390 Chancery Court Proceedings, 1 671.






         Liber P C   Recorder soe chosen or to bee chosen from time to time as afforesd
                or Either or any of them shall att any time hereafter misbehave him
                or themselves in the Execucon of theire or any of theire Sevrll and
                Respective office or offices in the Judgmt of our Selfe or Heires or
                our Lieutenant of the Said Province for the time Being and that we
                or our Heires or our Lieutenant of the Said Province for the time
                Being shall Direct and Signify under our his theire or any of theire
                hand and Seale hands & Seales to the Aldermen of the Said Citty
                or any Two of them that itt is our his or theire Pleasure that such
                Mayor or Recorder Respectively Soe misbehaveing him or them
                selves Shall bee Removed or deposed from the Execucon of his or
                theire Respective office or offices Respectively that then and Imeadi
                ately after Such Significacon the Authority and Power hereby Given
            p. 12    too such Mayor or Recorder Respectively Shall cease and bee voyd &
                wee hereby Authorize and Appoint that another Mayor or Recorder
                Respectively bee within one mounth next after Elected and chosen
                in manner afforsd as if the said Mayor or Recorder soe misbehaveing
                him or themselves and soe by us our heires or Lieutenant or any of
                us Directed or Appointed to bee Remooved were Actually Dead Given
                att our Said citty of Saint Maries under our Greate Seale of the
                Said Province the Eleaventh day of September in the ffortieth Yeare
                of our Dominion over Maryland Annoque Dominii One Thousand
                Six hundred Seaventy and One Wittnes our Deare Sonn Charles
                Calvert Esquire our Captaine Generall and Chiefe Governor of our
                Said Province of Maryland       Charles Calvert
                Inrolled the Eleaventh of September 1671.
                   Robert Ridgely Regr

                  The oaths of Fidelity to the Right Honob1 the Lord Proprietary
                I AB doe ffaithfully and truely Acknowledge the Right Honobl
                Cecilius Lord Baron of Baltemore to be the true and Absolute Lord
                and Proprietary of this Province and country of Maryland and the
                Islands thereunto Belonging And I doe Sweare that I will Beare true
                ffaithe unto his Lop and his heires as to the true and Absolute
                Lords and Proprietaries of the Said Province and Islands thereunto
                Belonging and will not att any time by words or Accons in Publique
                or in Private wittingly or Willingly to the Best of my understanding
                any waies Derogate from Butt will at all times or occacon Shall
                Require to the uttermost of my Power defend and Maintaine all
                such the said Lops and his heires Right title Interest Priviledges
                Royall Jurisdiccons Prerogative Propriety and Dominion over and
                in the Said Province of Maryland and Islands thereunto Belonging
                and over the People who are and Shall bee therein for the time being
                as are Graunted or menconed to bee Graunted to the Said Lordp
             p. 13 and his heires by the King of England in his Said Lordps Pattent