LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

        To the Maryland Historical Society:
           LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

          This volume of the Provincial Court proceedings, 1677-1678, is Volume
        LXVII of the Archives of Maryland and Volume 12 of the sub-series on the
        courts. The eighth volume on the Provincial Court, it begins on June 19, 1677;
        and it continues to August 30, 1678. Like Volume LXVI it was set directly
        from photostats of Liber NN in the Land Office at Annapolis, and it repro
        duces, as exactly as a good modern press can do it, the text of that manuscript
        book. Consequently, much that was said in the letter of transmittal of Vol
        umes LXV and LXVI could be repeated here, for courts and clerks do not
        change greatly from one year to the next. In this case, Volume LXVI ends
        on folio 308 of Liber NN with the adjournment of the Court on April 28,
        1677 until June 19, 1677, there is a line drawn clear across the page, and the
        next item, on the same folio 308 is the re-opening of the Court on the day
        set. So begins this volume.
          Volume LXVIII, on which work has already been begun, will continue the
        work of the Provincial Court. It begins with the opening of the Court in
        October 1678, and continues to September 2, 1679.

                                  Respectfully submitted,

                        J. HALL PLEASANTS,

                          Chairman of the
                                         Publications Committee

                                      CHARLES A. BARKER

                                      JOSEPH KATZ

                                      ROBERT G. MERRICK

                                      HARRISON TILGHMAN