348       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1668.

Liber FF Caecilius Absolute lord & Proprietary of Maryland & Avalon Lord
 [p. 645] Baltemore &c To all Our officers and Inhabitants in Maryland and
              to all others whom theis pnts may concernerne Sendeth Greeting
              Know yee That of our Special Grace certeyne knowledge & meere
              mocon wee have granted & as much as in us lyeth doe Grant to our
              well beloved Inhabitants within the Citty called or Knowne by the
              name of St Mary's Citty in the County of St Mary's in the Province
              of Maryland & the Circuits prcincts and priviledged places of the sd
              Citty not exceeding the Space of one English mile Square That they
              the said Inhabitants wthin the sd Citty, Circuitts & prcincts aforesd
              shalbe an Incorporated Citty of one Major one pson learned in the
              law by the name of a Recorder & Six Aldermen & Tenn persons as
              Comon Counceilmen inhabiteing within the sd Citty for eü more And
              that the sd Major Recorder Aldermen & Comon Councelimen shalbe
              a body in Corporate & one Comunity for eü in right & name & shall be
              by the name of Major Recorder Aldermen & Comon Councell of the
              Citty of St Maryes Citty able & Capeable att Law to be sued & to sue
              And to act execute & doe as a body in Corporate & to have succession
              for eü, And to tht end to have a Comon Seale and that Philip Calvert
              Esq one of the Inhabitants of the Citty shall for the pnt be &
              be named Mayor of the sd Citty for the ensueing yeare & John More-
              croft Recorder of the same & William Calvert Esq Jerome White
              Esq Daniel Jenifer Garrett Vansweringen Marke Cordea & Thomas
              Cosden Inhabitants alsoe of the sd Citty shalbe Aldermen thereof
              as long as they shall well behave themselves therein haveing first
              taken the oath of Fidelity as alsoe the oath appoynted by us to be
              taken by the Major Adermen & Recorder of the Citty of St Mary's
              Citty And to be Administred unto them Respectively by our Leivten-
              nant of the sd pvince for the tyme being or by such pson or psons
              as wee or our heires or our Leivtennt of the sd pvince for the time
              being shall from tyme to tyme authorize & appoint to administer the
              same And the sd Major Recorder & Aldermen or the Majer part of
[p. 646]  thm shall elect & chuse Tenn other of the most sufficient Inhabitants
              of the sd Citty to be of the Comon Councell thereof for soe long
              tyme as they shall well behave themselves therein And that for the
              future the sd Major Recorder Aldermen & Comon Councell shall
              assemble in some convenient place within the sd Citty on or upon the
              Third day of November eüy yeare & shall then & there Elect & chuse
              by the Major vote of such of them as shall be then pnt one other of the
              Aldermen of the sd Citty for the tyme being to be Major of the said
              Citty for the ensueing yeare And upon Decease or removeall of the
              sd Major of the said Citty for the tyme being or upon any Decease
              or Deceases Removeall or Removealls of the sd Recorder or Alder-
              men or any of them or within one month after any such respective
              decease or deceases removeall or removealls the Residue of the said
              Aldermen together & with the sd Mayor if he shall be liveing or