Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97. 399

   Maryland ss:                                Lib. H. D.

                                               Seal

   His Excell ffrancis Nicholson Esqr Capt Genll & Chief Gov

          ernr of his Maties province of Maryland & the Terri

  Lycense    to tories therevnto belonging & Vice Admirall of the

       Labadee same &Ca To all people to whom these presents shall

   Minister come, Greeting.

     Know Yee that forasmuch as Peter Sluyter als Vorsman of

   Caecill County Clerk hath made it appear to me that he is an

   Orthodox protestant Minister, Ordained according to the Seal

   Tenets of the Reformed Churches in Holland—I have hereby

   Empowered, Authorized and appointed, as also given free

   leave, liberty & Lycense to him the said Peter Sluyter als

   Vorsman to joyne together in the holy State of Matrimony

   all such persons as are & be of his Society (provided the said

   persons shall actually have Resided in the said Society for

   the space of three Months before the Solemnity of Marriage

   passeth and no others whatsoever) without having any further

   Lycense from myself or any publication at Church or County

   Courts, Given under my hand & Seal this 4th day of October

   in the 7th year of his Mats Reign, Annoq Domini, 1695.

                                   ffr. Nicholson.

                 March the 10th 1695/6.

   Charles Then came Charles Kilburne before his Excel

   Kilburne

   Depty lency the Governr who producing a Commission

 Marshall &ca     for being DeptY Marshall of his Mats Courts of

          Admiralty on the Western shore, under the hand &

   Seal of Thomas Collyer Gentl Marshall of the sd Court had

   administred unto him the Oaths appointed by act of Parliamt

   to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance & Supremacy p. 306

   & subscribed to the Test, and had also Administred vnto him

   before the honoble Coll Nicholas Greenberry Judge of the sd

   Court, the Oath of Dept Marshall as aforesaid.

     The following Paper by Order Entred, Vizt

   Maryland ss:

   Mr   Wm Whereas I find that Information has been made

     Taylard's Certificate against me William Taylard vnderwritten that I

   touching the should give out how that severall leaves have been

   provll & Land

   Records,  torn out of some Record Books in the Secretaries

   Office since their Removall to this Port Annapolis—

   These are therefore to Certify that to the best of my remem

   brance I should say that the Land Office Records lay very

   indecent on the ffioor and that some leaves were loose &

   shattered, and without speedy care be taken of those Records

   they might be more abused or to that purpose, since which

   upon my summons before his Exncy the Governr to declare