" hereby require him the said Giles Brent not to grant any
" accordingly without further order therein under mine
" or my heirs hand and seal any thing contained in the
" Commission above-mentioned dated 18th November 1641
" or in any other Commission whatsoever to the contrary in
" any wise notwithstanding."
Council Proceedings¾1st. BOOK, folio 107.
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This prohibition was revoked and lands permitted to be
granted as usual by a letter from the Proprietary dated the
18th of November following. The Proprietary did not come
into the Province as he had proposed.
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" A Commission annexed to the Conditions of Plantation Anno
1648.
" Cecilius, &c. to our trusty and well beloved William
Stone Esquire, our Lieutenant of our province of Maryland,
Greeting Whereas we have thought fit for divers reasons to
revoke our former Conditions of Plantation for our said
Province of Maryland and to propose other Conditions of
Plantation for the future within the said Province which we send
you herewith written in parchment under our hand and
greater seal at arms bearing date the twentieth day of June last
past and hereunto annexed, and Whereas we have likewise
herewith sent you certain draughts or forms of Grants the
one of a Manor and the other of a Freehold under our hand
and greater seal at arms bearing date with these presents and
have hereunto also annexed, which forms we would have
observed and no other, mutatis mutandis et repletis replendis,
in the granting of lands within the said province for the
future by virtue of the said last Conditions of Plantation
bearing date as aforesaid or by virtue of any other warrant
hereafter under our hand and seal at arms for granting of lands
there excepting where we shall by any such warrant give
directions to the contrary. We do therefore declare hereby that
we have and do hereby revoke from henceforward all former
Conditions of Plantation for our said Province of Maryland
heretofore proposed by us so as we will not have any land in
our said province hereafter granted from us to any person
whatsoever by virtue of any of the said former Conditions
of Plantation for or in respect of the transportation of any
person or persons whatsoever into our said Province from,
and after the date hereof and we do will and require you to
publish this our declaration in our said Province with all
convenient speed to the end that all those whom it may concern may
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