same Mannor and to the same uses as aforesaid, Provided
always that a thousand acres next adjoyning to the said
mansion house and now belonging to the said Mannor be sett
out with certaine bounds and reputed hereafter the
demesnes of the said Mannor, and that it shall and may be
lawfull for the said Charles Calvert from time to time during
his life to lett a lease or leases of all or any part of the said
Mannor excepting the said mansion house and demesnes or
any part thereof to any person or persons for one and
twenty years or less or for one two or three lives or for any
number of yeares determinable upon one two or three lives, so
as there be a yearly rent reserved to the Lord of the
Mannor of a penny sterling at the least for every acres soe to
be leased as aforesaid, all which is to be inserted in the said
Grant.
" That his Lordship's said Lieutenant cause also another
Grant to be passed in his Lordship's name under his great
seale of the said Province to the said Charles Calvert and
his heirs, of the Mannor of west St. Maries situate and
being in the said County of St. Maries in Maryland and
containing by estimation two thousand acres more or lesse with
all the appurtenances thereunto belonging to the uses
hereafter mentioned, that is to say to the use and behoofe of his
Lordship during his life and from and after his decease to
the use and behoofe of the said Charles Calvert for and
during his life and from and after his decease to the use and
behoofe of the first son of the said Charles Calvert lawfully
to be begotten and the heirs males of his body and for want
of such issue to the use and behoofe of his second son
lawfully to be begotten and the heirs males of his body and for
want of such issue to the use and behoofe of his third fourth
fifth sixth and all and every other sonns of the said Charles
Calvert lawfully to be begotten and the heirs males of the
body of such third fourth fifth sixth and all and every other
sonns lawfully to be begotten, the one after the other as they
shall happen to be in seniority of age and priority of birth,
the elder and his issue male being always preferred before
the younger and his issue male, and for want of such issue
to the use and behoofe of the heirs males of his said
Lordship and for want of such issue to the use and behoofe of
the heirs males of his said Lordship's father George Lord
Baltimore dec'ed, and for want of such issue to the use of
the heires of the body of his said Lordship the now Lord
Baltimore, and for want of such issue to the use and behoofe
of the right heirs of his said Lordship for-ever.
" That his Lordship said Lieutenant cause as much more
land next adjoyning to the Mannor of West St. Maries to
be added to the said Mannor as he can, not assigned formerly
Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide. Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.
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