160       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666—67.

       Liber FF    effect of the Act forfeited may be deliuered to his said lordps Trea-
              surer and the Honble Charles Caluert Esq according to the forme and
              Effect of the sd Act and that the said William Gard may Come here
              in Court and answere the prmisses Will: Caluert

                William Gard being called made appearance, and desired he would
              put in his answere to the said informacon whereupon hee requested
              the Board that hee might haue an Attorney admitted, which was
              allowed

                His lops said Attorney Generall came againe into Court and
              deliuered in one other Informacon against John Treris Master of
              the Barke William of New England also riding att Anchor in the
              said riuer of Petuxent which informacon is as followeth (uizt)

       [p.    To the Rigt Honble the Leiutennt Generall and the Rest of his lops
              Justices for this Prouince
                Memorandtm that Wm Caluert Esq Attorney Generall for the Rigt
              Honble the Lord Propr Who as well for the said Lord Propr as for
              the Honble Charles Caluert Esq Leiutennt Generall and Cheife Gou-
              ernor of this Prouince followeth, Comes into Court of the said Lord
              Proprietarys before the Gouernor and Councell the 19th day of March
              1666 in his proper person and as well for the Lord Proprietary as
              for the said Charles Caluert Esp Gouernor of Maryland, Giues the
              Court aforesaid here to understand, That wheras by a Certaine Act
              of Parliamt of King Charles the second that now is, Begunn att west-
              minster the 25th day of Aprill 1660 in the 12th yeare of his Reigne,
              It stands Enacted that for euery shipe or vessell which from and after
              the 25th day of Decembt in the yeare of Our Lord 1660 shall sett
              sayle out of or from England Ireland Wales or towne of Berwick
              upon Tweed for any English plantacon in America, Asia, or Africa
              sufficient Bond shall bee giuen one surety to the Cheife Officers
              of the Custome howse of such Port or Place from whence the said
              shipe shall sett saile, to the uallue of One Thowsand pounds if the
              shipe be of lesse burden then One hundred tunn and of the sume
              of Two Thowsand pounds if the shipe shall be of greater burden,
              That in Case the said shipe or uessell shall load any of the said
              Comodities att any of the said English Plantacons, That the same
              Comodities shall be by the said shipe brought to some port of Eng-
              land Ireland Wales or to the port or towne of Berwick upon Tweed,
              and shall there unload and put on shore the same the danger of the
              seas onely Excepted; And for all shipes comming from any other Port
              or Place to any of the aforesaid plantacons who by this Act are
              permitted to trade there, That the Gouernor of such English Planta-
              eons shall before the said shipe or uessell be permitted to load on
              board any of the said Comodities take Bond in manner and to the
         [p. 440] uallue aforesaid for each respective shipe or uessell That such shipe or