" and to their heirs, ten acres of Land within the plats assigned " or to be assigned for the town and fields of St. Mary's for " every person that any of the said adventurers transported " or brought into Maryland, according to their conditions " first published, and five acres of land to every other " adventurer for every other person which he hath or shall transport " thither since that time of the first plantation until the " thirteenth day of August which shall be in the year of our " Lord 1638¾And for so doing this shall be your " Warrant. Given under my hand and seal at Warden Castle " in the Realm of England the 29th August, 1636.                        " CECILIUS BALTEMORE. " To my dear Brother Mr. Leonard Calvert, Esq.     " my Lieutenant General of the Province of     " Maryland"     LIB. NO. 1, folio 30. ¾     The next conditions found on record were published in 1641, when the colony was at the eve of a war with the Indians, which circumstance probably gave rise to the particular condition imposed on the male emigrants relative to arms and ammunition. I shall here insert also this document and without further intermediate comment, such of the subsequent conditions, proclamations, &c. as may be requisite, by way of foundation for the account to be given of the early proceedings under them. Those of later date will be introduced as occasion may require in the course of our further examination. ¾ " Conditions propounded by the Right Hon'ble Cecilius Lord     Baltimore Lord Proprietor of the Province of Maryland in     the parts of America to such persons as shall adventure or go     to plant in the province aforesaid which Conditions are to     begin from the feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary     1642 and to continue until new or other Conditions of     Plantation for the said province shall be published under his     Lordship's hand and seal within the said Province.     Imprimis. What person soever being of British or Irish discent that shall be at the charge to transport into the Province of Maryland himself or his deputy with any number of able men between the ages of sixteen and fifty years of age of the discent aforesaid provided and furnished with arms and ammunition according to a particular hereunder exprest or any number of Women between the ages of fourteen and forty-three shall be granted unto every such adventurer E