acres a piece at least his Lordship doth hereby further
authorize will and require his said Lieutenant that as soon
as the said Mannor shall be soe sett out and the bounds
thereof entered upon record in the Secretary's Office there
which he wills and requires his said Lieutenant to cause to
be done with all convenient speed and to call them by what
names he shall think fitt that then he cause a demesne of a
thousand acres or thereabouts to be sett out in every of the
said Mannors with due meets and bounds entered upon
record which shall be reputed ever after the demesnes of
every of the said Mannors respectively, and that he cause
a grant or grants to be passed in his Lordship's name under
the great seal of the said Province of all and every of the
said Mannors respectively to the said Charles Calvert and
his heirs in the same manner and to the same uses and
upon the same terms as his Lordship hath by the two last
precedent articles of these instructions appointed for the
granting of the Mannor of West St. Maries in the said Province
of Maryland.
" That his Lordship's said Lieutenant cause another
Grant to be passed in his Lordship's name under his said
great seale of the said Province to the said Charles Calvert
and his heirs and assigns for ever of tenn thousand acres of
land royall mines excepted in any part of the said Province
where he the said Charles Calvert shall make choice of not
formerly granted to any other person or persons nor reserved
for his said Lordship's private use and that he cause the said
tenn thousand acres to be erected by the said grant into one
or more Mannors and to be called by such name or names as
he the said Charles Calvert his heirs or assigns shall desire
with all such privileges and immunities as are most usually
belonging to Mannors in England (royal mines excepted)
under the yearly rent of four shillings sterling for every
hundred acres to be paid to his said Lordship and his heirs
for ever, for the same, Provided always that there be not
less then a thousand acres in any of the said Mannors to
be erected out of the said tenn thousand acres as aforesaid.
" For all which these instructions shall be a sufficient
Warrant to his Lordship's said Lieutenant, who is hereby
required to cause them to be entered upon record in the
Secretary's Office in the said Province of Maryland.
" Given under his Lordship's hand and lesser seal at
armes the twentieth September one thousand six hundred
sixty five.
C. BALTEMORE."
LIBER No. 9, folio 506.
Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide.
Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.
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