Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1700. 107

     Give and grant unto our Trusty and well beloved Sr Thomas Lib. H. D.

     Lawrence Baronett the Office or place of Secretary of our

     Province of Maryland in America and him the said Sir Thomas

     Lawrence Secretary of our Province of Maryland in America

     We do make Ordeine and Constitute by these presents in the

     Room of Thomas Lawrence Esqr deceased; To have hold Ex

     ercise and Enjoy the Said Office or place unto the said Sir

     Thomas Lawrence by himselfe or his Sufficient Deputy during

     our pleasure and the residence of him the Said Sir Thomas

     Lawrence in the Said Province together with all Rights Privi

     ledges profitts perquisites and Advantages to the Said Office

     belonging incident or in any wise apperteining and in Such

     Manner and forme as the Said Thomas Lawrence or any person

     or persons heretofore have held and enjoyed or ought to have

     held & enjoyed the Same And our further will and pleasure

     is And we do hereby declare That if the Said Sr Thomas

     Lawrence do not within the Space of four Months next and

     Imediatly ensuing the Date of these our Letters pattents

     ‘I'ransporte himselfe into our Said Province of Maryland That

     then these our Letters Pattents and every Clause Article and

     thing therein Conteined shall Cease determine and be utterly

     void to all Intents and Purposes any thing herein before Con

     teined to the Contrary Notwithstanding In Wittness whereof

     we have Caused these our Letters to be made pattents

     Wittness Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury and the rest of

     the guardians and Iustices of the Realm att Westminister

     the Eleventh day of July in the 13th Year of our Reigne.

                             Per breve de privato Sigillo

                                         Cocks

       At a Council held at the Port of Annapolis the eleventh day Lib. X.

     of October in the twelth year of the reign of our Sovereign p. 265

     Lord William the third of England &ca Annoq Dni 1700

                           Present

                 His Excellency the Governor

                      Thomas Brook Esqr

               the honble Robert Smith Esqr

                      Colo John Hammond

       Came Colo John Thompson & Wm Bladen naval Officers of

     the head of the Bay & the Port of Annapolis in Company of

     Captain Philip Hoskins from the Committee for apportioning p. 266

     the publick Levy & made Oath to their several Naval Officers

     Accots

       His Excellency is pleased to propose to the Board that

     whereas there is already a minute upon the Council Book that