

             within this province, Vizt

                     You shall swear that you will to the best of your

             Navigation skill & power so long as you shall continue

             &ca within the of well & truly Execute &

             perform and cause to be Executed & performed all matters &

             things which by the Statute made in the 12th year of his late

             Maty King Charles the second his Reign Entituled an Act for

             the Encouraging & increasing of Shipping & Navigation; and

             by the other Statute made in the 15th year of his said Mats

             Reign, intituled an Act for the Encouragemt of Trade, you are

             Required as Navall Officer within the District aforesd to be

             sworn to the performance of, and all the Laws of this Coun

             trey relating to trade & Navigation. So help you God

          P 302            Oath of Allegiance &ca

               I.     A: B: do Sincerely promise & swear that I will be faith-

             full to his Majesty King William the third &ca

                                        So help me God &Ca

               I:     A: B. do swear that I do from my heart abhorr, detest

             & abjure as impious & hereticall, that damnable doctrine &

             position that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope

             or any Authority of the Sea of Rome may be deposed or Mur

             dered by their subjects or any other power.

               And I do declare that no fforraign Prince person, prelate

             State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction,

             power Superiority or Authority Ecclesiasticall or Spirituall

             within the Kingdom of England or the Dominions therevnto

             belonging.

                        So help me God.

             Lrs to the Sffe of Produced & read a Letter by Ordr writ to Mr John

             Caecill Co: Carvile high Sherriff of Caecill County, thereby corn

             touching manding him to get an exact Accot of the Number

             Amos Nich-                 .

             ols &ca of hogsheads of T obacco left in the said County last