" Given under my hand and seal at London in the Realm " of England this first day of August 1638.     " To my dear Brother Mr. Leonard Calvert,         " Esq. my Lieutenant Gen'all of the         " Province of Maryland."     LIB. No. 1, fol. 64.     A special Warrant from the Proprietary in favour of William Mitchell Esq. dated 18th of January 1649, recites that the said Mitchell had " covenanted and undertaken to make " his personal repair with his family to Maryland the next " summers expedition, and to convey thither at his charge " so many persons as to make his family twenty persons at " the least, divers of them being Artificers, Workmen, and " other very useful persons, and now ready to be " transported;" and the following summer to transport at least ten persons more for the making, erecting and settling a considerable plantation, for " which purpose he hath been at great " charge in Provisions, and hath well stored himself with " ammunition for the better defence of such his plantation, " and consequently of the Province, &c." The Proprietary therefore directs a grant of three thousand acres to be passed to the said Mitchell under the usual rent of two shillings sterling for every hundred acres, to be paid for ever, which land is to be in full satisfaction of all that the said Mitchell could claim by the last Conditions of Plantation for the transportation of the said thirty persons or any of them thither. The said land to be allotted to him his heirs or assigns in such place or places as he or they with the approbation of the Lieutenant General and Surveyor General shall make choice of not already granted, assigned, or inhabited¾to be erected into a Manor, &c.¾ON CONDITION that if the said William Mitchell do not within eighteen months transport the full number, of thirty persons as aforesaid, and twenty of them in the first summer, that then for every person wanting One hundred acres, shall be deducted out of the aforesaid quantity, and the Proprietary be authorised to re-enter and repossess so many hundred acres as there shall be persons so wanting.         LIBER No. 3, folio 408. ¾     Special Warrant to James Lindsey and Richard Willan for a grant of the Manor of Snow-Hill, supposed to be escheat to his Lordship. The said Grant to be made as the Proprietary declares in Consideration of the service rendered by those persons on the occasion of Ingle's insurrection, which reason he directs to be inserted in the grant, with notice " of their regular and approved worth, courage, and Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide. Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.