Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1731. 545

    Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or Lib.M.

    ought to have any Jurisdiction power superiority Preeminence,

    or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within his Majtys sd

    Realms Dominions & Countries

      2d That the Book of Common Prayer and of Ordering

    of Bishops Priests and Deacons, containeth in it nothing con

    trary to the Word of God, and that it may lawfully be used,

    and that I myself will use the form in the sd Book prescribed

    in publick Prayer & Administratn of the Sacraments and none

    Other

      3d That I allow the Book of Articles of Religion agreed

    upon by the Arch Bishops and Bishops of both Provinces and

    the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London in the

    Year of Our Lord God 1562 And that I acknowledge all

    and Every the Articles therein contained being in Number

    Nine and Thirty besides the Ratification to be agreeable to

    the Word of God

      I Hugh Jones do willingly and ex animo subscribe to these

    three Articles above mentioned & to all things that are con

    tained in them

                                       H: Jones

      I Hugh Jones will conform to the Liturgy of the Church

    of England as it is now by Law established

                                       H: Jones

                     4th Octor 1731            p.47

      Came before me the Subscribers the Reverend Mr Hugh

    Jones and took the Oaths appointed to be taken by a Statute

    made in the first year of the Reign of King William &

    Queen Mary and the Oaths of Simony and Residence, and

    subscribed the Oaths of Abjuration and Test, and made the

    foregoing Subscriptions

                               Bendt Leond Calvert

    Maryland ss

      Be it Remembered that on the seventh day of December in

    the Fifth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George

    the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and

    Ireland King Defender of the faith &c and in the seventeenth

    year of the Dominion of the Right Honourable Charles Lord

    Baron of Baltemore Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the

    Provinces of Maryland and Avalon &c Annoq Domini 1731

    At the House of the Honourable Benedict Leonard Calvert

         35