" Extract from Instructions from the Proprietary (Cecilius)
to the Governour Charles Calvert, dated 28th July 1669.
"ART. 2. That according to his Lordship's former
directions no land be granted hereafter from his Lordship in
his said Province for a less rent than two shillings sterling
yearly for every fifty acres, and that special care be taken that
the Surveyor General do speedily set out ten thousand acres
of the best Land up in the freshes of Potomack River for
his Lordship's use and also that no incroachments be made
by any other persons upon any lands already reserved or that
shall hereafter be reserved for his Lordship, as also that no
lands whatsoever formerly granted and since escheated or
forfeited to his Lordship be granted away upon rights of
Plantation or otherwise without special Warrant under his
Lordship's hand and seal
3. That you use all means possible to procure that some
persons be seated upon the seaboard side on the Eastern Shore and
on Delaware Bay within the degree forty northerly Latitude,
and particularly the Whorekill, and for the encouragement
of planting in those parts it is his Lordship's pleasure
that lands be granted there to such persons, at the rent of
one shilling sterling yearly for every fifty acres according
to the former Conditions of Plantation, and if any shall
presume to oppose you in it you are to maintain his
Lordship's right by force if need be which his Lordship will
justify you in; it is likewise his Lordship's further pleasure
that the Surveyor General do set out for his Lordship at the
Whorekill and Seaboard side of the Eastern Shore of the
best land and in the most convenient places to be found in
those parts two Manors in every County each Manor
containing six thousand acres at the least."
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS, C. B. folio 7.
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" Instructions from the right Hon'ble Cecilius
(Seale) absolute Lord and Proprietary of Maryland and Avalon,
Lord Baltimore, &c.
" To his dear son Charles Calvert his Lordship's Lieutenant
of the Province of Maryland and in his absence to his
Deputy or Deputies for the government of the said
Province.
" 1st. That whereas his Lordship by his instructions of
the 28th day of July 1669 did order that no land should be
granted thereafter from his Lordship in his said Province of
Maryland by virtue of any former Conditions of Plantation
for or in respect of any person or persons transported into
his said Province under a lesser rent than two shillings sterling
Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide.
Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.
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