dominion &c. Anno Domini one thousand six hundred seventy six, by the advice of his lordship's councell did publish proclaime and declare that his said lordship would take no advantage of any lapse of tyme either in proving of rights returning of certificates or demanding grants or patents for any lands due to any adventurer or planter within this province: Provided such right title and claime to any such lands be proved and patents sued out for the same within two years after the date of the said proclamacon. And whereas severall persons inhabitants of this province have informed me, that by reason of the late troubles with the Indians, and other urgent occasions in their cropps hindering, they could not attend the secretary's office for sueing out their patents and making good other defects in the lapse of tyme as to the return of certificates and making good rights, and humbly prayed eight months tyme more for the doeing thereof. Being willing to comply with the reasonable request of the said inhabitants and for the settling their mindes and estates, I doe hereby (by and with the advice and consent of his lordship's councell) publish proclaime and declare, that no advantage shall be taken of any lapse of tyme either to the sueing out of patents for land or other defects whatsoever in any inhabitant of this province, but that all such inhabitants shall have and are hereby allowed eight months tyme commencing from the date hereof for the effectual doeing the same. Given att the citty of Saint Marys under the great seal of the said province of Maryland the nineteenth day of June in the third year of his lordship's dominion &c. Annoque Domini, 1678.     LIBER R. R. fol. 164. ¾¾     " You are hereby willed and required forthwith upon receipt hereof, to desist from prooveing or receiveing into the office the probate of any rights, or issueing out any warrants for any rights, but what are already and before the date hereof returned unto and recorded in the land office. But for the future any person or persons desireing to take up land within this province, you are to grant to him or them warrants for what quantity of land they shall desire, at the rate of one hundred pounds of tobacco per fifty acres; to be laid out in any part of this Province, except at the heads of the rivers on the Eastern Shore, the sea board side and the Whorekills, which shall be granted to any person adventurer or others desireing the same at the rate of fifty pounds of tobacco per fifty acres, and the usuall rent of four shillings per hundred acres according to the conditions of plantation last in force; paying also your fees of twelve pence sterling for drawing Q