64         Chancery Court Proceedings, 1671.

         LiberCD Caecilius absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Mary-
          land and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c To all our officers and

               Inhabitants of our said province of Maryland and To all others
               whom these presents may concerne Sendeth Greeting in our Lord
               God Everlasting Know ye that Whereas by our Letters Patents und.r
               our Great Seale bearing date third day of Novemb.r in the Seven and
               thirtieth year of our Dominion Annoq Dom one thousand Six hun-
               dred Sixty and Seven We did Grant to our Well beloved Inhabitants
            within the City Called or known by the name of S.t Maries City in
         (fol.67) the County of S.t maries in the Said province of Maryland and the
               Circuits precincts and priviledged places of the said City not exceeding
               the Space of one English mile Square that they the sd Inhab.ts within
               the Said City Circuits and precincts aforesaid Shall be an Incor-
               porated City of one Mayor one person Learned in the Law by the
               name of a Recorder and Six Aldermen and ten persons as Common
               Councilmen Inhabiting within the S.d City for ever more And that
               the S.d Mayo.t Recorder Aldermen and Common Councilmen Shall
               be a Body Incorporate and one Comunity for ever in Right and in
               name and Shall be by the name of Mayor Recorder, Aldermen &
               Common Council of the City of S.t maries City able and Capable at
               Law to be Sued and to Sue and to Act Execute and do as a Body
               Incorporate and to have Succession for Ever and to that End to
               have a Common Seale and that Phillip Calvert Esq.r one of the
               Inhabitants of the s.d City shall for the present be and be named
               mayo.r of the s.d City for the Ensuing year & Jn.° morecroft Recorder
               of the Same and William Calvert Esq.r Jerome White Esq.r Daniell
               Jenifer, Garrett Vansweringen, Marke Cordea and Thomas Cosden
               Inhabitants also of the s.d City Shall be Aldermen thereof as Long
               as they shall well behave themselves therein having first taken the
               Oath of ffidelity as also the Oath appointed by us to be taken by the
               mayo.r Aldermen and Recorder of the Citty of s.t maries Citty and to
        (fol.  be administred unto them Respectively by our Lieutenant of the Said
               province for the time being or by Such person or persons as we or
               our heirs or our Lieuten.t of the said province for the time being
               Shall from time to time Authorize and appoint to Administer the
               Same And the Said Mayo.r Recorder and Aldermen or the majo.r
               part of them shall Elect and Chuse ten others of the most Sufficient
               Inhabitants of the S.d City to be of the Common Council thereof for
               So Long time as they shall well behave themselves.


        (fol. 69) Caecilius &c To our Trusty and Well beloved Henry Adams Gentl
               Thomas Mathews Gent in the County of Charles County Greeting
               We Command you that by the Oath of Twelve Good & Lawfull
               men of yo.r S.d County of Charles County by whom the truth of
               the matter may better be known that you Diligently Enquire what