Conditions propounded by the Right Hon'ble Cecilius Lord     Baron of Baltimore Lord and Proprietary of the Province of     Maryland &c. to such persons as shall go to plant in the     Province aforesaid which Conditions are to continue in force     till other Conditions of Plantation for the said Province shall     be published under his Lordship or his heirs hand and seal at     arms within the said Province.     What persons soever being of British or Irish discent (except hereafter excepted) shall at his own or friends charge cause to be transported into the Province of Maryland from any other place himself or his deputy with any number of persons of the discent aforesaid and shall observe the Conditions hereunder mentioned there shall be granted unto every such adventuror or planter for every twenty persons of the discent aforesaid which he shall so in any one year at his own or his friends charge cause to be transported from any other place thither a proportion of good land within the said Province containing in quantity two thousand acres of English measure to be assigned and to lye all together in some one place within the said Province every which said two thousand acres shall be erected into a Mannor and be conveyed by grant under the great seal of the said Province to him his heirs and assigns respectively forever with such royalties and priviledges as are most usually belonging unto Mannors in England to be held by some honour of his said Lordship or his heirs within his said Province in socage tenure rendering and paying yearly for the first seven years after the said grant unto his said Lordship and his heirs for every such Mannor at the two most usual feasts of the year (viz.) the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Michael the Archangell by even and eaquall portions of the rent of forty shillings sterling in silver or gold, or the value thereof in such commodities as his said Lordship and his heirs or his or their officer or officers appointed by him or them from time to time to collect and receive the same shall accept in discharge thereof and for the next fourteen years in lieu thereof forty Bushell of Wheat yearly as is now usually growing and used in England and according to English measure or six pounds sterling in Silver or Gold at the choice of his Lordship and his heirs and after the said fourteen years in lieu thereof the twentieth part yearly of the annual yield and profitts of such mannor or in lieu thereof ten pounds sterling in silver or gold at the choice as aforsesaid of his said Lordship and his heirs forever.     2. The sixth part of the land of every Mannor which shall be granted by virtue of the said Conditions shall be for ever after accompted and known for the demesnes of every of the said Mannors respectively which demesnes shall be set forth