260 Papers Relating to Affairs in Maryland, 1701—14.

           P. R. o. Crown, Supporters and Motto, and this Inscription round the

                  Circumference:    Anna Dei Gratia Magnae Brittanniae Franciae

                  & Hiberniae: Regina Fidei Defensor &c. On the other side

                  Our Royal Cypher Crown'd and this Inscription round the

                  Circumference: Sigillum Provinciae de Maryland in America.

                  Which Seal We do hereby authorize and direct to be used in

                  Sealing all Patents and Grants, and all Public Acts and In

                  strurnents of Government, which shall be made and pass'd in

                  Our Name for Our Service within Our said Province; And

                  that it be to all Intents and Purposes of the same force and

                  Validity as any other Seal whatsoever appointed for the use

                  of any of Our Plantations in America, is, or hath been.

                   And we further Will and require you upon the receipt of

                  the said Seal, to cause the former Seal to be broken before

                  you in Councl and then to transmit the said former Seal so

                  broken, to Our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to

                  be laid before Us in Council as usual.

                   Given at Our Castle of Windsor the Sixth Day of Decem

                  ber 1712, In the Tenth year of Our Reign

                                      By her Majestys Comand

                                                   Dartmouth.

           B.   T. Md. 5. Quakers in Maryland—Address to Gov: Seymour.

                  To Colonel John Seymour Governour of the Province of

                  Maryland &c.

                   The humble Address of the peaceable people called Qua

                   kers, given forth at their Monthly Meeting, at West River,

                   in the Said Province, the 11th day of the Fifth Month 1707—

                   In Submissive manner Sheweth that they having Seen a

                  written paper, which began after the following manner (Vizt)

                  Friend Seymour &c. and by an Imitation of the Words thee

                  or thou, would Seem to Feigne the Person and Stile of a

                  Quaker, which Said Paper, & the hidden Author thereof Wee

                  utterly disowne and deny, and are fully assured in our minds

                  that notwithstanding the Feigned Imitation of a Quaker in

                  Some words, the author thereof neither is or ever was of our

                  Society, or owned by us as Such, for it hath not in it the Image

                  of that inocent, harmless and peaceable truth and Spiritt of

                  our Lord Jesus Christ, Which Wee profess and believe in

                  But is rather a Scurrilous Libell tending to affront authority,

                  a practice as remote from our principall and practice as the

                  East is from the West. And Wee have reason to believe

                  that hidden author of the Said Libell is Some evill minded

                  person that endeavours by ill practice to render us the peace

                  able people called Quakers obnoxious to this Civill and

                  Moderate Government, from whom Wee freely and readily