Imprimis¾One Musket or Bastard-Musket with a
snaphance Lock.
Item¾Ten pound of Powder.
Item¾Fourty pound of lead-Bullets, Pistoll and Goose
Shot, each sort some.
Item¾One Sword and Belt.
Item¾One Bandelier and Flask.
Dated at London tenth day of November 1641.
C. BALTIMORE.
Council Proceedings, 1st Book, folio 81.
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Extract of a Proclamation, dated April 2, 1643.
" BY THE LIEUTENANT-GENERAL,
" Whereas the Lord Proprietary is given to understand
" that divers adventurers into this Province have a long
" time forborne to take Grants from his Lordship of Lands
" due to them by Conditions of Plantation or special Warrant
" contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said
" Conditions and Warrants which course must needs in process
" of time make such adventurers' rights and pretences to
" land very doubtful and his Lordship thereby also receives
" great prejudice in his rents it is his Lordship's pleasure
" that all persons pretending any right unto any lands
" within this Province by virtue of any former Conditions of
" Plantation or special Warrant shall within twelve months
" from and after the date hereof come and make appear unto
" me their right so pretended, and take out Grants of the
" same, upon pain of being refused Grants after the said
" time, and hereof I require all persons whom it shall
" concern to take notice of it at their peril."
Council Proceedings¾1st BOOK, folio 98.
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Extract of Instructions from the Proprietary, to Giles Brent
Esq. Lieutenant General (deputed by Leonard Calvert Esq.
who had gone to England) and to the Secretary and
Council ¾dated the 14th July, 1643.
" And because I intend by the Grace of God to come in
" person myself into the said Province at or before January
" next after the date hereof I thought fit also for divers
" reasons to suspend the granting of any more lands within that
" Province till my arrival there when I shall take order to
" grant to every one their due who have any just right or
" claim from me of any lands within that Province and
" therefore I do hereby also restrain and revoke that power
" of granting of any lands in my name by him the said Giles
" Brent under my great Seal for the said Province and do
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