560      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665-66.

               Liber F F said sherriffe upon sight of this Order, Hee the said Bayley sattis
                     fying all cherriffc & Clarks ffees whatsoeuer to this day that hath
                uerte accrued or Occationed by the sd Stapleforts detaining such Goods
                [p. 176] from the petr As allsoe by the said sherriffs seizing them into Cus
                     tody for the use and upon the said Bayleys Request by warrt from
                     the Leiutennt Generall

                      Then Came Wm Caluert Escp his Lordsps Attorney and desires
                     his informacon may be read wch hee putteth into Court agst the shipe
                     or Vessell Hopewell of King saile in Ireland wch is as followeth—
                     To the Honble the Gouernor & Councell
                      Memorandum that William Caluert Esq Attorney Generall for
                     the Rigt Honble the Lord Propr who as well for the said Lord Pro
                     prietary as for the Honble Charles Caluert Esq Leiutnt Generall &
                     cheife Gouernor of this Prouince as for himselfe followeth. Comes
                     into Court of the said Lord Propr before the Gouernor & Councell
                     the fifth day of January one thowsand six hundred sixty ffiue in his
                     proper person and as well for the Lord Propr as for the said Charles
                     Caluert Esq Gouernor of Maryland as alsoe for himselfe giues the
                     Court aforesd here to understand, That whereas a Certaine Act of
                     Parliament of King Charles the second that now is begunn att West
                     minster the eighth of May one thowsand six hundred sixty one in
                     the thireteenth yeare of his Raigne and theire Continued till the nine
                     teenth of May in the foureteenth yeare of his Maties Raigne and
                     thence Prorogued to the Eighteenth of ffebruary then next follow
                     ing and there Continued till the seaven and twentyth of July in the
                     fifteenth yeare of his Maties Raigne and then Prorogued to the six
                     teenth of March then next following It stands Enacted by the Au-
               [p. 177]  thority of the said Parliament, That from and after The flue &
                     twentyth day of March One thowsand six hundred sixty ffoure Noe
                     Comodity of the Growth produccon or manufacture of Europe shall
                     bee imported into any land Island plantacon Colony Territory or
                     place to his maty belonging or which shall belong hereafter unto or
                     be in the possession of his majesty his heires & successors in Asia
                     Africa or America (Tangier only excepted) but what shall be bona
                     fide & wthout fraud laden & shipped in England Wales or the towne
                     of Berwick uppon Tweede & in English built shippinge or which were
                     bona fide bought before the first day of October One thowsand six
                     hundred sixty & two and had such Certificate thereof as is directed
                     in one Act passed the last sessions of this prsent Parliamt Entituled
                     an Act for preuenting Frauds & regulating abuses in his Maties Cus
                     tomes, & whereof the mastr & three fourths of the marriners att least
                     are English and which shall be carryed directly thence to the said
                     lands Islands plantacons Colonies Territoryes or places & from no
                     other place or places wtsoeuer any law statute or Vsage to the Con-