368 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1696/7-98.

           Lib. H. D.     Your Peticoner humbly prayes he may be admitted thereinto,

                 being freely willing to bestow all the Proffits, perquisitts &

                 fees of the two first years thereby accruing unto the use of

              p. 619 the said School, wch (if granted) he desires may be laid out in

                 building a Warehouse to the use aforesaid, and that in Order

                 thereto there may be assign'd, such a convenient quantity of

                 ground as the Law in that case directs, so soon as the time

                 limmitted by the Act for building Warehouses is fully

                 expired. That yor Petitioner designes building a Twenty five

                 foot dwelling house this next Summer, having already agreed

                 & paid for the frame thereof to be delivered him in the Spring,

                 wch is to be a good Substantiall saw'd frame wth Coedar posts

                 & groundcells, the wch (if please God yor Petitioner should

                 happen to dye before the end of the two aforementioned

                 years) he freely bequeaths & bestowes to the use of the said

                 School; and provided he may have the sole management and

                 use of the aforesd warehouse, during his naturall life; he

                 freely bequeaths both the one & the other, to the uses afore

                 mentioned, after his decease, and withall humbly desires that

                 the Honoble the Governrs and Trustees of the said Schoole

                 will please to cause this to be made a Record in the Comis

                 saries Office, as his last will and Testament in these two par

                 ticulars, utterly excluding all other Wills, web for the future

                 shall or may be made to the contrary

                        By yor humble Petitionr

                             John Stanley.

                  Read a Petition of Mr Gerrard Vanswaringhen, humbly

                 pray redress agt Mr Robt Mason high Sherriff of St Maries

                 County for stopping some Publick Tobacco of his, out of

                 pretence of some debt owing by the Peticonr to the said

                 Mason &ca

                  The said Petition was by Order referred to Mr Robt Mason

                 aforenamed who upon refusing to make the Petitioner satis

                 faction; and that if it did appear the Allegations in the Peti

                 tion set forth are true. His Majesties Lawyers are to make

                 such proper proceedings thereon, in behalfe of the Petitioner

                 as in the Law such case directs.

                  Their Exncyes the Lords Iustices Proclamation for publishing

                 the peace &ca and the Order of the Rt Honoble the Lords of

                 the Councill for Trade & fforeign Plantations were by Order

                 read and the Articles shew'd to his Honor Esqr Tench & Coll

                 Courts, who had not before seen them:

                  Then read the direction from the Rtt Honoble the Comissrs

                 for executing the Office of Lord high Admirall of England, Ire

                 land &Ca dated 29th of Aprill last past, & formerly produced

                 in Councill. Empowering his Exncy ffrancis Nicholson Esqr to