398 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1722 / 3.

            Lib. x.    several Lines in this province and threatned Several persons

                 as appears by the proceedings of last Council to deprive

                 them of their plantatns if they refused to submit to the Penn

                 sylvania Government, and likewise that very lately they had

                 taken up Mr Vanbebber the chief Iustice of Cecil County

                 Court for no other Offence real or pretended than for running

                 out some Lines in the wild forest, up and down the Branches

                 of Apoquimineck Creek in order to discover the true Loca

                 tion of Saint Augustines Mannors Western Limits and asking

                 the opinion and advice of the Board thereon it is the opinion

                 and advice of the Board that proclamation issue to warn the

                 Inhabitants of Cecil County and others Concernd of the pre

                 tensions and Incroachments aforesaid and that all persons

                 Concernd take notice thereof at their perill

                Maryland sst

                        By the Lieutenant General

                              A Proclamation

                   Whereas at a Council held at Whitehall in London in the

                 Reign of the late King James the Second it was ordered upon

                 a supposition that the Tract of Land lying on the west Side

                 of Deleware Bay had been inhabited and planted by Chris

                 tians and Continued to be a distinct Colony from that of

                 Maryland at and before the date of the Lord Baltimores

                 pattent, that the tract of Land lying betwixt the River and Bay

                 of Deleware and the eastern Sea on the one side and Cheso

                 peak Bay on the other side should be divided into equal parts

                 and that that part thereof lying towards Deleware Bay should

                 belong unto his Majesty and that the other part lying on the

                 west Side of a division Line drawn from the Latitude of Cape

                 Henlopen unto the 40th degree of North Latitude should

                 remain unto the Lord Baltimore as Comprized within his

                 Charter as is expressly set forth in the Order of Council

                 which for the greater Satisfaction of all persons whom it shall

                 or may Concern is herewith made publick as followeth

                   At the Court at Whitehall the 13th day of November 1685

                            Present

              The Kings most Excellent Majesty

               His Royal Highness prince George

               Lord Arch Bishop of Canterbury

             p. 59      Lord Chancellor

                     Lord Chamberlain

                    Earl of Huntington

                    Earl of Bridgwater