and myself made, the penalty inserted for non-payment of any alienation fines, was only the making of the alienation void which I found by experience to be of little use to me; and that several persons in my said province have made several alienations of land without paying me my alienation fines before such alienacon; to prevent which inconveniency for the future, you are hereby ordered instead of the clause heretofore inserted in the grant for the making the alienation void upon non-payment of the fine, before such alienation, to insert a proviso for making my grant void in case the alienation fine reserved be not paid before such alienation. The severall persons herein before menconed to whome I have made any allowance in tobacco, are in the first place, if any of them hold lands of me to discount time rents and arrears of such lands out of the allowance which I have ordered you to make them. In case you take out any warrants yourself and grants of any lands thereupon (it being not proper you should sign and seal such warrants and grants yourselfe) major Nicholas Sewell, Mr. Henry Darnall or Mr. Edward Digges are hereby impowered to sign and seal such warrants and grants. You are to grant Cecill Butler a warrant or grant for five hundred acres of land, as a full compensation for his pretensions on account of his late father-in-law Robert Carvill on the land formerly belonging to one Roderick, which was by me granted to Peter Sawyer and James Heath, as also to grant him a lease for the plantation of St. Johns near the city of St. Marys pursuant to my directions heretofore given to collonel Darnall.     You are to grant to Henry Wharton one hundred forty six acres called The Neighbourhood adjoining to Notley Hall in case the same belong to me.     You are to grant to Henry Sewell a piece of escheat land of two or three hundred acres.     You are to grant Gerard Stye a piece or pieces of escheat land of five hundred acres in all, in full compensation of his pretensions to five hundred acres sold to his father by Charles Calvert, and supposed to be within my manor of Anne Arundel for which I have also given captain Richard Smith a compensation pretending right thereto from the said Charles Calvert's father.     You are to grant Anne Duckworth one hundred acres of land, being in consideration of the like quantity, Hopewell her former husband pretended a right to in Mattastiny manor; the said one hundred acres to be out of the Millmannor in St. Marys county, but with the least prejudice to the remainder.     You are hereby required to authorise Mr. Henry Darnall to let and lease my manors of the western shore at the usual