Papenfuse: Setting the Limits of Arbitrary Power
 
 
Lord Baltimore
 

And now, as we have by our concurrence in so many particulars, above mentioned, for the ease and advantage of the people there given sufficient testimony as we conceive of our sincere affection to them, and real desire to promote by all the fitting meanes that may be, their happiness and welfare, so we do hereby assure them, that upon all occasions we shall take to hart and be ready to concur with them in any just, and reasonable desire from them for the public good of that colony, and apply our authority there from time to time to relive them in any unjust grievance or oppression upon notice or complaint thereof unto us.
 

and we now hope that the inhabitants there will unite themselves in their affections and fidelity to us, and as will avoid all factions and divisions among themselves, as all such cavilling persons and councils as shall under what specisous pretences soever excite or tend to the division of the people there in their compliance with us in all reasonable things.
 

And in their unanimous, and cheefull obedience to the Civill Government established there under us, that, as we are all members of one body politique of that province, we may have also one mind in all civil and temporal matters concerning that place, which is the most hopeful way of drawing down god's blessing.....

It being a certain and true maxim which tells us, that
 

"By Concord and Union a small colony may grow into a great and renowned nation," whereas by experience it is found, that by discord and dissention great and glorious kingdomes and commonwealths decline, and come to nothing.
 

Given at London under our hand and Greater Seale at Armes

Annoq Domini
 

One thousand six hundred forty-nine