48 Proceedingsof fize Council of Maryland, 1693 94.

      Lib. C. B.     & the best of yor Skill & Understanding. And to the End

            that a true & fain Record may be kept of your Proceedings

            herein Wee have thought fit to Nominate & Appoint, And

         p. 56  Wee doe hereby Nominate, Constitute & Appoint Henry

            ffernley Gent to be your Clerk or Register to Receive take &

            Enter on his Journall the Sume & Substance of what shall be

            done & Acted by you in the Execution of the Power &

            Authority hereby Given and Granted you a faire Coppy

            whereof attested vnder the hand & Seale of yor said Clerk

            you are to Transmitt Unto Us in our high Court of Chancery

            with all convenient speed Given Under the Great Seale of our

            said Province of Maryland the ffifteenth day of ffebry in the

            Sixth yeare of our Reign &ca Annoq Domini 1693.

             On the back of the foregoeing Commission was thus Written

            Vizt

            Dedimus   William & Mary by the Grace of God of England,

            potestatem

            &CaScotland, ffrance & Ireland King & Queen Defenders

            of the ffaith &ca To William Dent & Henry True-

            man Gents These are to constitute & Appoint you or either of

            you to Administer vnto ffrancis Hutchins & James Keech or

            Nicholas either of them the Oaths appointed by Act of Parlia

            Greenberry ment instead of the Oaths of Allegiance & Supremacy

            as alsoe the Usuall Oath of Coinissionr And the said Oaths

            being as aforesd Administered & taken you the said ffrancis

            Hutchins & James Keech or either of you are to Administer

            the aforesd Oaths Unto the rest of the Comissioners within

            named for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant Given

            vnder the Great Seale of our Province this 15th day of ffebry in

            the Sixth yeare of our Reign &Ca Annoq Dni 1693.

         p. 57  At a Councill held at the Ridge in Ann Arrundell County

            at the house of Mr John Larkin the 16th day of Aprill 1694, and

            in the Sixth yeare of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord & Lady

            King William & Queen Mary &ca

                           Present

        The Honble Nicholas Greenberry Esqr President

                         Thomas Tench Esqr

                         Capt John Addison

                         Thomas Brooke Esqr

                    Taken into consideration the sending an Express

            Messinger to New Yorke with Bills of Exchange to the sume of

             sent to New Yorke with Two hundred & ffifty pounds sterling pursueant to

            Bills of their Comands, and therevpon Moved that Mr Roger

            Excha 250 l Newman be sent for to Treat with him to goe vpon