Papenfuse: Setting the Limits of Arbitrary Power
 
 
 
Secretary John Lewger
 
 
[As] for the cedar desired, I know none here worth sending, as I told your Lordship by my last.  For the birds, I have no cage to put them in when they be taken, nor none about me dextrous in the taking of them, nor feeding of them, and I have myself so little leisure to look after such things, that I can promise little concerning thme; and for the arrows, the Govenor will take care, who hath all the commerce with them; and, for my part, I scarce see an Indian or an arrow in half a year; neither when I do see them have I language enough to ask an arrow of them.
 

from Andrews, History of Maryland, p. 63, taken from the Calvert Papers, F.P. no. 28, p. 198.