THE CALVERT PAPERS.
Address Of Mr. Albert Ritchie.
Mr. President,
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behalf of those who have recently secured possession of a valuable collection of historical papers from an immediate descendant of the Calverts, I am here to-night to perform a most agreeable service.
The papers referred to lie on the table before you, and I am instructed to present them to the Society of which you are the beloved and honored President.
During the supremacy of the Lords Proprietary, they resided, as you know, at their homes abroad, and were represented here by their Governors. They, however, to a large extent, themselves exercised the ample powers which they possessed, and maintained an active participation in the government of the province.
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Frequent and full reports of the condition of affairs were from time to time transmitted to them, as were also many important official papers requiring their consideration and action.
Thus, much of our history got upon the other side of the water; some in the original, some in duplicate; the original forming its own part of the record, and that in duplicate serving in some degree to supply the place of original material lost on this side.
This collection was received from the possession of Col. Frederick Henry Harford, of Down Place, near Windsor, the great-grandson of Frederick, the last Lord Baltimore, and embraces all that is positively known still to exist of those papers that were sent over to the Lords Proprietary in the manner stated.
You will remember that in his Calendar Index of 1861, Dr. John Henry Alexander states that in the year 1839 he saw, in the British Museum, two large chests, marked “Calvert Papers,” but that, on inquiry made by him many years afterward, all trace of them had disappeared.
The acquisition of the papers in those two chests has been an object of which the members of this Society have never since lost sight. Whether these are they or not, it is impossible yet to say. They may, or may not be. But much as we desire to possess those papers, it is rather to be hoped that
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the records we now have secured are not the ones referred to by Dr. Alexander, because, if it be determined that they are not, we will then be stimulated by the knowledge that there are other historical treasures in the same line of search still to be looked for and found.
The character of these papers will be told to you more in detail during the evening, but I may say in a word that it is believed that they will prove to be a historical treasure trove such as it has not been the good fortune of any other of the States to find, and that they will add much value to the collections already possessed by this Society. They will enable us to replace some of the lost leaves of the history of our State, to revise others, and to illuminate many more.
Without anticipating what will be better told you by another, I may, in passing, give a suggestion of the contents of these papers by referring to one or two of them.
You know, sir, that the princely grant of lands and waters which comprised the province of Maryland, was given on the condition prescribed in the Charter, that the Lord Proprietary should in every year on Tuesday in Easter week yield and pay therefor the rental of “two Indian arrows of those parts.” We are able to assure you to-night that at least the first year's rent was duly paid, for lying before you is the receipt of “W. Thomas, keeper of his Majesty's
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Wardrobe,” for two Indian Arrows “tendered and left at and within the Castle of Windsor,” for “one year's rent due to the King's Majesty” for “a territory or continent of land called Maryland,” and dated on “Tuesday, the XXIIIrd day of April, 1633.”
For how many years the prompt payment of this rent continued we may not know, but we may presume that it was well kept up, because, from the failure of the native population to appreciate the principle of public law, that the discovery of the fact of their existence, gave the discoverer a claim to all their possessions, it was many years before Indian arrows became scarce in Maryland. Ultimately, however, about the 4th of July, 1776, we know that this rent was docked. All that we pay now is the annual levy of $2.07 on every one hundred dollars worth of our property.
Another paper of this collection, while not so unique, is of more historical value. It is a copy in his own handwriting of the instructions given by Cecilius Calvert to the immigrants before the Ark and the Dove left the Isle of Wight.
These Calvert papers, after much search and effort, which will be more fully detailed by Mr. Mendes Cohen, were finally secured by a few of the members of this society, aided by some prominent citizens, and also, it is a great pleasure to add, with the gracious co-operation of several ladies who are with us to-night.
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There is no need now to make special mention of the names of those for whom I speak, but I feel that I ought at least to say that, more than to anything else, we are indebted for the possession of these papers to the intelligent and persistent efforts of Mr. Cohen. He will not, in his account of them, say this for himself, and I therefore say it, because it ought to be said by some one.
The circumstances warrant the mention of one other name in this connection. Always an interested member of this Society and in sympathy with its work, one of the last acts of his life was a generous contribution to the fund for the purchase of these papers by Mr. T. Harrison Garrett.
The acquisition of these Calvert papers and the interest manifested in them to-night, are an assurance that our State has reached the age of historic research. This, of course, is a development of a somewhat advanced period, for the forces of moral evolution will not produce the historic sentiment until there is a history to be written. The conditions are—a story to be told, and also the appropriate time for telling it. Unlike the observation of material objects the atmosphere is cleared by distance, and the truth of history is better discerned as we get above and beyond the motives, the partialities and mists which obscure a closer view. These conditions, like experience and good wine, come only by age. There is no improved method of hastening
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them, and we must wait until the State has a past. The process may be going on, but we can simply stand by while seed time is ripening into harvest. But when the times have ripened for the pen of the historian, and existing conditions have created the want, the same forces which created the conditions will supply the want.
Almost exactly two hundred years from the date of the charter had passed before the full period for writing the history of Maryland came, and then the great pen of McMahon was applied to the task. Bozman's Introduction to a History of Maryland had appeared in 1811, and Griffith's Sketches of the Early History of Maryland in 1821, but the publication of McMahon's first volume in 1831 may be taken, I think, as the well marked beginning of the period of historic research in Maryland. While that work was the evidence of a growth, it at the same time stimulated the growth. The presentation to the State of the manuscript of Bozman's history and its publication followed in 1834; then came the Act of 1835 for the rescue, arrangement and preservation of the State papers and documents. The Maryland Historical Society was incorporated in 1844; another Act looking to the preservation of the records was passed in 1847; in 1849 McSherry's History appeared, and in 1855 the “Day Star” by Mr. Davis. In 1858 an Act was passed for the procurement of copies of important papers from
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foreign repositories, and the report and calendar of Dr. Alexander followed in 1860. In 1867 important historical features were added to the Land Office; in the same year Terra Mariae, by Mr. Edward D. Neill, was published; Scharf's History appeared in 1879, and the History of a Palatinate, by Dr. Wm. Hand Browne, in 1884. Many other incidents, as well as numerous monographs, which cannot now be referred to, have marked the period mentioned.
The time had indeed come, but when the thought of the State turned to the history of the State, the inquiry was, what are the records? and (more difficult to answer), where are they? The archives have a history as well as the State, but though the acquisition of these papers is part of it, the full story cannot be told to-night.
Maryland has probably always possessed a more complete collection of State papers than any other of the original States, and the State has always manifested as great an interest in their preservation as perhaps could well be expected. But we seldom find the instinct of the historian united with official position, and there never has been by the State a sufficiently well directed effort for the collection and preservation of its archives.
They have passed through the perils of new government, of war and insurrection; of removal, waste and neglect; of mould, fire and private spoliation. Very much, however, has survived; much that had
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nearly gone has been rescued, and means have been found to supply from other sources much that has been lost.
A valuable work was performed by Mr. David Ridgely, State Librarian, under the Act of 1835, in collecting and arranging State papers and documents, but the Act unfortunately provided that after collection and repair they should be returned to the various public offices, from their exposure in which the effort had been to rescue them; and when looked for, in later years, many that Mr. Ridgely had noted could no longer be found.
Immediately upon the formation of this Society it directed its attention to the collection and safety of the State papers, and in 1847 procured the passage of a resolution by the General Assembly to this end. This resolution authorized the Governor to transfer to this Society all original papers, documents and records relating to the history of Maryland prior to the close of the Revolutionary war, which it was not necessary should be kept at the seat of Government. The first part of this resolution was full of promise and looked like a liberal transfer, but there was a string tied to the papers in the shape of a retractive proviso. Under the operation of the proviso there was very little left to be transferred except such documents as were in duplicate, or in such a condition of “apparent or manifest decay” as that they might be “advantageously
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deposited with the said Historical Society.” The Society thankfully received the records that were in a state of “manifest decay” and, as far as it was possible to do so, reverently restored them to a state of convalescence.
By the Act of 1858, the Governor was authorized to appoint some person to procure copies of all papers and documents of value relating to the provincial history, which were to be found in the Colonial Office in London, in the library of Zion College, and in the archives of the Propaganda at Rome. Dr. Alexander, who was appointed under this Act, very properly thought that before he began to copy it was important to know what the State already possessed, and accordingly, with the assistance of Dr. Ethan Allen, he prepared the first volume of a Calendar of State papers which is now in the library of this Society. But before the preliminary work was completed the appropriation was exhausted, and the hand of the type-writer has not yet garnered the sheaves in question.
The importance of the State papers was, again, most earnestly pressed upon the Constitutional Convention of 1867, by the late Mr. George L. L. Davis, and through his efforts a clause was inserted in the Constitution, making it the duty of the Commissioner of the Land Office to collect, arrange and classify the papers, records, relics and other memorials connected with the early history of Maryland.
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This Society at length, in the passage of the Act of Assembly of 1882, accomplished what had been a cherished purpose ever since its organization, namely, the transfer into its custody of all the records, archives and ancient documents of the Province and State prior to the acknowledgment of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, on the condition that they should be safely kept, properly arranged and catalogued, and that the Society should edit and publish such of them as were of historical importance, the State reserving its ownership, and providing for the free access to these papers of all its citizens. The State at last had appreciated the fact that it had no agency of its own suitable for the work of collecting, assorting and preserving these papers.
Then began the reclamation of State papers from all conceivable, as well as inconceivable repositories. The search went through places where they ought to have been, and were not, and places where they should not have been, but were. Under the authority of this Act, and through previous efforts, the cellars, the lofts, the forgotten cupboards, the woodhouse of the Treasury and the dome of the State House, as well as the public offices, all gave up their historic treasures, and at last, so far, at least, as those possessed by the State are concerned, we are able to answer the inquiry, where are the records? They are in the iron vault of this Society
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—the Home for Aged Papers—protected from exposure and neglect, secure against the hand of the spoiler, and safe from the depredations of the autograph fiend.
This Society is faithfully and gladly discharging the conditions upon which it was made the repository of these papers, and is now solving the problem of what the records are. The accumulations of a hundred and fifty years, including about 10,000 separate papers, thus came into its hands. All are being properly assorted and catalogued, with due reference to subject matter and chronological order, and, with infinite labor, the worn papers, the faded writing, the contracted hand, the long disused abbreviations, and the long since obsolete terms, are being deciphered and the entire text transcribed. Five volumes of the archives, under the scholarly supervision of Dr. Browne, have been published.
Towards the expense of this work the State has made a moderate but inadequate appropriation. Much of the necessary service is gratuitous, while important gaps in the records have been filled from the collections of this Society, and by material gathered abroad at its expense. This Act of 1882, from a historical standpoint, is the most important event that has yet transpired.
It not only secured the safety of our State papers, but, through the agency of this Society, it is working out a full disclosure of their contents. To a
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certain degree, in their past condition, they have been as if written in an unknown tongue.
This Act, also, is leading up to a new, a more accurate and complete history of the State. The histories of Maryland heretofore written have been well done in view of the broken record and the difficulty of mining the material at command. But a new history of the State has been begun, and will appear in due season.
We may not know by whom it will be finished, nor whose name will be upon the title page as its author, but this Society has begun the work. It is now making accessible and capable of use the large stores which have been preserved; it is replacing much that has been lost, and with an eye quick for the search, and a hand ready to reach, it is looking for further historical riches in foreign repositories not yet explored. In thus preparing ready to his hand all materials, and in doing for the future author the most dreary and laborious part of his work, this Society is contributing its important part toward the new history of the State.
It has assumed that portion of the task, which, as McMahon well said, “if inflicted as a punishment, would be intolerable.”
Such, sir, is part of the work now being done by this Society, and it is in recognition of its active zeal, and of the service it is rendering the State, that we desire to place in its possession these Calvert
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Papers. They begin the story of our people at a period earlier than the landing at St. Mary's. They had already opened the record when Leonard Calvert set up the cross on St. Clement's, and in the name of his brother, took possession of his unexplored kingdom of forest and river and bay.
They have been singularly preserved through the casualties of two hundred and fifty years. The Barons of Baltimore, each in his turn, have played their almost royal parts, and the baronetcy itself has been extinct for more than a century. Eight generations, full of life and high impulse, have wrought their mission, and passed on. The first seat of government has disappeared, and not even its ruins now mark the spot where the early legislators assembled. From the little colony has grown a great State, superb in its free institutions, and the home of a million noble people.
These parchments have survived through all these changes, and, by the force of association, they fill this hall to-night with voices and faces from the weird and majestic past, and stamp again with the vividness of real life, acts and events which were fading into shadow and tradition.
With all their rich associations and historic value, I now have the honor to present them to you as the representative of the Maryland Historical Society, and, as I do so, it is with the thought that they are part of the muniments of our goodly
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heritage of civil and religious liberty—part of the evidences of our title to all that is great and honorable in our past.
Address of Hon. John H. B. Latrobe.
Upon the conclusion of the address of Colonel
Ritchie,
the President, Hon.
John H. B. Latrobe,
said:
I gratefully acknowledge, Mr. Ritchie, on behalf of the Maryland Historical Society, the valuable addition to its archives of the “Calvert Papers,” which the generosity and public spirit of some of our fellow citizens have enabled it to secure.
To go now into more formal or extended remarks would consume time which may better be given to some matters immediately connected with the papers referred to.
Address of Mr. Mendes Cohen.
Mr.
Mendes Cohen,
Chairman of the Committee on the Calvert Papers, then addressed the meeting, as follows:
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,
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In the distribution of the duties of this occasion, it devolves upon me to tell you something in regard
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to the finding of these papers. I cannot do so, however, without mentioning the name of one of our departed members, taken from among us in the midst of his usefulness more than twenty years ago; one well known to the older members of the Society and to his fellow citizens generally, as a gentleman of the highest scientific and scholarly attainments. I refer to the late John Henry Alexander, LL. D.
Dr. Alexander, amongst numerous other literary and scientific works, prepared an “Index to the calendar of Maryland State papers,” compiled under his own direction by authority of an Act of the Legislature (January session, 1858, Chapter 27).
In the preface to this Index which bears date Easter Monday, 1861, speaking of the collections of Maryland documents in the British Museum, he records:
“Many years ago, these possessions of the British Museum might have been increased, and with objects of great interest. In the autumn of 1839, there were lying in one of its rooms, on the ground floor, two considerable chests marked Calvert Papers, which I myself observed with much interest; but presuming that they were an acquisition of the establishment, and would be shortly examined and reported upon thoroughly, or at least be thereafter forever accessible, I made no particular inquiry about them at the moment. It appears that this presumption was erroneous, and upon a diligent
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research instituted recently—under the disadvantage, to be sure, of there being not a single person left now in the employment of the institution, who was connected then with the particular branch of its service to which belongs the receipt and custody of such things, until they are handed over to be placed in their proper receptacles—no further intelligence could be obtained about them, and no other conclusion arrived at than that, when seen they were merely
in transitu,
having been probably offered by some party possessing them, but at such a price as precluded their purchase. However this may have been, the mischance is very much to be regretted.”
It was my good fortune to know Dr. Alexander from my early youth. I was a student of engineering; he, the accomplished scientist and mathematician, the intimate friend of an uncle who stood to me
in loco parentis,
was pleased on this account to take much interest in the progress of my studies, and subsequently in my professional career. I learned to respect the thoroughness with which Dr. Alexander pursued every investigation; the careful accuracy of his observation and the precision with which he noted results. I did not then know how rare were the qualities that I admired in him, nor how great was the privilege which I enjoyed in my intercourse with him; but I have realized it since, and it is to me a great pleasure to say that we
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primarily owe our acquisition of these papers to Dr. Alexander's careful methods—for I do not think that the search would have been thought of, as it would certainly not have been undertaken by me, but for that record of a failure to find what he believed to have existed a few years before.
On reading that account for the first time and knowing something of the way which English people have of preserving written documents, I thought the chances were strongly in favor of Dr. Alexander's theory, and that the papers had gone back to the attic corner whence they had emerged for their visit to the British Museum, and I promised myself the pleasure of searching them out as soon as opportunity permitted me a visit to England.
In the meantime it chanced that, as corresponding secretary of this Society, I was in communication with Mr. Winslow Jones of Exmouth, England, a gentleman interested in matters bearing upon our history, and who has contributed to our collection some interesting notes in regard to the early Calverts. I ventured to ask his interest and co-operation in a search for the lost papers. He readily gave his assistance and through an inquiry made by him in
Notes and Queries,
information was elicited which led to our being convinced that a large mass of the Colonial Papers and correspondence was still in existence and in the possession of Col. F. H. Harford, a retired officer of the British
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Army, and a descendant of the last Lord Baltimore. Some months later Mr. Jones was permitted to see these papers at Col. Harford's seat, Down Place, near Windsor, and in May, 1887, he writes me:—
“I finished on yesterday the examination of the deeds and papers at Down Place. . . . . . .
“They were in utter confusion, in one very large chest, and not in the two in which they were originally kept, without any arrangement and mixed up with family papers unconnected with the Province, and very many of both sets without endorsement, but they are all now arranged and for the most part marked. . . . . . .
“The chest has for some years been in an old Orangery, now used as a potting house and for garden purposes, and some signs of damp are on a few of the papers, so that if the chest should remain for some years longer in its present place, the papers may be seriously injured.”
It is needless to recount our unsuccessful efforts to negotiate with the owners by a correspondence which extended over a year or more. We could neither learn the date of a single paper in the collection nor the price at which any or all of them would be transferred to the Society.
During the summer of 1887, Mr. D. R. Randall, of Annapolis, a corresponding member of this Society, being in London, was asked to call to see the papers which had by this time been removed from
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Down Place to the custody of Col. Harford's solicitors in London. He did so, and was shown such of the collection as had then reached London. He was informed by the solicitors that some of the papers were still at Down Place, partly in the house and partly buried in a field adjoining. The papers referred to as being then in the house at Down Place, are said to have been brought shortly thereafter to London and to be included in our aggregation, but in regard to the buried papers the solicitors write: “We fear that they are lost beyond hope of recovery, as we understand from our client that they were buried some years ago by his gardeners in order to get rid of what at the time was supposed to be useless.”
At this stage it began to look as if the story of the Sibylline books might be repeated to our irremediable loss, and we felt correspondingly anxious to secure the existing remainder before any further diminution should befall them. It was evident that some one familiar with the Maryland Archives must be sent to London, to report specifically as to the historical value of the find and to act as our agent.
The most suitable person available was Mr. J. W. M. Lee, the Society's librarian. The late Mr. T. Harrison Garrett, in whose service Mr. Lee was then engaged, readily consented to spare him for the purpose. Mr. Lee sailed for England April
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14th last. He reached London on the 21st, and lost no time after his arrival in examining the papers at the office of Col. Harford's solicitors, where it was stated to Mr. Lee, that all the papers known to be in existence were then collected. We were informed by each mail of the progress of his investigation, and in time, of the price placed upon them and of his estimate of their value.
An agreement was arrived at without delay, and Mr. Lee was cabled to close the purchase which was at once effected through the medium of Messrs. Robert Garrett & Sons, who acted as our bankers, and advanced the necessary funds.
Through the liberal subscription of the ladies and gentlemen who have just presented the collection to the Society, sufficient funds were raised to defray the expenses of the mission as well as the cost of the collection and its transfer to your fireproof vault, where it was safely placed on the evening of June 11th, 1888.
There still remain for us the questions:
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1st. Are these papers in whole or in part those which were contained in the two boxes seen by Dr. Alexander in the British Museum in 1839?
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2d. What means the statement about the buried chest?
In regard to the first question it must be stated that our information is very meagre. We have not been able as yet, clearly to establish a connection
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between the papers we now possess and the supposed contents of the boxes seen in 1839; nor has our agent, Mr. Lee, given us any information throwing light on the subject.
Nevertheless, I believe them to be the same. It is somewhat curious that whilst we in Maryland were wondering what could have become of these missing papers; at the very time, when in 1861, Dr. Alexander was printing the document which records the facts that have led to the renewal of the search, our sister State, Virginia, in a search for evidence bearing upon the question of the boundary between Virginia and Maryland, should have developed and recorded the fact of the then present existence of the papers which we now have before us.
In March, 1860, the General Assembly of Virginia adopted a resolution “authorizing and requesting the Governor, if he should deem it expedient, to send to England a competent agent to obtain from thence all record and documentary evidence tending to ascertain and establish the true lines of boundary between Virginia and the States of North Carolina, Tennessee and Maryland.”
Col. A. W. McDonald was commissioned as such agent, and proceeded to London, where he arrived June 20, 1860. In his report to Governor Letcher, dated February 2d, 1861, he states: “I sought out the representative of the Baltimore family, and finally discovered him a prisoner for debt in the
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Queen's Bench prison, to which some twelve years since he had been transferred from the Fleet prison, after having been there confined for more than eight years. I obtained an interview with this gentleman; informed him of the object of my visit, which he appeared entirely willing to promote, and learned from him, after most minute inquiry, that the original charter had never come into his hands with the
other
family papers
which had;
that he had never seen it; never heard of it as being in the hands of any other person; and that he verily believed said original charter to be utterly lost or destroyed.”
Shortly after our discovery of the papers my attention was first called to this record by our fellow-member, Mr. Henry F. Thompson. It had theretofore seemingly escaped the notice of those interested in the Maryland Archives, as it certainly had my own, a fact which I can only account for by reason of Col. McDonald's report having been made just at the breaking out of our late civil war, at a period when all attention was concentrated upon the stirring events so rapidly succeeding each other almost before the eyes of many of us—a time when, in fact, our people were engaged in making History not in studying it.
From this report of Col. McDonald, it will be seen that the then representative of the Calverts had been in prison for debt for at least twenty
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years, or certainly since 1840, possibly from a somewhat earlier date. As it was only in 1839 that Dr. Alexander saw the chests, it would seem possible that the then representative of the family had offered them to the Museum before going to prison, either for sale or for safe keeping, and that the Museum declining to take them, they remained in the possession of the family during his imprisonment, and subsequently until our acquisition of them. If this be the case, as I have no doubt it is, it will only be necessary to obtain from the present representative of the family, or his solicitors, the facts doubtless in their possession to establish the identity of the papers before us with those in the missing boxes.
Now, as to the story of the burial of a chest of papers. When that statement first reached me, I supposed that it might be a myth, due to the fact that when Mr. Jones found the chest of papers at Down Place, it was in an out-building—a potting-house—and may have been half-buried in the mould and débris of the gardener's work-shop.
Mr. Lee was requested to make particular inquiry on this point, and to go, if necessary, to Down Place to ascertain the facts. This he did. He saw both Colonel and Mrs. Harford at their home, but could obtain from them no information more precise than that Colonel Harford had a few years before given authority to his gardeners to bury a box of the
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papers, which were much in the way. The gardener to whom this authority was given, was no longer in Colonel Harford's service when Mr. Lee was at Down Place, and Mr. Lee reports that Colonel Harford did not know the place of burial, nor even if the authority to bury was ever availed of.
The papers we have are so complete in some particulars, whilst lacking in others where we are pretty sure that the proprietors had received full reports from the Colony, that we cannot but feel that the chest supposed to have been buried may well have contained just what we find wanting. You have thus had a history of all we know, as yet, regarding these papers, and their re-discovery. It will devolve upon others to describe to you their interesting character and contents.
In conclusion, I will only express the hope that some of our members, hereafter visiting England, will be sufficiently interested to investigate the questions still left open, whilst there remains a chance of finding those capable of answering them, thus completing and perfecting for our State a record of her early history, perhaps unequalled by that of any other of the thirteen colonies.
Address of Dr. William Hand Browne.
Dr.
William Hand Browne,
followed Mr.
Cohen,
with the reading of extracts from some of
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the recently acquired papers, and with some introductory and explanatory remarks, as follows:
As you have heard the story of the discovery and acquisition of the Calvert Papers, it remains to give you the briefest possible account of what they are.
They consist of nearly 1,000 documents, on paper and parchment, all in admirable preservation, ranging from the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth, down to the second half of the last century.
The most ancient document relating to Maryland is Cecilius Calvert's Instructions to the First Colonists, of which I shall speak more at large presently. We have the Conditions of Plantation of 1640; a series of Council-Books and of the Journals of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, filling many gaps in our collections; also copies of laws transmitted to the proprietary for his assent. We have grants of land and rent-rolls of the various counties from 1640 to 1761.
Here also is a great mass of documents illustrating every phase of the boundary dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania, from the granting of the latter colony to the completion of Mason and Dixon's survey in 1768, with the maps submitted in the process of the suit; among which last are Mason and Dixon's own map, and a copy on vellum of the famous forged map on which Cape Henlopen
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was misplaced, so that the southern boundary of Delaware was run some twenty miles south of the line agreed upon.
We have a collection of receipts for the Indian arrows which the Proprietary was bound by his charter to tender every year at Windsor Castle; and among these the very first, of the date of 1633.
We have some twenty documents, all new to us, relating to Avalon; of which one is an inspeximus of the Charter in 1634, authenticated by the Great Seal of England.
There are also several hundred letters from the Proprietaries, the governors, and other persons of consequence; and many private letters of great interest, some of which throw curious light upon the obscure beginnings of the colony.
The heraldic and genealogical parchments are curious and attractive. Among them we have the original patent of nobility creating George Calvert first Baron of Baltimore; a beautiful piece of calligraphy and illumination, bearing the Great Seal of James I, and a miniature of that monarch.
There are also several other heraldic scrolls, richly blazoned, relating to the Calverts and other families. There are impressions of the Great Seals of England, from Elizabeth to George III: the Great Seals of Maryland, Virginia and New York; the seals of several kings-at-arms, and others of less interest.
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I am aware that all this is little more than a very imperfect fragment of cataloguing, neither complete nor entertaining; but under the circumstances it cannot be helped. The importance of many of these papers could only be made clear by an introductory explanation of the omissions they supply, the errors they rectify, or the obscurities on which they throw light. Others of less striking interest, are valuable as serving to fill gaps in a series which is now, I believe, more continuous than any of the colonial archives. But for this evening I have preferred to dip here and there into the mass for fragments, in themselves curious and interesting, which will require the least amount of preface.
The first paper I shall bring to your notice is remarkable in two respects: It is absolutely the most ancient Maryland document known to be in existence (for although the charter is older, of that we have only official copies of later date); and it is also remarkable as clearly showing the intentions of the Proprietary with respect to religious toleration. You are all aware that there has been much idle discussion about this matter, many imperfectly informed persons dating Maryland toleration from the Act of 1649. We have now proof that this was from the first the purpose of the founder of Maryland; and that the Act of 1649 only formulated the policy which had ruled in the province from its very beginning.
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The Ark and the Dove left Gravesend on October 18th, 1633, and proceeded to the Isle of Wight, where they took on board Fathers White and Altham, and some others, and lay there until November 30th. Just before their sailing a copy of instructions from the Proprietary was sent to Leonard Calvert and Messrs. Hawley and Cornwaleys, the heads of the expedition, containing precepts for their governance during the voyage and on their arrival. This paper is in Cecilius' handwriting, and from the interlineations and erasures is evidently the draft from which a fair copy was afterwards made.
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See No.
1.]
The next paper is a report by Governor Leonard Calvert of the circumstances attending the reduction of Kent Island—or rather of the trading post upon that island—in February, 1638. Two or three of the leading men at this post, which had been established for the purpose of trade with the Indians, by a firm of London merchants who had no grant of land from any source and whose representatives on the island were simply squatters—these leaders undertook to hold out against Baltimore's authority, so that he had either to throw up his charter, or compel them to acknowledge it.
[
See No.
9.]
The next paper is a long letter written in November, 1642, by Cecilius to Leonard. We have scarcely
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any writings from Cecilius except such as are of a purely formal character, and it is pleasant to find him here in confidential communication with his brother.
The whole tone of the letter is affectionate, though the extract which I shall read is one in which he takes Leonard sharply to task for disobedience of orders in granting land to certain parties contrary to his brother's express prohibition.
[
See No.
12.]
The next is a very long letter written by Charles, son of Cecilius and governor of the Province, to his father in April, 1672. It is full of curious and interesting details about matters in Maryland; but the time will not allow me to read more than a few sentences about the interchange of gifts between father and son.
[
See No.
14.]
The last paper which I shall read is a holograph letter from William Penn to some Marylanders near the head of the bay. Notwithstanding the enormous size of the grant he had received, Penn cast longing eyes upon the Chesapeake, and was all his life trying to extend his boundary southward at Maryland's expense. Shortly after his charter had been signed, he wrote to Charles, Lord Baltimore, a letter full of friendly professions, asking and promising neighborly comity, and desiring that
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their conduct toward each other might be regulated by the simple rule, “do as thou wouldst be done to.” His next step was to write a characteristic letter to Herrman and other influential Marylanders in the north of the province, to induce them, partly by fair words, and partly by veiled threats, to revolt against Baltimore's authority. This letter I shall read. The original, as I said, is entirely in Penn's handwriting, and bears his seal as well as Herrman's indorsement.
[See No.
19.]
Among other interesting documents exhibited at the meeting, were the following:
Exemplification of the Arms of Sir George Calvert.
To All And Singvlar As well Nobles, and gentles as others to whom theis presents shall come Sir Richard St. George Knight Norroy Kinge of Arms of the North parts of the Realme of England from the Riuer of Trent Northward send greetinge. Forasmuch as auntiently from the beginninge the virtuous and worthy actes of excellent persons haue bene commended to the World, with sundry monuments and Remembraunces of their good deserts amongest which the cheifest and most usuall haue bene the bearinge of Signes and tokens in Sheilds, called Armes which are evident demonstrac?ns and Testimonyes of proues & valour dyuersly distributed accordinge to the qualitie and deserts of the persons merrittinge the same, which order as it was prudently deuised to stirr vp and enflame the harts of men to the Imitac?n of Virtue, even soe hath the same bene, and yet is contynued to the intent that such as haue done Commendable Service to their Prince and Countrey either in warre or in peace, may therefore receiue due
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honor in their owne Lyues and also deriue and contynue the same successiuely to their posterity for euer. Amongest which nomber for that I fynd the right Honourable Sir George Caluert Knight one of his Maiesties principall Secretaryes of State and his auncestors to haue recided in the North parts of this Kingdome, and not only to haue liued their in the Ranke and reputac?n of gent: and bene bearers of such badges and Ensignes of honor amongest vs, but further haue seene an exact collection made by Mr. Richard Verstegan an Antiquarie in Antwarpe sent ouer this last of March 1622, by which it appeareth that the said Sir George is descended of a Noble and auntient familie of that Surname in the Earldome of flanders where they have liued long in great Honor, and haue had great possessions, their principall and auntient Seate being at Warvickoe in the said Province, And that in theis later tymes two brethren of that surname vid: Jaques Calvert Lord of Seuere two leagues from Gaunt remayned in the Netherland broyles on the side of the Kinge of Spayne and hath a sonne who at this present is in honourable place and office in the Parliament Courte at Macklyn, And Leuinus Caluert the other brother tooke parte with the States of Holland and was by them ymployed as their Agent with Henry the fourth late Kinge of Fraunce, which Leuinus Caluert left a sonne in France whom the foresaid Kinge entertayned as a gentleman of his bed chamber. And further it is testefied by the said Mr. Verstegan that the proper Armes belonging to the Familie of the Caluerts is, or, three martletts Sables with this Creast vizt the vpper parte or halues of two Launces the bandroll of the first Sables and the second, or. Nowe forasmuch as I have been required by the said Sir George Caluert Knight to make a true declarac?n of what I haue seene concerninge the worthynes of his auncestors that it maye remayne
to posterity from whence they orriginally descended as also that at this instant their is three of that Surname and lyniage lyvinge in three seuerall countryes beinge all men of great emenency and honourable ymployment in the State where they
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liue, which otherwayes by a generall neclect might in future tyme be forgotten and the honor of their auncestors buried in obliuion. And withall for a further manifestac?n and memoriall of the familie from whence he is descended. The said Sir George Caluert is likewise desirous to add some parte of those honourable badges and ensignes of honor which descend vpon him from his auncestors their to those which he and his predecessors haue formerly borne here since their comminge into England. The premisses considered I the said Norroy Kinge of Armes haue thought fitt not only to publishe by the declarac?n what hath come to my hands and Knowledge concerninge the honor of this worthy familie but also to add to the Coate of Armes which they haue borne here in England beinge paley of Sixe peices, or and Sables a bend counterchanged this Creast ensuinge Vizt: the vpper parte of two halfe Launces or, with bandrolls there to appendinge the one or the other Sables standinge in a Ducall Crowne gules as more playnly appeareth depicted in the margent and is the auntient Creast descended vnto him from his auncestors, The which Coate and Creast I the said Norroy Kinge of Armes doe ratifie, approue and confirme vnto the said Sir George Caluert Knight and the yssue of his body foreuer bearinge their due and lawfull differences accordinge to the lawe of Armes in that case prouided. In withes whereof I the said Sir Richard St. George Knight Norroy Kinge of Armes haue hereto put my hand and Seale of my office this third Daye of December 1622. In the yeare of the Raigne of our Soueraigne Lord James by the grace of God Kinge of England France, and Ireland Defendor of the fayth &c. the Twentith, And of Scotland the ffyftie and sixe.
Rd: St. George Norroy.
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Letters Patent
Under the Great Seal of England, to Sir George Calvert, creating him Baron Baltimore of Baltimore in the Kingdom of Ireland.
The entire space upon the parchment occupied by the Patent is about twenty-six inches in width, by seventeen inches in height. Of this space about eight and three-fourth inches in width by seven and one-half inches in height at the upper left hand corner (the dexter canton) is occupied by the initial letter J. The background of this part is
black,
but tassellated perspectively at the bottom in squares of black and white enriched with gold scrolled work—the whole edged with a plain gold band about one-eighth of an inch wide. The letter J is of blue, edged and beautifully knotted with gold. The letter proper occupies but two sides of the square, and its foot runs into the mouth of the Dragon of the
Tudors
(tricked as a wyvern, vert, heightened with gold, and enflamed at the mouth, legged gules), which faces to the sinister and occupies the entire foot of the canton. In the open space between the initial proper and the dragon is the portrait of
King James the First,
three-quarters profile, facing to the sinister, sitting upon his throne, clad in a red mantle, doubled ermine, the small clothes and hose of white silk, with gold rosettes and trimmings (the right knee only showing; the
Garter
does not appear). He is crowned imperially, and wears the
Collar and George;
in his right hand he holds a golden sceptre surmounted by a fleur de lis, in his left the orb. The throne is of gold; and behind it is a curtain of deep violet colour.
From this initial letter there runs a bordure of the width of about three and one-half inches along the top and down the left edge of the whole design; and also from the initial letter down the right edge—thus forming three sides of the entire work (the fourth side—the foot—being folded over and fastened down with the cords of the Great Seal which is affixed directly beneath the centre, pendent by a metallic cord passed in and out several times and sufficiently long to leave the Seal entirely clear of the parchment itself). This bordure is also edged in plain gold about oneeighth of an inch wide, and is beautifully ornamented with scrolls, urns, grotesques, and flowers, in gold and colours minutely detailed and skillfully done. The words “
Jacobus Dei Gratia Angliae
” (except the initial J already referred to) are large and done in gold upon a blue stripe of
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the width of about one and one eighth inches, extending from the initial letter across to the bordure on the right. All the lettering is in the usual Court hand, evenly and nicely done,
and in black,
save as above noted.
On the upper strip of the bordure are three Heraldic trickings, viz: (1)—(
dexter,
and close to the initial letter) The crest of
England
[—A lion gardant Or, imperially crowned, tail extended, statant upon an imperial crown gold, jewelled proper, the cap red, turned ermine]—all in front of a large escallop shell ribbed and shaded in blue. (2)—(
sinister,
and at the extreme right hand upper corner of the entire work) The crest of
Scotland
[—A lion affronté gules, crowned imperially Or, in the
dexter
paw a sceptre erect, surmounted by a fleur de lis gold; in the
sinister,
a sword azure, erect also, hilted and handled also of gold: sedant upon an imperial crown of gold, jewelled proper, the cap red, turned ermine]—all in front of a large escallop shell ribbed and shaded in blue, as before. (3)—(
centre,
and half way between the two crests)
The Royal Atchievement [—the Royal Arms,
temp Jac.
i, but not as ordinarily tricked, thus: quarterly grand quarters: i and iv, quarterly 1 and 4
England,
gules 3 lions passant gardant in pale Or; 2 and 3
France,
azure 3 fleur de lis 2 and 1, Or: ii
Scotland
), Or a lion rampant, within a double treasure, flory counter flory, gules: iii
Ireland,
azure a harp Or, stringed silver—All within the
Garter
(dark blue with gold edges, buckle, and champet of gold, the letters Roman and gold also), the intervening space of red, ornamented with gold scroll work spreading out behind the
Garter.
Above is the imperial crown, of gold, the cap red, turned ermine. The supporters are (
dexter
) for
England:
a lion gardant (rampant against the Garter), Or, langued and armed gules, imperially crowned gold, the cap red: (
sinister
) for
Scotland,
a unicorn (salient against the Garter),
sable,
armed, crined, unguled, gorged with a
marquis'
coronet, therefrom a chain reflexed over the back and terminating between the hind feet in an annulet, Or. Behind the
dexter
supporter are represented
red
and
pink
roses (but no
white
ones) with golden centres, growing from green stalks leaved proper, etc.; behind the
sinister
supporter, green thistles with flowers
purpure,
growing from green stalks, thorned, and leaved green, etc.—The whole Atchievement standing upon a greensward coloured naturally and arranged perspectively]—
It will be seen, by any one at all familiar with English coat-armour, that these three trickings depart considerably from the official blazon—notably (1) in placing
England
before
France
in the quartering, (2) in tricking the unicorn
sable
instead of
argent,
(3) in gorging the unicorn with a
marquis' coronet
instead of the
royal crown,
and (4) in
transposing
the sceptre and sword
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in the paws of the lion upon the
Scottish
crest. In the blazon above given
exactness of detail
has been sought, rather than mere technicality of terms.
The
Great Seal
affixed is that of
England,
temporis Jacobi primi,
in very dark green wax; it is in a fair state of preservation, but somewhat flattened; and the upper part is gone entirely. What is left of it is easily to be identified by comparison with other known examples of this Seal.
Jacobus Dei gratia Angliæ,
| Scocie ffrancie et Hibernie Rex fidei defenfor etc.,
Archiepiscopis
Ducibus Marchionibus Comitibus Vicecomitibus Epifcopis Baronibus Militib 3 | Prepofitis liberis hominibus ac omnibus Officiarijs Miniftris et Subiectis noftris quibufcunque ad quos prefentes litere pervenerint Salutem.
Cum
eminens | Nobilium numerus Regi fidelium et de Republica benemerentium sit Regni decor et fulcimentum ac gratia favoris amplioris ornentur hi merito in quibus | uberioris servitij studia contemplamur quod nullo modo fieri poteft efficacius quam honoribus rite diftribuendis ex quo non solum ipfi qui ad nobilitatem sint | evecti sed et alij etiam illorum exemplo pari spe incitati ad virtutis studium attendantur
Nos
itaque in perfona dilecti et perquam fidelis Confiliarij noftri | Georgij Calvert militis morum gravitatem singulares animi dotes candorem integritatem et prudentiam et erga omnes benignitatem et urbanitatem intime | confiderantes, Necnon mente noftra recolentes quanto fide induftria et alacritate nobis infervivit tam in Regno noftro Hibernie quo propter negotia noftra ibidem | graviffima maiorifque momenti non ita pridem specialiter miffus fuit quam in hoc Regno noftro Anglie perquam plures Annos precipue vero poftquam iuxta | perfonam noftram in locum et honorem Confiliarij et principalis Secretarij noftri afcitus fuit. Volentefque vt favoris noftri Regij singulare aliquod signum prefato | Georgio et pofteris suis imperpetuum maneat ex quo non ipfe solum sed et alij etiam perfpiciant quanti apud nos sunt eiufdem Georgij fides et obfequia quantumque | defideramus ipfius virtutes et benemerita remunerare Jpfum in Procerum dicti Regni noftri Hibernie
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numerum afcribendum decrevimus
Sciatis igitur
quod nos de gratia noftra speciali Ac ex certa | scientia et mero motu noftris prefatum Georgium Calvert Militem ad statum gradum dignitatem et honorem Baronis Baltimore de Baltimore infra Regnum noftrum Hibernie ereximus prefecimus et creavimus | Jpfumque Georgium Calvert Militem Baronem Baltimore de Baltimore predict' tenore prefentium erigimus preficimus et creamus, Eidemque Georgio nomen statum gradum stilum dignitatem titulum et | honorem Baronis Baltimore de Baltimore impofuimus dedimus et prebuimus, Ac per presentes imponimus damus et prebemus,
habendum
et tenendum eadem nomen statum gradum stilum dignitatem | titulum et honorem Baronis Baltimore de Baltimore predict' prefato Georgio Calvert Militi et heredibus mafculis de Corpore suo exeuntibus imperpetuum.
Volentes
et per prefentes concedentes | pro nobis heredibus et Succefforibus noftris quod predictus Georgius et heredes sui mafculi predicti nomen statum gradum stilum dignitatem titulum et honorem Baronis Baltimore de Baltimore predict' | succeffive gerant et habeant et eorum quilibet gerat et habeat, et per nomen Baronis Baltimore de Baltimore succeffive vocentur et nuncupentur et eorum quilibet vocetur et nuncupetur Quodque idem Georgius | et heredes sui mafculi predicti succeffive Barones Baltimore de Baltimore predict' in omnibus teneantur et vt Barones dicti Regni nostri Hibernie tractentur et reputentur et eorum quilibet teneatur tractetur | et reputetur, habeantque teneant et poffideant et eorum quilibet habeat teneat et poffideat sedem locum et vocem in Parliamentis et publicis Comitijs atque Confilijs noftris heredum et Succeffor' nr' infra Regnum | noftrum Hibernie inter alios Barones vt Barones Parliamentorum et publicorum Comitiorum atque Confiliorum ibidem. Necnon dictus Georgius et heredes sui mafculi predicti gaudeant et vtantur et | eorum quilibet gaudeat et vtatur per nomen Baronis Baltimore de Baltimore omnibus et singulis talibus Juribus privilegijs preheminencijs et immunitatibus statui Baronis dicti Regni nostri | Hibernie in omnibus rite et de iure pertinentibus quibus ceteri
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Barones dicti Regni noftri Hibernie ante hec tempora melius honorificentius et quietius vfi sunt et gauifi seu in prefenti gaudent et | vtuntur.
Volumus etiam
et per prefentes concedimus prefato Georgio quod habeat et habebit has literas noftras Patentes sub magno Sigillo noftro Anglie debito modo factas et sigillatas | abfque fine seu feodo magno vel parvo nobis in hanaperio noftro seu alibi ad vfum noftrum proinde quoque modo reddendo solvendo vel faciendo.
Co quod
expreffa mentio de vero valore annuo vel de | certitudine premifforum sive eorum alicuius aut de alijs donis sive Conceffionibus per nos seu per aliquem Progenitorum sive Predecefforum noftrorum prefato Georgio ante hec tempora factis in | prefentibus minime facta exiftit aut aliquo Statuto Actu Ordinacione Provifione proclamatione sive reftrictione in contrarium inde antehac habit' fact' edit' ordinat' sive provis' aut aliqua alia re caufa | vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obftante.
In Cuius
rei teftimonium has literas noftras fieri fecimus Patentes.
Teste
me ipfo apud Weftmonafterium decimo sexto die ffebruarij Anno Regni | noftri Anglie ffrancie et Hibernie vicesimo secundo et Scocie quinquagesimo octauo:
per Breve de privato Sigillo:
Edmondes:
Examinatur per
Jo: Bembowe.
Translation.
JAMES,
by the Grace of God, King of England,
Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to the Archbishops, Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscounts, Bishops, Barons, Knights, Governors, freemen, and all our officers, ministers, and subjects whomsoever to whom the present letters shall come, Greeting. Forasmuch as an eminent body of Nobility, faithful to the King and well-deserving of the State is the ornament and prop of a Kingdom, and those worthily are adorned with the grace of more ample favour in whom We behold the zeal of more abundant service which in no wise can be more effectually than by honours rightly distributed, whereby not only they who are elevated
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to nobility, but even others also, incited by their example with a like hope, may be drawn to a zeal for virtue.
We
therefore, nearly considering in the person of Our well-beloved and entirely faithful Councillor, George Calvert, Knight, gravity of manners, singular gifts of mind, candour, integrity, and prudence, and benignity and urbanity toward all men, and also reflecting in Our mind with how great fidelity, diligence, and alacrity he has served Us, both in Our Kingdom of Ireland, whither, not long ago he was specially sent upon Our most weighty and very important business there, as also in this Our Kingdom of England, throughout many years, but especially since he was advanced near our person to the place and honour of a Councillor and Our principal Secretary, and Willing that some singular mark of Our Royal favour may remain unto the aforesaid George and unto his posterity forever, by which not only he, but Even others also may perceive how highly we prize the fidelity and obedience of the said George, and how much we desire to reward his virtues and merits. We have decreed Him to be inscribed among the number of the peers of Our said Kingdom of Ireland:
Know Ye Therefore
that We, of Our especial grace, and of Our Sure Knowledge and mere motion, have exalted, preferred, and created the aforesaid George Calvert, Knight, unto the estate, degree, dignity and honour of Baron Baltimore of Baltimore within Our Kingdom of Ireland, and Him the same George Calvert Knight, by the tenor of these presents, We do exalt, prefer, and create Baron Baltimore of Baltimore aforesaid; and upon the said George the name, estate, degree, style, dignity, title and honour of Baron Baltimore of Baltimore We have imposed, conferred, and bestowed, and by these presents do impose, confer, and bestow
To Have
and to hold the said name, estate, degree, style, dignity, title and honour of Baron Baltimore of Baltimore aforesaid unto the aforenamed George Calvert, Knight, and to the heirs male of his body issuing, forever:
Willing,
and by these presents granting, for Us, Our heirs and successors, that the aforesaid George and his heirs male
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aforesaid, shall successively bear and have, and each one of them shall bear and have, the name, estate, degree, style, dignity, title, and honour of Baron Baltimore of Baltimore aforesaid, and successively shall be called and named, and each one of them shall be called and named, by the name of Baron Baltimore of Baltimore: And that the said George and his heirs male aforesaid shall successively be held in all respects Barons Baltimore of Baltimore aforesaid, and as Barons of Our said Kingdom of Ireland shall be treated and reputed, and each one of them shall be held, treated, and reputed; and shall have, hold, and possess and each one of them shall have, hold and possess, seat, place, and voice in the Parliaments, public Assemblies, and Councils of Us, Our heirs and Successors within Our Kingdom of Ireland, among the other Barons, as Barons of Parliaments, public Assemblies, and Councils there. And also that the said George, and his heirs male aforesaid, shall enjoy and use and each one of them shall enjoy and use, by the name of Baron Baltimore, all and Singular such Rights, privileges, prëeminences and immunities unto the estate of a Baron of our said Kingdom of Ireland in all things rightfully and lawfully appertaining, as the other Barons of Our said Kingdom of Ireland heretofore better, more honorably, and more peaceably have used and enjoyed, or at present enjoy and use.
We will also,
and by these presents do grant unto the aforenamed George that he have and shall have these Our letters Patent under Our Great Seal of England duly made and sealed, without fine or fee, great or small, to us into Our Hanaper or elsewhere to Our use therefor in any manner to be returned, paid or made, Inasmuch as express mention of the true yearly value, or of the certainty of the premises, or of any of them; or of other gifts or grants by Us or by any of Our Progenitors or Predecessors unto the aforenamed George heretofore made, doth not occur in these presents, any Statute, Act, Ordinance, Provision, Proclamation or restriction to the contrary thereto heretofore had, made, published, ordained or provided, or any other thing, cause, or
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matter whatsoever in anywise notwithstanding.
In testimony
whereof these Our letters Patent We have caused to be made.
Witness Myself
at Westminster on the sixteenth day of February in the year of our Reign of England, France, and Ireland, the twenty-second, and of Scotland the fifty-eighth.
By Writ of the Privy Seal
EDMONDES.
Will of Sir George Calvert Lord Baltimore dated
14.
Ap:
1632
and proved on
21
of the same month in the prerogative Court of Canterbury.
In the name of God Amen
I Sir George Caluert Knight Lord Baltimore being sicke of bodie but well in minde doe hereby declare my last will, and Testament to be ffirst I doe bequeath my soule to God, and my bodie to the ground
Item
I doe bequeath my lands, goods, and Chattells of what nature soeuer to my eldest sonne Cicill Caluert either in England, or Ireland, and elsewhere
Item
I doe giue, and bequeath to my daughter Hellen Caluert the some of Twelue hundred pounds to be paied vnto hir out of the monyes remayninge in the hands of my Lord Cottington, and
Sr
William Ashton ffeoffees for those monies to the vse of my younger Children
wch
some I doe desire to be paied vnto hir within sixe monethes next after my death,
And
I doe bequeath the remainder of those monies in the ffeoffees hands aforemenc?ned (this said porc?n being deducted) to be equally deuided amongest my three younger sonnes
vizt
Leonard, George, and Henry Caluert to be paied vnto them att theire seuerall ages of One, and Twenty—respectiuely.
Item
I doe giue, and bequeath to my youngest sonne Phillipp Caluert the some of three hundred pounds to be paied vnto him att the age of one, and Twenty, And for his educac?n and maintenance in the meane tyme I doe order and require my eldest sonne Cicell Caluert to take care, and be att the charge thereof.
Item
I doe give vnto my daughter Anne
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Peaseley and my daughter Grace Talbot each of them a Crosse of Goulde of the valew of ffortie shillings a peece, And likewise to my sonne in Lawe Robert Talbott, and William Peaseley Two other crosses of Gould of the same valew to be given vnto them within one moneth after my death.
Item
I doe give to my seruant William Mason the so?e of ffortie pounds
Item
I doe giue vnto my seruant Bridgett Draycoate the so?e of Twenty pounds.
Item
I doe giue vnto my seruant Edward Burke the some of ffyue pounds All which three fo?s to my seruants my will is that they be paied vnto them within Sixe monethes next after my death.
Item
I doe heereby appoint, and require my Sonne Cicill Caluert to paie and discharge all my debts that shall appeare to be due And all theise Legacies heerebefore menc?ned that are heere Charged vpon him
And
for better pforman? of this my last will, and
Testamt
I doe heereby nominate my sonne Cicell Caluert to be my sole
Executor
And desire my Noble, and auntient freinds the Lord Viscount Wentworth, and the Lord Cottington to be my ouerseers and
supuisors
thereof whome I likewise humblie request to haue a care of my poore familie, and to Patronize, and loue it as they have bene pleased to doe vnto mee ever since our first Acquaintau??e in
Cort
and elsewhere
Item
I doe give alsoe which I should haue menc?ned before amongst my kindred att Kiplie in the North the so?e of Twenty pounds to be disposed, att the discrec?n of my Executor and sonne Cicell Caluert because he knoweth the parties.
In witnes
whereof I haue this ffowerteenth daye of Aprill One Thowsand Sixe hundred Thirtie and Two putt my hande, and seale vnto this my last will, and Testament.
Memorandum
vpon further Considerac?n my will, and pleasure is That my sonne Leonard Caluert in regard that he is allreadie a man, and my second sonne he shall haue Nyne hundred pounds to be paied him within sixe monethes after my death out of the monyes remayninge in trust in the hands of the Lord Cottington, and
Sr
William Ashton my ffeoffees. And the remainder of the monies in theire hands (The saide porc?ns to my daughter Hellen and
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my sonne Leonard being deducted I doe bequeath to be devided equallie betweene my sonnes George Caluert, and Henry Caluert to be paied vnto them att the yeares of One and Twentie. And my will is that the first porc?n menc?ned in this will to be given to my sonne Leonard shalbe voide; GEORGE BALTIMORE This was signed, and sealed in the
prsence
of vs And before the saide signeing, and sealing besides the small interlyning in the other page theise words (my sonne Cicell Caluert to be my sole
Executor
) menconed betweene the fourth and fifte lyne of this page besides theise other little interlinings were made. Tobie Mathew Leonard Caluert, Will: Peasely Will: Mason.
[This copy issued out of the prerogative Court of James Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of all Ireland and Metropolitan, and is tested June 5th, 1632.]
The Inventory of the Estate of Mr. George Calvert, Lord Baltimore.
A true and perfect Inventare of all and singuler the goods Creditts & Chattells of the Right
hoble
George Lord Baltimore deceased
wch
he had at the tyme of his death in this Kingdom of England taken the first day of ffebruary
Anno
D? 1632. stilo Anglie and praised by
Wm
Peasly John Langford and Thos ffludd as ffolloweth vizt.
-
Imprimis one lease of an Annuity or yearely pencon of one thousand pounds per Annm graunted to the
sd George Lord Baltimore his
executors
Adtors and assignes by the kings Maty that now is for the terme of one and twenty yeares beginning at the feast of the Anunciac?n of the blessed Virgin Mary last past to be payd by his Matyes Customers out of the petty farmes &c
vjm
0055
51
-
Item his Lo??s apparrell
lxxli
-
Item his Lopps bookes
ijli
xs
-
Item in ready money and plate
jcl
-
Item one thousand waight of badd Virginnia Tabacco yet vnfold worth
5d per pound
xijli
xs
Goods and ymplements of house & householdstuffe remayning in his Lo??s house in the backeside of Lincolnes Inne feilde vizt.
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In the dyning roome.
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Item tenn green cloth cheyres
ijli
xs
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Item two great green Arming cheyres
jli
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Item two low green cloth cheyres
xs
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Item two Carpetts of cloth
wth gilded leather
iijli
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Item one paire of brass Andirons
ijli
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Item one paire of yron Andyrons topt
wth brass
vjs
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Item fireshovell & tonges
vs
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Item a payre of snuffers bellowes and two hand-skreenes of wicker
vs
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Item two Tables
xvs
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Item one window curtaine of Bristow stuffe and other peeces of such stuffe to line the windowes
ili
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In the litle passage roome ioyning to a Chamber.
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Item one window curtaine of bristow stuffe
wth some other broken peeces of the same
ili
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In the Bedchamber
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Item one green bedd laced and the bedding belonging to it
xli
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Item two great green cheyres laced and two litle cheyres sutable to the said Bedd
ili
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Item one Cupbord covered
wth green cotten
xs
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Item two litle window curtaines and small peeces of stuffe about the roome
xs
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Item one payre of Iron Andirons topt
wth brasse
wth fyre shovell tonges snuffers & bellowes
xs
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Item a table
wth a green cloth carpett on it
xs
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In another bed chamber
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Item one halfe headed bedsteed
wth a Canopy of
Norwch stuffe & hangings of the same about the room
wth a feather bedd boulster & bedclothes to it and a table and one window curtaine
viijli
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In a nother bedchamber
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Item one bedsteed
wth furniture of
Norwch stuffe hangings Carpetts & two window Curtaines of the same stuffe
wth a feather bedd boulster & bedclothes to it Andirons fireshovell tonges bellowes snuffers and a litle Table
xli
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Item one Trundle bedd & bedding for servants
iiili
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In another chamber
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Item a halle headed bedsteed a trundle bedd a Canopy of
Norwch stuffe
wth bedding therevnto belonging and a window Curtaine
vli
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In another Chamber
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Item one paire of Iron Andyrons fireshovell tonges bellowes snuffers one window curtaine of Bristow stuffe & litle peeces of the same stuffe
wth a litle Table
ili
xs
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In the Garrett
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Item one bedsteed
wth a feather bedd & furniture to it two halfe headed bedsteeds
wth flockbedds and bedclothes three Tables a press three Curtaines of darning two carpetts of
Norwch stuffe a paire of Andyrons fireshovell and tonges a paire of bellowes fower leather Cheyres and fower leather stooles
vili
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In the kitchin
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Item pewter and tynne vessells
vli
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Item vessells of brasse & yron & other ymplements of the kitchin
viiili
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In the hall.
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Item a settle beadd
wth a flockbedd and bedclothes to it three ioyned stooles a fireshovell and tonges
ili
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Item Lumbar in and about the house
ijli
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Item in ready money remayning in the hands of the Lord Cottington and
Sr
Wm Ashton in trust for the vse of some of the younger children of the
sd Lord Baltymore and disposed of by his will
iijm
iiijc
lli
xs
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Smm? totalis hui-us Inventarij
ixm
viic
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This copy is duly tested by Gilbert Dethick, Notary Public, 1, ffeb. 1632–3.
Tender of the First Year's Rent.
[Indorsement]
23 Aprill 1633.
Coppy of my letter | to the Deputy Constable | of Windsor Castle when | I sent my first rent | of 2 Indian Arrowes for | Mary Land. | by John Langford.
Sr
By a late grant of a Territory or continent of land called Mary Land in America, passed vnto me vnder the greate seale of England I am to pay his
Matie
at every yeare on the Tuesday in Easter weeke at his castle of Windsor two Indian arrowes: as a yearely rent for the said Territory.
wch
Arrowes I have accordingly sent by this bearer my seruant to be payd accordingly. and I desire
yor
acquittance for the receipt of them
so I rest
Yor
very louing freind.
Receipt for the First Year's Rent.
[Indorsement]
23 Aprill 1633
being Tuesday in Easter weeke.
A certificate of the tendring of my rent to the King at Windsot Castle for Mary Land: by the hands of John Langford.
Tuesday the
xxiiith
day of Aprill 1633 in the Ninth yeare of the raigne of
or
Soveraigne Lord King Charles.
Memorand. that the day and yeare abouesaid the right honorable Cecill Lord Baltimore hath tendred and left by the handes of his Seruant John Langford at and in the Castle of Windsor in the Countie of Berk Two Jndian Arrowes for one yeares rent due to
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the Kinges
Matie
this present day for a Territory or continent of land called Maryland in America granted by his
Matie
vnder the great Seale of England to the said Lord Baltimore vnder the yearlie rent aforesaid. Jn testimonie whereof we have herevnto subscribed the day and yeare abouesaid.
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W Thomas keep of his
Maties Wardrobe
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James Euelegh
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George Starkey
THE CALVERT PAPERS.
No. 1.
LORD BALTIMORE'S INSTRUCTIONS TO COLONISTS.
[Indorsement.]
15 Nouem. 1633.
A Coppy of
Instructions to
Mr
Leo.
Caluert,
Mr
Jerom Hawley
&
Mr
Tho. Cornwaleys the
Lo: Baltimores Gouernor &
Co?issioners of his prouince
of Maryland.
In the
5th
Article some
directions is given concerning
Cap. Cleyborne.
Instructions 13 Nouem: 1633 directed by the Right
Honoble
Cecilius Lo: Baltimore & Lord of the Prouinces of Mary Land and Avalon vnto his well beloued Brother Leo: Caluert
Esqr
his
Lops
Deputy Gouernor of his prouince of Mary Land and vnto Jerom Hawley and Thomas Cornwaleys
Esqrs
his
Lopps
Co?issioners for the gouernment of the said Prouince.
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1. Inpri: His
Lopp requires his said Gouernor & Commissioners
tht in their voyage to Mary Land they be very carefull to preserue vnity & peace amongst all the passengers on Shipp-board, and that they suffer no scandall nor offence to be giuen to any of the Protestants, whereby any iust complaint may heereafter be made, by them, in Virginea or in England, and that for that end, they cause all Acts of Romane Catholique Religion to be done as priuately as may be, and that they instruct all the Romane Catholiques to be silent vpon all occasions of discourse concerning matters of Religion; and that the said Gouernor & Co?issioners treate the Protestants
wth as much mildness and fauor as Justice will permitt. And this to be obserued at Land as well as at Sea.
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2. That while they are aboard, they do theyre best endeauors by such instruments as they shall find fittest for it, amongst the seamen & passengers to discouer what any of them do know concerning the priuate plotts of his
Lopps aduersaries in England, who endeauored to ouerthrow his voyage: to learne, if they cann the names of all such, their speeches, where & when they spoke them, and to whom; The places, if they had any, of their consultations, the Instruments they vsed and the like: to gather what proofes they cann of them; and to sett them downe particulerly and cleerely in writing
wth all the Circumstances; together
wth their opinions of the truth and validity of them according to the condition of the persons from whom they had the information; And to gett if they can euery such informer to sett his hand to his Informa?on. And if they find it necessary & that they haue any good probable ground to discouer the truth better, or that they find some vnwilling to reueale that
wch (by some speeches at randome, that haue fallen from them) they haue reason to suspect they do know concerning that buisness: that at their arriuall
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in Mary Land they cause every such pson to answer upon oath, to such questions as they shall thinke fitt to propose unto them: And by some trusty messenger in the next shipps that returne for England to send his
Lopp in writing all such Intelligences taken either by deposition or otherwise.
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3. That as soone as it shall please god they shall arrive upon the coast of Virginea, they be not perswaded by the master or b any other of the shipp, in any case or for any respect whatsoever to goe to James Towne, or to come
wthin the co?and of the the fort at Poynt-Comfort: vnless they should be forct vnto it by some extremity, of weather, (
wch god forbidd) for the preseruation of their liues & goodes, and that they find it altogether impossible otherwise to preserue themselues: But that they come to an Anchor somewhere about Acomacke, so as it be not vnder the co?and of any fort; & to send ashcare there, to inquire if they cann find any to take
wth them, that cann giue them some good informatione of the Bay of Chesapeacke and Pattawomeek Riuer, and that may giue them some light of a fitt place in his
Lopps Countrey to sett downe on; wherein their cheife care must be to make choice of a place first that is probable to be healthfull and fruitfull, next that it may he easily fortified, and thirdly that it may be convenient for trade both
wth the English and sauages.
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4. That by the first oportunity after theyr arriuall in Mary Land they cause a messenger to be dispatcht away to James Town such a one as is conformable to the Church of England, and as they may according to the best of their Judgments trust; and he to carry his
maties letter to
Sr John Haruie the Gouernor and to the rest of the Councell there, as likewise his
Lopps letter to
Sr Jo: Haruie, and to give him notice of their arriuall: And to haue in charge, vpon the deliuery of the said
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letters to behaue himself
wth much respect vnto the Gouernor, and to tell him
tht his
Lopp had an intention to haue come himself in person this yeare into those parts, as he may perceiue by his
maties letter to him but finding that the setling of that buisness of his Plantation and some other occasions, required his presence in England for some time longer then he expected, he hath deferred his owne coming till the next yeare, when he will not faile by the grace of god to be there; and to lett him vnderstand how much his
Lopp desires to hold a good correspondency
wth him and that Plantation of Virginea,
wch he wilbe ready to shew vpon all occasions and to assure him by the best words he cann, of his
Lopps particuler affection to his person, in respect of the many reports he hath heard of his worth, and of the ancient acquaintance and freindshipp
wch he hath vnderstood was between his
Lopps father & him as likewise for those kind respects he hath shewne vnto his
Lopp by his letters since he vnderstoode of his
Lopps intention to be his neighbor in those, parts: And to present him
wth a Butt of sacke from his
Lopp
wch his
Lopp hath giuen directions for, to be sent vnto him.
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5. That they write a letter to Cap: Clayborne as soone as conveniently other more necessary occasions will giue them leaue after their arriuall in the Countrey, to give him notice of their arriuall and of the Anthority & charge co?itted to them by his
Lopp and to send the said letter together
wth his
Lopps to him by some trusty
messenger that is likewise conformable vnto the Church of England,
wth a message also from them to him if it be not inserted in their letter
wch is better, to invite him kindly to come vnto them, and to signify that they haue some buisness of importance to speake
wth him about from his
Lopp
wch concernes his good very much; And if he (come vnto them then that they vse him courteously and well, and tell
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him, that his
Lopp vnderstanding that he hath settled a plantac?n there
wthin the precincts of his
Lopps Pattent, wished them to lett him know that his
Lopp is willing to glue him all the encouragement he cann to proceede; And that his
Lopp hath had some propositions made vnto him by certaine
mrchants in London who pretend to be partners
wth him in that plantation, (viz)
Mr Delabarr,
Mr Tompson
Mr Cloberry,
Mr Collins, & some others, and that they desired to haue a grant from his
Lopp of that Iland where he is: But his
Lopp vnderstanding from some others that there was some difference in partnershipp between him and them, and his
Lopp finding them in their discourse to him, that they made somewhat slight of Cap: Clayborne's interest, doubted least he might preiudice him by making them any grant his
Lopp being ignorant of the true state of their buisness and of the thing they desired, as likewise being well assured that by Cap: Clayborne his care and industry besides his charges, that plantation was first begunn and so farr aduanced, was for these reasons vnwilling to condescend vnto their desires, and therefore deferred all treaty
wth them till his
Lopp could truly vnderstand from him, how matters stand between them, and what he would desire of his
Lopp in it.
wch his
Lopp expects from him; that therevpon his
Lopp may take it into farther consideration how to do iustice to euery one of them and to giue them all reasonable satisfaction; And that they assure him in fine that his
Lopp intends not to do him any wrong, but to shew him all the loue and fauor that he cann, and that his
Lopp gaue them directions to do so to him in his absence; in confidence that he will, like a good subiect to his
matie conforme himself to his higness gratious letters pattents granted to his
Lopps whereof he may see the Duplicate if he desire it together
wth their Co?ission from his
Lopp If he do refuse to come vnto them vpon their
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invitation, that they lett him alone for the first yeare, till vpon notice giuen to his
Lopp of his answere and behauiour they receiue farther directions from his
Lopp; and that they informe themselues as well as they cann of his plantation and what his designes are, of what strength & what Correspondency he keepes
wth Virginea, and to giue an Account of euery particular to his
Loop.
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6. That when they haue made choice of the place where they intend to settle themselues and that they haue brought their men ashoare
wth all their prouisions, they do assemble all the people together in a fitt and decent manner and then cause his
maties letters patients to be publikely read by his
Lopps Secretary John Bolles, and afterwards his
Lopps Co?ission to them, and that either the Gouernor or one of the Co?issioners presently after make some short declaration to the people of his
Lopps intentions
wch he means to pursue in this his intended plantation,
wch are first the honor of god by endeauoring the conversion of the sauages to Christianity, secondly the augmentation of his
matie's Empire & Dominions in those parts of the world by reducing them vnder the subiection of his Crowne, and thirdly by the good of such of his Countreymen as are willing to aduenture their fortunes and themselves in it, by endeauoring all he cann, to assist them, that they may reape the fruites of their charges & labors according to the hopefulnes of the thing,
wth as much freedome comfort and incouragement as they cann desire; and
wth all to assure them, that his
Lopps affection & zeale is so greate to the aduancement of this Planta?n and consequently of their good, that he will imploy all his endeauors in it, and that he would not haue failed to haue come himself in person along
wth them this first yeare, to haue beene partaker
wth them in the honor of the first voyage thither, but that by reasons of some vnexpected
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accidents, he found it more necessary for their good, to stay in England some time longer, for the better establishment of his and their right, then it was fitt that the shipp should stay for him, but that by the grace of god he intends
wthout faile to be
wth them the next year: And that at this time they take occasion to minister an oath of Allegeance to his
matie vnto all and euery one vpon the place, after hauing first publikely in the presence of the people taken it themselues; letting them know that his
Lopp gaue particuler directions to haue it one of the first thinges that were done, to testify to the world that none should enjoy the benefitt of his
maties gratious Grant vnto his
Lopp of that place, but such as should glue a publique assurance of their fidelity & allegeance to his
matie.
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7. that they informe themselues what they cann of the present state of the old Colony of Virginea, both for matter of gouernment & and Plantacon as likewise what trades they driue both at home and abroade, who are the cheife and richest men, & haue the greatest power amongst them whether their clamors against his
Lopps pattent continue and whether they increase or diminish, who they are of note that shew themselues most in it, and to find out as neere as they cann, what is the true reason of their disgust against it, or whether there be really any other reason but what, being well examined proceedes rather from spleene and malice then from any other cause; And to informe his
Lopp exactly what they vnderstand in any of these particulers.
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8. That they take all occasions to gaine and oblige any of the Councell of Virginea, that they shall vnderstand incline to have a good correspondency
wth his
Lopps plantation, either by permission of trade to them in a reasonable proportion,
wthin his
Lopps precincts, or any other way they can, so it be cleerely vnderstood that it is by the way of courtesy and not of right.
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9. That where they intend to settle the Plantacon they first make choice of a fitt place, and a competent quantity of ground for a fort
wthin
wch or neere vnto it a convenient house, and a church or a chappel adjacent may be built, for the seate of his
Lopp or his Gouernor or other Co?issioners for the time being in his absence, both
wch his
Lopp would haue them take care should in the first place be erected, in some proportion at least, as much as is necessary for present vse though not so compleate in euery part as in fine afterwards they may be and to send his
Lopp a Platt of it and of the scituation, by the next oportunity, if it be done by that time, if not or but part of it neuertheless to send a Platt of what they intend to do in it. That they likewise make choise of a fitt place neere vnto it to seate a towne.
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10. That they cause all the Planters to build their houses in as decent and vniforme a manner as their abilities and the place will afford, & neere adioyning one to an other, and for that purpose to cause streetes to be marked out where they intend to place the towne and to oblige euery man to buyld one by an other according to that rule and that they cause diuisions of Land to be made adioyning on the back sides of their houses and to be assigned vnto them for gardens and such vses according to the proportion of euery ones building and adventure and as the conveniency of the place will afford
wch his
Lopp referreth to their discretion, but is desirous to haue a particuler account from them what they do in it, that his
Lopp may be satisfied that euery man hath Justice done vnto him.
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11. That as soone as conveniently they cann they cause his
Lopps surveyor Robert Simpson to survay out such a proportion of Land both in and about the intended towne as likewise
wthin the Countrey adioyning as wilbe necessary to be assigned to the present aduenturers, and that they assigne euery adventurer
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his proportion of Land both in and about the intended towne, as alsoe
wthin the Countrey adioyning, according to the proportion of his aduenture and the conditions of planta?n propounded by his
Lopp to the first, aduenturers,
wch his
Lopp in convenient time will confirme vnto them by Pattent. And heerein his
Lopp wills his said Gouernor and Co?issioners to take care that in each of the aforesaid places, that is to say in and about the first intended Towne and in the Countrey adiacent they cause in the first and most convenient places a proportion of Land to be sett out for his
Lopps owne proper vse and inheritance according to the number of men he sends this first yeare vpon his owne account; and as he alloweth vnto the aduenturers, before any other be assigned his part;
wth
wch (although his Lopp might very well make a difference of proportion between himself and the aduenturers) he will in this first colony, content himself, for the better encouragement and accomodation of the first aduenturers, vnto whom his
Lopp conceiue himself more bound in honor and is therefore desirous to giue more satisfaction in euery thing then he intends to do vnto any that shall come heereafter. That they cause his
Lopps survayor likewise to drawe an exact mapp of as much of the countrey as they shall discouer together
wth the soundings of the riuers and Baye, and to send it to his
Lopp.
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12. That they cause all the planters to imploy their seruants in planting of sufficient quantity of corne and other prouision of victuall and that they do not suffer them to plant any other co?odity whatsoeuer before that be done in a sufficient proportion
wch they are to obserue yearely.
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13. That they cause all sorts of men in the plantation to be mustered and trained in military discispline and that there be days appoynted for that purpose either weekely or monthly according to the conueniency of other occasions;
wch are duly
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to be obserued and that they cause constant watch and ward to be kept in places necessary.
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14. That they informe themselues whether there be any convenient place
wthin his
Lopps precincts for the making of Salt whether there be proper earth for the making of salt-peeter and if there be in what quantity; whether there be probability of Iron oare or any other mines and that they be carefull to find out what other co?odities may probably be made and that they glue his
Lopp notice together
wth their opinions of them.
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15. That In fine they bee very carefull to do iustice to euery man
wthout partiality, and that they auoid any occasion of difference
wth those of Virginea and to haue as litle to do
wth them as they cann this first yeare that they conniue and suffer litle iniuryes from them rather then to engage themselues in a publique quarrell
wth them,
wch may disturbe the buisness much in England in the Infancy of it. And that they giue vnto his
Lopp an exact account by their letters from time to time of their proceedings both in these instructions from Article to Article and in any other accident that shall happen worthy his
Lopps notice, that therevpon his
Lopp may giue them farther instructions what to doe and that by euery conveyance by
wch they send any letters as his
Lopp would not haue them to omitt any they send likewise a Duplicate of the letters
wch they writt by the last conveyance before that, least they should haue failed and not be come to his
Lopps hands.
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No. 2.
THOMAS SMITH'S ACCOUNT OF HIS CAPTURE.
[Superscription.]
Mr
Tho: Smiths relation of his voyage when hee was taken by the Marylanders 1635
The rela?n of Tho: Smith of his voyage to Potuxant Riuer in the Pinace the Long Tayle wherein hee was taken by the Marylanders.
The
26th
day of March 1635 I being sent in the Pinace the long taile by
Capt
William Claiborne to trade for corne and furs, the said
Capt
Claiborne haueing deliuered mee a Coppie of his
mats
letter lately sent vnto him for the conferma?n of the Co?ission formerly graunted vnto the said
Capt
Claiborne for trade in the Collonies of America.
The
4th
day of Aprill I arriued at Mattapany. The
5th
day
Capt
Hen: ffleet and
Capt
Humber
wth
a Company of men came ouer land thither and demaunded by what power I traded I tould them by vertue of his
mats
Comission and letter graunted to
Capt
Claiborne of
wch
I had coppies of each they demaunded the sight of them
wch
I shewed them they peruseing of them
Capt
ffleete replyed that this paper did not any way license the said
Capt
Clayborne to trade any further then the Ile of Kent and that I must goe for Maryland
wth
the Pinace, but
Capt
Humber replied it was a false Coppie and grounded vpon false informa?n, and soe turned himselfe to
Capt
ffleete said come let vs board them
wch
they did
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notwthstanding
I tould them they had best take heede what they did it was not good iesting
wth
paper
wch
came from his
matie
.
Capt
ffleete,
Capt
Humber
wth
the rest of theire Companie entred the vessell the Longtaile and turned our men on shore
wthout
any armes to defend themselues from the natiues
notwthstanding
I entreated them not to leaue our men
wthout
armes ashore, to
wch
Capt
ffleete answered they were as safe as if they were aboard.
I desired them to shew mee their Co?ission by
wch
they tooke vs but they would shew mee none.
The next day they sent for our men a board and turned them into theire barge: who had that night lien in the woods very dangerously the natiues being vp in armes amongst themselues.
The said
Capt
ffleet comaunded mee to goe for Maryland
wth
him in our little boate and spake with the Gouernor
wch
I did and by the way wee had some discourse about the accusa?n for
wch
Capt
Claybourne was last yeare accused of by the Marylanders for complotting
wth
the Indians to cutt off the English that were at Yawocomoco:
Capt
ffleet told mee, that
wch
hee said of that busines was drawne from him by a wile, in comon discourse and that hee was verie sorrie for speaking any such thing, and that although it bee reported in Virginia that hee had taken his oath of those things, yet it was not soe, and that hee did not take it to bee an oath, for all that was done done was the Gouernor gaue him the said ffleet a little latine booke, and bade him kisse it saying nothing and if there were any such busines reported amongst the Indians about
Capt
Claiborne yet they were a people that were not to be beleeued and the said ffleet said to mee, before God I did not know it was a testament, the said ffleete told mee when
Capt
Cornwallis and
Mr
Hally brought him a writting and asked him whether
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hee would set his hand to itt, ffirst haueing caused them to put out many things that were in it soe by their perswations set his hand to it.
When wee came to Maryland I found the
Gouernor
was not there,
Capt
Cornewalles being left his deputie I went to him and told him, that
Capt
ffleet had taken our Vessell and turned our men a shore
Capt
Cornewalles told mee they did noe more then what they had order for to doe by Comission to make stay of all vessells
wch
they should find trading
wthin
the Prouince of the Lord Baltimore: the said
Capt
desired to see the Comission by
wch
I traded and haueing seene the foure Coppies hee told mee hee did wonder much at
Capt
Claibornes strange proceedings for said bee were this a true coppie it hath only relation to the Iland where hee liueth but said hee doubted truth of this
papr
first in regard they were grounded vpon false informa?n I told him I would bee deposed they were true Coppies to
wch
hee said my oath was as good as nothing the said
Capt
told mee, hee would the next morning goe with mee abord
wch
the next Day hee did, and when I came abord I found all the men turnd a shore againe
wthout
any armes to defend themselues from the natiues, haueing not long been there and had some discourse
wth
Capt
Humber hee tould mee the vessell must goe for Maryland and there stay vntill the
Gouernor
came home: and if I and the rest would goe with him by land wee should bee welcome for in the boate wee should not goe, he leauing the charg of the vessell with Capt: Humber I desired to leaue one to looke to the trucke
wch
the said
Capt
denied: ffurther the said
Capt
told mee that if there were any such letters graunted by his
matie
it was got by indirect wales in regard they had noe notice thereof from the Lord Baltimore I desired wee might returne home if not all yet one
wch
was denied, and being all turned ashore without any peece or armes but one peece which I had myselfe.
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Within 2 daies after our being there the Gouernor came home who when our vessell was come about sent for vs to waite on his pleasure when wee should bee called being sect at
Capt
Cornewalles house accompanied with the said
Capt
and one
Mr
Greene sent his Marshall for mee, when I came the
Gouernor
told mee bee vnderstood that some of his people had made State of a vessell of
Capt
Claibornes of
wch
I had comaund of I told they had, hee demaunded of mee whether I traded for myselfe or for
Capt
Claiborne I told him for
Capt
Claiborne hee demaunded a note vnder my hand to testifie as much,
wch
I making a stand at, hee told mee he would keepe mee prisoner to answere it, if I would not set my hand to a note
wch
they made
wch
I did. Hee demaunded what Comission I had to trade I told him I had a Coppie of his
mats
Comission graunted to
Capt
Claiborne and also a Coppie of a letter sent by his
matie
for the confirma?n of the same the
Gouernor
told mee for his former Comission it was worth nothing because bee was not to trade
wthin
theire limitts, and for the Coppie of his
mats
letter hee said was a paper without any publick notaries hand and was worth nothing being grounded vpon false informa?n and that bee had scene one of them in Virginia and if it were true it was gotten by some indirect meanes for they had not any notice of it from the Lord Baltimore, and that bee intended to keepe the vessell
wth
the goods I demaunded of him how wee should get home bee told mee should not returne for Kent but bee would send vs for England or for Kecotan I told him wee were in want of corne, hee said it could not bee, I offered to bee deposed that the Coppies were true, and that I had examined them, bee said my oath is as good as nothing, the next day hee sent for all the goods a shore
wthout
any knowledg of myne or any of our companies and brooke open a chest
wch
was both locked and
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nayled, the goods being ashore I desired our Invoyce
wth
a certificate to shew the reason of staying the vessell
wch
with much a doe I had, some of our Beauer I see presently disposed of and some of the cloth I saw sold to an indian haueing spent 4 or 5 daies there and seeing noe hopes of haueing our vessell againe I desired the Gouernor wee might returne home
wch
with some other meanes I made by some friends hee graunted wee should goe: but hee was sorrie hee had noe boate to send vs home in: hauing at that tyme 3 boates riding at his dore. I told him if there was noe other way I would make some meanes by the indians
wch
hee graunted I should doe,
the next day wee were sent away
without either peece or victualls but one peece
wch
I had myselfe haueing 20 leagers to goe
wthout
any meanes but such as wee should find from the Indians
wch
with greate danger it pleased god to send vs safe home This I will bee readie to, iustifie vpon oath whensoeuer I shall bee therevnto called
Tho: Smith.
No. 3.
HENRY EWBANK'S ACCOUNT OF HIS CAPTURE.
[Indorsement.]
Copie of Henry Ewbancks Relation Of his being Seized at the head of Patuxent in April 1635.
The Relation of Henry Ewbanck concerninge his beinge taken Prisoner at Mattappany at the head of Pataxunt River the
5th
of Aprill 1635.
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I beinge at an Indian Towne caled Mattappany at the head of Potaxunt River tradinge for ffurrs by the
appointmt
of
Capt
Clayborne there came vnto me ouer Land
Capt
ffleete
Capt
Humber and two more charginge me by virtue of their Comission graunted from his
Matie
to the Lo: Baltimore to goe alonge
wth
them to Mary-Land, to answer my tradinge before the
Gouernor
and that if I would not goe along quietly
Capt
Humber told me that he would haue the Indians carry me wether I would or noe, soe I went alonge
wth
them yet
Capt
ffleete before fearinge that I would haue run away pmised the Indians that if I ran away the first of them that layd hands vpon me to stay me, he would giue them an hundred armes length Roneoke. beinge come from Mattappany to Potaxun Riuer there in
Capt
Claybornes Pinnace
wth
Mr
Smith and his Company
or
men beinge all on Shoare but a little Boy who was aboard,
Capt
ffleete and
Capt
Humber tooke
or
small wherry and would haue gon aboard the said Pinnace, refusinge at first to take
Mr
Smith alonge
wth
them, who was aboard their Barge, he callinge to them and tellinge them
tht
he had his
Mats
Comission to trade, they then tooke him into the wherry and Rowed aboard the Pinnace and said that they would take her
notwthstandinge
that Comission
Mr
Smith shewed them accountinge it and callinge it a Pap sayeing that it was a false Copy and if it were granted to
Capt
Clayborne from his
Matie
it was granted and grownded vpon false Informa?ns & soe it was worth nothinge soe
Capt
Humber bid his men haueing all ready boarded
or
Pinnace to waigh Anchor and fall Downe towards Mary Land, by the way we stopped at an Indian Towne called Potaxun where I would haue gon a shoare but
Capt
Humber would not lett me. from thence we rowed downe to the Mouth of the Riuer where we were turned a shoare out of
or
Pinnace
wthout
or
Armes to
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travell to Mary Land on foote, beinge comen thither wee remayned 3 or 4 dayes before wee could speake
wth
the
Gouernor
who at last beinge set in Court
wth
Capt
Cornwallys and
Mr
Greene he sent for me in, when I came to the
Gouornor
he said vnto me, did you come Sirrah from Mattappany I answered him yes againe, he asked me what I did there and who sent me. I told him I traded for furrs
wth
the Indians and that
Capt
Clayborne sent me, Againe he said Sirrah how durst
you
trade there, knoweinge it was in the
prcincts
of this Province and knoweinge of
Capt
Claybornes vnlawfull and dishonest practizes,
wth
the Indians to cutt of this
or
Planta?n
you
beinge the
Interprter
and
Instrumt
to doe it, I replyd that I did not know that it was in their
prcincts
, nor that
Capt
Clayborne had euer practized
wth
the Indians against them and that for my owne pte I would be deposd vpon my oath
tht
I was neuer an
Instrumt
or
Interprted
to the Indians for
Capt
Claiborne, in any such kind, and pfered them to take my oath of it then but they would not giue it me, then he caused certaine writings to be made for me to sett my hand to, and they were to effect that I should Justifie that
Capt
Claiborne had vnlawfully practized
wth
the Indians against them,
wch
the Clerke to my best remembrance in readinge the writinge to me neuer men?ned any such thinge.
I had like to haue set my hand to it, beleivinge it had ben as the Clerke read it, but I takinge it in my owne hand and readinge it found it to be otherwise, then he reade it to me wherevpon I refused to set my hand to it, then the
Gouernor
caused it to be changed twice againe,
wch
beinge don he told me it had ben all one if I had set my hand to the other, for they were all three as one in effect, then agayne he told me he would either send me to Virginia or to England for I should not retourne to
Capt
Clayborne any more to be his
instrumt
in
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his vnlawfull practizes, but afterwards the
Gouernor
riseinge from the table and comeinge to me in a Milder way then he had don, before callinge me by my name tould me if I would take
imploymt
from him I should haue good meanes and be welcome to him, I replyd,
Sr
I can not answer it to be imployed by
you
or any other beinge as yet
Capt
Claybornes Couenant Seruant, then he said take
imploymt
of me and lett me alone to answer it, then he further demaunded of me if I would resolue to take
imploymt
I told him noe then he bid me thinke vpon it, Moreouer I heard him say that all the Baye downeward
wthin
6 or 8 myles of Akamak both easterne shoare and Westerne shoare was
wthin
their
prcincts
, and
wthin
3 or 4 dayes after he sent me and the rest of
or
Company away
wthout
Armes or victualls to home in a Cannow a matter of twenty leagues through the Townes of the Indians. Moreouer I remember that
Capt
ffleete beinge set at supper
wth
Capt
Cornwallis and the Kinge of Potuxun fallinge into discourse of the Accusations layd against
Capt
Clayborne, The last yeare
Capt
ffleete sayd it had ben very breife in the Mouthes of the Indians all wayes vntill that his last voyage and that then he said he heard nothinge, moreouer he said that he had sayd too much of it, and he thought not that
Mr
Hawley would haue drawen his comen discourse into writinge, if he had he would haue ben more warye, ffurthermore he told me that I had cause to thanke god that he came soe happily to take me out of the hands of the Indians who as he said would haue killed mee,
wch
I know to be false and not soe, And againe the Indians told me that it was by meanes of
Capt
Claybornes Cloth,
wch
Capt
ffleete tooke in his Pinnaces that he bought the
Beavor
it beinge better liked of the Indians then that
wch
they had of the
Gouernors
the Indians sayeinge
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it was nought. And all this I wilbe ready when I shall be called to be deposed on and soe I haue hereunto sett my hand.
Signed
Henry Ewbanck.
No. 4.
SECRETARY KEMP TO LORD BALTIMORE.
[Indorsement.]
January 1638
Mr
Rich. Kemp to (Secretary) from Virginea
[Superscription.]
To the Right
Honoble
and my very good Lord the Lord Baltimore these Present
My Lord:
I receiued
yor
Lorpps
Commands of the second of August Last for the buying of ffortye neate Cattle, ten Sowes, fforty Henns and Ten Negroes to be Transported to
St
Maryes for
yor
vse.
At the tyme of the receiuing of
yor
Lorpss
sayd Letters I expected
yor
Brothers arrivall daily in Virginia, but vnderstanding after, that he was imbarqued about the Isle of Kent busines, I writt to him desiring advice from him, but at this date have heard nothing of him.
I have onely hitherto made inquirye where to make the purchase of what
you
desire, the reason why I have not dealt further is, ffirst the streightnes of the tyme limited mee being
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Christmas,
wch
was a short warning and the tyme of the yeare soe vnseasonable that in likely hood before they could have bene
deliured
they would all have perished for want of fodder
wch
is very rare in Virginea, and I beleeve not yett knowen in Maryland, but how ever tis the Most dangerous, and only fatall tyme for Murreine of Cattle,
wch
they fynd, who are best provided to
prserve
them.
When
yor
Brother and I conferr, what he shall find fitt to require of mee, shall be readily obeyed (my Creditt and all my Indeavours being at
yor
Lorpps
disposall) By the next I hope
yor
Lorpp
shall receiue
our
ioint Account in the busines.
The duplicates of
our
prsent
dispatches I humbly
herewth
prsent
, whereby I doubt not but
yor
Lorpp
will observe how the old, and inveterate malice of
Sr
John Harvey his Adversaryes reflecteth likewyse vpon mee, instanced in two particulars, One about the Invoices,
wch
was soe strange a thing to the Sub Committees (as divers Informed mee who were
prsent
when they sate about the reference of those Petitions the Copyes whereof are now sent
you
) that many Interrogatoryes past from them, why the two pence p Cask should be payed, and why the
Secrtarye
should have it,
wth
much other Language shewing noe good meaning towards mee, (for it seemeth I am a Rub in theire way)
The other in that Capt West in his Complaint against
Sr
John Harvey bringeth mee in allso as much guiltye for receiuing flue shillings for a Tickett for every Passenger that goeth out of the Colonye. The first
yor
Lorpp
will fynd fully Answered in the duplicate if they will allow of the Kings Order.
The other I will never deny to have receiued being Warranted thereto by my Commission, as being a ffee belonging to all
Secrtaryes
before mee and soe rated by Act of Assembly,
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before my tyme, And yf Capt West had bethought himselfe he might have knowen, that by an Order of Court three yeares before my arrivall (himselfe being one att the making thereof) the
Secrtarye
may receiue ten shillings for every passe, and soe pportionably double for all other ffees more then I ever demanded. I have
prsumed
to trouble
yor
Lorrpp
wth
the Copyes of the Acts, and of the sayd Order of Court hoping of
yor
Lorpps
favour to pduce them if there shall be Occasion.
The frequent, and Constant Reports this yeare of a Companye comming vpon vs doe at
prsent
much distract vs, in so much that most are rather contriving how to desert the place then too loose any more Indeavour heere, where noe stabilitye of theire Affaires is to be expected.
Yor
Honors
interest (I feare) will not be least in the
priudice
thereof for yf some of the cheifest of those who designe a Companye be true to theire Oaths,
you
must expect all the opposition that malice can giue.
I hope
yor
Lorpp
will fynd power and meanes to prevent them, yf wee can leape this Rub I doubt not but
our
Affaires will run a more even course heerafter. Thus resting
Yor
Lorpps
humbly to serve
you
Rich: Kemp.
After the writing hereof
yor
Brother arrived heere at James Towne, by whom
I receiued a further Command from
yor
Lorpp
then was intimated to mee in
yor
Letter,
wch
was abowt the sparing of
yor
Lorpp
some
Sheepe, wherein I will willing serve
yor
Lorpp
Humbly desiring
yor
Honor
to accept
from mee Ten Ewes, and a Ram,
wch
I will
deliur
this Summer to
yor
Brother for
yor
vse.
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Yor
Brother and I have likewyse conferrd
abowt
yor
demands, the conclusion whereof
he hath pmised mee to giue
yor
Lorpp
an Account
of, As allso of a pposition
wch
if intended
(according to the Information to vs brought)
and deuly psequted, and assisted may perchance
giue a blow to the new Companye, if it be not advanced
too farr allreadye.
No. 5.
SECRETARY KEMP TO LORD BALTIMORE.
[Indorsement.]
25 Aprill 1638
Mr
Rich: Kemp to me. from Virginea against
Mr
Hawley.
[Superscription.]
To the Right
Honoble
and my very good Lord the Lord Baltimore these present
My Lord
By my Last of the
6th
of Aprill I
prsented
yor
Lorpp
wth
the duplicates of the Acts of
our
Last Assembly
wth
the whole proceedings thereof, And because what concerneth the interest of soe noble a ffreind may be noe vnwellcome Information to
you
I haue
herewth
presented
yor
Lorpp
wth
the Copye of the Pattent sent this yeare to my Lord Matravers.
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I beseech
yor
Lorpp
to allow mee of
yor
favour in the acquainting
you
how it stands
wth
vs vpon the arrivall of the new Treasurer
Mr
Hawlye. The generall disgust of the Inhabitants was and is such against him that the Last Assembly had disabled him from that place, and power he holds, had not the
Governor
and Counsell curbd theire pceedings.
At that tyme
Mr
Hawlye had given noe other account to vs of the extent of his power then what his commission expressed
wch
warranted him noe further then what did belong to former Treasurers and expressly for the Receiuing of the quitt Rents in the Execution whereof ney ther the
Governor
nor any of the counsell conceiued any iniurye to themselues.
When the Assembly was dissolved, he then pduced to vs his Instructions, wherein ffines, and all other perquisites to the King were expresslye
wthin
the Lymitts of his commission, as allso all Grants of Land were first to passe his appbation, and allowance and vpon what tearmes they were to passe was left to his discretion.
In which particulars the
Governor
and Counsell had iust cause to doubt what his Intendments were.
The
Governor
found his mayne subsistance taken away, And in especiall manner such a mayme it must be to all succeeding
Governors
that how they can liue wthout forcing meanes of being from the people is not in my experience of the place to sett downe, for granting the Kings pension of one thowsand pounds p annum payed after the Rates of provision in this country (hiring or building of howsing being considered) it can in noe measure giue him supportance equall to the Quallitye of his place.
And for the Grants of Land as the tearmes haue ben allwayes certeine soe the priviledge and power of granting haue by Antient Charter bene given and as in all succeeding
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tymes soe the Last yeare were againe confirmed to the Governor and Counsell. This suddein Alteration as it gives infinite distraction to the people, soe it must
wthout
doubt much discourage, and dishearten those who haue, and doe serve his
matie
heere in the places of
Governor
and Counsell.
And heere
yor
Lorpp
may please to giue mee leave to be something sensible of my owne suffering. The Office and benefitt of the Invoices
wch
was formerly belonging to the place of Secretary is now by expresse warrant a peculiar perquisite to his place (this following I receiue by information). His Intents are to gaine the profitts of the Pattents, and to haue the keeping of the Seales, what is the remaynder of my ffees will not cloth, and paye one Clarke yearely.
My
Predecessors
in this place had an allowance of twenty servants and cattell
wth
all what I at any tyme have inioyed what soe many servants in those tymes when Tobacco wins sold for foure shillings p pound might yeild may without over Rating be valeiwed at one thousand pounds p Annum, this allowance (as it belonged to former Secrtaryes) was granted mee, yet I inioy noe part of it, though the Labour of the place be doubled.
And if
Mr
Hawley thus gleane from mee, and
wthall
increase my toile (for his Execution and Accompt will be very short
wthout
my help, and furtherance from the Records, I conceiue
yor
Lorpp
will Judge I doe not without cause exhibite this my greiuance.
Why I haue taken the boldnes to trouble
yor
Lorpp
wth
this Relation, without the Least Intimation heerein to any other, with favour I am thus induced. Because I receiue from vndoubted Information that the effect of
Mr
Hawlye his busines proceeded from
yor
Lorpps
favour in his behalf.
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I am from my owne assurance as confident that
yor
Lorpps
intents had noe aime eyther of publiq greiuance, or lessening those whose service
you
may please in any tryall to command. All
wch
therefore I humbly tender to
yor
Lorpps
consideration. Resting.
Yor
Lorpps
Humbly to serve
you
Rich: Kemp.
James Cittie this
25th
of Aprill 1638.
Yor
Brother the other day acquaynted mee
wth
yor
Lorpps
commands to ppound to the next Assembly that for the better Regulating of the Trade in the Bay, the bounds of
yor
Lorpps
Province might be sett downe in an Act
wth
wch
those of Virginia should not Trade,
wthout
Lycense from thence and soe on the contrarye, wherein I will not fayle effectually to serve
yor
Lorpp
No. 6.
SECRETARY KEMP TO LORD BALTIMORE.
[Indorsement.]
4 Febr: 1638
Mr
Rich: Kemp Secre: of Virginea to me Concerning
Sr
Frances Wyatt from Virginea
[Superscription.]
To the Right
Honoble
and my very good Lord the Lord Baltimore these humbly Present
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My Lord
I receiued Lately a Letter from Sarieant Maior Donne and a Leiftenant Evelyn wherein I was desired
wth
all secrecye and dispatch to certifye certeine depositions to prove the designe of poisoning the Indians in the tyme of
Sr
ffrancis Wyatts Government, as allso that through his Oversight and vnskillfull Carriage many people were drawen from theire Plantations to theire greate
priudice
and to the much dishonour of the Nation, to
wch
purpose I haue vsed all possible Indeavour and sent them in this inclosed packett
wth
other materiall writings extracted out of the Records affirming the Slaverye indured by the people theere vnder the Tyrannye of the Companye. Theire further Advice was to direct my Letters in a Cover eyther to my Lord Matrevers &
Mr
Endimion Porter for Capt Bond (they being both his ffreinds) But I have declined that course not being Confident enough of a safe conveiance to eyther of theire hands. And therefore Assuring my selfe of
yor
Lorpps
pardon heerin I did pcure one
Mr
Clegy an Agent for
Mr
Jennings to direct the packett to him and by this meanes to be sent to
yor
Lorpp
.
By the ffirst Shipp the Rebecca
yor
Lorpp
may perchance have vnderstoode of the bad newes
wch
then freshly arrived before the going of that shipp concerning the cutting of
yor
people at Maryland. But I am confident it will prove but an Indian flam to amaze vs
wch
is usuall among them. My reasons being that both
yor
Brother himselfe and Boates from this Colonye speedilye went to inquire the truth,
wch
if it had bene
our
owne Boates at least would have returned and given the alarum, for if
tht
be soe, the Danger knocketh att our owne dores, and wee are resolved to meete it and not Attend it.
Next wee have made particular inquirye both of the Chicohoming Indians and the Pamonkey Indians whoe are
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neighbouring to the Wicocomicoes concerning whom the Report goeth, that it was committed by them. But these know nothing thereof,
wch
if they did, they would ffreely relate being Enemyes at
prsent
to those Wicocomicoes. yf they have attempted anything and that more danger be doubted. Wee will be readye
wth
our whole forces to Vindicate
yor
Cause, and assure theire further safetyes. Thus humbly resting
Yors
Lorpps
faithfully and humbly to serve
you
Rich: Kemp
James Cittye this
4th
of ffebruary 1638.
No. 7.
THOMAS COPLEY TO LORD BALTIMORE.
[Indorsement.]
3 Aprill 1638
Mr
Tho. Copley to me, from
St
Maries heerein are demands of very extravagant priuiledges
[Superscription.]
To the Right
Honble
the Lord Baltamor these be
Right
Honerable
I wrot unto your
lorpe
laitly uery largly by Captaine Hopson, enclosed in a letter to my cousen Genio, and befor that in a letter sent by
Mr
Robert Euelinge. Now therfor only
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according to the present occasion, I will giue your
lorpe
some accoumpte touchinge the laite assembly and the proceedings thereof—
First then as I acquainted your
lorpe
in my former letter It was not fitt that we should be there in person,
and our Proxis would not be admitted in that manner, as we
could send them, and therfor as we weare excluded thence, Soe we did not intermeddle
wth
them there.
Yet
Mr
Lugar conceauing that some that had relation to us weare not soe fauourable to his waye, as he desired, seemed in some sorte to attribute the same
to us, But I will assure your
lorpe
that he was much mistaken, for truly we weare noe cause therof, as he might easily haue gathered in that William Lewis who is our ouerseier, and had more Proxis then all the rest, was euer concurring
wth
him,
wch
could not haue binne if we had binne auerse, but howsoeuer, I canne not heare that euer any of the rest weare auerse to any thinge that concerned your
lorpe
and therfor if he should write any thinge to that effecte, your
lorpe
may be confidente that they are meere friuolous suspitions of his owne,
wthout
any true grounde. Truly the diuill is uery busie here to raise such lyke apprehensions,
wch
though most false, yet they serue his turne to hinder much the frute,
wch
otherwyse we might haue, but I trust that you
lorpe
will be warye of them, and not doubte, but that next unto god, we are sincerely your
lorpes
perhape much more then those, who seeming more, are indeed most there owne.
Touching the lawes
wch
your
lorpe
sent, I am told that they would not be accepted and, euen the Gouenor, and
Mr
Lugar said once to me, that they weare not fitt for this Colonye. for myne owne parte, seeing noe seruice that I could doe your
lorpe
therin and many inconuenices that I might runne into by intermedlinge, I neuer soe much as rede them nether doe I yet
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know what they contained; for the temporall prouidence I left my selfe to your
lorpe
and for matter of conscience, I supposed that your
lorpe
had taken good aduise what occasion then could I haue to intermeddle aboute them?
The lawes
wch
now are sent to your
lorpe
I neuer knew nor saw till euen now, that they weare ready to be sent to your
lorpe
And there being hast to send them, I only gott a hasty uew of them. Yet diverse things euen in that hasty reeding occured to me,
wch
I conceaued requisite to acquainte you
wth
all, leauing them to your
lorpe
more serious consideration.
First then reflecting on the Infancy of this Plantation, and on the many difficultye that are in conserning it, many things, that herafter when it should be fully planted might be profitable unto it, at this time seemed lyklier to keepe it backe then to forwarde it. As for example wheras It is required,
that
20
men be regestred here befor any one canne pretend
to a mannor, I doubte uery much, whether many will be found in England, that will be able and willing to uenture at first such a charge, easpecially if they reflecte, that in case some of there men dye runne away or miscarry, they must turne freeholders, and out of the remainder of there misfortune pay for euery hundred acre of ground yeerly one barrell of Corne, a paiment perhaps not uery heauy to one who gitting a maite and labouring faithfully himselfe, and taking but one hundred acre, will haue noe greate difficultye to pay it, but to a gentleman, who hath a companye of headstronge seruants
wch
in the beginning easpecially shall scarcly maintaine themselue, this burden will cumme heauy.
And accordingly
Mr
Greene one of the Gentlemen that camme in the Arke, reflecting that besydes the losse of his halfe share of trucke, he was now to pay tenne barrells of Corne for his 10000 acres and that only he had three men to raise that
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and maintaine himselfe and his wyfe confidently told me that he must necessarily deserte the Colonye. But further suppose that one should raise men sufficient to git a Mannor, Yet when he shall reflecte, that whatsoeuer happeneth, he canne not sell his Mannor, but by keeping it he must be necessitated to liue where perhaps he hath noe will, I doubte that many will be terrified by that hazard. Besyds, by these laws euery lord of a Mannor must pay 20 shillings for euery thousand acres, he must in his owne persons,
wth
all his able men and free holders, be mustered, and be subiecte to the fines and punishments of the muster maister,
who may search his munition euery month, and perhaps punish him for that
wch
he could not possibly git. In the seruice of the country he must send 15 freemen, and by those of his Mannor maintaine them during the time of seruice he must prouide himselfe and his men
wth
necessarie munition, he shall not trade, but be compelled to plante, though most of those that maide the lawe, haue tolde me that there is noe commoditye to be gott by planting. His taxes and publique seruice must be more then in other countrys, because the men here are uery few, and if these lawe shall be executed by busye heads, the uexations they may raise upon uery few men will not be few, and yet if through the abuse of some base baleife or the lyke officer they should happen to stricke an officer, he shall loose lyfe lands and goods. Truly I am sure that if these things should be exactly pursued, that few would tarry, and whether if by publique lawe such things be once bruted many will cumme, I doubte much. This I am sure that some here reflecting on what they haue donne say plainly that if they canne not liue here, they canne liue else where, and therfor that they care not much. Others complaine uery much that by the many Proxies
wch
the Gouernor,
Mr
Lugar, and there instruments
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had gotten, they did what they would,
wthout
any restraints at all. Others already question the Validity of they lawes because they say that they canne prooue, that they weare neuer red thrice in the same tenor, others say other things, and if the only apprehension of future consequence already beginne to affright them, what will the consequence themselue doe. Truly I doubte that euen in the most flourishing countrys lords of Mannors, would conceaue such lyke laws some what burdensom. What then will those apprehend, who shall be soe weake that they shall scarcely be able to stande of themselues? Certainly I conceaue that your
lorpe
will rather thinke it fit to nourish and support younge sprigs, then to depresse them; and to goe aboute to gather frute befor it be planted, and ripe, is neuer to haue frute.
But perhapes some may be of opinion, that if your
lorpe
canne but haue the trade of Beauer and Corne to your selfe, the plantation is not much to be regarded.
And the fewer there are the better cheire will be for them, and that amonge Ruens they shall alwaye find some-thinge. Yet against this I would desyre your
lorpe
to reflecte that in a flourishing plantation, Your
lorpe
shall euer be sure of a growing profit and honor. But in these pettye trades and in raking out of mens necessitye, the honor will be little, and the profitt uery uncertaine. Some that are immediate actors perhaps may gitt some thinge, but your
lorpe
shall be sure if you your selfe haue the profite, to make large disbursments, and to receaue large accoumpts, and besydes I am of opinion that god will not prosper such designes, where if your
lorpe
reiecting them sticke to your first designes, god in time will giue them a happy successe, and raise to your selfe and your seed noe small Blessinge. Here certainly nothinge is wanting but people let it be peopled, and it shall not yeeld to the most flourishing country for profitt
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and pleasure, the promoting then of this must be your first aime, and this your
lorpe
must encourage by all means, and when your fruts are ripe, it will be time to gather them. Now only you must nourish plants, and while you expect fruts from others, by your selfe seeke fruts from the earth,
wch
may be gathered in plenty, if your
lorpe
please to cumme and see, and resolue on the best, for mine owne parte I haue soe good an apprehension of the country, that I noe way repent me of my iourney, but liue uery contentedly and doubte not but if I canne haue patience and expecte the seazons, I shall find as happy frute here as in any other parte of the world. But endeed the old saings are true that Roome was not bulte in a day, and that such as will lipe ouer style, befor they cumme at them, shall breake there shin, and perhaps not gitt ouer the still soe quickly, as those, who cumme to them, befor they goe ouer.
Many other things to this effect will occure to your
lorpe
upon better consideration then I could take, yet these occuring I could not omitte to suggest them. I beseech almighty god, that your
lorpe
may make the best use of them, to gods greatest glorie, and your owne temple. But now I will say some thinge
of the Inconuenience falinge by these lawes of the church of god,
wch
should have binne
regarded in the first place, but was not thought of, as it seemeth by the lawe. In
wch
First there is not any care at all taken, to promote the conuersion of the Indians. to prouide or to shew any fauor to Ecclesiasticall persons, or to preserue for the church the Immunitye and priueledges,
wch
she enioyeth euery where else;
But rather
Mr
Lugar seemeth to defend opinions here, that she hath noe
priualedges iure diuino. That bulls Canons and Casuists are little to be regarded in these cases, because they speake for themselues, as if others oposing them had noe selfe
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interest and therfor must know better what belongs to the church then she hirselfe. That Priueledge are not due to the church till the common wealths in
wch
the church is grante them. And therfor while they grante none,
I doubte that not only
Mr
Lugar, but also some others that I feare adhere to much to him,
conceaue that they may proceed
wth
Ecclesiasticall persons an
wth
others, and accordingly they seeme to resolue to bind them to all there lawes, and to exacte of them as of other, and in practice already they haue formerly granted warrants against some that dwell
wth
us, whom though the shrive (who hath formerly bin a purseuante, and is now a cheife protestante) desyred me to send him downe, Yet he added (euen befor the Gouernor if I be not mistaken) that he must otherwyse fech him downe.
Againe euen already befor your
lorpe
haue confirmed the lawes;
Mr
Lugar hath demaunded of me to be paid this yeere fifteene hundred weight of Tobacco towards the bulding a fort,
Wheras I dare boldly say that the whole Colony together neuer bestowed on me the worth of fiue hundred weight one would thinke that euen out of Gratitude, they might free us from such kinde of taxation easpecially seing, we put noe taxe upon them, but healpe them gratis, and healpe them also in such a manner, that I am sure they canne not complaine.
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Secondly by the new lawe we should relinquish what we haue, and then cast lotts in what place we shall chooce, and if our lott prooue ill, what we bane already may be chosen from us and soe we may beginne the world anew, and then ether we must loose all our buldinge, all our cleering, all our enclosures, and all our tennants, or else be forced to sitt freeholders, and to pay for euery hundred acres one barrell of corne wheras we are not yet in a little care to gitt bread.
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3dly Though we should haue the best lott; yet if we should choose Metapanian first, then we are sure to loose
Mr Gerards Mannor,
notwthstanding that we haue bought it at a deere raite, and if we permite this precident that Assemblys may alter mens rights; noe man shall shall neuer be sure of what he hath, but he that canne git most proxis in euery assembly shall dispose of any mans estate that he pleaseth,
wch is most unlawfull in the churches state, for any secular man to doe, and for ecclesiasticall persons to permite.
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4thly
Taking any Mannor, we must be trained as sooldeirs we must prouide munition, we must haue in euery mannor 15 freemen ready for the seruice of the country, whom we must also maintaine in time of seruice, and others things we should be subiecte to by these lawes,
wch would be uery unfitt for us.
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5tly It is expected that euery head plante two acres of Corne, wheras therfor already we find by experience that we canne not possibly employ halfe our number in planting, we must ether turne planters ourselues, or else be forced to be trenching upon this law and as more cumme in unlesse our men also increase we shall still trench more.
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6thly
We should not only loose our trade in Beauer and Corne, but euen for the come
wch we shall need to buy for bread, we must aske leaue, and if such as are to giue leaue should haue a desygne to monopolize the Corne, or for any other respects would be crose, upon what extremityes would the quickly cast us; really, I should be uery loth to liue at the curtesy of other men.
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7ly
Though I am resolued to take no land but under your
lorps title yet time may cumme, that perhaps
it would prooue noe small inconuenience, that a conuerted Indian Kinge may not giue to him to conuerteth soe much land as might suffice to buld a church or a house on, And I would desyre your
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lorpe to enquire whether any one that should goe aboute to restraine ecclesiasticall libertys in this points encurre not the excommunications of Bulla Cœnæ
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8ly
In euery Mannor 100 acres must be laid out for Gleabe lande, if then the intention should be to bind them to be pastors who enioy it, we must ether, by retaining soe much euen in our owne land undertake the office of Pastors, or lesse euen in our owne Mannor maintaine Pastors, both
wch to us would be uery Inconuenient.
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9ly
That it may be preuented that noe woman here uow chastety in the world, unlesse she marry
wth in seauen yeers after land fall to hit, she must ether dispose away of hir land, or else she shall forfeite it to the nexte of kinne, and if she haue but one Mannor, wheras she canne not alienaite it, it is gonne unlesse she git a husband. To what purpose this ole law is maid your
lorpe perhaps will see better then I for my parte I see greate difficultyes in it, but to what purpose I well see not.
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10ly
In the order sett downe for paiment of debts, I had not time to examine it, I desyn your
lorpe to girt it well pondered, for I doubte It runneth not right
wth that
wch is ordinarily prescribed by Casuits as iust.
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11ly
In the 34 law amonge the Enormous Crime One is Exercisinge iuridiction and
authoritye,
wthout lawfull power and commission diriued from the lord proprietarie. Herby euen by Catholiques a law is prouided to hange any catholique bishop that should cumme hither and also euery preist, if the exercise of his functions be interprited iuridiction or authority. Diuerse other things I doubte not but that. your
lorpe will obserue, when
wth better consideration then I haue donne, you shall reed ouer these lawes. Yet this may suffice to giue your
lorpe a Caution not to be inuolued in these grose ouersyghts.
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I hope that gods grace time and good instruction may by degrees make men here more sensable of god, and of his church and of the conuersion of Infidels hertofor soe much pretended But for the present gods cause is committed to your
lorps hands
And that your
lorpe
may be sure to proceed right therein, I beseech your
lorpe
befor you doe any thinge aboute these lawes, that you would be pleased to reed ouer and to ponder well the Bulla Cœnæ.
Secondly that in things concerninge the church your
lorpe
would take good aduise of the church.
Thirdly that your
lorpe
would be uery wary not to trench upon the church and where any thinge may seeme to trench, to use fitt præuention against the bad consequence. And to healpe to settle our quiet here. I beseech your
lorpe
to send me a priuate order, that we may while the gouerment is catholique enjoy thes priuiledges follow
The first that the church and our houses
may be Sanctuarie
The second that our selues and our domestique seruants,
and halfe at least of our
planting seruants, may be free from publique taxes and seruices,
And that the rest of our seruants
and
All their tennants as well as seruants he intimates heere ought to be exempted from the temporall gouerment. [
Note in Baltimore's hand.]
our tennants,
though exteriorly the doe as others in the Colony, Yet that in the manner of exacting or doing it, priuatly the custome of other catholiques countrye may be obserued as much as may be that catholiques out of bad practice cumme not to forgit those due respects
wch
they owe to god and his church.
The third is that though in publique we suffer our cause
to be heard and tryed by the publique magestrats, yet that in priuate they know, that they doe it but as arbitrators and defendors of the church because Ecclesiasticall iuridiction is not yet here setled.
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The fourth.
That in our owne persons and
wth
such as are needfull to assiste us, we
may freely goe, abide and liue amonge the Sauages,
wth
out any licence to be had here from the Gouernor, or any other.
lastly. that though we relinguish the use of many ecclesiasticall priueledge when we iudge it conuenient for satisfaction of the state at home, yet that it be left to our discretion to determine when this is requisite; and that we be suffered to enioy such other priueledges as we may
wth
out note.
And touching our temporaltyes. first I beseech
your
lorpe
that we may take up and keepe soe much lande, as in my former letters I acquainted your
lorpe
to be requisite for our present occasions, according to the first conditions
wch
we maid
wth
your
lorpe
and that albeit we now take not up neere our due, yet that herafter we may take it up when we find it fitt according to our aduentures. And if of that
wch
we now haue a parte proue conuenient to be laide out for a towne at
St
Maries, Be confidente that I will be as forwarde and free as any. Soe that things be carried in a faire and æquall manner. But I uerily belieue that if the lande be left in our hand, the place shall much sooner be bult on and planted, then if it be taken out.
In the trade I shall requeste that your
lorpe
performe soe much, as that we may employ one bote whensoever we shall not otherwyse use it,
My reason is, because of necessitye we must keepe a bote and when we use hir not, if we haue not this enploiment for hir we shall not be able to supporte hir charge. The thinge is uery necessarie for us, and not inconuenient to your
lorpe
whatsoeuer some ouer greedy to engrose this trade may suggest to the contrarie. I assure my selfe that your
lorpe
will not stande
wth
us for soe small a matter. The game I ualew uery little, but the conueniency uery much, and
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therfor I beseech your
lorpe
not to runne us into a greate inconuenience for a uery small or noe profitt to your selfe.
I desyre lykwyse from your
lorpe
a free Grante to buy corn
of the Indians
wthout
asking
leaue here, for endeed It will be a greate pressure to eate
our bread at there curtesye, who as yet I haue found but uery little curtuous. Certainly while the cheife of this Colony thus wholy neglect planting, and thinke on nothing but on a pedling trade certainly in the Colony, they will still make a scarcity of bread, and in that scarcity if we shall not be able to healpe ourselues nor the Colonye
wthout
there leaue, that make the want, many greate difficultyes may follow. Certainly I haue this yeere planted, much more, then the greatest parte of the Colonye besyde, and soe intende to continue what I am able, because endeed in planting I place my greatest hope, yet for some yeers I know that I must buy, and in buying there canne be noe inconuenience to your
lorpe
to grante me a generall licence. And therfor I trust that your
lorpe
will not denye it, and to encourage your
lorpe
to doe us fauour, this much I will be bold to tell your
lorpe
that though my principall intention be to serue your
lorpe
to the prime end,
wch
is the healpe of soules, yet in peopling and planting this place, I am sure that none haue donne neere soe much as we, nor endeed are lykly to doe soe much. We are resolued to liue and dye here under your
lorpe
wch
I thinke few others are. Sweete Jesus grante that all may be to his greatest glorie, and if to this your
lorpe
freely concurre, God I doubte not will also concurre
wth
your
lorpe
and for this blesse the rest,
wch
I beseech him to doe
wth
as many Blessings as he wisheth who will euer be
Your
lorpe
serious well wisher and seruant
T. C.
S. Maries this 3 of Aprill
1638.
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Since the writing of the former letter I am told that
Mr
Lugar defends
publiquely in the Colony, that an assembly may dispose here of
any mans lands or goods as it please if this weare once bruted and belieued I conceaue that none would ether cumme or abide here, easpecially where if any factious working man canne but procure an ouerswaing number of Voices by Proxes, he shall undoe whome he please, and none shall be sure of any thinge that he hath, seeing experience hath shewed that one
that would labor for it,
may quickly git such a faction and such an ouerswaing uoice of Proxis that he may carry what he will really I much feare, that this ouerbusye stirringe to many new querks and deuises, will neuer doe your
lorpe
nor the Colony good. I pray god it doe not much harme, according to the old prouerbe that a busye man neuer wants Woe.
NO. 8.
THOMAS CORNWALEYS TO LORD BALTIMORE.
16 Aprill 1638
Mr
Tho: Cornwaleys to me from
St
Maries
Right
Holl
I receaued
yr
Letr
dated the 25: of May last for
wch
and
yr
therein nobly proffered favoures, I should before this time haue retourned humble thanks, had I not hoped in person toe haue kist
yr
hands this yeere in England. But
yr
Lops
Service and the pretended Good of Maryland, would not permit mee toe provide for my Journy, nor yet toe follow my owne affayres when my best dilligence had beene most vrgently
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needefull for the Accomodating of them toe my best Advantage.
Wch
how preiud
itiall it proued toe mee heere Capt: Anthony
Hopson whoe with his Ship was then vpon his departure from hense can partly informe you if you suppose it worth the questioning,
And what it may bee in England should my wiues tooe probable indisposition disenable her from manageing my affayres there,
yr
Lop
: may Imagin.
Yet I think non can say that my Pryvate Interrest made mee much repine at the Authorety that co?anded mee, nor negligently Execute what was expected from mee,
wch
though it proued nothing soe difficult or dangerouse as was Imageined, yet I suppose the Easy effecting of the busynes, doth not deminish the desert of good Desires, but may
pas for noe impertinent demonstration, of my reall respects toe
yr
Lops
Service,
notwithstanding the many Sugiestions made toe you of the Contrary, of
wch
were I Guilty more then I supposed Honor and Contiens did oblige mee, I should not I feare haue the Humillety toe deny it, obstinasy beeing allwayse the effect of self conceited opinions, of
wch
I hope I am soe Innocent that if youre
Lop:
or any other can Accuse mee for wilfully swarueing from that vnblameable rule by
wch
I pretend toe Guide myself and my Actions I am soe far from Perrentory persisting in my Error, As I will not only Acknowledg my fault, but allsoe make what satisfaction the Iniured Party can Expect from my vtmost Abillety. Nor can I think but I haue reason toe Expect the like from others,
And therefore I hope what Agreement soe ever
yr
Lop:
makes with Capt: Clayborne you will eyther Include such A Satisfaction for the Damages I receaued by him, as shall bee worthe my Acceptance, or leaue mee roome toe seeke it myself.
Wch
I assure him I will not fayle toe doe if ever wee meete where there is hope of Impartiall Justice, as I promised his Agents when they had basely betrayde mee. On of whom now Lyes at yr mercy for
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his Life,
And
wch
is Strange I am A Suter for his Pardon out of meere Charety
towards his Poore wife and Children.
Wch
are reasons that would induce mee toe doe the Like for theyre Cheefe Capt: did bee stand in the Like circumstances, As I doubt not but hee will if hee gayne not A quietus from his
Maty:
or yr Lop: for how wee haue proceeded agaynst him heere you will see by the Act made for his Atayneture,
wch
comes for yr
Lops
Confirmation with many others among
wch
if there were non more vnjust, I should bee as Confydent toe see this same A happy Common wealthe as I am now of the Contrary if yr
Lop
bee not more wary in Confirmeing then wee haue beene wire in Proposeing. Therefore I beseeche yr Lop: for his Sake whose honor you and wee doe heere pretend, and whoe at Last must Judg
wth
what Sincerety wee haue discharged it, That you from whose Consent they must receaue the bindeing fors of Lawes, will not permit the Least Clawes toe pas that shall not first bee throughly Scand and resolued by wise Learned and Religious Divines toe bee noe waise prejuditiall toe the Immunettyes and Priveledges of that Church
wch
is the only true Guide toe all Eternall Happines, of
wch
wee shall shew oureselues the most vngratefull members that ever shee nourished, if in requiteall of those many favors and Blessings that shee and her devoute Servants haue obtayned for vs, wee attempt toe depriue her or them, of more then wee can giue them or take from them, with out paying such A Price as hee that Buyes it will repent his Bargayne. What are her Greevances, and how toe bee remedyed, you will I doubt not vnderstand at Large from those whoe are more knowing in her rights and Consequently more sensyble of her Iniuryes then such an Ignorant Creature as I am. Wherefore now all that belongs toe mee, is only toe importune yr.
Lop:
in whose powre t'is yet toe mend what wee haue done Amis, toe bee most Carefull in preserueing his Honor whoe must
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Preserue both you and Maryland. Perhaps this fault hath beene permitted in vs as A favoure toe yr
Lop
whereby you may declare the Sincerety of yr: first pyouse pretence for the Planting of this desert Province,
wch
will bee toe much doubted of if you should take Advantage of oure Ignorant and vncontionable proceedeings toe Assume more then wee can Justly giue you. And for A Little Imaginary Honor, throw yr self vs and yr Country out of that protection
wch
hath hithertoe preserued and Prospered that and vs beyound Humaine Expectation;
wch
noe doubt will bee continued if wee Continue as wee ought, toe bee, I never yet heard of any that Lost by beeing bountyfull toe God or his Church, then let not
yr
Lop
feare toe bee the first. Giue vntoe God what doth belong toe him, and doubt not but Cesar shall receaue his due. If
yr
Lop
thinks mee tooe teadious in A discourse not proper toe the Part that I doe Act, my Interest in the whole Action must excuse mee, Sylence would perhaps make mee Supposed Accessary toe these dangerouse Positions,
wch
is soe far from my Intention, that as I now declare toe youre
Lop
and shall not feare toe doe the like toe all the world if it bee necessary, I will rather Sacrifice myself and all I haue in the defence of Gods Honor and his Churches right, then willingly Consent toe anything that may not stand with the Good Contiens of A Real Catholick.
Wch
resolution if yr
Lop
doe not allsoe make good by A Religious Care of what you send over Authorised by yr Consent, I shall with as much Convenient speede as I can with draw myself, and what is Left of that
wch
I brought with mee, out of the Danger of beeing involud in the ruein
wch
I shall infallibly expect.
Yr
Lop
knowes my Securety of Contiens was the first Condition that I expected from this Government,
wch
then you thought soe Inocent as you Conceaved the proposition
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alltogether impertinent, But now I hope you will perceaue the Contrary. Nor were it difficult out of the Lawes sent over by
yr
Lop,
or these that are from hence proposed toe you, toe finde Just grounds for toe feare the Introdusement of Lawes preiuditiall toe oure honors and freedome
witnes that on Act whereby wee are exposde to A remediles Suffering of all Disgraces and Insolensyes that eyther the Pastion or Mallis of Suckseeding
Gors
shall please toe put vpon vs,
with out beeing permitted soe much as A Lawfull defence for the secureing of Life or reputation though never soe vniustly Attempted toe bee taken from vs, with out forfeyteing the same and all wee haue too boote. This and many other Absurdetyes I doubt not but yr Lop: will finde and Correct vpon the peruseall of oure Learned Lawes, Among
wch
there is on that Confirmes the trade with the Indians for all Comodetyes toe bee exported vntoe yr
Lop:
by
wch
there is now in you an vndoubted Powre for toe ratefy yr first Conditions with the first Adventurers,
wch
I doubt not but
yr
Lop
will performe toe theyre Content, whereby they may bee better Enabled and more obliged toe prosecute the good work they haue begun toe God's Honor and
yr
Lops
Proffitt. for my part I will not deny myself toe bee perhaps on of the meanest deseruers among them, vnless desires might pas for merritts and then I durst compare with him that wisheth best toe Maryland. As I haue endeavored toe manifest by all exprestions that haue come within my reach, nor will I yet desist from doeing soe, if I may bee soe happy as toe see this differens betwixt the Church and Government well reconsiled agayne. And yr
Lop
at
Peace with the first Adventurers whoe are I perceaue noe whit satisfyed with theyre Last Conditions for the Trade, Theyre
harts haueing it seems not seconded theyre hands in the Agreement, but some for loue some for
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feare some by Importunety and the rest for Company consented toe what they now repine toe stand toe, nor can I blame them for tis impossible they can bee sauers by it.
Wch
made mee refuse toe beare them Company, and therefore am I now the only Supposed Enemy toe yr
Lops
Proffitt,
wch
I disclayme from vnless there bee an Antipothy betwixt that and my Subcistance on this Place. yr Lop: knowes I came not hither for toe plant Tobacco But haue toe my noe Little Preiudice hithertoe imployde myself and Servants in Publick works.
The building of the mill was I Assure yr. Lop: A vast Charge vntoe mee,
for besides the Labor of all my owne servants for two yeeres, I was at the Charge of divers Hirelings at 100: weight of Tob: the monthe with dyet when Corne was at 2: and 300 weight the Barrell, all
wch
besides divers materialls for it at Excessive rates is all vtterly lost by the Ignorance of A fooleish milwright whoe set it vpon A Streame that will not fill soe much in six weekes as will grinde six bushells of Corne, soe that myself nor the Colony is any whit the better for all the payns and Cost I haue beene at aboute it; yet doe I not deserue the les of Maryland, for I spared noe Cost nor labor for toe make good toe the vtmost what was Expected from mee, nor will I yet desert it for if I bee not tooe much discouraged by youre
Lop
I intend toe bestow on
100b
or 2: more in remoueing of it toe a better Streame, if I can but see such A number in the Colony as will mayntayne A mill with Greeste
in the meane time I am building of A house toe put my head in, of sawn Timber framed A story and half hygh, with A seller and Chimnies of brick toe Encourage others toe follow my Example,
for hithertoe wee Liue in Cottages, and for my part I haue not yet had Leysure toe Attend my pryvate Conveniensy nor Proffitt
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is not a Little necessary for mee, haueing run myself and fortune
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allmost out of breathe in Pursute of the Publick good as I doubt not but it will appeere heereafter toe all impartiall Judgments, for I think allready few in the Colony will deny but that the Generallety was Les in debt, necessary Goods more Plentifull and better Cheape, when I only supplyed them, and that at the worst hand with goods bought at the Virginian rates, then now they are, when the Country doth abounde with many Dealers. for
wch
though I am sorry in respect of the Publick Penury, yet I cannot but Acknowledg it as A great favor of Allmighty Gods toe mee, since by it is manifested that had I had noe better motiue then the gayne I made, I should never haue put myself toe the Charge paynes and dangers that I under went in the busines. Though I know the Contrary was generally beleeued in England, where I was soe much behoulding toe the Charety, or rather Iniured by the mallis of some good People, as toe bee reported for A most vncontionable Extortioner of
wch
Sin were I guilty I feare I should not soe willingly desist from farther dealeing as now I doe, for seldome or never have I heard or seene Covetousnes decrease with Age, And yet I thank God I finde noe propention toe continue the troble, though I neyther perceaue my Debters or Creditors weary of my dealeing, but myself weary of the busynes And am therefore vnwindeing myself from these mecannick negotiations as fast as I can recover in my debts, That others may haue roome toe win what I haue lost by Maryland, nor will I Grudge toe see the Suckses answer theyre Expectation, Provided that the Place may thriue as well as they, for I profes myself soe reall A well wisher towards it, That all Pryvate respects are vndervallued if they Stand in Competition with the Publick good. Though I think non hath had les encouragement toe continue theyre good wills toe that or youre
Lops
Service then myself. It
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beeing thought tooe much after all the Labors and Dangers that I haue run through, and all the Costs and Charges that I haue been att, that I should share in any Proffitts that the Place affords, though for the mayntayneing of myself and famely vpon the Place I haue hithertoe yeerely Exhausted soe great A part of A Poore younger brothers fortune, as if I continue it with out some releeue it must needes in time make me vncapable of doeing good toe that or myself. Toe prevent
wch
I was this yeere determined toe haue waighted vpon
yr
Lop
in England,
and on way or other toe haue Concluded this fateall difference aboute the Trade.
for my Lord I may properly vse the words of the Ghospell, I cannot Digg and to Begg I am Ashamed, if therefor
yr
Lop
nor
yr
Country will afford mee noe other way toe support the great Expenses that I haue beene and dayly am at for my Subcistans heere, but what I must fetch out of the Grounde by Planting this Stincking weede of America, I must desert the Place and busynes,
wch
I confes I shall bee loth toe doe, soe Cordiall A lover am I of them both, yet if I am forst toe it by discourteous Iniuries I shall not weepe at parting nor despayre toe finde heauen as neere toe other parts as Maryland. But I will first doe my Endeavor toe Compose things soe as non shall say heereafter that I lost A right I bought soe deere through negligens or Ignorans. Other mens Imaginations are hoe infallible presidents toe mee, nor will the multitude of names nor Scales, moue mee toe bee A foole for Company, for what in them was only Inadvertens, non would tearm less then foolery in mee,
whoe might or ought toe know by experiens, that it is impossible toe Comply with the Conditions mentioned in the Lease and bee A Sauer by them.
And yet for my refuseing toe doe like the rest I doubt not but I am Sugiested the only Antagonist toe yr
Lops
Proffitt. When if
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the thing were rightly vnderstood you would Acknowledg that I haue done you more right then myself, by not Subscribeing toe what I should never haue intended willingly toe performe, there wanting not meanes by the neighbourhood of virginia toe haue Easely Avoyded it. Soe that the Event would haue been insteade of the Expected Proffit, the los of the best part of the trade,
wch
would haue been drawne out of yr Territoryes by yr own Subjects, whoe beeing there by forst toe shelter themselues vnder another Government, and findeing perhaps A Little Sweetnes in it, would quickly grow toe such an Avertion agaynst this Supposed oprestion, As nothing would bee more hatefull toe them then you and
yr
Authorety, And Consequently non soe forward toe depres both that and you, as those that otherwise would bee Zealous Defenders of you both. Had my owne right hoe referens toe these reasons my Single opposition would haue Appeered more meritorious then blameable, nor would that alter the Case did you but vnderstand how little my pryvate Proffit would haue beene preiudised by it. All the Inconveniens that I can reflect on toe myself, would haue beene my fetching the Truck, and carrying what beaver I could get, from and toe Virginia without bayting at St. Maryes. for I think non of the Adventurers would haue grudged mee A little share with them, or at Least denyed toe wink at my proceedeings if they had met mee, but rather perhaps haue done the like themselues, and where then had beene yr
Lops
pretended proffitt. But these are my Lord wayse soe Contrary toe my disposition, as I scorn toe profes the practiseing. I protest toe yr
Lop
that I am Ashamed toe heare Strangers sometimes take notis of what I haue done and suffered for you and youre Country, and yet toe conclude that neyther my person nor my Estate is secure from Iniury if
I
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venture for toe trade in Maryland, without beeing behoulding toe my Servants Secresy, or goeing with as much Cawtion as if I stoale what I gott.
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poore kinde of proceedeing is so distastfull toe mee that though I haue beene (for Avoydeing greater Inconvenienses) contented for A time toe stoope vnder the burthen, yet am I soe weary of the weight as deemeing it tooe vnworthy of my Longer Patiens that I am resolued toe desert the Place,
if neyther the right of my first Adventure, nor the Suekceedeing Exprestions of my fidellety toe yr Service and yr Countryes good can merrit
soe much favoure from
yr
Lop
as toe permit mee freely for toe rent at least soe much yearely as I ventured before I knew whether I should win or loose by the Bargayne. The Proffit of tradeing 60: pounde
pr
: yeere
wch
is the sum I shall bee satisfyed with all, if you shall not think fit toe enlarge it out of yr owne noblenes as an Encouragement toe my future deserts, will vndoubtedly never make mee rich, nor am I ambitious of it, I neuer yet pretended for toe get by Maryland, all I desire is but A help toe keepe mee from Sinking, as you may see by the reasonablenes of my request,
wch
yet if yr
Lop
please toe grant without farther troble toe y??elf or mee, I shall take it as the greatest exprestion of yr
Lops
favoure towards mee that ever yet I could boast of. And accordingly by A reall desire to deserue the Continueance Endeavor toe expres A respectiue Acknowledgment of yr readines toe doe mee right
wch
if I can gayne A fayre way and youre
Lops
favoure toe boote, it were tooe greate A disrespectiuenes in mee for toe Attempt the Contrary. If now therefore the Suckses answers not my Expectation I cannot help it whoe haue done my part toe let you see how desireous I am toe Avoyde all Publick disputes with you or yr. Authorety, whilst I am A poore member of yr Colony. What Course the rest of the first Adventurers will steere I know
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not, for I am Left toe guide my Bark Alone nor would I willingly bee otherwise, vnles wee could vnite oure Harts as well as Purses,
wch
not beeing fesible, I despayre of ever doeing good in partnerships, and am therefore resolued toe haue noe more Interest in Co?on Stocks. yet will I not bee much preiuditiall toe those that will, for what I promice eyther for price or quantety shall not fayle toe bee most punctually performed, only I love toe bee the manager of my owne Affayres,
wch
favoure if youre
Lop
please toe grant mee I shall not care for other Approbation. Newes I know yr.
Lop
lookes for non but what Concernes the Co?onwealth of Maryland in
wch
what I am defectiue
I doubt not but yr. Secretary will Supply whoe is as quick as I am Slow in writeing, and therefore in that part A verry fit Subiect for the place hee bears,
And if hee proues not tooe Stiff A maintayner of his owne opinions, and Somewhat tooe forward in Sugiesting new busineses for his owne imployment, hee may perhaps doe God and yr
Lop
: good Service heere I should bee Sorry toe
Change
Mr
Hawley for him, whoe I perceaue stands not soe perfect in yr
Lops
: favoure as I could wish him
wch
perhaps some takeing Advantage at, and willing for toe fish in trobled waters, may by discourteous proceedeings towards him make him weary of vnproffitable Maryland, And fors him toe A Change more for his peace and Proffit.
As Doubtles virginia would bee toe him if hee make good what bee hath vndertaken,
of
wch
I see hoe other Likelihood if hee haue not left his worst Enemies behinde him, Among
wch
number I am Sorry
toe see such probabillety of yr
Lops
beeing on as I perceaue there is. What reasons
you haue for it is vnknowne toe mee, nor doe I presume toe Judg where the fault is, All that I wish as A Poore friende of his, is that yr
Lop
rightly vnderstood him for from thens I verrely beleeue doth flow those Jealosyes that I
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preceaue are risen betwixt you,
wch
beeing increast by misapprehentions of Contentious Spirits must certaynely if not in time prevented by some Charitable reconsiliation breake forth with such vyolens as will endanger the noe little preiudice of on or both of you. I Assure yr
Lop
: did I know any Just Cause toe Suspect his Sinserety toe Maryland, or the designe wee come vpon, I should not bee soe Confydent of his Innosence in deserueing toe ill from you or this Place. I cannot my Lord Suppose A little verball vehemensy vttered in the defens of A mans owne Supposed right, Suffitient toe Conclude him guilty of looseing all former respects toe greater obligations,
wch
if it bee soe greate A Crime I am toe seeke where I should finde on that would bee free when hee Supposeth his right vniustly questioned. I must confes I cannot pleade not guilty, and yet I doubt not but my greatest Enemies doe really beleeue mee for toe bee as I am A most vnfayned friende toe Maryland.
And soe I am confident will
Mr
Hawley Appeere if you will glue him time and ocation for toe manifest it, and not by vyolent discourtesyes vpon vncertaine suppositions fors him toe Change his good intentions
yr
Lop
: knowes how many difficultyes hee past in England, nor hath hee beene exempt from the like in these parts, and therefore hee is not too bee blamed for laying howld of some probable way toe repayre his many misfortunes, there beeing noe Antipothy betwixt that and the continueing of his respects vntoe yr.
Lop
. Well may the dischargeing of the office hee hath vndertaken invite him sometimes toe Looke towards Virginia, but certaynely not with preiudice toe Maryland, from whens hee receaues the greatest Comforts that the world affords him both for Sowle and body the on from the Church the other from his wife. whoe by her comportment in these difficult affayrs of her husbands, hath manifested as much virtue and
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discrestion as can bee expected from the Sex she owes, whose Industrious huswifery hath soe Adorned this Desert,
that should his discouragements fors him toe withdraw himself and her, it would not A Little Eclips the Glory of Maryland.
Thus haue I my Lord at large According toe my Capacety commended toe yr noble Consideration such Greevanses as for the present I am most sensible of, toe
wch
I hope toe receaue soe
satisfactory an answer from yr.
Lop
: as will Encourage mee toe A resolution of fixing my Earthly Tabernacle in Maryland.
Though I am now prepareing for A visit the next yeere intoe England, where I will Supply what is heere wanting concerning the
affayres of Maryland.
wch
now wants A Commander for Martiall Cause
I haveing vpon my determination of goeing this yeere for England Surrendered it vp and am loth for soe short A time toe take it Agayne,
nevertheles at yr
Lops
request, I shall if the Governor commands mee see that the Publick shall not Suffer
for want of Such poore Instructions as I can giue them, whilst I am resident among them, or that some other more able man discharge mee of the Care. In the mean time as I haue ever been A Reall Defender of yr.
Lops
right, Soe may you bee Confydent that I will continue. As beeing desirous in all Just wayes toe manyfest myself
Youre really respectiue freind and Servant
Tho: Cornwaleys
from
St
Maryes this
6th
of Aprill 1638.
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No. 9.
GOV. LEONARD CALVERT TO LORD BALTIMORE.
[Indorsement.]
25 Aprill 1638 My Bro: Leonard to me. from Virginea. the taking of the Ile of Kent Palmers Iland what number of people & earle vpon them. Portobacke. Cedar redd-bird matts & Lyon.
Good Brother:
I haue endeauored this last winter to bring the Inhabitants of the Ile of Kent willingly to submit themselues to your gouernement and to incourage them therevnto I wrote vnto them a letter in Nouember, where amongst other motiues I vsed to perswade them, I promised to free them from all question of any former contempts they had committed against you, so that they would from thence forward desist from the like and submit themselues to the
gouernment
and to shew them greater fauor I gaue them the choice to name whom they would of the Inhabitants of the Ileand to be theire commaunder; but one Jhon Butler Cleybornes brother in law and one Tho: Smith an agent of Cleybornes vpon Kent was of such power amongst them that they perswaded them still to continue in theire former contumacie vpon notice giuen me hereof, I presently appointed
Capt
Euelin Commander
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of the Ileand
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formerly I purposely omitted because he was had in a generall dislike amongst them, him they contemned and committed many Insolencies against; wherefore findeing all faire meanes I could vse to be in vaine, and that no way but compulsion was left, I gathered togeather about twenty musketteers out of the Colony of
St
Maries and appointing the command of them to
Capt
Cornewallis whom I toocke as my assistant
wth
me, I sat saile from
St
Maries towards Kent about the latter end of November, intending to apprehend Smith and Butler if I could, and by the example of theire
punishmt
to reduce the rest to obedience, but it beeing then farre in the winter, the windes were so cross and the weather so fowle in the bay, that after I had remayned a week vpon the water I was forct to returne back and deferre that expedition vntill some fitter tyme, two months affter in the beginning of ffebruarie I was giuen to vnderstand that the Indians at the head of the bay called the Sasquahannoughs intended in the spring following to make warre vpon vs at
St
Maries pretending revenge for our assisting of our neighbors Indians against them two yeares before (
wch
we neuer did though they will needs thinck so) and that they were incouraged much against vs by Thomas Smith who had transplanted himselfe
wth
other English from the Ile of Kent the last summer to an Ileand at the head of the bay fower miles below the falls called Palmers Ileand and vnderstanding likewise that they had planted and fortified themselues there by directions from
Capt
Cleybourne
wth
intent to liue there independent of you (because they supposed it out of the limits of your Prouince) and that the
sd
Smith and
Mr
Botler whom I haue formerly mentioned was then preparing to carrie a farther supply from Kent both of men and necessaries to the
sd
Ileand; I thought it expedient to stop theire proceedings in
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the beginnings, and for that purpose haueing aduised
wth
the councell about the busines I sat forth from
St
Maries for the Ile of Kent
wth
thirtie choice musketteers takeing
Capt
Cornewalleis and Capt: Euelin in my company to
Capt
Cornew: I appointed the command of those Soldiers I carried
wth
me, and afterward arriuing at the
sd
Ileand I landed
wth
my company a little before sunne rise, at the southermost end thereof where
Capt
Cleybornes howse is seated
wthin
a small ffort of Pallysadoes, but findeing the gate towards the sea at my comeing fast barred in the inside one of my company beeing acquainted
wth
the place quickly fownd passage in at an other gate and commeing to the gate
wch
I was at opened vnto me, so that I was arriued and entered the fort
wthout
notice taken by any of the Ileand
wch
I did desire, the easilier to apprehend Boteler and Smith the cheife incenduaries of the former seditions and mutinies vpon the Ileand, before they should be able to make head against me, and vnderstanding that Boteler and Smith were not then at the fort but at theire seuerall plantations I sent to all the lodgeings in the fort and caused all the persons that were fownd in them to be brought vnto me thereby to preuent theire giueing vntymely notice vnto Boteler and Smith of my commeing, and takeing them all alongst
wth
me I marched
wth
my company from thence
wth
what speed I could towards Botelers dwelling called the great thicket some fiue miles from the fort and appointed my Pinnass to meet me at an other Place called Craford, and makeing a stand about halle a mile short of the place, I sent my Ensigne one
Mr
Clerck (that came once
wth
Mr
Copley) from England)
wth
tenne musketteires to Butler to acquaint him that I was come vpon the Ileand to settle the gouernement thereof and commaund his present repaire vnto me at Craford two miles distant from thence,
wch
the
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Ensigne accordingly did and brought Boteler vnto me before I remoued from where he left me, after I had thus possessed myselfe of him I sent my Serieant one Robert Vaugham
wth
six musketteires to Thomas Smiths who liued at a place called beauer neck right against Boteler on the other side of a Creeck
wth
like commands as I had formerly giuen for Boteler, and then marching forward
wth
your Ensigne displayed to Craford by the tyme I was come thither Smith was brought vnto me where haueing both the cheife delinquents against you I first charged them
wth
theire crimes and afterward committed them Prisoners aboard the Pinnass I came in and appointed a gard ouer them, after I caused a proclamation to be made of a generall pardon to all other the Inhabitants of the Ileand excepting Boteler and Smith for all former contempts against you that should
wthin
lower and twenty howers after the proclaiming of the same come in and submit themselues to your gouernement wherevpon
wthin
the time appointed the whole Ileand came in and submitted themselues, haueing receiued theire submission, I exorted them to a faithfull continuance of the same, and encouraged them thereto by assureing them how ready you would be alwayes vpon theire deserts to condescend to any thing for theire goods: Afterward I gaue order for the carrieing of Boteler and Smith to
St
Maries in the Pinnass I came in, and
wth
them sent most of the Soldiers as a gard vpon them commaunding them to be deliuered into the custody of the sheriffe at
St
Maries vntill my returne and my Pinnass to returne to the Ileand to me, where till my Pinnasses returne I held a court and heard and determined diuerse causes between the Inhabitants, at the end of the
sd
court I assembled all the Inhabitants to make choise of theire delegates to be present for them at a generall assembly then held at
St
Maries for the makeing of Lawes
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they
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accordingly did, and before my departure from them I gaue them to vnderstand that euery man that held or desired to hold any land in the Ileand, it was necessarie they should take pattents of it vnder the seale of the Prouince as holding it of you
wch
they were all very desireous of, so that some tyme this summer I promised to come to the Ileand and bring
Mr
Lewger
wth
me to suruay and lay out theire lands for them and then to pass grants vnto th? of it, reserueing onely such rents and seruices to you as the law of the Prouince should appoint there is vpon the
Ileand about one hundred and twentie men able to beare armes as neer as I could gather of the women and children I can make no estimate,
in conclusion appointing the command of the Ileand to three of them, vist: to
Mr
Robert Philpot as commaunder and Willi? Cox and Tho: All? ioynt commissioners
wth
him I departed for
St
Maries, where after my arriuall I called a grand inquest vpon Smith who fownd a bill against him for Pyracie, wherevpon he was arraigned before the assembly and by th? condemned to suffer death and forfeit, as by a particular act for that purpose assented vnto by the whole howse and sent vnto you, you will perceiue; I haue omitted as yet to call
Mr
Boteler to his tryall, because I am in hopes by shewing fauor vnto him to make him a good member, but I haue not as yet released him, though I haue taken him out of the sheriffes custody into my owne howse where I intend to haue him remayne vntill I haue made farther experience of his disposition and if I can win him to a good inclination to your Seruice, I shall thinck him fittest to take the commaund of the Ile of Kent; for those others
wch
haue now that charge from me are very vnable for it, nor is there better to be fownd vpon the Ileand, but least (Boteler demeaning himselfe otherwise then well) and that I should finde cause to thinck him fitter to be punished then
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pardoned there should want meanes to giue him condigne punishment for all his former offences; I desire you would send ouer an act the next yeare
wth
your assent thereto, to be proposed to an assembly in Maryland for theire assent censureing Boteler as Smith was for Pyracie
wch
he committed at the head of the bay neer Palmers Ileand in the yeare 1635 vpon a Pinnasse belonging to
St
Maries by takeing and a great quantitie of trucking commodities from Jhon Tomkins and serieant Robert Vaughan who had the charge of her and togeather
wth
the
sd
Pinnass and goodes carried the
sd
Tomkins and Vaughan prisoners to Kent. Smith hath solicited you I suppose by his letters for his pardon but I shall desire you that you would leaue it to me to do as I shall finde him to deserue; whereby (if it be possible he should be the better for it) it will take better effect
wth
him when he shall continue at my mercie vnder whose eye he is: Palmers Ileand beeing already seated and fortifyed and a good stock of cattle to the number of thirteen head put vpon it, I thought not good to supplant but vnderstanding there were fiue men inhabiting it seruants to
Capt
Cleyborne and formerly vnder the command of Smith I sent serieant Robert Vaugham and two others
wth
him from
St
Maries to set downe there and to the sd: Vaugham gaue the commaund of all the rest, and by reason
Capt
Cleyborne hath been attainted of ffelony in the last assembly at
St
Maries by particular act and sentenced to forfeit all his estate in the Prouince I gaue Vaugham authoritie to take the seruants and other goodes and chattles belonging to Cleyborne vpon the Ileand, into his charge and to haue them forth commeing when they shall be demaunded of him togeather
wth
what profitt shall be made by the serieants labors. I am informed that vpon occasion of discourse giuen before
Sr
Jhon Haruey
Mr
Kempe and
Mr
Hawley by
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Mr
Boteler whether Palmers Ile were
wthin
the Prouince of Maryland or no
Mr
Hawley did so weackly defend your title to it that Boteler grew more confident of proceeding in planting it for his Brother Cleyborne and I haue some reason to thinck that
Mr
Hawley did willingly let your title fall for some designe sake of his owne vpon trade
wth
the Sasquahannoughs
wch
he might conceiue better hopes to advance by its depenice on Virginia then on Maryland. for when I sat in counsell at
St
Maries about the expedition I made to Kent to stop the proceedings of that designe of Boteler and Smiths planting it, he earnestly diswaded it by suggesting all the reasons he could to make your title doubtfull to it the Ileand and then how vnlawfull an act it would be to hinder theire planting it, and though it was made appeare that theire seating there was most dangerous to the Colony at
St
Maries by reason that they had incouraged the Indians to set vpon vs and might hereafter furnish them
wth
gunns to our further harme if we should suffer them to proceed, whereas otherwise Boteler and Smith beeing remoued we might hope to make a peace
wth
those Indians yet it seemed some designe he had upon theire setting downe there was so deare vnto him that he preferred it before the safetie of all vs and his owne family beeing included in the daunger, and would needs haue perswaded it to be in Virginia though the express words of your pattent limits the Prouince to the northward where New England ends but it is apparent that the Iland is
wthin
your Prouince for the line of fortie by Smiths map by
wch
the Lords Refferies lade out the bonds lyeth right ouer the first falls and this Ileand is fowre miles to the sowtherd below those falls as I can witnes for I was there the last summer and obserued it. I beleeue the faire promises
wch
he made you in England wh? you procured the
prefermt
he hath in Virginia
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how vsefull he would proue to your Colony by it, will neuer be performed by him for nothing moueth him but his owne ends and those he intendeth wholly to remoue from Maryland and place th? in Virginia, and intendeth shortly to remoue his wife and family thither, I am sorry it was your ill fortune to be a meanes of so much good to him who is to ingratefull for it, for he disclaimes that he euer sought your help or had any from you towards his
prefermt
for he thincketh you did not so much as know he pretended to the place he hath nor that you knew he had it vntill a long tyme after it was passed vnto him thus
Capt
Cornewallis telleth me hath heard him say, and he is of such greeuance vnto the Gouernor and Secretarie of Virginia that they promise to themselues nothing but ruine by his draweing all the perquisites of theire two places from them, and do therefore wonder that you would be the meanes of procureing such a place for him, they do both intend by theire letters to solicite your help for the remoueing him and it were well for both Colonies that he were, for he can not haue less power, then too much in that Colony
wch
(by impouerishing
Sr
Jhon Haruey and draweing from him and the secretarie the execution of all the cheife seruices
wch
the Kings proffitts and the peoples estates hath dependencie on he will bring vnto himselfe; so that Maryland wherein it shall haue occasion to vse Virginia is like shortly to seeck for it onely to him where there is nothing to be hoped for but what is vnseruiceable to his owne ends and nothing scapeth his designmt though it be neuer so much beyond his reach to compass.
The body of lawes you sent ouer by
Mr
Lewger I endeauored to haue had passed by the assembly at Maryland but could not effect it, there was so many things vnsuteable to the peoples good and no way conduceing to your proffitt
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that being they could not be exempted from others
wch
they willingly would haue passed they were desireous to suspend them all, the particular exceptions
wch
were made against them
Mr
Lewger hath giuen you an account of in his dispatches to you: others haue been passed in the same assembly and now sent vnto you
wch
I am perswaded will appear vnto you to prouide both for your honor and proffitt as much as those you sent vs did. the trade
wth
the Indians they wholly exempted themselves from and leaft it to you, onely
Capt
Cornewallis I haue promised should not want the most I could say vnto you to procure leaue for him that he might rent three twenty pownds shares in it yearely so long as he is a member of your Colony,
wch
I did as well to decline his hindrance of passing the whole to you, as also to giue him incouragement for the many seruices, he hath done you in the Colony, for though it hath been his fortune and myne to haue had some differences formerly yet in many things I haue had his faithfull assistance for your seruice and in nothing more then in the expedi??n to Kent this last winter.
I would not wish you (now it is in your hands to dispose of) to intrest too many sharers in it for that hath been hitherto the distruction both of the trade and the traders, for they neuer agreeing to trade ioyntly did by theire severall trade preuent on an others marcket and by ouer bidding the prise for beauer dayly spoyled the trade whereas if it had been in one hand, or in so many as would have ioyned, it might haue made some profit to the aduenturers but in the way it hath been hitherto they that haue vsed it hath reaped nothing but losse, wherefore if you shall thinck good to let me haue any share in it I desire you would not interest any other besides
Capt
Cornewalleis, for there is none else in Maryland that knoweth what belongeth to the trade
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and therefore are not like to ioyne in the waves
wch
are most expedient for the good of it. if you would let it out to vs two for two or three yeares, rent free, I am perswaded it would be brought to such a state by the way we should bring it in that it would be farre more profittable and certaine then euer it was for hereafter or if you thinck good to vse it all yourselfe and send ouer truck for it I shalbe ready to do you the best seruice I can but you must cause boates and hands to be procured of your owne here and not put yourselfe to hyer them for that will eat you out of all your profitt if not your principall and you must designe to place ffactories as soone as you can on shore in some conuenient places whereto the trade may be drawne for the way of boating it though the boates be a mans owne is very chargeable and vncertaine. I haue deliuered some Tobaccoes to
Mr
Lewger but whether it be sufficient or too much to ballance the accounts I am to passe I can not yet tell for I haue not had tyme since his commeing to make them vp it is not for any profitt to myselfe that I haue purposely delayed it, (as I hope you will do me so much right as to beleeue) but for want of Leisure from the publike seruices of the Colony and the necessarie loockeing after some meanes of my owne subsistance
wch
is so difficult to compass here as it requireth much tyme and labor. I meane this summer to pass all manner of accounts that are between you and me vnto
Mr
Lewger, for I haue disposed of all my other businesses so, as I may haue sufficient leisure to do it in.
Mr
Lewger is a very seruiceable and diligent man in his secretaries place in Maryland, and a very faithfull and able assistant to me
the cedar you writt for by him I could not procure to send this yeare by
reason there is very few to be fownd that are vse
full tymber trees two I heard of farre vp in Patuxent riuer, and two others vpon popelyes
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Iland in the bay nere to Kent, and the fraight and other charges for the shipping them will be so deer that I made a question whether you would thinck fitt to vndergo it, it will stand in eight or tenne pownds a tunne fraight for England besides other charges of transporting it to shipping from where it is felled neither is there meanes in Maryland to transport it vnless it might be split into clapboard, and whether it will not be made vnseruiceable to
yu
by vseing it so, I can not tell because I do not know the vse you designe it for, by your next letters I pray informe me what you will haue done in it.
the matts
wch
you wrot for amounts to such a charge
to be bought from the Indians that I had not sufficient meanes to purchase it, it is not lesse then fortie pownds worth of truck out of England will buy 350 yards of matt besides the charge of seecking them in twentie seuerall indian towns, for vnless they be bespocken there is very few to be had but such as are not worth buyeing to giue a freind, and besides for the vse you intend them it is necessarie they should be all of one make otherwise they cannot flower a roome; and before I shall procure so many yards I must send all the Prouince ouer but if you desire to haue them and will prouide truck to buy
them
vpon farther notice from you I will be speack them, to haue them all in as few places as I can to auoid charge: I am sure
my Brother Porttobacco now Emperor of Paskattaway, will assist me in it as much as he can for he is much your freind and seruant and hath expressed himselfe to me
to be so and giueth
yu
many thancks after his Indian fashion for your guilt sent him by
Mr
Lewger he hath
wthin
this two yeares stept into the Empire of the Indians by killing his eldest brother, the old Emperor, and enioyeth [it] yet
wth
peace through the good correspondencie he keepeth
wth
me
wch
aweth his Indians from offereing any harme vnto
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him.
I had procured a red bird and kept it a good while to haste sent it to you but I had the ill fortune
to loose it by the negligence of my seruant who carelesly let it out of the cage; The beauer
wch
I sent to you the last yeares belongeth vnto the account of the stock
Capt
Humber brought ouer.
The Lyon I had for you is dead, if I can get an other I will and send it you.
I haue had no leisure all this last winter to Virginia to procure an ace to be made by the generall assembly then held there for the secureing of your right in the trade
wthin
your precincts, and thought it to no purpose to recommend it to
Mr
Hawleys care after I had vnderstood so much of him concerning Palmers Ileand against there next assembly
wch
will be at the returne of shipping next yeare I will prouide a bill drawne as effectuall for that purpose as I can and endeauor what I may to get it passed.
I haue sent you
herewth
a letter from
Mr
Robert Philpot of Kent who hath at this present the commaund of the Ileand) to his ffather the keeper of hygh parcke, I pray cause it to be deliuered vnto him and finde some occasion to commend his sonne vnto him for his faire carriage here, as he doth deserue for he came in at the first claime I made of the Ileanders submission to your Pattent, and incourage his ffather I pray what you can to supply him this yeare, for that I vnderstand is the intent of his letter to him; I haue writ vnto you concerneing the deer you sent for in an other letter by it selfe sent
herewth
as you appointed me. Thus
wth
best loue and seruice to my sister Baltimore and my other two sisters and my Brother Peasely I rest
Your most affectionate
loueing Brother
Leonard Caluert
ffrom Virginia
this
25th
of Aprill
1638.
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Capt
Wintor remembreth his
seruice to you, I left him well
in Maryland.
No. 10.
SECRETARY JOHN LEWGER TO LORD BALTIMORE.
[Indorsement.]
5 January 1638–9
Mr
Lewger to me from
St
Maries.
My good Lord
I rec.
yor
Lopps
of the
30th
July: and the
2d
of August, and another since by
mr
Poulton of the
30th
July. To answere to the first. I have acquainted
mr
Poulton
wth
what
yor
Lopp
writes touching some instruc??ns & directions to be sent out of England for the future
comportmt
of their part to
yor
Lopps
right & the
govermt
there, but he made strange at most of them, as if he had received no instruc??ns touching any of the pticulars, & desired a note of what was written concerning them that they might conforme themselves to it in all points so far as in conscience they might, neither would he beleeve that
mr
more or any other should give that resolution, that a Catholique magistrate may in discretion proceed here, as well affected magistrates in the like cases doe in England. I should have beene glad to have had resolution touching those cases I sent over, thoughe without any ones hand to it, because it would much have directed me in divers occurrences & difficulties
wch
we meete with here. ffor the pnt, we have no differences at all, & I hope we shall have no more, where either part can avoid them; and for the errors past (
wch
yor
Lopps
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speakes of) on the Governors part and mine, if we knew what or which they were, we should be ready to amend them, & should be glad of the proffer on their part of forgiving & forgetting of them: but we are yet confident we have committed none that we can condemne for errors either in point of irreverence or disrespect to their persons, or in violation of their liberties, as the pnt condition of the state there is. And for my owne part. I professe before Almighty God, that I am not conscious of any thing yet done out of disrespect to their persons, functions, or rightfull liberties; & that hereafter they shall find me as ready to serve and honour them as
yor
Lop
can wish. I sent inclosed in
yor
Lopps
packett a l?? to
Mr
Price, but I heare no answere at all of it, nor any thing whereby to guesse that he hath received it. Let me be so much beholding to
yor
Lopp
as to lett him know how much I desire from him an answere of my letter; and that the onely cause of my not writing to him this yeare is want of matter to write of, he is one whom I shall ever acknowledge myselfe infinitely obliged to, and I beseech God reward him for all his charity to me & mine. ffor the wreck, the boate is laid vp at mattapanient; not worth the repairing; the beaver & peake is deliverd to the
Governr
as pquisites of his office of Admirall. I acquainted the
Governr
wth
what
yor
Lop
. wrote touching the
6l
10s
demanded by
mr
Greene; but he saith wisemans adventure was never parted from the stock, but the proceeds of it was sent vp to
yor
Lop
wth
the rest, & that he had special order from
yor
Lop
at the Cowes not to deliver to wiseman his part, So that it seems
yor
Lopp
is accomptable to wisemans assignes for it, & therefore I desire to have some order from
yor
Lop
in it, because the next winter if it be not satisfied,
mr
Greene will putt his complaint into the Court & without doubt will recover it; & I would rather have it satisfied without compul-
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sion. ffor the acquittances, the
Governr
saith he did take acquittances from wintour and Gerard and others that had their shares delivered them, and he sent them by the Dove, where they miscarried.
ffor
mrs
Eure's stock I have received the whole accompt from the
Governr
whereby there is charged vpon
yor
Lopp
2360l
of tobacco; and vpon himselfe
2636l
wch
I have received of him vpon accompt;
wch
is in the whole, 5000 weight of tobacco, within
4l
the Accompt it selfe as I remember I have already sent to
yor
Lop
by my last dispatche. now for the disposall of this 5000
wt
I am yet vncertaine what to doe
wth
it. Kine is a very slow profitt & when
yor
Lopps
stock of cattell is come vpon the place, wilbe somewhat hazardous, in regard the place wilbe over stockt; except they be committed to some body in a plantation far from the towne, who will have care of providing them
wth
winter fodder; & I doe not yet know any couple (for the dairy will require a woman) to whom to committ such a charge. ffor the present I doe resolve the speediest way of employing it to the greatest profitt, wilbe by a stock of swine,
wch
may be kept some 6. mile hence at the head of
St
Georges river where all the cheife marshes bee in
wch
the swine delight; & here I intend to settle a plantation of mine owne this spring, who shall plant corne for the swine, and shall build sties and necessary penns for them, & shall lead them out to their places of feeding; &
mrs
Eures stock shall buy the swine, & I will keepe them for one halfe of the increase at the vsuall rate of these countries is, And if this proiect succeed, it will yeeld a very considerable revenew to her after the first yeare. To this purpose, I doe now send one of my men
wth
the
Governr
to virginea to lay out for 30. or 40. breeding sowes if they may be had; & assoone as I hear from him againe, I will in hand
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wth
my plantation, & the building of sties to bring them into. If this designe meete with any difficulties I will send up
mrs
Eure her tobaccos into England, to returne commodities hether againe for them, if she please to employ it hether againe, for except this of the swine, I doe not know of any way to turne it to better profitt, then to drive a trade of commodities with it,
wch
maketh yearely returne, to good profitt, without much hazard.
The tobacco
wch
is due to this stock from
yor
Lopp
I shall now pay out of
mr
Hawlies debt without lessning
yor
stock of cattell
wch
I have yet beene carefull to preserve. ffor the kine sent to the
Governr
by
Sr
John Harvy, I have not taken any accompt of them, because no charge, ffor those sent from Palmers Iland, they are yet whole but one steere,
wch
the
Governr
desired to have for his provisions to Kent; & the accompt of that & of whatsoever els I have received of
yor
Lopps
, I intend to send by the Captaine. ffor the accompts betweene
yor
Lop
and the
Governr
he will (he saith) satisfie
yor
Lop
by this dispatch; as likewise he will send an
acknowledgmt
for the
100l
for him last,
wch
he saith
yor
Lop
never writt to him of afore now. ffor the Lawes I have litle yet to say to them, (more then what I have said in my diarie) till the Assembly be over;
wch
is appointed to begin on
12th
ffebr. next.
mr
Smith hath sent me over a venture of
100l
but the greatest part of it in liquors,
wch
I had rather had beene in any thing els, and if
Sr
John Simonds adventure be in liquors, I desire it not, because it will vndoe the colony. But in other commodities (such as I have sent to
mr
Smith for) I wilbe willing and shalbe able (I hope) to returne to the
Adventuror
twenty vpon the hundred profitt; but more I will not vndertake for. The trade of beaver is wholly now in the
Governrs
and the Captaines hands, without any rivall; and
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they are ioined partners in the driving of it. The deere
yor
Lop
writes for, I am able to doe nothing in it as yet; & to promise more then I know how to pforme, wilbe litle satisfaction to
yor
Lop
I will lay out this next spring for as many fawnes as I can, & if I gett any, I will bestow the breeding of them
agt
shipping goes away the next yeare. The Governors pinnace is now gone to Kent to be putt vpon the stocks, and by that time she is trimmed the
Governr
intends to be back againe, and to bring away in her the cattell; as first as he can. And when they come hether I intend to putt them on the other side where Capt. ffleete planted for this side wilbe over-stockt with them; & starve them all in the winter. ffor the Cedar desired, I know none here worth sending, as I told
yor
Lop. by my last. ffor the birds, I haue no cage to putt them in when they be taken, nor none about me dextrous in the taking of them, nor feeding of them, & I have my selfe so litle leisure to look after such things, that I can promise litle concerning them. and for the arrowes the
Governr
will take care, who hath all the commerce
wth
them, & for my part I scarce see an Indian or an arrow in halfe a yeare neither when I doe see them have I language enoughe to aske an arrow of them. ffor the clerk
wch
I wrote for, I am now provided
wth
one whom I intend to bring vp vnder me, & instruct him in the art of surveying. ffor the merchants pipe-staves, wind-mill &c I have given
yor
Lop
some accompt in my diarie. the wind-mill & housing & garden will fall to the
Governr
by a composition
wch
I made with him afore his going to Kent, that he should defray all the charges of the expedition, & for his hazard & charge should have all the perquisites of the warre, except the cattell onely; and the pipe-staves,
wch
he was to have at
40s
a thousand: and I thinke what he hath, he well deserved; considering the great hazards and
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vncertainties vpon
wch
he ventured at that time; & the great charge
wch
he was att. The pipe-staves the
Governr
intends to deale
wth
mr
Stagge now at his coming to virginea, to take them off & to Give me bills of exchange for
40s
p thousand what he getts for them above, wilbe to his owne profitt.
ffor answere to the second l??.
Your
Lopps
stock of cattell willbe so sufficient here by that time they are all brought from Kent that I thinke it wilbe a needlesse charge to lay out money for more in virginea. I think these wilbe as many as can bee well looked to and provided for in the winter as yett, ffor swine we need not much care thoughe virginea be shutt vp to vs hereafter, for
or
owne colony or Kent will provide
yor
Lopp
of enow to begin a stock withall at any time; & when I have resolved whom to employ on Captaine ffleets side for the looking to your dairy, I shall then take some course for the stocking of that ferme with such swine too, as shalbe fitting to begin with all. And for poultry I can at this present out of my owne stock furnish
yor
Lopp
wth
50 or 60. breeding henns at any time. ffor negros I heare of none come in this yeare. I have desired the
Governr
to be very earnest
wth
mr
Kempe to spare
yor
Lopp
out of his flock halfe a hundred ewes this yeare; & if it may be obteined from him, I will pay him out of
mr
Hawlies money, and next to sheepe, I thinke mony wilbe best bestowed on a stock of goates. I spake
wth
Mr
Coply about
mr
dorrells goods, & he saith that
mr
more hath written nothing to them concerning the allowing of
mr
fforsters debt. and it is fitt if he desire to recover it that he send a l?? of Attorney to sue it for him, or procure a l?? from
mr
more that they should pay it. there is no will of
mr
Dorrells yet proved, nor admra?? taken out; nor Inventary made of the goods; some of them are yet remaining in my hands
wch
I
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wilbe accomptable for, when any one shewes a lawfull interest to demand them by,
wch
yet I know of none. ffor the order
wch
your
Lop
saith is taken that they of the bill shall have some temporall person, &c it were indeed a very good course for the avoiding of present difficulties; but
mr
Poulton (whom I acquainted
wth
it) doth not know of any such order taken as yet. The Vngula Alcis
wch
yor
Lop
writes for, cannot be had till the summer and then the
Governr
saith when he goeth to the Sesquisanongs he will endeavour to procure some. ffor the tenths I gave
yor
Lopp
of a generall Accompt of that matter in my last; by
wch
yor
Lop
will find that I have gathred no tenths of any of the rest, & they will thinke themselves very hardly dealt withall to have it exacted of them onely; and besides I am very confident that their gaines of the trade the last yeare will not allow any
paymt
out of it; neither vpon the whole trade
wch
they have entred in my booke will the tenth amount to any considerable matter; so that
wth
your
Lopps
leave I intend to forbeare the exacting of it, till further order from
yor
Lop
especially so long as they comply (as they doe begin)
wth
yor
Lops
service here. ffor the housing
wch
yor
Lop
directs to be sett vpp, I intend to sett it in hand with all speed, on Captaine ffleets side;
wch
yor
Lop
shall doe well to deale
wth
the Captaine at his coming into England to exchange it
wth
yor
Lop
for
mr
Hawlies house &c if your
Lop
can compound
wth
mr
Hawlies heire for the escheate, if you can hinder the Captaine from obteining that house by any other meanes then
yor
Lops
grant, he will exchange Capt: ffleets marmor, and all the mannors in the country rather then let
St
Peters goe (so they call
mr
Hawlies hour) to
wch
he is so much affected for the Saints sake that once inhabited it. I have remembered the
Governr
to give
yor
Lop
some information in his next touching the country beyond the falls of
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Patowmeck; and he hath promised to doe it, and hath putt it vpon his memorandmus.
ffor the bounds betweene vs & virginea the
Governr
hath already laboured it in virginea, & he hath promised to give
yr
Lop
an accompt of it by the next likewise.
ffor answere to the third; the
Governr
hath vndertaken to give
yr
Lop
satisfaction by sending vp the whole accompt: by
wch
(as I gather) nothing wilbe coming for
mr
medcalfe to dispose of to
mr
Copley.
Litle els I can think of at this time, my humble service to my Lady,
mrs
Eure,
mr
Peaselie, and
mrs
Peaselie; my prayers to Almighty God for his blessing on our yong Prince and
mrs
Anne; & he multiplie so much happines on your
Lopps
head as is wished by
Yor
Lops
most obliged servant
John Lewger
St
maries this
5th
January
1638.
No. 11.
FATHER ANDREW WHITE TO LORD BALTIMORE.
[Superscription.]
20. February 1638.
Mr
Andrew alias Tho: White to the
Lo: Baltemore
from Maryland.
R.
Honble
Sir
Hauing ended in a former my tedious apologie for my reputation, I reflected
tht
I had troubled
yr
Lp
and my selfe to much and yett had filled the measure of
yr
Lps
expectation nor of my liege duety in signifieng such occurrences and mysteries
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of the reale publique
wch
some solitarie howers in studie of
yr
Lps
happines haue recounted vnto mee. As concerning our present estate euery day bettering itt selfe by encrease of Planters and plantations and large cropps this yeare of Corne and Tobacco the seruants time now expiring: I am well assured
tht
is the subiects of many better pens: therefore I will spare supfluous repetition. This yeare indeed hath prooued sick and epidemicall and hath taken away 16 of our Colony rather by disorder of eating flesh and drinking hott waters and wine by aduice of our Chirurgian rather by any great malice of their feuers for they who kept our diett and absteinence generally recouered. Really my Lord I take the cause of the sickness to bee the ouergoodnesse of land
wch
maketh the viands to substantiall that if duely regulation be not vsed the tyme of summer when the heate of stomakes is comonly weakest eyther they lye vndisgested and to breed agues or are thoroughly disgested and so breed great quantities of blood and vitall spiritts
wch
taking fyer eyther from the heat of the season our buildings beeing farre unfitt for such a climate or from some violent exercise begett feuers troublesome enough where wee want physick, yet not dangerous at all if people wilbee ruled in their diett,
wch
is hard for the uulgar wries wee had an hospitall heere to care them and keepe them to rule perforce
wch
some worthy persons of this place doe think upon. I had my share thereof beeing twice giuen ouer; but yett left heere for a while to amend and to serue
yr
Lp
and this Colony better then before. The reliques thereof I carry still about mee not in weakeness of body
wch
I neuer had less; butt in a decay of my hearing when people speake low and I feare in tyme I may loose alltogether: yett as itt is now itt is a hindrance as well in an office I haue as
yr
Lp
knowes as allso in lerning the Indian language
wch
hath many darke gutturalls, and drowneth often the last syllable or
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letteth it so soffely fall as itt is euen bv a good care harde to bee vnderstood. I am tould of one in London who is excellent for such cures: and therefore I write to our Great man there for leaue to returne for one yeare for helpe: who knowes whether itt may prooue to wayte upon
yr
Lp
hither the yeare following, ffor
wch
cause I shall humbly entreat
yr
Lp
to obteyne of the said party one couple more to come
wth
the next Shipps to
Mr
Englebey who liueth in Suffolk and
Mr
Benett in Dorcettshyer who both doe infinitely desyre to serue God and
yr
Lp
uppon this place and haue signified their desyres to mee by letter. Their coming will relieue mee from the duety I stand heere; for one yeare: and art my returne I trust to bring more with mee, who will not come alone. This wilbee to uery good purpose, as well humbly to represent sundry things vnto
yr
Lp
wch
I dare not committ to letters
wch
are no better then blabs: as allso to assist a solitude
wch
since my Cosen Coplays departure thence I conceaue the affaires of our Colonye are in; and haue not many who take them actingly to harte and euen freynds heare our successes as men doe musick for their owne curiosity: not for our good. And indeede my Lord neyther could my Cosen or any body else tyed to other employments and fixed in the firmament of one place sufficiently doe the busines wee desyre for itt requires a whole man and more; who will take itt to harte making iourney to and fro throughout
Engld
to bring in aduenturers and putt a new heate and Spiritt of action therein: for I haue marked that halfe endeauours and want of energye begett delay and delay workes often dishonour and dispayer. I wish I might haue
Mr
Altam with mee thither for one who is a true zelante of the good of this place, uery actiue, and stirring and hath many noble freyndes and allies who haue sent him since our coming large signes of their Lone: who wilbee able to giue
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his disculpa to
yr
Lp
and cleere his innocency, I hope and returne to hclpe the Colonye againe.
Now my Lord in the interim heere is Captayne George Euelin who wisheth much happines to
yr
Lp
and the place. Hee sheweth us a draught of our Prouince deuided into Countres, Baronies, Lordships, etts. Hee speaketh of Citties and townes; of iudicatures, iudges, armes, Captaynies, etts.
wch
hee tells us
yr
Lp
much approoued, and thereon certayne Gentlemen ioyned to come to us
wth
500 men: butt entring treaty about the trade of beuer they broake of againe. I see this frame doth not much displease butt itt is thought rather too timely then vnfitt for neyther haue the Indians deserted the land and left itt to our diuision nor our paucity of men as yett fbr itt. The greatness of the lordshippes not vnder 5000 akers and reaching to 9000 is thought by eury body too much. and would bee better from 2000 to 4000 for so, as wee stand att the present wee shall sett closer and make more roome for new aduenturers; and haue more markett townes and some uery soone. There was allso proposed a consideration of
yr
Lps
infinite charge about this prouince both abroad and att hoame and meanes treated how some profitts might bee raysed for the mayntenance of
yr
Lps
person after that decent manner as princes are by right of nations mainteyned in splendor according to their place. Truely my Lord the proposition was well liked and I heard no body so forward in itt as Captayne Cornewallyes. Only hee desyred
tht
for satisfaction of all and for the legality of the way
tht
itt might bee treated in parlament and the pouerty and paucity of the Planters for the present bee duely allso considered, and yet some what presentely acted therein: and many wayes wilbee found out. I doubt not, where loyall loue seeketh the way,
yr
Lp
is much beloued, and honoured of all. And so to remaine I humbly
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yr
Lp
not easily to lend both cares to any information for emulation wilbee, and this will ouersay. I could wish
yr
Lp
a graue vnptiall freynd to write you the truth. Vis scire cuius rei inopia laborant magna fastigia: qued omnia possidentibus desit. Qui verum dicat. So seneca and an other found none to tell Alexander truth, but his horse; who once casting him made him know bee was not Juppiters sonne when his flatterers chaunted itt to him. Why I say thus:
yr
Lp
shall vnderstand if wee euer meete. In the interim bee itt a riddle: and I returne to the poynt againe. Concerning therefore
yr
Lps
profitts I beleeue ueryly one in twenty of all menage and trade, for 7 yeares will easily bee graunted bv our present pouerty and paucity: and when our number groweth greater and richer; then I thinke
tht
wch
Capt. Euelin proposeth to witt. 1. in 100 for euer little enough and too little too. If all weare of mv mind I should say to
yr
Lp
as
yr
Lps
father of glorious memorie said to mec in a lr' from newfound Land
tht
I would deuide euen euery and the uery last bitt
wth
yr
Lp
Therefore my Lord to act in the discipline of affayer. the mayster-poynt is to know where to begin. And truely
wth
dew reuerence to
yr
better and grauer
iudgt
wee must vse all meanes to full people the country for so small matters from many will grow paramount in the whole. Men must bee brought by the acting diligence of such persons in England who as eyewittnesses can; and, as faythfull seruants to
yr
Lp
and this Colony for Gods glory, will, employ themselues wholy about itt visiting all the shyres of the Land and worke sollicitously by themselues, their freynds, and their allies:
wth
such a spirit of feruour and paynes: as if God required no other thing in this world att their hands but this. To
wch
if itt bee added:
tht
euery planter for euery 2000 lb. of Tob. they gather and cure shall putt one man upon the place to serue
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them and for euery 5000 shall putt two men: wee shall soone grow uppe. I suppose all would bee glad to bee so bound for certayne yeares. To this I shall humbly represent this calculation to
yr
Lp
for certayne and indubitable out of our common experience:
tht
if
yr
Lp
laying out
300th
for transporting of 45 men att
6th
the man, will adde butt one hundred more for the first yeares prouision and putt them vnder a carefull ouerseer you may binde him to glue you
1000th
of Tob. viritim, and 7 barrells of Corne entersett
wth
pease beanes and mazump
wth
obligation allso to breed you 200 head of poultry and turkeys
wch
(excepting this last) was my aggreement
wth
my ouerseer this last yeare and God bee thanked hee pformed itt well and
wth
ease. I gaue him for his paynes one mans worke of the gang and his owne and all surplusage aboue 1000 a head and about 7
brls
item a head: and I thinke hee gained nigh 100?? sterl. by the bargaine and itt so pleased my Cosen Copley, as hee contineweth the same one yeare more. Now my
Ld
by this meanes you will receaue the first yeare 45000?? besides Corne, to vittuall
yr
men for the yeare following att 3 brls the head, and to buy cloathes for them
wth
the other 4 brls.
wch
45000???. in Tob. is more then a thousand?? sterl.
wch
beeing turned to buy more men for the
2d
yeare will putt you att
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transptation 177 men
wch
ioyned
wth
the former make 222 men whose worke the
2d
yeare pduceth you 222000??? Tob. id est, 5550?? sterl.
wch
some employed for men att the end of the
2d
yeare for the third yeares planting makes together
wth
the former 1143 men
wch
yeld you the same third yeares end 1143000?? of Tob.
wch
will bee able to buy and freight many a shippe. To make this solid itt wilbee necessary to haue each head the 2 and 3 yeare to plante 10 barrells of wheate,
tht
is, three akers a man as some vse heere:
tht
yr
Lp
may bee att no charge for diett or apparell and after
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they haue ended their these men beeing sett on Copies may for euer by their chieferent maynteyne
yr
Lps
house and vses with corne etts. Secondly as in ffrance Spaine and Italie, the Soueraignes doe appropriate the sayle of certayne things for themselues: So I conceaue
yr
Lp
may for a tyme monopolize certayne trades as bringing in a brikeman to serue you for yeares and oblieging all to take so many bricks of him as will sett upp so many foote of building more or less according to the degree of person: in contemplation that such houses are cheaper upon the reckoning: necessary for health against heate and coald in this country: and fitter for defense of mens liues against the infidels. And for this a conuenient price may be sett on the thousand; no man pmitted to make bricks but one; vnless hee bee a seruant and makes for his maysters vse alone. The like I say off Carpenters Hatters, Sawers, Coopers, Smiths, etc. Thirdly, though for the present I should not aduise to deale any more
wth
hiring of Shipps
wch
is a busines of great entangle till three yeares of
yr
forsaid plantation bee ended
tht
you may bee able to haue two or three fayer shipps of
yr
owne bought by
yr
mens labours and seamen in them hyred for yeares
wth
boyes growing upp for the sea vnder them
wth
one Pilot and his mate
wth
any Mayster or Captayne but
yr
substitute
wth
a steward of
yr
wth
out any purser: Then my Lord the sea will bring in pfitt butt otherwise I neuer heard any way sufficiently warrented to gett by shipp hyre no not though a hyring a shippe I should lett itt to a mayster reseruing transportation of some men and goods gratis
wth
out any charge of vittualing hir for if shee should eyther miscarry by the maysters faulte
wch
I putt in hir: or the mayster not able to pay or the like; all would recambye upon mee. Only Seamen themselves are to deale in shipp hyer; as I think Saluo meliori iudicio. But when
yr
Lp
hath ships of
yr
owne then
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may
yr
Lordshp
send Tobacchoes to such places where they uent best and bring in all manner of comodityes sett uppe magazines in this Colony att reasonable prices and yett make thereby a uery great gayne: as the Duke of florence doth out of his Innes. ffourthly itt would be uery expedient to trie what wine this land will yeld: I haue a strong
prsumption
that itt will proue well for this autumne I have drank wine made of the wilde grapes not inferiour in its age to any wine of Spaigne. Itt had much of muscadine grape but was a dark redd inclining to browne. I haue not seene as yett any white grape excepting the foxgrape
wch
hath some stayne of white but of the red grape I haue scene much diuersity: some less some greater, some stayne, some doe not, some are aromaticall; some not. Now if
yr
Lp
would cause some to plante vineyards why may not
yr
Lp
monopolize the wine for some yeares: to
yr
Lps
great pfitt especially if all sortes of vines be gotten out of Spaine and ffrance. True itt is you must haue patience for two or three yeares before the yeld wine but afterward itt is a Constant comoditye and
tht
a uery great one too. ffifthly
yr
Lp
may please to choose some large Iland for a breede of Swine vnder a carefull swineyard who may allso looke to a heard of goates and yong calfes from milke all
wch
bought when they bee uery little for no great matter will in few yeares grow upp into great flocks
wthout
any farther cost art all: whence you may draw for your Darys and
yr
table abundantly. A sixth thing offred ittselfe vnto mee much more beneficiall then all this aforesayd:
wch
I will not committe to writing: but will reserue itt to a meeting.
Now my noble
Ld
as concerning the trade of beauer; whatsoeuer I can say, after so wise and graue personages who haue fully considerd itt, will bee of little importance, yett if your
Lp
pleaseth that I lay my opinion together with myselfe att
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yr
Lps
feete: and humbly vnder correction
reprsent
in secrett to
yr
selfe alone what I thinke concerning the last concordate of fiue years. If I vnderstand not amisse the sharers are to pay the tenth of their cloath and the tenth of theyre beauer for flue yeares and then to haue no more right in trade. As concerning the former I feare itt will haue no other effect then to hinder both
yr
Lp
and all the first aduenturers from trading att all
yr
Lp
by couenant; the aduenturers, by impossibility of sauing there owne,
wch
yr
Lp
will euidently see by this paper of calculation in
wch
euery parte is our comon experience. As concerning the
2d
I heare men say: that if the right of truck bee taken from them first, by this couert and after ward by open meanes, they can haue no assurance for the lands you giue them:
seeing in the declaration and conditions of plantation both share in trade and the land runnes in one and the selfe same tenor and would bee esteemed so if itt weare brought to any hearing. I remember when
yr
Lp
corrected the written Copie
wch
I made, I gave
yr
Lp
an occasion vppon the graunt of trade to reflecte whether itt weare not fitt to limitt the graunt for tearme of life and
notwthstanding
this suggestion
yr
Lp
would haue itt goe absolute as the graunt of land:
and now my Lord this beeing only the specially reward of the first Aduenturers, who exposed their liues and fortunes and banished themselues from their freynds, allies, and Country to serue
yr
Lp
in this plantation: doe not blame them my
Ld
if they feele itt and stand for their supposed right on
wch
their maintenance doth much depend. vntill they shall vnderstand how they can loose that; and may not heereafter haue their land taken from them too. the forme of graunt for each beeing all one. And as for the concordate signed by so many who vnderstand little of truck and trade, excepting relinquishers; who care little how itt wayeth: that seemeth to suppose a common stock
wch
hath
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ben none since the bad successe of the two former in
wch
euery body was losers
wch
makes euery body protest against itt as an engine and mystery to vndoe
yr
Lp
and them from whence itt followeth
tht
howbeitt all Aduenturers in
Engld
subscribe yett heere beeing no guilde nor body of traders, as they say, to carry their right by most uoices: though all butt one should forgoe theeir right; yett may that one retayne his. Truely my
Ld
this doth much trouble the thoughts of our Colony who takes this to bee a stepp to take also their land from them, in tyme vnles they defend this. Good my
Ld
I humbly beseech you for reuerence to God and
yr
loue to this xpian Colony of his and
yrs
rather ask this right by way of honour of them for some yeares then presse itt from against their will,
wch
can not bee
wth
out losse of their loue at least though no farther inconuenience should follow. Itt is here rather not vnderstood then doubted how such a right bought by a deere aduenture of life and fortunes and giuen as the honorary and distinctiue signe of the first noble vndertakers for
yr
Lps
Prouince can by any man bee taken from them. Bee the right as itt will: whereof I am no iudge, and may not speake till
yr
Lp
giues mee leaue and I am asked: I beleeue the former way as itt was att first
wch
begett more profitt for
yr
Lp
for the trade lyeth farre and wide out of our Colony and much in new Albion then heere: and easie itt will be for
yr
Lps
subiects to absent themselues from hoame to trade there or att many places besides: from whence will follow that the trade wilbee diuerted from us and a markett sett upp in some neighbouring land: as Capt. ffleetes and Roberts proiect was: and still is as I feare to a uery bad example and diminution of ours. Much better (with humble awe and reuerence bee itt spoken) would itt prooue for
yr
Lp
to haue 3 factoridges in the best places,
tht
is one man in each
wth
sufficient truck: the one
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at Palmers Ile for the trade of the Sasquesahanoes the other att Nantakoke for all the Easterne foreland and the third at Anacostans for the Mattomecks: and att the end of May our boate may goe and fetch the beuer
wth
uery small charge, and thus much I signified to
yr
Lp
by the doue and to leaue itt to
yr
Lps
greater wisdome & consideration. And by this tyme I haue wearied
yr
Lp
I am sure: and am much ashamed at my tedious manner of expression. A pardon therefore is to bee asked:
wch
in honour I hope you will glue to this great Partiall and humble seruant of
yr
Lps
who dayly prayeth for
yr
Lps
happines and the good of
yr
Prouince
Yr
Lps
euer all all
Tho. White
20. feb.
No. 12.
CECILIUS, LORD BALTIMORE, TO GOVERNOR LEONARD CALVERT.
[Indorsement.]
21th
&
23th
of Nouemb:
1642
Copie of the Lord Baltemore
L?? to
Mr
Leonard Caluert.
Good Brother
By
Mr
Ingles Shipp
wch
is now in the Downes I sent a large dispatch to you as you will find by a note inclosed. I forgott in my former letters to glue you thankes
wch
I now doe, for
yor
kindness shewen to Jo: Langford,
wch
, by his letters to me, he sayes hath been very much: I take it very kindly from you, and I pray continue it; for he will deserue it I make no doubt from you, and I shall requite it in due
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time to you: the like I must and do say concerning
Mr
Robert Euelin, who deserues to be well esteemed by me; and I find by his letters, that you receiue contentment in one another, of
wch
I am very gladd. In my dispatch by
Mr
Ingles Shipp wherein one
Mr
Gilmett comes reco??ended from me to you: I desired you to take care for his soiourning some where there to his contentment,
wch
I desire may be
wth
yor
selfe for many reasons, but I forgott to mention his Boy that wayted vpon him
wch
must also soiourne
wth
him for he cannot be decently
wth
out such an attendance; wherefore I pray take order for him they haue all necessaries of Bedding &c: prouided and sent
wth
them, and I writt then to you to take care also for the sojourning of
Mr
Will Territt who comes
herewth
to you being a Companion of
Mr
Gilmetts both whom I reco?end in those l??s and do now againe very hartily reco?end them to
yor
care: for they are both Ile assure
you
men of high esteeme heere; and worthy to be cherished and valued by you, in
wch
you shall extreamely much oblige me. Take care therefore also I pray to acco?odate the said
Mr
Territt
wth
a convenient place to sojourne in there: and I shall, as I formerly wrote, pay the charge of it, when I know what it is if it can not be done otherwise;
wch
I hope by your endeavours it may, and I shall take it very kindly from you: howsoeuer you will I hope husband my expence herein the best you can, and I shall pay what is necessary for the sojourning of the aforesaid persons by Bill of exchange hither. The Shipp wherein this letter comes, is sett out by one
Mr
Douty a very honest and free-hearted Gentleman, the Master is called Edward More and one of his Mates Tho: Tilson whom you know, as I wrote in some of my other l??s. but I am desired by this againe to reco?end this Shipp to
yor
care for the getting all the freight you can for her there,
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whereby
Mr
Douty may be encouraged to adventure thither againe in that way: for he is like to be much a looser Outward bound: and for to gaine
yor
good will and furtherance,
Mr
Douty tells me that he meanes by this Shipp to send you a Teirce of good sack. I pray hasten the designe you wrote vnto me of this yeare, of bringing all the Indians of that province to surrender their interest and right to me, for I vnderstood lately from a member of that Body politique, whom you call those of the Hill there that
Mr
White had a great deale of Land giuen him at Pascattoway not long since by Kittamaquund, before his death
wch
he told me by accident, not conceiuing that that place was
wthin
my Province, or that I had any thing to doe
wth
it, for so he sayd that he had been informed and I had some difficulty to satisfy him that it was
wthin
my Province, By this you may daily perceiue what waves these men goe, and of what dangerous consequence their proceedings are to me. I pray do not forgett also to prosecute effectually the busines of the tribute from the Indians and the discouery of the redd earth, and to send me the quantity I desired of it
wth
speed. Me thinkes the Indians who are christened, if their conversion be reall, might be brought to assist in their labours, and contributions of Beauer, peake &c. for the building of the New Chappell: endeavour I pray what you can to effect this.
The Colony of Virginea hath this yeare by their petitions hither, desired seuerall things of the King,
wch
moue but slowly heere for their new Agent
Sr
John Berkeley, is no very good Soliciter, and regards litle but his owne subsistence, in
wch
he finds imployment enough for his thoughts; his fortune being very necessitous. I beleeue that I could stand them in some steed heere in their busines, if they would deserue it of me: but it seemes I haue been soe disobliged this yeare by
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them; that I haue little reason to trouble myselfe in their behalf. I haue deserued better of them, for they had long since I dare say been reduced vnder that Company (
wch
it seemes by their late protestation they so much abhor to come vnder, had it not been for me. You may tell
Mr
Kemp by letter from you, or otherwise, that if a Declaration may be obtained from the generall Assembly in Virginea this next yeare,
wch
may import a settlement of friendship between me & that Colony and an allowance & approbation of my Pattent, and a Disclaime from all petitions deliuered here
agt
me and my Colony, in their names: and a condemnation of Cleybornes proceedings in the Ile of Kent and elsewhere towards me, and that I and my Colony may haue free trade for, and leaue to transport anything we buy in Virginea, without exception; and that they will make a league offensiue & defensiue
wth
me in such a way as you shall see cause: then I shall be willing to imploy my best endeauours in their affaires here, and I am confident I could find a way to effect those things they desire aboue mentioned to their contentment: but vnless all those things aforesaid concerning me be first clone by them: I will not trouble myself
wth
them. Soe expecting to heare from you concerning this business wherein I would not haue you negligent, I rest,
Yor
most affectionate loving
Brother
London
Brother 21 Nou. 1642.
My wife sent an Adventure by
Mr
Robert Euelin the last yeare, to be putt off in Virginea for her, at the best aduantage he could, of which he hath by his letters this yeare faithfully promised to send the next yeare to her, a good returne, and a iust account thereof. I haue giuen my Wife satisfaction for
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the said aduenture; and I do bestow the one halfe of it vpon you, and the other half vpon the said
Mr
Euelin to make
yor
best benefits of it, without any farther account to me or my wife for it; and I haue herein enclosed sent you a Note of the pticulars of that aduenture vnder
Mr
Ro. Euelins hand
wth
the prices
wch
they cost in England;
wch
I suppose wilbe doubled there, to the end you may know how to demand
yor
halfe from
Mr
Euelin, and being satisfied therein, to deliuer him the said Note againe.
I pray take order that in the next yeares account of my neate cattle there, those
wch
you
haue of mine and also those
wch
are in Kent, together
wth
the increase of both those parts of my stocke; be truly inserted in the said account, for in
Mr
Lewgers last yeares account, they were both omitted, and I pray send
Mr
Kemp word that I do not like his way of
paymt
of the
100??
wch
by his own
agreemt
he acknowledgeth receiued from me, and for
wch
he was to deliuer me Sheep &c. whither I could haue liberty to transport them or no into Maryland of
wch
there was no mention in the said
agreemt
as may appeare by the copy thereof
wch
Mr
Lewger hath, therefore vrge him to deale fairer
wth
me then so, by letting me haue so many sheep as that money comes vnto, to be sold by
yor
direction for me in Virginea, and turned into Neat-cattle or els that
Mr
Kemp will pay me in Neat-cattle to be transported into Maryland, for I will not accept of the other
paymt
and I pray do you endeauour my satisfaction herein
wth
expedition, and giue me an account thereof.
I wonder why you gaue such kind entertainment as I understand you did to certaine Dutch, who came it seemes to
St
Maries the last yeare being some of those who are planted in Delaware bay
wth
in my prouince. I understand that diuers
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poore Planters are much preiudic'd by the Indians killing their hogges, and that the Indians vpon pretence of their being made Christians are conniued at, by the
gouernmt
there, in this iniury done by them to the planters, to the vndoing of diuers of them, who vpon complaint made, can haue no remedy against the said Indians nor are pmitted to right themselues. I pray if this be true, do not faile to see it timely redressed. I pray haue a speciall care of my ordnance there & send me a
pticulr
note of them the next yeare & an information in what condition they are. I did expect by
yor
l??s this yeare to haue had
yor
opinion
concrning
a pposition of setting vp an Iron Work in those pts according to my desire to
you
last yeare, a copy of
wch
pposition I then sent
you
but
you
do vsually omitt to giue me satisfaction in
diurs
things,
wch
I write vnto you about, wherein you do not well: and I haue told you often of.
Good Brother
Iust now I vnderstand that
notwthstanding
my prohibition to the contrarie another member of those of the Hill there, hath by a slight gott aboard
Mr
Ingle's shipp in the Downes to take his passage for Maryland
wch
for diuers respects I haue reason to ressent as a high affront vnto mee wherein if you doe not that right vnto mee as I require from you in my Instructions dat 20 Octobr last: I shall haue iust cause to thinke, that I haue putt my honor there in trust to ill hands who betray mee to all the infamous contempts that may bee Laid vpon mee. This Gentleman the bearer hereof
Mr
Territt will acquaint you more pticulerly
wth
my mind herein and
wth
the opinion and sence
wch
diuers pious and Learned men here haue to this odious and impudent iniurie offred vnto mee, and
wth
what is Lawfull and most necessarie to bee done in it as
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well for the vindication of my honor as in time to
pruent
a growing mischeife vpon mee, vnto whome wherefore I pray giue creditt.
Mr
Gilmett will I know concurr in opinion
wth
him, for vpon diuers consults had here (before hee went) hee was well satisfied what might and ought to bee done vpon such an occasion. In case the man aboue men??ned who goes thither in contempt of my prohibition: should bee disposed off in some place out of my province before you can lay hold of him for they are so full of shiftes and deuises as I beleeue they may perhapps send him to Pattomack towne thinking by that meanes to auoid
yor
power of sending him back into those parts, and yett the affront to mee remaine and the danger of
priudice
also bee the same, for (
whatsoeur
you may conceiue of them who haue no reason vpon my knowledge to loue them verie much if you knew as much as I doe concerning their speeches and actions here towards you) I am (vpon very good reason) satisfied in my
iudgmt
that they doe designe my destruction and I haue too good cause to suspect, that if they cannot make or mainteine a partie by degrees among the English, to bring their ends about they will endeauour to doe it by the Indians
wthin
a verie short time by arming them &c. against all those that shall oppose them and all vnder pretence of God's
honor
and the propagacon of the Christian faith,
wch
shalbee the maske and vizard to hide their other designes
wthall
. If all things that Clergie men should doe vpon these
prtences
should bee accounted iust and to proceed from God, Laymen were the basest slaues and most wretched creatures vpon the earth. And if the greatest saint vpon earth should intrude himselfe into my howse against my will and in despite of mee
wth
intention to saue the soules of all my family, but
wth
all giue mee iust cause to suspect that bee likewise designes my temporall destruction, or that being
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already in my howse doth actuallie practise it, although
wth
all hee doe perhaps manie spirituall goods, yet certeinlie I may and ought to
prsecrue
myselfe by the expulsion of such an enemy and by prouideing others to performe the spirituall good hee did, who shall not haue anie intention of mischeife towards mee, for the Law of nature teacheth this, that it is lawfull for eurie man in his owne lust defence, vim vi repellere those that wilbee impudent must bee as impudently dealt
wthall
. In case I say that the parte aboue men??ned should escape
yor
hands by the meanes afore said (
wch
by all meanes
pruent
if possibly you can) then I praie doe not faile to send
Mr
Copley away from thence by the next shipping to those parts; vnless hee will bring the other new comes into
yor
power to send back againe, and this I am satisfied here that I may for diuers reasons cause to bee done, as the said Mr. Territt and
Mr
Gilmett will more fullie satisfie you and I am resolued to haue it done accordinglie. The princes of Italie who are now vpp in Armes against the Pope (although they bee Romane Catholiquues) doe not make anie scruple of Conscience by force of Armes to vindicate the Iniurie
wch
they conceiue hee would haue done vnto the Duke of Parma; bye wresting a braue Pallace, not farr from Rome called Capreroly
wth
a little Territory about it, from the said Duke for one of the Popes Nephewes: nor doe they much esteeme his excommunications or Bulls (both the pope hath made vse off) in that busines for they beleeue them to bee vniustly grounded, and therefore of no validity: although they continue
notwthstanding
Romane Catholiques, and these are: the Duke of fflorence the state of Venice, the Duke of Parma and the duke of Modena Reggio: who are ioined in league and haue now an Armie of aboue 40000 men raised against the pope, and hee neer as many against them vpon the quarrell aboue men??ned,
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insomuch as it is generallie conceiued here that Rome is sacked by this time, or els that the pope hath giuen full satisfaction to the aforesaid princes, for hee is thought too weake for them. In fine if you doe not
wth
a constant resolution and faithfull affection to mee, executed what I haue here directed (
whatsoeur
inconvenience come off it) and according to what you shall vnderstand to bee my mind herein more perticulerlie by word of mouth from the said
Mr
Territt you will as I said betray mee to the greatest
dishonor
and
priudice
that euer one Brother did another: But you must bee verie carefull that
Mr
Territt receiue no
priudice
by his communicating my mind to you, or by his zealous affection and fidelity to mee in doeing his best endeauours
wth
you to see my desire herein accomplished. Nor Likewise
Mr
Gilmett
wch
I am confident
yor
owne
iudgmt
and discretion will incline you to preuent although I had not men??ned it. I vnderstand that
notwthstanding
my prohibition the Last yeare you did passe Grants vnder my scale here to those of the Hill of
St
Inegoes and other Lands at
St
Maryes and also of 100 Acres of land at Pascattoway some of
wch
as I am informed you conceiued in iustice due vnto them and therefore thought
yor
selfe obliged to grant them although it were contrarie to my directions
wch
to mee seemes verie strange, for certeinly I haue power to reuoke anie authoritie I haue giuen you here either in whole or in part, and if I had thought fitt to haue totally reuoked
yor
power of granting anie Lands there at all in my name certeinly no man that is disinterested could thinke that you were bound neuertheless in conscience to vsurpe such an authoritie against my will, because in Justice diuers planters ought to haue grants from mee: for when I haue reuoked the power I gaue you for that purpose anie man els may as well as you vndertake to passe grants in my name,
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and haue as much obligation also in Conscience to doe it, and how ridiculous that were for anie man to doe I leaue it to you to iudge when I did giue directions to you not to grant anie more Lands to those of the bill there, vpon anie
prtence
whatsoeuer I did so farr as concern'd them reuoke that power I formerlie gaue you of granting of lands there, and it was a great breach of trust in you to doe the contrarie for I beleeue you would take it verie ill, and
wth
good reason you might, if anie man whome you should trust
wth
the keeping of
yor
scale, should affix it to anie thing contrary to
yor
direction although you were bound perhapps in future to cause it to bee done
yor
selfe; if those psons had had anie iust cause of complaint by haueing grants refused them, it had been
yor
part onlie to haue referred them vnto me, who knew best my owne reasons why I gaue the aforesaid Directions, for you are but meetly instrumentall in those things to doe what I direct, and not to compel mee to doe what you thinke fitting: And for ought you know some accident might haue hapned here that it was no iniustice in mee to refuse them grants of anie Land at all, and that by reason of some Act of this state it might haue endangered my life and fortune to haue permitted them to haue had anie grants at all,
wch
I doe not Ile assure you mention
wthout
good ground. I shall earnestlie therefore desire you to bee more obseruant hereafter of my directions, and not expect that I should satisfie
yor
iudgmt
by acquainting you still
wth
my reasons why I direct anie thing: for then my power there were no more then anie mans else, who may
wth
reasons perswade you to doe or forbeare any thing as well as I. And I doe once more strictly require you not to suffer anie grants of anie Lands for the future to pass my Seale here to anie Member of the Hill there nor to anie other person in trust for them vpon anie
prtence
or claime
whatsoeur
wthout
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especiall Warrant vnder my hand and Seale to bee hereafter obteyned from mee for that purpose. So I rest
Yor
most affectionate loueing Brother,
London
23th
Nouemb: 1642.
I pray commend my kind respects to
Mrs
Traughton and thanke her from mee for the letter shee sent mee this yeare in answeare of another
wch
I had sent vnto her the yeare before.
The Maisters here of those of the Hill there did diuers waies importune mee to pmitt some of theirs to goe this yeare thither, insomuch as they haue God forgiue them for it caused a bitter falling out between my sister Peasely and mee, and some
discontentmt
also betweene mee and her husband about it, because I would not by anie meanes giue way to the goeing of anie of the aforesaid psons.
No. 13.
CECILIUS, LORD BALTIMORE, DECLARATION TO THE LORDS.
[Superscription.]
Cecil
The Lo: Baltemores
Declaration to the
Lords.
To the Right
Honoble
the Lords Co??issioners for forreigne Plantations.
The humble Declaration of the Lord Baltemores proceedings in the procuring & passing of his Pattent of the Province of Maryland adioyning to Virginea, and of seuerall vniust
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molestations which some of the old dissolued Company of Virginea haue giuen him both before & since, to his great preiudice.
The Lor Baltemores ffather having disbursed neare 20000 lbs. besides the hazard of his own person in a Plantation in Newfoundland, a countrey proving not habitable for the great colds in winter. And having therevpon transported himself his wife, goods and family to Virginea
wth
intent to plant and reside there, where he had been an Adventurer; did for that purpose leaue his family there; and vpon his arriuall in England became an humble Sutor to his
Matie
for that part of Virginea
wch
lyeth between the River of Passamagnus and the
prsent
Planta??n of Virginea on James Riuer towards the South.
The
20th
of Feb. 1631. His
Maty
referred the considera??n thereof to the right
honoble
the Earles of Dorsett & Carlile, the Lo: Viscount Wentworth and the Lo: Cottington, or any three of them: and their said
Lops
having well weighed the said request did 23 of Feb. 1631 signifie his
Maties
pleasure to
Mr
Attorney Generall that then was, for drawing a Bill conteyning such a Grant to him and his heires,
Wch
was so done by
Mr
Attorney and his
Maty
Signed the same.
The matter being thus farr proceeded, some of the old dissolued Company of Adventurers to Virginea, seeming discontented therewith pretending that some of them the next yeare after determined to settle people on the South Side of James Riuer, for the planting of Sugars, it being the most Southerly and best part of all Virginea and no other but that fitt for that purpose, and that this Grant would much
priudice
them in this their designe
wch
the late Lo: Baltemore conceauing they did really intend, was unwilling to hinder so good a worke or to disgust them or any other as farr as in reason was
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fitt, though it were to his owne
priudice
, and therefore vpon his humble sute his
Maty
tooke the matter againe into considera??n and made a new reference to the Earles of Arundell & Carlile, the Lo: Viscount Wentworth and Lo: Cottington, who considered not only of the said pretences, but also of the late incroachment of the dutch nation in those parts, who haue planted and fortifyed themselues northward between the old Colony of Virginea, and the English Colonies planted in New England. All
wch
being by their said
Lops
represented to his
Maty
they did (according to his
Mats
direccons) by a Warrant vnder their hands dated in March following to
Mr
Attorney Sewall that then was declare his Royall pleasure to be that the said Lo: Baltemore should resigne his former Grant
wch
was only passed his signature, and haue an other Grant of a tract of Land lying a great way distant northward from the old Colony of Virginea. And accordingly a Bill was prepared, which passed the Priuy Seale, and then before it could passe the great Scale of England, the said Lo: Baltemore dyed.
After whose death, the now Lo: Baltemore became an humble
Sutor
to his
Maty
for the continuance of his said royall
favor
and his
Maty
gaue warrant dated 21. of Aprill next following to
Mr
Attorney Generall that then was to draw a new Bill for the granting the said Lands to him & his heires,
wch
passed likewise the Priuy Scale.
Then some of the said old dissolued Company moued his
Maty
for the stay of that Grant. also, vpon pretence of promises by proclama??n and otherwise from his
Maty
(since the dissolu??n of the old Pattent of Virginea) for the referring the old Companyes right to all things formerly granted them in that Pattent excepting the Gouernment and for the renewing of their pattent to that purpose, within the
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whereof, the Lo: Baltemores Countrey was included: and his
Maty
vpon their great importunity againe referred the matter, as they desired, to the late Lo: Treasurer and the Earles of Dorsett & Carlile, who heard both parties and all matters that. are now in question before
yor
Lops
were then at full heard & considered of, and pticularly that of Capt. Clayborne's
prtences
to the Island whereon he is lately planted, was much insisted vpon by
Sr
John Worstenholme. But it then appearing to their
Lops
first that their old Pattent was legally dissolued, not only to the point of Gouernment as they pretended, but to all other purposes whatsoeuer, and that consequently the Countrey formerly granted them was wholy in the Kings hands to dispose of, and that those promises
wch
they pretended from his
Matie
by his said proclamation and otherwise were not to reserue to the company any incorporate right, or to renew their Corpora??n (
wch
his
Maty
is so farr from promising therein to doe, in any kind whatsoeuer, as for the reasons therein alleadged, he rather declares his inten??n then to be directly contrary, but to confirme only euery pticuler mans propriety & right to any Planta??n
wch
any had settled there, or
assignemts
of Land made vnto them during the time of the said Companyes Pattent being in force, when any of them should desire it, as may appeare by the Proclamac??n; and it being also at that tyme made appeare vnto their
Lops
that although the tract of land then intended to the Lo: Baltemore, were within the lymits of the old Companies Pattent, yet that it did not infringe or trench vpon any such plantacon or assignement as aforesaid; excepting in one part of a Peninsula contayned within the said Grant,
wch
part of the Peninsula was therefore afterwards excepted out of his Grant: and that Capt: Cleyborne about the time of passing the said Grant
wch
was many yeares after the dissolu??n of the
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said Companies pattent; had without any legall authority deriued from his
Maty
; seated himself in an Island where now he is, within the Bay of Cheasepeack (
wch
is within the
prcincts
of the Lo: Baltemores pattent) and aboue 100 miles northward distant from James Riuer, the
prsent
scitua??n of the old Colony of Virginea, of purpose to remoue himself farr from all gouernment, being euer obserued to be a man of a factious Spirit, as did appeare by many of his former actions; their
Lops
therevpon againe made certificate vnder their hands to his
Maty
dated 5 of June 1632. that they thought fitt that the said last Grant should passe to the now Lo: Baltemore & his heires, excepting only a great, part of the Peninsula aforesaid whereon some of the old Colony had long before planted themselues during the time of the old Companies pattent being in force, and accordingly a new warrant from his
Maty
dated 7. of June following, was directed to
Mr
Attorney Generall that then was, to alter his Grant in that point, and to prepare a new Grant of all the rest
wth
that excepc??n only;
wch
passed the great Seale of England, it being not a fortith part of the Territory belonging to Virginea, as may appeare by the Cards & Mapps of those Countreys, if
yor
Lops
please to peruse them.
After all
wch
the yeare following the Lo: Baltemore having to his great charge made
prparation
of Shipps and provisions for the transporta??n of people to begin a planta??n in the said Countrey so granted vnto him; some of the old dissolued Company, a litle before the going forth of the said Shipps, being transported with spleene, (as he conceiues he hath reason to doubt) and of purpose to molest him in his proceedings, well knowing how
priudiciall
a litle delay would bee vnto him at that time; againe
prferred
a declara??n to
yor
Lops
of the
prtended
iniuries done vnto them by the said
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Grant, formerly so much debated & considered of as aforesaid, and hoping at last (as it seemes) to advantage themselues by importunity and multitudes, they brought 30 or 40 of their Company before
yor
Lops
and all matters formerly considered of, concerning that busines, were then againe debated of at large, and pticulerly that of Cleybornes pretences to the Island wherein he is, was againe much insisted vpon, in their declara??n, as by the Copy of it, will appeare: and when they were out of hope of overthrowing the said Grant, then did they moue, that at least they might haue an independent liberty of trade
wth
the Indians within his precincts, well knowing the prejudice
wch
they should do him if they obtained that liberty; but it then appearing to
yor
Lops
as well the weaknes of their former
prtences
in other things, as likewise the injustice & great inconveniency of this last motion of theirs.
ffirst, in that it was the Lo: Baltemore's right by his pattent and the only
prsent
benefitt, (though small and not likely to be permanent,) that was probable to be made, towarde the defraying of part of the great charge of the Planta??n, and therefore neither in Justice nor equity fitt that any others who did not contribute to the planting of the Countrey should depriue him of it:
Secondly in that it was very inconvenient & dangerous for him and his planta??n to pmitt it, because thereby he should giue those who were not well asserted to his planta??n, and whom he had noe power to regulate a meanes to spoile the markett of that Trade, as likewise to pick quarrells, and doe iniuries to those Indians who were
Neighbors
to his planta??n, and who would be apt to revenge vpon his Planters all such wrongs done them, when those who did them were gone, the Indians making no difference between them being all of one Nation;
Yor
Lops
therevpon thought fitt by an Order at the
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Starr chamber 3 of July 1633 to dismisse the busines, and to leaue the Lo: Baltemore to the right of his Pattent.
All
wch
just and faire proceedings in the passing of
wch
pattent ought to haue been sufficient (as is humbly conceiued) to debarr any man from any further importunity in opposing his
Mats
gracious Act vnder the great Seale of England, so advisedly & considerately done, especially there having been really no such promises made by his Royall Proclama??n aforesaid, as could any way either in
honor
or otherwise oblige him to forbeare to make such a Grant vnto the Lo: Baltemore:— But only were and are suggested by them either meerely to
priudice
and molest his good
endeavors
for the enlargment of his
Matys
Empire in those parts; or for some other ends besides planting; ffor if their intentions in this their importunity to haue their Corporation renewed, were and are meerely to haue power thereby to plant, any of them hath might and may yet, without pressing for any such thing, haue Land enough assigned them for that purpose, from his
Mats
Gouernor
and Councell in Virginea, as many others, both old and new
Plantrs
and Adventurers, from time to time, since the dissolu??n of the old Company haue had, and dayly haue, and vpon as good conditions as any perticular person of them either had or could haue had, when they were in an incorporated Body; there being more Land vnplanted and vndisposed of then
them
these many yeares, and such land as is more Southerly and better then that
wch
is granted to the Lo: Baltemore,
wch
pticuler
assignemts
also, his
Maty
no doubt, would afterwards be pleased to confirme vnto any of them as they should reasonably desire, and as he was graciously pleased to promise, by his said Procla??n, to those who had any planta??n seated or any assignement of Land there, during the time of the old Corporation.
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But none of those, who haue so much troubled his
Maty
and
yor
Lops
in this busines, haue any Planta??n or people setled in Virginea, neither haue any of them begun any planta??n for sugars on the South parts of Virginea, as some of them vpon the late Lo: Baltemore's first Grant of that part, aboue menconed (
wch
is now 3 yeares since)
prtended
very earnestly to doe, or done any thing els since, concerning the planta??n of Virginea, but importuned his
Maty
and
yor
Lops
for the renewing of their Corpora??n, and raysed trouble both here and there
agt
the Lo: Baltemore and his Plantation.
Now for as much as the said Grant was made vpon such mature deliberation vpon so many seuerall references, warrants and certificates (the Copies whereof are ready to be
prsented
vnto
yor
Lops
) And for asmuch as the said Lo: Baltemore hath therevpon disbursed by himself and his freinds aboue tenn thousand pounds for the setling of a Colony of his
Mats
Subiects in the said Countrey, having sent two of his Brothers thither (one of whom he hath since lost vpon the place) and having seated already aboue two hundred people there. Hee humbly beseecheth
yor
Lops
to the end he may be no further vniustly molested by any of the old dissolued Company of Virginea, but may peaceably & quietly enioy his
Mats
gracious Grant vnto him, and the right,
wch
he (in confidence thereof) hath since so deerly bought by the expence of so great sumes of money, the loss of one of his Brothers and severall others of his freinds, and many other troubles
wch
he hath since vndergone, in the prosecution of it, That
yor
Lops
would be pleased vpon these considerations; To make a finall Order that the old dissolued Company of Virginea shall be heard no more in their said vniust
prtences
against his Pattent, because the often questioning of his right, though it be vpon vniust grounds, doth much
priudice
him in
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his proceedings, Nor that any other order do passe from this
Honoble
Boord
wch
may
priudice
his right or cause any suites in Law between them, ffor that would much endanger the ouerthrow of his Plantation which is now in a good forwardnes to perfection, and consequently his and many of his freinds vtter ruine, in respect that the greatest part of their fortunes are therevpon engaged.
No. 14.
GOVERNOR CHARLES CALVERT TO CECILIUS, LORD BALTIMORE.
[Indorsement.]
27 Aprill 1664
My son Charles to me
by Cap: Miles Cooke.
[Superscription.]
Seal.
Calvert Arms
with a
label.
For The Right
Honble
The Lord Baltemore
These
prsnt
p Capt. Cooke.
May it Please Your Lopp—
I shall now endeauour to giue
yr
Lopp
an Accompt of what I haue done as to
yr
Lopps
Co??ands in the last & This yeares letters but I shall first humbly begg
yr
Lopps
pardon that I haue nott done it sooner:
27th
May 1662. Your
Lopp
was pleas'd in that letter to co??and me to procure some Elke Calues two Males and two Femalls, I haue vsed all my endeauours possible but can
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procure none as yet,
yr
Lopp
in that letter was pleas'd to write about the
Manur
of Calverton, to know what has beene granted out of it, A Thousand Acres
yr
Lopp did grant to doctor Barber & 300 acres att an other time, &
Mr
Pyles has had a 1000 acres more out of it vpon a letter
wch
Mr
Lewger writt long since as from
yr
Lopp
wch
is all I know of or can learne from any; I haue acquainted the Masters of Vessells that what letters I send to
yr
Lopp
they should carry for London & nott send them by the post as they were wont to doe & that
yr
Lopp
would beare them out in't, the 20 Barrells of Corne
wch
Mr
Sewall was to haue he has now payd him by discount
wth
the
Chancellr
, & the
20th
wch
my vncle had of
yr
Lopp
in Maryland money he tells me is pay'd as may appeare by his neate Accompt of 1661. I haue according to
yr
Lopps
Grant to my Cosen Darnall of Jenkins Plantacon endeauourd to sell it for him, & hope by these ships to send him Bills of Exchange for't;
Mr
Sewall has Great Eltonhead as
yr
Lopp
gaue me
Ordr
in this letter.
24th
July 1662. According to
yr
Lopps Co??ands in this letter I passt the land
aforesd
to the Secretary, & he has surrendered his warrant for 2000 acres
wch
yr
Lopp
was please to bestow on him:
26th
July 1662. I humbly returne
yr
Lopp many thanks for the 25 p pole
wch
the Countrey gaue by Act of Assembly, I shall endeauour to make the best vse I can for your Lopps seruice: As to what your Lopp writes about the Hattons whoe would faine haue a 1000 acres of the Land att Choptico pretending a promisse from your Lopp
wch
as I find vpon record was but Conditionall, soe that I shall obey
yr
Lopps Co??ands & endeauours to satisfie them in some other place, when soever they shall desire it but as yett I heare nothing from them. The Grant
wch
yr
Lopp
gaue to Doctor Barber he
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shewd me vpon
wch
I pass't & sing'd him a pattent, afore
yr
Lopps letter came to my hands, & whereas
yr
Lopp
does think that grant was reuokt', I enquir'd of the
Chancellr
about it whoe could say nothing to't as he told me, soe that I cannot find any thing whereby to recall what's pass't he shewing me
yr
Lopp
letter vpon
wch
I did it & causd the words of
yr
Lopps
letter to be recorded
wch
concern'd his buisinesse,
Mr
Lewgers sonne has that Plantation of Coles in lieu of 500 acres
wch
yr
Lopp
had giuen him, there were noe housing vpon't, soe that there was noe Tob. to be demanded vpon that accompt of him; As to what
yor
Lopp: was pleasd to write about the moneys or Tobaccos due from
Mr
Sewall to
Mr
Lewger & Cœcill Langford I can onely say This that the fees of the Secretarys place are much more then formerly & conceiue it will not prejudice the Secretary to pay part if not the whole, but shall desire
yr
Lopps positiue
Ordr
therein for what's due in arreares, & for the furore Cœcill Langford being now gone from
yr
Lopp
the Secretary I think may very well pay
Mr
Lewgers share yearely.
15th
Sep: 1661. I did according to
yr
Lopps Comands take Peeter Gures from the
Chancellr
but since that he's returnd to him againe but vpon better termes then afore.
24th
Sep. 1661 Your Lopp in This letter was pleas'd to write about
Mr
Wm
Eltonheads will, whoe by word of mouth gaue his land & other estat to his wife he being art that time a prisoner & could not haue the benifitt of paper & Ink vpon
wch
the Court then Judgd the will good, but in regard the word heyres was not spoken I am not certaine whether our last Act of Assembly for quietting possessions does not confirmd it as to her as it was intended for all such as had but imperfect Conueyances
wch
makes me att
prsent
able to say little but shall endeauour to enquire more into't, in regard wee
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had occasion art our last Prouinciall Court to examine that busines & I find the wittnesse that was to haue prou'd that will was not entred vpon record,
wch
will alter the thing much, & if
Mr
Eltonhead will make a letter of Attourney to some person here to sue for his right, I shall endeavour that Iustice be done in't, but if he send a letter of Attourney he must gett it Attested according to Act of Assembly as
yr
Lopp
will see by the Acts sent home this yeare or otherwise it will not be of force here
wth
vs; I giue
yr
Lopp
many Thanks for the Grafts sent by
Mr
White last yeare but none of them came to good; I haue & shall obserue
yr
Lopps
Comands in euery particular in these letters of 1662, These last of 1663 I shall now giue
yr
Lopp
the Best Accompt I ame able in answer to euery thing therein.
23th
July 1663. I shall according to
yr
Lopps
Co??ands take care for the future whoes Bills I take, & as to that of
Mr
Loyds about the
26th
he assur'd me in the Presence of the
Chancellr
that he had taken such effectuall Course
wth
his correspondent in England that I press't him nott to draw any Bills, but it shall make me more Carefull the next time; Smiths Bill
wch
yr
Lopp
return'd protested came to my hands, but in regard Smith is gone for England whoe sign'd it, nothing can be done in't here but must leave it to
yr
Lopp
in England where he is or will be some time or other his Father is one of that Company vpon whom he drew those Bills of Exchange &
yr
Lopp will come to heare of the sonne vpon the Exchange, The 9
hhds
of Tobacco
wch
in 1662 I sent whome to
yr
Lopp
by Capt Tully, 7 of
wch
I thought good & weighty, but as
yr
Lopp
writes were nott, must be Capt Tullys fault, for it was himselfe that assur'd me that 4 of the 7
wch
he brought from Ann Arundell were extraordinary good Tob: & good weight 400 & vpwards all foure, for the other
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Three, I was
wth
him when they were brought on board his Ship & I caus'd euery hdd to be opend & shew'd him the Tobaccos
wch
he like't then very well, & wisht all the Tob: he had then on board were as good I saw them weighed & euery hogshead was vpwards of 400 this I can Assure
yr
Lopp
to be truth soe that where the fault was vnlesse Capt. Tully was Careless or did not deale soe fairely
wth
yr
Lopp
as he ought to haue done I can't Imagine, for I tooke all the care possible I could that
yr
Lopp
mought not pay freight for bad Tobaccos; The Bills of Exchange
wch
your
Lopp
receiued from Coll Smith charg'd by me I will take care shall be payd againe & thought to haue sent in this yeare, But
doctr
Tilghman putts me of still alleadging his bad condition he is in, but say's he will not faile to contriue
paymt
next Cropp
wch
I shall returne to
yr
Lopp
, But This will make for the future take care for whome I doe such a courtesey for it was purely to pleasur the
doctr
he being a stranger att that time in Virginia
wch
made me request the fauour of Coll Smith to procure him Creditt for soe much in Virginia
wch
accordingly vpon my letter he did, & to satisfie him I was forct to draw a Bill for the moneys vpon
yr
Lopp
the
Doctr
taking noe care to satisfie the debt, As Concerning what
yr
Lopp
writes that the
Comissrs
wch
I sent did not well to consent that the same time for the stinting to be alike in both places, to
wch
it was answered to me that they could not accomodate it otherwise the Other party alleadging that that would not be soe greate a prejudice in regard Maryland was not much to the Northward of Virginia, & as to the Calling our Assembly here first was a great ouer sight in them, & they could giue me noe good answer to't, onely that it was much press't by the other party the result of our Assembly as to that businesse I sent
yr
Lopp
in Harwood & Copys in Groome; I was not long since att
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Virginia to waite vpon the
Gouernr
& amongst other buisnesse
wth
him I mou'd the setting forth the diuisionall line from Wattkins point to the seabord syde to
wch
he seem'd very willing, & some time in Aprill was then appointed for't, & since that I received a letter from Scarburgh wherein he gaue me to
vndrstand
that he had Order from the
Gouerr
Councell & Comittee of theire Assembly to write to me that vpon the
10th
of May next was the time appointed by 'm the doing that buisnesse to
wch
I answer'd I should nott faile to send others to meet them on
yr
Lopps
behalfe,
wch
I am now preparing to doe & shall carefully obserue your
Lopps
Co??ands & Instructions in that buisness, & I hope I may be able to glue
yr
Lopp an Accompt by some of the last shipps that depart from hence or Virginia of the accomodating that difference betwext the Virginians & vs, In answer to what
yr
Lopp
writes about the
Manur
of Great Eltonhead, vpon inquiry since into that buisnesse doe find that there is 5000 acres according to former suruey, & how
Mr
Sewall came to find there was but 3000 I shall not venture to say att
prsent
, but it goes now for the full quantity as afore & nothing is
sd
more concerning it by the Secretary; I receiued a letter from the Lords of the Councell but as
yr
Lopp
. Co??anded me haue taken noe notice of't att all, but shall
notwthtanding
be very diligent in obseruing theire Co??ands, & I humbly begg
yr
Lopps pardon for my Omission in not sending the last yeares bonds for 1662 till this last shipping, but shall for the future amend that fault, I sent them by Groome & duplicats by Harwood or Tully I dont well
remembr
wch
The Originalls I keepe here, those of 1663 I now send by
Capt
Cooke & Copys likewise by Tilghman. My last yeares Accompt I sent, by Groome
wth
Jack Allen, but am afraid I shall not be able to send
yr
Lopp This of 1663 untill the next shipping for
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the sheriffs are soe long afore they returne me theire Bookes that I haue not time to make vp the Accompts the same shipping to send
yr
Lopp,
wch
I hope will excuse me, but I shall
notwthstanding
endeauour what in me lyes to hasten them, In answer to what
yr
Lopp was pleasd to write about the 68 hhds of Tob:
wch
I sent last yeare in Fon for my not sending the weights of euery hdd was not soe much my fault for the Sheriffs came not downe time enough
wth
theire notes of particular & the ship was gone afore I had them
wch
was the cause I sent them not, otherwise I should nott haue Comitted such an ouersight as that was: The
Gouerr
of New Amstell is returned to Delaware but I
vndrstand
as yett nothing from him, neither doe wee heare any thing more of the frigatts that were design'd for the Manados, if at any time there be occaticon for our assistance to Call the Dutch to an Accompt for the Land they enioy there wee shall be ready & endeauour to putt in for
yr
Lopps. Right
wch
att
prsent
wee conceiue better to lett alone vnlesse
yr
Lopp can informe vs
wch
way wee can safely do't, & wee shall be still ready to Obey Co??ands. I spoak to the
Chancellr
touching
yr
Accompts
wch
he sent to
yr
Lopp to
wch
he answered that he had sent
yr
Lopp his answer to such Obiections as were made & gaue me a Copy of't
wch
I shall peruse & glue
yr
Lopp my sence thereof but they are soe tedious that art
prsent
I am not able to spend soe much time to examine them neither is he at leasure my sicknesse whilst I was in Virginia & the time it Continued on me after my returne into these parts has hindred me extreamly & putt me back in all my buisnesse, but I will examine all those accompts & returne
yr
Lopp his answer to me as to euery particular: I pay'd him his Thirds last yeare as
yr
Lopp will find by the Accompt currant
wch
I sent in Groome; I brought him debtor 70 odds lbs for Arreares of Rents
wch
I found by
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the books returnd me in 1662
wch
his seuerall deputys had receiued & had given noe Creditt ever vpon the Bookes formerly of his
wch
sume I charg'd him
wth
& he to gett it of his deputys
wch
I suppose he has ere this.
24th
July 1663. I receiued
yr
Lopps as p Margent by
Mr
Allen & according to
yr
Lopps Co?ands therein haue shewne him all the kindnesse possibly I could, he's a very good Condicond young man, & In time may done well as to the
vndrstanding
our Co?odity & manner of dealing in these parts of the world,
wch
att This time I confesse can giue little
encouragemt
to any, I receiu'd the Mault & flower from Groome & humbly & returne
yr
Lopp many Thanks for them & for the news books
wch
are a great divertisment to vs here, I haue acquainted my Couzen
Wm
Caluert about that buisnesse betwixt him & my vncle, & shall endeauour what I can for the best.
26th
July 1663. This I receiu'd by the hands of
dr
Humberstone & in Obedience to
yr
Lopps
Co?ands receiu'd him into my house whilst he stay'd here, but I cannot find him to be the person capable of performing those things
yr
Lopp was inform'd of him he's an Indiffrent good Chirurgeon & as indiffrent in his religion, he past here for an Athest, & I think him little better, some call'd him the Heathen doctor & I presume none could call him a miss, but I was Civill to him in regard it was
yr
Lopps pleasure & Comands to me. I shall speake to Augustine as
yr
Lopp formerly writt about a particular Mapp for
St
Johns & West St Marys,
Mr
White has done some thing as to the House & Orchard of
St
Johns
wch
I presume he'll send
yr
Lopp this shipping.
3d
August 1663. I receiu'd this letter & a letter from
yr
Lopp for
Collr
Fontele Roy & a warrant for him, both
wch
I carried
wth
me to Virginia, but afore I could gett it sent
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to him he was dead, soe that I haue the warrant & shall keepe it vntill
yr
Lopp shall further direct in't, I returne
yr
Lopp many thanks for the moneys payd to
Mr
Fitzherbert in England
wch
I chargd vpon
yr
Lopp.
14th
August 1663. In answer to what
yr
Lopp was pleas'd to write in this letter I shall now endeauour to satisfie as to euery particular the best I can; In that letter I receiued seuerall papers from
yr
Lopp & a note of the prizes of such things sent in Capt Tully. The Things themselfes I receiued & a Man seruant, the other that was to haue come being putt a shoare att Plimouth, I had alsoe by that vessell Copys of
yr
Lopps Co?ission & Instructions to Capt Swanley
Gouer
of Newfounland, all
wch
I shall peruse & returne an answer as soone as I can for
yr
Lopps satisfaction; The busness
wch
the slones Complain's & writt about is by me accomodated betwext them & the
Chancellr
he paying the Arrears of Rent due from them, & he to haue what was in his hands of shares, by
wch
meanes he came to gett 10 or
12th
by the bargaine & gave discharges to each other afore me, & soe that that difference was ended; the arreares of Rent comes to 38 odd pounds
wch
I am to charge to the
Chancellrs
accompt this yeare, towards
paymt
of his Thirds as Sallary from
yr
Lopp: The Proclamacon
wch
yr
Lopp was pleasd to mention was issued forth by me & the Rest of the Councell concerning the taking of Hydes for Rent, nothing as yett is done in't, in regard
Mr
Jackson could not give that security to me
wch
in Reason I ought to haue demanded of him for the securing
yr
Lopp of
yr
Rents & besides one reason
wch
made me doe nothing in't was because the Councell had nothing to doe
wth
things of that nature
wch
afterwards I reflected on though at the Issuing forth of that Proclama?? I was surpriz'd but it signified nothing; Though many times when I have spoken
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by the by to the
Chancellr
of the difficulty I had in getting the Rents cleare euery yeare, he has often press't me to aduise
wth
the Councell
wth
it, but I haue made him still this answer that I conceiu'd it not a buisnesse properly belonging to them, but that I should vse what means
wth
his aduise I thought best,
wch
since I haue
vndrstood
he has informd the Councell as he has of many other things
wch
in priuate I have discours't
wth
him: I haue endeavour'd to assist
Mr
Jackson what I can in letting him a spott of ground hard by me for his Tann Fatts & lent him a House to putt his Bark in euer since he came, but I find the Countrey are not soe ready to encourage him as I thought they would in regard they see noe great effects of his coming in; The reason I did nott last yeare send
yr
Lopp an accompt of the Things sent that yeare & that I did nott answer the letters of that yeare was because Spenser was gone sooner then I heard he was to goe, but I sent by the way of New England but cannot
vndrstand
that
yr
Lopp received the letters. The Things that
yr
Lopp sent this yeare I shall now giue an accompt to euery particular as I receiud them; The Warrant
wch
yr
Lopp mentions
Mr
Lewger has for me as Receiuer came to me, & I haue giuen Capt Tully
10th
to pay him it being for the first
paymt
& shall not faile to pay as much yearely till 7 yeares be expired as long as I continue Receiuer; I haue spoke to the
Chancellr
concerning what he writt to
yr
Lopp of a promisse I made to Patrick Powest of the land att Pork Hall neck,
wch
I wonder extreamly att, when he knows, I neuer did nor could I if I would, & to lett
yr
Lopp see he has done me a great deale of wrong in't, the busnesse was this, he himselfe came to me & spoake in this fellows behalfe to me for that land, To
wch
I answered him:
Sr
you know it lyes not in my power to dispose of any lands Escheated to his Lopp
wth
out particular
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Ordr
for't, & as yett I haue none the second time he came againe, & I made him the very same answer as afore I had done, but Patrick as he says presst him soe much that he came the Third time
wth
him at
wch
I was a little troubled & desird the
Chancellr
he would satisfie him, but nothing would serue it seemes vnlesse I gave the fellow an answer & vpon that I went out of my parlor to the fellow, & the same buisnesse was mou'd by the fellow, & the same answer I gaue him as I had to the
Chanr
then Patrick desir'd me to write to
yr
Lopp to procure it him, I then demanded of the
Chancellr
whither himselfe & Dick Willan whoe was then liuing were willing to't in regard I knew both theire stocks of Cattle & hogs ran in that neck, the
Chancellr
made me answer he was very willing & more over did assure me of
Mr
Willan Willingnesse to't to
wch
I reply'd if it be true as
yu
are pleas'd to say I'll write to his Lopp about it, but
wth
in a Day or two after I pass't by
Mr
Willans House & mett
wth
him whoe desir'd to know of me whether Patrick had obtained a grant of Pork hall neck, & vpon that I acquainted him
wth
what I have here related to
yr
Lopp, wherevpon he made me answer that if any body did seate that land it would ruine him in his stock, I i?ediatly went to the
Chanllr
& sent for Patrick to come thither to me & told them both what
Mr
Willan had said, to
wch
the
Chancellr
told me priuatly that Willan was a strange man, but My lord the reason of that was there had beene some little difference betwixt my Vncle & him about some Corne Willan had lett him & could not gett it againe, I told Patrick I would doe nothing that should ruine a person that had beene soe faithfull as dick Willan had beene to
yr
Lopp well then
sd
the
Chanr
doe not
Sr
at least hinder him by writing to
yr
Lopp
, I assurd him I would neither write for the one or the other & this is the buisnesse
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in short
wch
I humbly leave to
yr
Lopp to iudge whether This were a promisse I could acquaint
yr
Lopp
wth
many other Triuiall Things
wch
he has reported of me but are nott worth troubling
yr
Lopp
wth
all att
prsent
. I give
yr
Lopp many Thanks for the Things sent by Capt. Tully, I receiued them all & the Inuoyce and as they were sett downe both in that & the Bills of lading I shall be very carefull as well of what
yr
Lopp has last sent me as likewise of the things I had afore: The reason I haue nott giuen
yr
Lopp soe large an accompt of euery particular from time to time was for want of a Clerk I haue now hired one for a time, & shall for the future glue
yr
Lopp better satisfaction; but for sending the Escheats, Mich?? I receiue the Rents I will if possible I ame able & can gett my Bookes in time enough; If I had nothing else to doe but to goe to the Respective sheriff of euery County for theire seuerall books I'ts very possible I mought do't, but hauing continually more buisnesse then I can well runn Thorough, I must neglect one thing or other if I should stir soe much from home I did desire as
yr
Lopp writes to haue some frieght taking last yeare in England, but fearing afterwards If I should not compleat my freight, I should be protested against, I chose rather to lett it alone & that was the reason I did not send word as I writt I would otherwise have done. I haue acquainted the Secretary that the
Chancellr
had writt
yr
Lopp word of some indiscreet & vnhandsome speeches he should vtter & that the
Chancellr
had informd
yr
Lopp he had acquainted me
wth
it, but I assure
yr
Lopp I can't
remembr
that ever I heard any word or tittle of't afore I read
yr
Lopps letter for if I had I should have hardly past it in silence soe I i?ediatly went to the
Chancellr
to know of him whoe Those persons were that would be
Mr
Sewalls accusers he told me
Mr
Coursey was the person,
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where vpon I su?onds him to
St
Marys & made knowne the businesse to him to
wch
he made answer that he had heard seuerell things come from the Secretary, I desird that he would give me
vndr
his hand what he had to say & lay to his charge
wch
I heare send to
yr
Lopps being able to say little to't my selfe the one declaring vpon Oath & the Other positiuely denying vpon Oath.
Mr
Coursey moreouer told me that others had heard as much as himselfe, I demanded whoe those were & he told me the
Chancellr
had heard the same & to the same effect as what he could say, whervpon I spoake to the
Chancellr
whoe told me likewise that he had att an other time heard to the same purpose as
Mr
Coursey, & I desir'd he would alsoe give it me
vndr
his hand & vpon Oath
wch
he has done, both
wch
I present to
yr
Lopp to iudge of, Now May it Please
yr
Lopp this I can say that neither the
Chancellr
nor the other Can endure the Secretary & haue endeauour'd what they can to doe him vnkindnesse as
yr
Lopp may plainly see by the Journalls of the last Assembly, & I know they haue attempted to do him what mischief they Could to the people by disparagin him
wch
I thought was not handsome he being your Lopps Officer & Third person in Employmt; when I first spoake
wch
the
Chancellr
to know whoe those were that accusd the Secretary he told me onely
Mr
Course & yett since that it seemes he says he heard as much, they are vpon theire Oaths & therefore shall not presume to speake more in't if it be true I wonder art
Mr
Sewall for being soe indiscreet, for in his actions euer since he has beene
yr
Lopps Officer he has giuen sufficient testimony of his readinesse both to serue
yr
Lopps & the Countrey & I could wish I had cause to say as much as of the rest of
yr
Lopps Officers whoe pretend more but theire actions doe not suit accordingly, The Secretary does intend for England in Cooke & of him
yr
Lopp may be
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further satisfied, both as to his owne particuler & the humors & dispositions of other persons here in Office & of theire Carriage in
yr
Lopps affaires here,
yr
Lopp may confide in him for the naked truth of Things here & I doubt but when I may see
yr
Lopp to Confirme what he may relate— I haue reced: An Act of
Parliamt
& shall be very diligent in Obseruing it, but I haue desir'd the Secretary to know of
yr
Lopps what's is meant by searching vessells for Forraign goods whether wee must strictly looke into euery particuler Cargo The Merchant &
Mastr
brings in if soe it will be an Endlesse trouble both to the Officers &
Mastr
& Owners of such goods, wherefore I shall earnestly entreat
yr
Lopp to satisfie vs in that, least wee runn ourselues into some inconuenience by being to Officious in our places, if
yr
Lopp can by the first Ship that comes for these parts—
Mr
Willan is dead but I acquainted his wife about that
wch
yr
Lopp writt concerning a release he had sent for England & what shee will doe in't I can't tell as yett; Whereas The
Chancellr
writt to
yr
Lopp that he might leaue The Great Seale
wth
me when his Occations call'd him vp the Bay to his Plantations, he has since desir'd me to write to your Lopp that he may be dismiss't from his imploymt, for that as he say's he is not able to looke after
yr
Lopps buisnesse and his owne. The Secretary can giue
yr
Lopp the seuerall reasons why he has desir'd that soe much, if he were dismist I am certaine I could not have more buisnesse then now I have vpon me,
yr
Lopp does give a Sallary to a person to beare the name of an Officer but does little & what help & profitt it brings to
yr
Lopp I doe not conceiue, he has been absent these two Courts & is like to be the next & vnlesse I be at home noe Courts can be held, The Hattons haue not as yett spoaken any thing of the land of Choptico as I haue
sd
afore, but as to what doctor Barber
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writt
yr
Lopp word that I told him I had a check from
yr
Lopp for signing his Pattent for his 1300 acres
wch
he has there I did say as much to him but forgott to write
yr
Lopp an answer then of what I had done in't, I had
yr
Lopps letter to the
Chanr
for what I did, & I told him
yr
Lopp did wonder how he came to haue any land there, & that if I had not already pass't the Pattent I would haue held my hand, this I told him wherevpon he
prsently
gave out I would take his land from him & seuerall other vnhandsome speeches as he is indiscreet enough to say any thing att his pleasure— I haue acquainted the
Chancellr
wth
what he had informd
yr
Lopp that I did not from time to time co?unicatt
yr
Lopps Instructions to him to
wch
he answerd me little, I desir'd him to lett me know what it was I had ever kept from him that concernd him selfe or the Countrey, he was pleas'd to giue me noe answer, though I can iustly complaine of his being backward in assisting & informing me of the buisnesse of the Countrey, but I shall presume to say noe more att
prsent
of this vntill I shall haue a fitter opportunity. I inform'd
Mr
Nuttall of what
yr
Lopp writt concerning my vsing of him friendly as
yr
Lopp co?anded
wch
I shall vpon all occations doe for he deserues it & I doubt not but that he will proue very faithfull to the Interest of Maryland. The Runlett of Tobacco
wch
Capt Cook carried ouer last yeare to
yr
Lopp was
prsented
as a token from
Mr
Preston the Great Quaker that was, when I spoak to him for a
100??
one for to send to
yr
Lopp he was resolu'd to present it him selfe & caused it to be putt on board Capt Cooke & I knew nothing of't till Cook was sett saile out of the Riuer, I doe intend to send a smal runlett by
Mr
Sewall of the same persons Tobacco, but I feare not soe good as the last I am very sorry that I am disapointed in euery Thing, that I haue nothing worth
prsenting
yr
Lopp
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this yeare, I hope hereafter to gett dried peaches good stoare to send next yeare hauing one now that can doe them.
6th
Sep. 1663. Your lopps bearing date as p Margent I receiu'd & the seueral Bills of lading & inuoyce & other papers being duplicats of those I had receiu'd by Tully, & att the same time my Cozen
Wms
sister arriued here & is now att my house, & has the care of my houshold affaires, as yett noe good Match does
prsent
, but I hope in a short time she may find one to her owne content &
yor
Lopps desire, I shall further what I can towards it, I haue acquainted her Brother what
yr
Lopp does expect he should doe for her, but in case he does not, or be not in a Condicon to doe much I shall take care she shall not want as long as she remains
wth
me, There came
wth
her two maids one to wait vpon her & the other to my selfe, I receiued likwise a light su?er druggat suit a pewter still 2 Copper stew panns & in them
20??
of yellow wax, I alsoe had
wth
them other papers relating to former Accompts betwixt
yr
Lopp & the
Chancellr
the
wch
I shall carefully peruse. We can heare nothing as yett of the
Comissrs
wch
yr
Lopp writt were going for New England;—The Carpenter
wch
yr
Lopp agreed
wth
Gilbert Mettcalfe for
30??
is now
wth
me I spoak
wth
Edmund Berkley in Virginia about him, but it was att least two month ere I had him afterwards, & when
Mr
Berkley came for his
30??
, by Chance the fellow askt me what time Berkley had sold him to me, I told him for 3 yeares & as much as was then to Aprill, to
wch
the fellow replyed
Sr
he misinformd
yu
for I haue but two yeares & as much as to next Aprill, I then demanded whether he had an Indentur & he produc't me one, & by that he had but two yeares more to serue,
Mr
Berkley was a little amaz'd att first att it & could not tell well what to say, but vpon long examining The Indenturs & debating the whole buisnesse, I
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was resolu'd at last not pay for 3 yeares seruice when I saw he could not assure me oft in regard the Indenture appear'd to me a good & firm obliga??n, & I veryly beleeue it is; & some Trick of Berkleys, for as I since came to vnderstand he endeauourd to gett this Indenture of the
Carpenr
but could not, & soe thought to haue had his Bills for
30??
afore I should haue knowne any thing att all of it att last wee agreed for
20??
for 2 yeares seruice, in regard I had much
employmt
for a
Carpenr
& hauing relyed vpon him for this fellow; had putt of others & was then seating a planta??n at
Wst
St
Mary's. I gaue him Bills for
20??
for 2 yeares seruice & I am to deliuer him art the end of the time he has to serue me to Berkley whoe will endeauour to make the poore fellow serue a other yeare if he can, I suppose he can not for its as good an Indenture as I see are made, The
Carpr
is a good workman &
vndrstands
a mill very well for
wch
I Chiefly bought him, & I hope to gett mill finisht ere his time be out
wth
me, I haue askt the
Chancellr
of the fewness of the Port dutys for Catches & other vessells from London, to
wch
he answered
yr
Lopp as he says that many of those Catches went a way
wth
out paying port dutys
wch
I wonder att very much, & for the London Ships he says there were not more than what he mentiond (viz) 8 or 9; I receiued two letters from the
Comissrs
of the Custome house of London about the Act for Trade & nauiga??n,
wch
I shall answer by these shipps, & send Copys of This yeares bonds to
yr
Lopp & not to them, I humbly giue
yr
Lopp many Thanks for the Garden seeds I receiu'd This yeare, I shall for the future send
yr
Lopp a particular of all such things as I want, & would not that
yr
Lopp should be att soe great a charge for many Things
wch
I haue receiud This yeare, for I haue bad Tobaccos enough here
wch
will buy many things
wth
when it is not worth sending
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home, & for
yr
Lopp to buy soe many things in England I am sencible costs a great deale of moneys
wch
I would not by any means
yr
Lopp should doe, vnless it be for such things as I send for, & then I will take care to send where with all to procure them. As for setting vp a farme for English Graine, I haue this yeare made a good stepp towards it, by sowing 15 or 16 bushells of wheate And 10 or 12 bushells of Oats, 7 bushells of pease 8 or 9 bushells of Barley, & if the yeare proue seasonable I doubt not but to haue 300 hundred bushells of wheat encrease for last yeare in a spott of ground of 2 acres & a halfe I had aboue 40 bushells of wheat a 12 bushells of Oats & 8 or 9 bushells of pease, & the straw of that preserud my young Cattle in the hard wether & kept me 4 horses constantly in the stables in very good hart, when other horses were hardly able to doe any seruice; The Flax & Hemp
wch
yr
Lopp sent me was sowd & beginns now to come vp, for
wch
I returne
yr
Lopp many humble Thanks, I receiu'd likewise papers relating to the
Chancellrs
Accompts,
wch
I will peruse & know his answer; The Warrant for a Thousand acres for Bishop Russell I receiud in 1662 & the
Chanr
was then very earnest to see it layd out, being for his Old acquaintance
wch
made me doe nothing in't, but I humbly beg
yr
Lopps pardon I return'd noe answer to't, but I shall now take effectuall course to see it done & to that end haue already giuen
Ordr
to the
Surueyr
to lay it out & the Pattent shall be sent him. The yeare has beene soe bad for euery thing that I shall be forc't to disapoint
yr
Lopp of meat & other things
yr
Lopp writt for,
Mr
Sewall can inform
yr
Lopp being somewhat sencible of the difficulty in getting meate & Corne; & it has beene much worse
wth
me in regard of my being long absent from my family when I was sick in Virginia, I haue Thirty to prouide victualls for,
wch
does putt me to some care & trouble
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besides the expence
wch
is the least,—I haue labour'd what I can to procure
yr
Lopp some birds & deere but neither Tobaccos nor moneys will tempt any person to gett me any this yeare,
notwthstanding
I haue profer'd great rates, your lopp was pleasd to write that some had inform'd that wee had water Pheasants but as yett I can heare of none that euer saw any, & for our sort of hawks I neuer thought them worth sending otherwise I had sent long since some, the next yeare I shall be able to procure some to send. I returne your Lopp many Thanks for the Books I receiud by Story & the note of particulars, I had one Man Seruant named Thomas Venaubles a good diligent fellow & I shall vse him well vpon
yr
Lopps Co?ands;—I acquainted doctor Barber of what
yr
Lopp writt me concerning him;—I receiud
yr
Lopps letter of the
8th
of Sept: & wonder very much that some should inform my Cousen
Wm
Caluerts sister, that I had hoe kindnesse for her, when I can safely say I neuer had any such thoughts & can say as much for Her Brother, I hope my Carriage to her & the Care I shall take to see her want for nothing will giue her reason to think better on me, The Maid that came
wth
her waits vpon her & shall remaine
wth
her according to
yr
Lopps Co?ands—I shall pay vnto
Mr
Fitzwilliams whoe is come in
Mr
Fitzherberts place 6 barrells of Corne& likewise giue him all the
encouragmt
fitting; I wonder very much att
Mr
Fitzherberts discourses Concerning Maryland & our manner of liuing here, when he of all men neuer had the least occation to abuse the Countrey & his friends soe, as for what he writt
yr
Lopp of my being in danger of staruing I think my Table neuer gaue him cause to complaine of vs though I confesse he had good things & would as plentifully take of any liquour of
wch
he had enough in my house & more then I thought fitting for a person of his coat to take
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sometimes,—I receiued by This ship Copys of your lopps letters to the
Chanr
& his lady
wch
I haue perus'd & shall keepe them to my selfe & carefully obey
yr
Lopps Co?ands in all things, I doubt not but that my Carriage to them since my coming into These parts has giuen sufficient testimony of my respect to them vpon all occations,
yr
Lopp of the
28th
of
Octor
I receiued by Capt Miles Cook & duplicats & second Bills of lading for the things sent by Capt Tully, I likewise receiued papers about that busnesse of Tullys being stop't att Plimoth; I had alsoe by this The Mill stones Brass & Iron worke for
wch
I humbly returne
yr
Lopp many Thanks, & since
yr
Lopp has beene pleasd to be Att The Charge
yr
selfe, I will now build her vpon my owne Accompt & keepe her to my selfe,
Mr
White being a person as I find not fitt for the encountring the trouble & difficultys people haue to bring any thing to effect in This Countrey, he has beene euer since his arriuall in This Prouince
wth
me & I haue giuen him his diett Thinking he mought haue beene of vse to me, but as yett not much, the life he leads here does not seeme to please him soe much as that he lead in Italy
Mr
Sewall will inform
yr
Lopp more of him & other persons,—I receiued likewise halle a Bushell of Garden Beanes a
pr
of Garden sheeres & harnesse for Three plough horses, & other necessarys for a plough. I alsoe had 2 hdds of mault of Capt: Cooke but had not occation for any more nayles then what
yr
Lopp was pleasd to send me
wch
I likewise had, & returne many humble Thanks for them, That buisnesse
wch
the Secretary writt to
yr
Lopp about concerning the setting vp of a Saw Mill vpon an Island on the Easterne shoare as yet nothing is done in't & I beleeve it will be noe more thought on for my owne particular I am not in a Condi??n as yet to venture vpon such
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a chargeable designe as a Saw Mill will be afore it yeelds any profitt, perhapps I may putt 4 or 5 Saws into my Water mill if I can doe it
wth
little more Charge
wch
I am Credibly informd I may, I shall the p?nt yeare acquaint
yr
Lopp how I proceed in't,—Wee heare nothing as yett of the Pattent
wch
some Bristoll Merchants has of that neck of land betwixt Rapa & Patowmeck but its say'd when all ships are gone it will he produc't, & the reason I heare of this is that noe news shall he carried home this yeare how the people relish theire New
Gouernrs
but will leave it till the next & by that time its hop't they may be quiett & well satisfied
wth
it. I haue endeauourd to see if I could find as many responsable men that would engage to take a 100 or 200 neigros euery yeare from the Royall Company at that rate mentiond in
yr
Lopps letter but I find wee are nott men of estates good enough to vndertake such a buisnesse, but could wish wee were for wee are naturally inclin'd to loue neigros if our purses would endure it;— I acqnainted
Mr
Fitzwilliams of his abrupt parting att London
wth
out takeing leaue of
yr
Lopp
wch
he does acknowledge & asks
yr
Lopps pardon for't he will I suppose write as much by this ship:— By This ship I receiued one Warner a Miller & his wife she being since dead a little after she came a shoare was brought to bed & the Child died alsoe; I shall puntually obey
yr
Lopps Co?ands as to him. I receiued likewise drawne in the behalfe of Capt Tilghman, but that busness was taken vp by me & the Rest of the Councell by reason he had askt pardon & was sorry for what he had sayd,— I have sent
yr
Lopps letter to
Collr
Smith with in one from my selfe, I shall desire
yr
Lopp will take notice to him & her the next shipping of the fauours I receiu'd from them in my time of sicknesse, I was sick att theire house 6 weekes & she took very great care
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of me I shall humbly Desire
yr
Lopp to thank them both for't; That
wch
Capt Cook spoak to
yr
Lopp concerning his Admiralship part of the Vessell of the
St
George of Bantry I haue endeauourd to gett it for him of the
Chancellr
whoe tells me
30??
remaines yett in his hands,
wch
he will pay vnto Cook I suppose according to
yr
Lopps
Ordr
,— The Mill stones
wch
came in Cook were Blew & 4 foot & 9 Inches & I had all the Brass & Iron work belonging to them. I suppose Capt Cook will haue nothing for the freight for as much as I can perceiue by him as yett, he has been beholding to me for as much as that comes from time to time. He has beene very Ciuill to me vpon all occations for
wch
I desire
yr
Lopp will please to thank him. The letter
wch
yr
Lopp sent to doctor Barber
wth
a flying seale I did first read it & deliuerd afterwards to him.— I receiued more by Capt Cooke 2 bills for Harnesse for 3 horses & Iron work for a plough & alsoe a note of Things sent in a box C: C:
No
1 & a
pr
of Garden sheeres C: C:
No
2; I shall not be willing to entertaine Brickmakers or Carpenters at the Rate
yr
Lopp mentions, for I feare it will not turne to Accompt here
wth
vs, but humbly returne
yr
Lopp many Thanks, & for the News Books & other Papers. Now may it please
yr
Lopp in answer to what
yr
Lopp writt about my going for England next shipping
wch
I haue an earnest desire to if things be soe settled here that I may haue desire to returne back againe by the same shipping—for that as
yr
lopp writes will be most requisitt for both the reasons sett downe by
yr
Lopp, the Charge of such a voyage if vndertaken I shall take care to defray
wth
what I hope to gett here,
wch
is the least difficulty I find, but in whose hands to leaue the
Gouermt
in vntill I come back is that I am att a stand att, for if I should goe from hence in the last ship, & returne in the first as I necessarily must, my stay in England
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will be but short in England, & I haue great cause to feare, that I shall find much confusion at my returne, for as
yr
Lopp was please to write that it were best to make my Vncle
Gouerr
in my Absence on the side I know it to be very necessary & againe am very sensible how much he has disgusted all in Generall & especially those that haue beene euer faithfull to
yr
Lopps Interest here & such as haue shewne me any thing of Kindnesse since my Coming into this Province. He has soe much by Instruements employd by him threatened what he'll doe when the power comes againe into his hands as he giues out an other yeare it necessarily must in regard he
vnd'stands
yr
Lopp has a desire I should goe for England, next shipping, that the people doe dread nothing more & especially such as I sayd afore had beene
yr
Lopps friends whoe are resolud to lay downe theire Co?issions if not sell what they haue & begon the Secretary will satisfie
yr
Lopp of euery particular & what he has endeauourd to doe is to draw the Affections of the people from me
wch
I doe not fear in the least, for I haue had as much testimony of theire Kindnesse as could be expected by me from them, & especially in my time of sicknesse in Virginia as the Secretary can informe
yr
Lopp. This in short is that
wch
to me is the onely difficulty
wch
if
yr
Lopp can accomodate soe that things may be settled att my returne as now they are, I shall most Chearefully &
wth
a greate deale of desire prepare for my going for England next yeare to see
yr
Lopp then
wch
nothing can bring soe much satisfaction & comfort to him whoe remaines as euer
Your Lopps Most dutiffull Sonne
Charles Caluert
April
27th
1664—
I haue sent
yr
Lopp Bills
of Exchange in this Box
& haue giuen some papers to
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Mr
Sewall to discourse
wth
yr
Lopp
about the Alienation office
wch
the last Assembly
gaue to me to offer to
yr
Lopp as theire humble request
wch
if granted by
yr
Lopp will soe much gaine them that
it may bring more then doubling the Rents soe would haue come to
I shall take care of the Secreatys Office vntill
Mr
Sewall comes Back or that I heare from
yr
Lopp—
No. 15.
GOVERNOR CHARLES CALVERT TO CECILIUS, LORD BALTIMORE.
[Indorsement.]
26 Aprill 1672
My son Charles to me
from Maryland
Brought by Cap: Ben: Cooper recd 12 July 1672
Inclosed in it A coppy of my Co?ission to
my son Charles for the
Gouernmt
of Maryland.
May itt please
yor
Lopp
Capt
William Wheatley is now gone, by him I writ to
yr
Lopp
a short Letter, only to Convey some Bills of Exchange the seconds And some others I send
herewth
It is now high time that I returne
answr
to all
yor
Lopp
Letters by this Last Shippinge; and therefore I am now prepareing this against
Capt
Cooper sailes, who hath giuen mee butt a weekes time;
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that I may giue a full
answr
to all
yor
Lopps
l?? and Euery perticular Contained in them, I shall now take them afore mee according to their seuerall dates.
Yor
Lopps
of the the third of July by Gouldsmith. Gaue me to vnderstand that the Bill for £40 & the other for £70.. 15..
0d
were both Complyed with, and that all my Letters Came well to
yor
Lopps
hands, As alsoe the Act for 250 the
hho
which I perceiue
yor
Lopp
is Satisfyed with, our Endeauours were not wantinge to haue procured itt otherwise, butt Covld not prevaile which I hope
yor
Lopp
is Sensible off, I am glad flint the Tax vpon Tobbacco is not Settled, for I am assured the Comodity will not beare that Burden,
yor
Lopp
Mentions, that the difference betwixt his Royall Highness, and
yor
Lopp
is not yett determined, which wee are very Sorry for,
because itt begetts a beleefe in Many
tht
yor
Lopp
will hardly Recouer
yor
Right, And Causes many to take Land art the Hore Keele from the Gouerment of New Yorke, I am dayly perswadinge & Incouraginge persons to seat there in
yor
Lopps
Right, And some are already gone, And more I hope will Venture
Collo
ffrancis Louelace Gouernour of New Yorke, is Come lately to Delaware, (As Augustine writes mee word) but vpon what Designe is not yett Knowne, I fear that he Intends to make a vissitt to the people at the Hore Keele, to Incourage them to oppose those Seated and Settled in Right of this province butt of this I shall give
yor
Lopp
a further accompt.
I sent
yor
Lopp
all the Affidauits I Could gett, In pursuance to
yor
Commands by
Morris & Cobb by whom I Receiued
Lrs
to that purpose
when I send Bills of Exchange for the future, I will take Care that
Letters of Advise goe with them
accordinge to
yor
Lopps
directions I Could not possibly the last Assembly doe any thinge in order to
yor
Lopps
Command
about those prejuditiall provisoes in the Act for Support.
Wee satt not Long, and the sad news
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of Dear Sister Blackstons Death Comeing then to my hand, Made mee prorouge them till next October, Against which time I hope wee may haue further Commands. And the Company of
Sr
William Talbot,
yor
Lopps
Ordinance will neuer pass,
And therefore to moue itt to the Assembly, will I fear, prejudice our other business, there is nothing more in this Letter which I need glue
answr
to because itt Refers to others Receiued after.
Yor
Lopp
next Letter is that of the
29o
July by Miles Cooke which makes Mention of my Sisters Sickness, And the great Afflictions
yor
Lopp
was in att that time, I am glad the Box of L?? by
Capt
Tully Came safe to
yor
Lopp
And that
yor
Lopp
is pleased to Signify you are sensible of my Care and Dilligence in
yor
Business here, My Lord itt is the greatest Comfort I haue, when
yor
Lopp
Receiues Satisfaction in my poore Endeauours, which I know are butt Dutyes in mee, I shall neuer bee slacke in the Executinge those Commands
yor
Lopp
shall Impose vpon mee, nor bee wantinge in my Duty to
yor
Lopp
at any time I hope; I most humbly Returne
yor
Lordshipp thanks, for
yor
fauourable answer to the humble Request and proposition I made to
yor
Lopp
in my owne behalfe
And shall most willingly performe to the Chancellor Couzin Calvert and the Rest of the Councill, As
yor
Lopp
Requires. And alsoe make sufficient provission for the Magazin.
If
yor
Lopps
Rents will doe the Latter,
It is as much as I hope from them as they are now Curtailed;
Sr
Wm
Talbot (in Case bee Returns to his place againe) will (I am Confident) bee very well Satisfyed With the perquisitts thereof, And will not stand In need of any other Supply,
yor
Lopp
haueinge Confirmed to him those fees Which the Chancellor (whilst I was in England) Enjoyed; I doe Intend to send
yor
Lopp
an accompt of the full proffitts of his place, Receiued by mee as his Atturney, that itt may appear to
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yor
Lopp
whether itt bee Worth his Acceptance or not; The Commission and Instructions for Baker Brooke Mentioned in this Letter, are Come, as I shall here after Signifye, I haue accordinge to
yor
Lopps
Commands herein Reserued all the London vesells dues for you, And doe not Intend to make vse of any of them my selfe, Butt to take my Dues from others, whose bills may not bee soe Convenient for
yor
Lopp
By my Accompt which I shall send in
Capt
Conaway and Groome,
It will appear to
yor
Lopp
that I haue been Carefull of
yor
Commands & Instructions herein,
I will alsoe Returne
yor
Lopp
accompt of all the ffines fforfeitures and Escheated Lands that I know of
I hope
yor
Lopp
will thinke fitt, to send mee or some other
a power about the Sales of Escheated Lands by the first opertunities And I shall by Conaway & Groome send
yor
Lopp
a List of such Tracts (As I am Informed of) And the Quantity Quality, full valew, & worth of Every one of them,
I will take Care that the patents for Lands bee drawne as formerly, Notwithstanding our late provisoe in that Act for Support, And when
yor
Lopp
does send mee any power & Commission for the Sellinge any of those Escheated Lands (I shall giue accompt of by this Shippinge) Care shall bee taken that
450
bee Reserued for Euery hundred Acres, I am sorry to vnderstand by this Letter that
yor
Lopps
Difference with his Highness is not yett at an End, Wee here Suppose the Reason of itt may bee, that
the Duke Intends to make an Exchange with Cartwright and to Lett him haue Delaware and the dependencyes thereon, for that part of the Bay Granted to the said Cartwright, And
Collo
Louelace, Being lately Come to Delaway (as I Mentioned before) It is beleeved hee is now Come to giue Cartwright possession,
Butt itt may bee the delay proceeds from Nicholls, for the Reasons sett downe by
yor
Lopp
In the meane time I will doe my vttmost to gett
yor
Lopps
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Right owned, by some from our parts.
I haue satisfyed my vncle (touchinge
yor
Lopps
fauour to him) by deliuering vp his Bill for £130 Sterling, and am very well Content to take itt as
yor
Lopp
doth Signify I shall, humbly Returning
yor
Lopp
thankes
I am glad Tully paid
yor
Lopp
his Bill for £12..
8s
sterling, I was almost afraide of him here, but that I Could not find another Chapman for the Tobaccoes
Little Cis presents his humble Duty to
yor
Lopp
and is glad his Letter Came safe, hee Intends
yor
Lopp
an other by the last Shipp, hee would willingly Carry one himselfe, for hee often Inquires when ffather & mother will goe to Lord againe
Capt
Miles Cooke
is discharged from his Last Business dependinge in our
Court about his
Vessell, And I ordered him to Aquaint
yor
Lopp
with itt, As done by
yor
Lopps
Commands to mee, I Rece'd
yor
Lopps
of the
30th
of July in fauour of
Mrs
Boughton
And the Noate of perticulars of what is due to her, The
wch
I will not faile to send by
Capt
Conaway, And Consigne itt to her, with Directions to
Capt
Conaway to Enquire of
Mr
Burke where to find her, for I will Shipp the Tobaccoes on bord his Shipp for her
vizt
£12000
Tobo
)
yor
Lordshipps of the first of August was writt all by
yor
Lopps
owne hand And Mentions the Commission & Instructions for the Surveyer Generall, And a bond to bee signed by him before the deliuery of the said Commission, which I obserued as
yor
Lopps
directed And shall send the Bond herewith for
Mr
John Langford's Truly as yett hee hath gott Little, And if hee pay ten pound this yeare, bee has only a Commission for itt, hee will take Care that the Moneyes shall bee sent, And
Mr
Pladwells fee of
20so,
I Receiud herewith
Mr
Langhorns obseruattions vpon our Journalls And Acts, which I will make vse of hereafter, I shall take noe notice of what
yor
Lopp
writes touchinge
Mr
Langhornes opinion of the ppetuity of that Act, But
will
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Endeauour to gett that Act for Quietting possessions.
As itt is now drawne, to bee past In Leiue of the other, And if I Cannot gett those pernitious provisoes strucke out of the Act for Support,
I will see what Can bee effected, by proposeinge this other Act of a Generall pardon,
what
yor
Lopp
writes in this Letter touchinge the Third Act sent herewith, is Contradicted I thinke by an other letter which I shall Come to by & by—I inserted Dates to my Cousin Brookes Bond to John Langford And haue Acquainted
Mr
Warren and
Mr
ffoster of
Mr
Symons Death &
Mr
Grayes Succeedinge him, And that they may hope for a Supply of theirs—
yor
Lopps
of the
21o:
August makes mention of
Sr
Wm
Talbots Ariuall And of the good accompt hee giues of Maryland & friends here I pray god hee likes the Country and Intertainement soe well, As to Returne to vs againe, I hope there is noe great Danger that his vncle Dicke will hinder itt, Since itt seemes hee talkes of being an Instrument to perswade him backe, I shall make itt appear by an Accompt
yor
Lopp
shall haue herewith that the Secretaries place is worth vpwards of ffour hundred pounds a year. It is possible when Tobaccos is Low soe much is not to bee gotten, Butt alloweinge a peny pd for Tobacco which wee hope to haue againe, the profitts and perquissits of that place will amount to near what I haue writt;
I will Cause
Capt
John Tully to make satisfaction for the
3
hho
of Tobaccoes which hee fell short of to
yor
Lopp
I am Certaine hee or the husband of the Shipp Dandy hath Cheated
yor
Lopp
of them, ffor the Sherrifes accompt makes itt out Seauenteen hogsheads, And itt will bee made out by Seuerall Oathes that Tullyes
Matr
Receiued soe many by
ordr
I humbly begg
yor
Lopps
pardon for not sendinge that Bill of Mine for £6.. 18..
10d
Which I sett downe in that short Accompt I sent by
Sr
William, The which I thought I had drawne &
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Sent, I find
Mr
Burke has brought soe much to my accompt, And paid itt to
yor
Lopp
hereafter I will bee more Carefull and not disapoint
yor
Lopp,
I find that
yor
Lopp
was forced to vndertake that I should allow of the money's taken out of
Mr
Hintons hands, for the Buyinge those nessesaries I sent for. I Confess itt was a Mistake in mee for I look't vpon that money of mine in Hintons hands to bee in
Mr
Arthurs hands because bee has Hintons Bond to mee for itt, Butt I should haue been more Cleere in itt, which hereafter I will bee punctuall in, humbly giueing
yor
Lopp
Thankes for the trouble itt gaue
you
I shall obserue your
Lopps
Commands about forfeited & Escheated Lands, And my Mannor at the Ridge, I am now Come to that place
wch
Contradickes
yor
Lopps
former Commands touchinge the Act for Quakers, Which I will obserue I haue seen
Mr
Bennett Hoskins Speciall grant for 2000 Acres, and It is Recorded,
yor
Lopps
Directions touchinge such grants shall bee Carefully obserued for the future, I am now Come to
yor
Lordships of the
23o
Augt
which I find is in fauour of
Mrs
Anne ffoulke I wish I were able to giue your
Lopp
such a Satisfactory account in this Business and of her Demands and pretentions to those Lands betwixt her former Husband
Chandr
& oversee, as is required; If I may Guesse at what shee would pretend to and haue, by what I haue heard from her owne Mouth, It is without doubt all that Moyety which was oversees, and by his Death Escheated to
yor
Lopp
And neuer in her former husbands possession nor in hers, I euer tould her that
yor
Lordshipp would shew her fauour As to that Moyety which shee posseses of the 2000 Acres (which In truth is as much Escheated as the other) In case shee would petition for itt, But as yett shee Is too proud to stoope to such a request Conceiueinge as I suppose the whole 2000 acres to
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bee hers & her Childrens propper Right, If I knew who to goe to, besids
Mrs
ffoukes (who Cannott speake three words of sence for her passion which this Business putts her into) I would giue a better accompt, I am Certaine nothinge will Satisfye her butt the whole 2000 Acres, But I hope
yor
Lopp
will neuer thinke fitt to Comply with her in soe vnreasonable a Demand, Shee hath sufficiently bespattered mee and the whole Gouernment as If I had Studied her Ruine, Because I ventured to make a promise of the other Moyety of the 2000 Acres to one
Mr
Rozer, High Sherrife of Charles County, who liues and hath built vpon itt, hee being willing to buy the Reversion of itt, after the Lease is out for one & Twenty years, which was granted of itt to
Mrs
Oversee in Leiu of her Thirds to
St
Johns, when I came first into Maryland, which I was forced to doe otherwise I Could not bane had
St
Johns to my selfe but of this I will write to
yor
Lopp
further when I send an accompt of the other Escheated Lands. This in short I Can Certainely Informe
yor
Lopp
that
Mrs
ffoukes is in possession and has all along Enjoyed one Moyty, which (I hope) shee must vnderstand is by
yor
Lopps
fauour, though shee will neuer owne itt as such, The other Moyety was neuer In her possession nor in her husbands, Butt Euer was in the possesion of Ouersee, And therefore a Lease thereof was made to
Mr
Alderton now husband to Oversees widdow, by him Assigned over to one Edmund Linsey, and by Edmund Linsey to the aboue Mentioned
Mr
Rozer, To whom I haue promised to procure a grant of the Reversion, As I shall hereafter glue an Accompt, I will Endeavour to gett those papers for
yor
Lopp
If any such are Extant any where, to Cleere this Matter Better, I Receiued from
Mrs
Roads
yor
Lopps
Letters of the
30o
August and all the things sent in that shipp I deliuered
Mr
Nottly those writtinges, which
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Came
wth
this Letter, with which hee is much satisfyed and very proud of
yor
Lordships beinge pleased
wth
his accompts And the fauour shewen him in all the Lands hee purchased from
Mr
George Tompson, I suppose hee will signifye as much by a Letter to
yor
Lopp
this Shippinge, hee did Aquaint mee with his Intention to Request this of
yor
Lopp,
Butt
Sr
William Talbott vndertooke to procure the fauour for him soe that I thought itt vnnessesary for me to trouble
yor
Lopp
wth
it. I am sorry I Cannott affirme to
yor
Lopp
that I euer had any hopes of our Tin Oare here, for although
Capt
Perry declared by word of Mouth to mee, As much as any one Man Could doe for the Satisfaction of another, and shewed mee his Letter to
yor
Lopp,
which Confirmed as much, yett had not I faith to beleeue a word, Only out of Ciuillity to
Capt
Perry seemed Satisfyed, Butt my fancy is that Both
Capt
Perry and the Chancellor were soe Transported
wth
the designs and hopes of itt, that the meere force of their Imagination Led them to beeleiue they had found Mettle where neuer any was to bee Expected, for to this hower they Could neuer Extract any more mettle out of such Oare
wch
now makes mee Conclude
wth
yor
Lopp
that it was butt a Cheat in the fellow that first putt them vpon itt, Doctor Wharton has taken notice that
yor
Lopp
honnoured him with a l?? this Shippinge, And intends to returne thankes hee has not yett gott a Seate of Land of his owne, Butt makes vse of a peice of Land hee farmes of
Mr
George Tompson, hee has past his Seasoninge (As wee phrase itt) very well, And I hope will Incourage some of his freinds and Acquantance to Come from Barbados hither— I find that
yor
Lopp
hath been Informed by
Sr
Wm
Talbott that hee sould Tobaccoes at
10so
the
hundr
when I gaue
yor
Lopp
y accompt butt of a peny p pound, for
yor
Rents, hee had done well if hee had tould
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yor
Lopp
the whole As hee did in part, It is true hee sould to
Capt
Daniell Ienifer some Tobaccoes to freight a Brigantine, designed then on a Voyadge to Barbados, at ten shillinges the hundred, Butt the moneyes were not to bee paid till this Shippinge for I sent him home the Bills this yeare, And I question whether Barnaby Dunch will pay those Bills of Ienifers,
Sr
William Talbot forgott to tell
yor
Lopp
that hee sould Tobaccoes to
Capt
William Burgess for a peny p pound and was glad hee Could gett soe much, And would haue sould all his fees soe to my Knowledge, The Chancellor is Satisfyed with
yor
Lopps
Commands about his ffees, And will not for the future (I presume) demand any other fee then that of the Greate Seale allowed by
yor
Lopp
our Assembly is still prorouged, And as long as I find them psons soe well tempered and disposed, I shall not Change for new faces, The Business of the Easterne shore goes well on, only the psons which owne this Gouernment are a little disturbed by the other party, Butt I will Incourage them and others to Seat downe, And Assure them that they shall bee protected by this Gouernment, Thomas Joanes, whom
yor
Lopp
mentions in this Letter, is Ariued Lately, And Aquaints mee of
yor
Lordships fauourable Expressions to him, Butt I Cannot find hee is like to bee soe Serviceable to
yor
Lopp
as mee might make him selfe appeare, hee seemes to desire a Commission to Trade with the Hore Keele Indians only, Butt I refused him that, vnless hee would farme the whole Trade, for should I grant him a Lycence to trade and deale with those Indians itt would bee in effect to trade with all the Indians in the Bay As yett wee are nott agreed; Care shall bee taken that the oath of fidelity bee tendered to such as seate for the future on the Seabord side, I am sorry to vnderstand my freind
Mr
ffortescue was soe Bad, I hope As
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yor
Lopp
writes I shall by my Returnes this yeare make
yor
Lopp
amends for the small and Inconsiderable Sume sent last Shippinge Cis is glad his L?? Came safe and humbly thankes
yor
Lopp
for the fine token, which
yor
Lopp
writes you thought not to haue sent this yeare, This last summer I Caused two of
yor
Mannors to bee laid out,
Wth
some Addition, A worke which
Mr
White thought bee had done, Butt I found itt soe ill done, That I Caused Resurvey's to bee made, and lines in some parts to bee Altered, which is now Recorded as
yor
Lopps
Commandt mee, And shall see alsoe that Copy of the Records of them bee sent as
yor
Lopp
desires, I haue vsed all Meanes possible And wayes to procure some Elkes & deere for
yor
Lopp
I haue sent seuerall times to Jacob Younge about itt, Who I am Certaine would as willingly gett them as
yor
Lopp
desires, because hee hath a great desire to gett his patent which is defferred till hee Comply with
yor
Lopps
directions herein If any pson in Maryland Can procure them It must bee this pson or none, Wee haue had such an open Winter that all our Bird Catchers haue failed, not soe much as a Red bird hath been Caught by any that I Can hear of, I haue oft spoken to my Cousin William Calvert about itt and to my Cousin Darnell and others, And they all assure mee that noe Birds are to bee had, for my owne part I seldome meete
wth
any my selfe, Butt I haue not neglected to speake to Euery one
tht
I Conceiue might procure these things, had
Sr
Wm
been heere hee would not haue found itt soe Easy a matter, as hee has affirmed itt to
yor
Lopp,
Those hawkes which I sent
yor
Lordshipp last Shippinge were paid for mee, And if more Could bee gott now I would willingly giue any Rates for them, or any the other Rarities
yor
Lordship desires. My Brother Vincent Low Returnes
yor
Lopp
many humble thankes
ffor
the notice
yor
Lopp
is pleased to take of him, I
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hope hee will deserue the Continuance of
yor
Lops
Countenance & fauour to him I haue Acquainted
Mr
James Tompson that
yor
Lopp
Requires him to make Inspection into the Mannors, which hee will doe, and giue accompt from time to time of any thinge which may bee done to
yor
Lord
pps
prejudice. I shall take very great Care that pottomecke Riuer bee owned (as itt is) part and belonginge to this prouince I am afrait itt will bee a very hard Matter to find such Casque here as shall preserue Syder good to England, for wee want good Coopers and such as are knoweinge in the Seasoninge of Casque for such purposes. The Chancellors Cider is pretty good Butt I am of Opinion the best Syder in the Country will doe vs noe Creditt in England, Could wee soe order itt as to preserue itt thither By
Capt
Benja
Cooper with whom this goes, I shall send
yor
Lopp
a good hogshead of Sweete sented Tobacco, which I intend to
prsent
to
yor
Lopp
It Comes from Jarboes plantation, from whence the last Came
yor
Lopp
had when I was in England, My wife has this yeare sent
yor
Lordship some dryed peaches, And would haue sent a greater number had shee had Conveniencies for doeinge More, Cheeses worth presentinge to
yor
Lopp
are not to bee had.
Mrs
Spry (who made that
yor
Lopp
tasted when I was in England) hath not any good Enough as shee thinkes, And shee will not Loose that Reputation shee hath already Gott, And vnless shee furnishes mee, noe other housewife in Maryland Can I am Certaine, for the Cheeses Generally made here are soe Ranke and soe full of Eyes, that
yor
Lopp
would bee angry with mee should I send such, I am sorry my Cos. Lukner thinkes not of Marryinge yett, because that Match would haue Brought a great deale of Honnour besids the Aduantages of a Plentifull fortune, I thanke
yor
Lordship for Causeinge
Mr
Pladwell to deliuer Copys of the Bonds for
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1669 & 1670 to the farmers, I shall not faile of sendinge Copyes Euery yeare as the Act Requires,
yor
Lopp
signifyes that the business betwixt his Royall Highness &
yor
Lopp
is not yett determined which I am sorry for, I hope to heare news of
yor
Lordshipps good success in itt by the next Shippinge, Major ffitzherberts Brother who Maryed the Indian Brent, has Ciuilly parted with her And (as I suppose) will neuer Care to bed with her more, soe that
yor
Lopp
needs not to fear any ill Consequence from that Match, butt what has already happened to the poore Man who vnaduisedly threw himselfe away vpon her in hopes of a great portion, which now is Come to Little, I shall doe my Endeauour to pswade people to Seate vp the Bay to the Northward of Thirty nine Degrees and a halle vpon those tearmes
yor
Lordship does order mee, Butt I fear none will goe as yett, for I find a greater Inclination in most yong Men to seat on the Sea Bord side, And many Discourse of the Southward plantations I pray God a Considerable number of our people doe not Remoue thither, Seruants are Attemptinge in many places to make their Escapes thither, But wee doe all wee Can to prevent these Mischeifes, If I can send
yor
Lordshipp any other affidauites besides that which
yor
Lordshipp hath of Van Swerring I will gett and send them by this Shippinge,
Mr
Nottly is now Speaker of
or
Assembly, hee and
Mr
John Moorecroft beinge Chossen Burgesses for the Citty of St. Maries, And by that Meanes I gott him into the Assembly, Though Doctor Wharton bee a good vderstandinge Man yett
Dr
Morecroft is much more for our purpose, being the best Lawyer in the Country, and has alwayes been (vpon other Assemblyes) A great Asserter of
yor
Lopps
Charter and the Rights & privilidges thereof, I durst not putt itt to an Election in the Countyes Butt tooke this
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way which I Knew would Certainely doe what I desired And now I haue gott
Mr
Nottly into the Chaire, I haue Assured him, That with
yor
Lordships Leaue, I am Resolued to Keepe him there as longe as hee and I liue together, It is most Certaine that some of the Catholiques in the Assembly, Did not behaue themselues as was Expected, hereafter they will I hope Endeauour to vnderstand themselues Better And their owne Interrest, I will doe my Endeauours to gett the Act for Liquers past, this next Meetinge if I Can—My Reason for dislikinge the Act for forraign Coynes which I writ to
yor
Lordshipp about, is that the Assembly did not make those Coynes soe Currant as that people should Receiue them att their seuerall Rates specifyed in that Act, And itt happens, as I feared itt would, that many will not Deale att all for those Coynes vnless they may Goe for the old and former valew, which is Accordinge to the weight of the Silver, It is an Idle Act and may bee throwne out of doores, I am glad the business of the Shipp
Wm
of Douer has Giuen
yor
Lordship noe trouble, I hear that the Ship Ariued and the Master in prisson if soe
yor
Lopp
will heare nothinge of itt, Truly my Lord I Couett noe mans goods, nor Vessell And doe not desire to grow Rich by such Courses, which Caused me to Encline
Sr
Talbot to that Guift, And itt happened to bee done att
St
Maries, the Assembly then sittinge, who thought itt a very noble Act And wrought much vpon them to our good I hope. I once more humbly Returne
yor
Lordshipp many thankes for takeinge notice of the Allowance Granted mee by
yor
Lopp
29o
July which I haue afore answered, I hope I shall bee able to liue out of itt, Butt I must Resolue to bee a Better husband then formerly, Though I will not saue itt, where my owne Creditt or
yor
Lordships is Concerned, I am much oblidged to
Sr
Wm
Talbot for the Good Character
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hee has giuen of our liueinge My Resolution is to doe all I Can Twards a plentifull Table for the Land I find will yeild vs any thinge, If our Endeauours are nott wantinge—I haue Receiued all the Duplicats and Letters Mentioned to haue been sent
wth
this Letter,
yor
Lordshipps of the
4th
of 7ber Mentions that I must send a pticular accompt of the seuerall Lands Escheated to
yor
Lordshipp afore that I shall haue any power for the Sale of them, which I shall according to Direction send
yor
Lopp
by Conaway or Tully, I hope my Couz. Baker Brooke will doe in this perticular what
yor
Lordshipp Requires from him, Orders shall bee giuen to the Sherrifes as
yor
Lordshipp Commands, Butt first an Inquissition must bee had, And a Jury of Twelue men must bee satisfyed and make Return afore any order Can bee giuen to Seize on the Lands, I shall in the Meane time giue
yor
Lordshipp an Accompt of the quantity of Acres & quality of the Land. As yett I haue done nothinge in Gerrards business which
Sr
Wm
Talbot Informed
yor
Lordshipp of, neither doe I know Certainely whether itt will bee worth my trouble, what I then Intended was vpon the Report of his neighborhood who I fear will proue butt ill guessers; Accordinge to
yor
Lordships Commands I haue gott the Mannor at the Ridg wholly to my selfe, and doe Intend to keepe itt Intire for the future. I haue taken notice of
Mr
Whites Rent paid
yor
Lordship in England, the Warrant of the
26th
Nouember in fauour of My Aunt Peaseley as yett has done her noe Service, haueing not been able to dispose of any of those Lands which that Warrant Impowered mee to sell for her, And now
yor
Lopp
will not haue mee to pursue those Commands till you haue accompt of the Quantity Qualityes &c. which I shall as well as I can Informe
yor
Lordship in; As alsoe what any one shall offer for these or the other Escheats lands,
Mr
Truman as yett has
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not stirred in that business which
Mr
White Acquainted
yor
Lordshipp
wth
If I hear any thing from him about itt I will doe my test to secure
Mr
Whites Right and my owne
yor
Lordship of the
16o
7ber Signifyes that
yor
Lopp
Intended to haue sent seuerall things by
Capt
Connaway, But they had the Good Lucke not bee putt on Bord afore that Accident happened to his Shipp, which I was very glad to vnderstand, And humbly thanke
yor
Lopp
both for the thinges and the trouble
yor
Lordshipp gaue
yorselfe
in the sendinge of them, they all Came safe to mee,
wth
Mrs
Roads in the Baltemore, In
yor
Lordshipps the
18th
7ber is Mentioned
Mr
Nottlyes papers about his Lands which I have already Signifyed to bee deliuered him, the Warrant for Bartholomew Coats does not
answr
his request
Sr
Wm
Talbott haueinge mistooke his Messadge in her behalfe, of this I shall write further when I send accompt of the Escheated Lands,
Robt
Hawkins is Come and has full possession giuen him of all that is left of that Estate of his Brother Johns lately Murdered, I reced herewith a Copy of Langfords Bond the originall being Signed, the which I will send with this packett,
Mr
Robt
Harper Nephew to
Sr
Thomas Strickland has not been
wth
mee when I see him
yor
Lordshipps Commands shall bee obeyed; another l?? of the
18o
7ber in fauour of
Mr
Thomas Welburne whom I haue treated with all Ciuilly and promist him all fauour I can shew him, I Receiued a letter from the Lord Viscount ffaulcon urge in his behalfe, to which I returned
answr
p
Mr
Welburne
yor
Lopps
of the
22o
7ber Came
wth
the thinges
wch
yor
Lopps
by
yor
l??
30th
Augt
Signifyed that you should not send this Shippinge Euery thinge Came safe and well to my hands, And by
yor
Lopps
Directions I soone Came to the Knowledg of all the fine Contriuances of the Cabinett. My wife has by a Letter to
yor
Lordshipp sent her humble thankes
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which now againe shee humbly desires may bee
prsented
, Alsoe little Cis
prsents
yor
Lopp
with his thankes for the Capp feather Sword & Belt all which hee found as
yor
Lordship Signifyed. I Reced herewith the Copy of a noate
yor
Lordshipp gaue to
Mr
Arthur about my moneyes, which was taken out of Hintons hands for the Buyinge those nessesaryes I sent for I shall herewith send to
Mr
Arthur that I allow of what has been done therein, and Cleere
yor
Lordship from that trouble I Reced from
Mr
Burke an accompt of Euery thinge to my Satisfaction, Care shall bee taken that noe patents for the future shall bee Recorded afore they haue pasted the Great Seale, If any such abuses have been Committed att any time in the Secretaries office, The pson who Informed
yor
Lordshipp Cheifly Occationed itt, by his beinge too Curious in the Receiueinge his ffees,
yor
Lordshipps Command to him now will Remoue that occation, And for what is past I will take Care shall bee Rectifyed and see the like bee not done for the future. I humbly once more Returne
yor
Lordshipp thankes for the Excellent token I Receiued which I haue soe much valewed, that vnless itt bee vpon very great dayes & In
Compa
with the best persons these parts afford, I doe not presume to bringe out a Bottle, Both sorts being Exceedinge Good in their Kind, I am sorry I haue not Syder to fill the Bottles with worth sendinge, otherwise I should willingly obey
yor
Lordshipps Commands and bee very proud to send itt, I haue already assured
yor
Lordshipp that my Endeauours haue not been wantinge to Solicite all persons any way likely to procure those Rarities sent for and specifyed in a noate sent mee in this Letter, And I am disapointed by all in Euery thinge desired, which is an Accompt I most vnwillingly return Could I speed in my desires herein, I find Capt Cooper to bee
Commandr
of the Elias, And to carry
yor
Lordshipps
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flagge in the foretopp hee is a Ciuill pson and I doubt not butt will deserue the honnour hee has Receiued, haueinge notice by this Letter that Capt John Dunsh was by Commission
yor
Lopps
Admirall I saluted him att his Ariuall by that Title, Butt afterwards vnderstood by
Mrs
Roads that the Commission for some Reasons best Knowne to
Mr
Burke was not deliuered him though Caryed downe to Graues End, I hope
yor
Lopp
will Cause itt to bee deliuered him, for hee has been very Ciuill to mee this yeare, though I vnderstand that
Mr
Burke thought hee vsed mee not well in the freight of some Goods I haue forgiuen that vnkindness by Reason hee has made mee amends by his Ciuillityes since hee last Came into Maryland I haue been very Carefull of
Sr
Wm
Talbots Concernes and hope hee will haue Reason to thinke soe when I send him his Accompt,
Mrs
Saunders who Came with
Mrs
Roads appears to bee a very well behaued bred pson as
yor
Lopp
writes, And therefore I Receiued her vnder my Roofe where I presume shee will Remaine for one year, & I hope shee will thinke fitt to dispose of herselfe by way of Marryadge afore that time bee Expired, I will not faile to Cause a Copy of
yor
Lordships last Commission to mee for the Gouerment to bee Carefully written Examined and sent herewith accordinge to
yor
Lopps
Command,
yor
Lopps
of the
24o
September brought mee the sad news of my Sister Blackstones death which has been a great Affliction to mee euer since, I hope shee is happy our prayers shall not bee wantinge, It is a great Comfort to mee that shee was soe well prepared and Resigned as I vnderstand shee was, I Caused all the Good Men here to say Masses for her soule,
Yor
Lopps
of the
23o
8ber
Came
wth
Capt
Wheatley with seuerall other Duplicates and mentions the sad news of my Sisters death which I reced in the foregoeinge of the 24.. 7ber I find by this Letter of
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yor
Lopps
there has been a hundred pounds of my moneyes taken out of
Mr
Hintons hands for which
yor
Lopp
has vndertaken I shall Allow of itt. I will not omitt to Cleere
yor
Lordshipp from
yor
Engagements herein by sending a l?? to that purpose herewith, As I haue in a l?? to
Mr
Arthur Mready, there is nothinge Else in this Letter to bee answered but what I haue already Signifyed to
yor
Lopp
in this
answr
to the foregoeinge With
yor
Lopps
of the
18o
9ber I Reced a Copy of the ffees I allowed the Chancellar whilst I was in England as alsoe a Copy of a Bill Costs in Chancery, with a Letter from
Mr
Langhorne touchinge the Settlement of such ffees, As
yor
Lordshipp thinkes fitt to allow of for the future, The Chancellor did not acquaint mee with his Intentions of sendinge that Bill of Costs in Chancery, which I find hee sent
yor
Lordshippe It was his owne propper business which hee desired to bee Satisfyed in from
yor
Lopp
or
Resolution now is to take this Settlement for the future if wee Can butt vnderstand it. I reced with
yor
Lopps
l?? of the
19o
9ber a Copy of a l?? from the Lords Commissioners of his
Maties
Treasury which I haue Carefully perused and will not faile to performe what therein is required, I am glad to vnderstand from
yor
Lopp
tht
Tobaccoes was Risen in price, butt I feare that will not hold Longe for wee are like to send home great Quantities this Shippinge. In the postscript of this Letter
yor
Lordship orders mee to obserue what the Lords Commissioners requires touching the Caryeinge all Tobaccoes to England onely but in another Letter from
yor
Lopp
which I am not yett Come to I am Commanded to take noe notice of their Directions in that point, butt to Lett the Bonds Run as formerly for Ireland accordinge to the Acts of Parliament, I will not omitt to write to my Aunt Sumersett & Weld by the Last Shipp. By
yor
Lopps
of the
29o
9ber I find those
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Commands of
yor
Lopp
that I shall not take notice of
tht
part of the Lords
Commissrs
l??, Which requires that noe Master shall bee permitted to Transport Tobaccoes for Ireland, which is I find Contrary to the Act, I shall obserue the Act in those Cases, vnless I receiue orders from
yor
Lopp
to the Contrary; I reced with this Letter of
yor
Lopps
an Aquittance to
Mr
Henry Meese for Coll. Edward Carter for four pounds ten Shillinges. And I will Accordinge to
yor
Lordships Command satisfye what Rent is due, And whether the Land bee Escheated or not I haue not as yett seen
Mr
Wm
Collingwood whom
yor
Lopp
makes Mention of, when he Comes to mee I will shew him all Lawfull fauour I Can, I will speake to the London Masters about Caryeinge
yor
Lopp
one hundred billetts a peice and Endeauour to gett them to doe
yor
Lopp
that kindness if possibly I can, I doe Intend to send
yor
Lopp
p
Capt
Conaway as much Planke of Blacke Wallnutt as will make a Shouell Board Table, 30 foot Longe with stuffe of the same wood for a frame which I shall present
yor
Lopp
with, This l?? I Reced by
Capt
John Body;
yor
Lordshipps of the
7th
December brought mee Hugh Stansly Will About
wch
business I haue discoursed with ffranke Swanton, who I find is very willinge & Ready to giue an Accompt of his Administration, hee desires to bee a Tenant till the Children Come of Age, and giue his Accompt yearly and to haue discharges yearly that hee may not haue a Longe Accompt to giue when the Children shall Receiue their Estates from him, My Cousin Baker Brooke who in the behalfe of the Mother and Children is Atturney in this Business, gaue mee this Letter, when the Rent is Ascertained I suppose Swanton will giue such security as will bee allowed of, And I will take Care to see the Children haue noe wronge done them, As for the Land of Stanleyes on the Easterne Shore I will Inquire into them
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& giue
yor
Lopp
an Accompt thereof,
yor
Lopps
of
16o
Xber is in fauour of
Sr
Wm
Talbot and his affaires here of which I hope to Render a very Good accompt, though I find hee has not that Confidence in mee (as my Actions (which hereafter will apear) will deserue I doubt not, I am sure I haue done better for him then hee Could haue done for himselfe, Had hee been here to haue Acted his owne Business, for I haue Collected most of his fees and perquissits of his office (of which I shall giue a speedy accompt)
yor
Lordshipp putts mee in Mind in
yor
Letter of the
22o
December of takeinge Good Security for the payment of the Bills
wch
I shall send home to
yor
Lopp
which I haue hitherto Carefully obserued, I am very Glad that Augustines Mapp is like to bee printed and that
yor
Lopp
has gott some Moneyes Towards itt I will see the names of all
yor
Lordshipps Mannors Inserted as you direct mee, And send them by
Capt
Groome or Conaway I am now buildinge vpon
yor
Lordpps
Mannor of Sachay where I Resolve to liue in the Summer time, Itt is a very good part of the Country for health, And much Cleered for husbandry the which I am now vpon, It is thought there is at least fiue
hundr
Acres of Cleere Ground. My Resolution is to build a bricke house for little Cis the next yeare, This that I am now about is to Receiue my family for the
prsent
I Chose this
Mannor
to begin vpon, because
yor
Lopp
has two Mannors together Sachaye & pangey,
yor
Lopp
desirs to bee satisfyed touching the Groath & Size of our English Graine, our wheat is a smaller graine then that in England, but wee Conceiue the Reason of that may bee that wee sow not in propper ground nor at proper Seasons of the yeare, I had sent mee by
Mr
Burke a
hhd
of white flaxen wheate, which I haue sowed, And when that Comes vp I will left
yor
Lopp
Know whether our ground produces as large as the seed was when I sowed itt,
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Our Oates Barley & Pease are as large as those sorts of Graine in England. Butt till this yeare that I had good seed out of England I neuer mett with any Good wheate soe that I cannot soe well Judg and giue
yor
Lopp
that good Accompt of itt, As hereafter I hope to doe, I Reced Augustins Mapp and shall obserue
yor
Lordshpps
Command about Inserting what you haue directed and send itt by the last Shipp, I wish I were able to buy some of
Sr
Paule painters negroes at Barbados and Could gett them hither when paid for, Butt I must not aim at such a purchase vntill I haue gott some Debts paid, And that I haue some money afore hand, I should bee Glad his Hiness the Duke of York would part with his Interrest at New Yorke as
yr
Lop writes I thinke it has hitherto been a Charge and burden to him, And a help only to Raise some Indigent officers, Louelace has got Considerably since hee Commanded there,
yor
Lopps
of the
23o
Xber was deliuered mee by
Mr
Thomas Massey with whom Came his Companion
Mr
Henry Carew, the latter Came very ill to my house and for some dayes wee thought him in great danger, butt now hee is well Recouered and settled
wth
the Chancellor,
Mr
Massey being
wth
mee as
yor
Lopp
Comanded there shall bee nothinge wantinge on my part to Incourage them, their Entertainement shall bee as good as the Country affords, And I doubt not but
yor
Lopp
and their Superior will Receiue a good Accompt from them they both are pleased to say they are well satisfyed with their beinges, I hope there will bee a good Correspondence betwixt them and the others for I find them very freindly & well pleased together,
Mr
Massey seemes to bee a very good prudent & descreet pson, And I hope I shall haue a good Companion of him, I haue provided him of a good horse to his Satisfaction, And will allow him ten pounds and more if I find him able, I am sorry
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to vnderstand by
yor
Lopps
of the
26o
September that
Sr
Wm
Talbot giues you Cause to fear hee will not bee soe kind to his mother as hee ought I hope yett hee will appear better natured and bee more dutifull then to see her want, hee seemed here to haue a great Kindness for his mother my Aunt, and sense of her Bad Condition.
Yor
Lopp
Commands mee to secure the Shipp money and to send Bills home for those fees to
yor
Lordshipp to Keepe that in case
Sr
Wm
performe not what hee ought to his mother,
yor
Lopp
will bestow those fees vpon my Aunt to Releiue her, which I shold bee willinge to doe, but most of the Shipp fees are paid in Tobaccoes and a very small matter paid in Moneyes only head money for passengers which possibly may Amount vnto £25.. or £30.. Sterlinge, now I had afore
yor
Lopps
l?? Came to hand Returned that money and more to
Sr
William by Bills, soe that vnless I Consign some Tobaccoes of his I know not which way to Comply with
yor
Commands herein, And I fear Tobaccoes will giue
yor
Lopp
too great a trouble and do my Aunt little Good, I hope
Sr
Wm
will giue
yor
Lordshipp better Satisfaction at his Return frown Ireland I am Come now to
yor
Lordshipps of the
16o
January by
Capt
John Tully, which bringes mee the Ill news of Warrs
wth
holland & the Greate Stopp vpon the Exchequer. This news putts most of our Masters & Merchants into some fright & fears least they bee seized on goeinge home, I shall bee Carefull in
yor
Lopp
directions about those Bills I send home, I haue hitherto sent first & second Bills, and shall still doe soe
wth
l?? of Aduise I humbly begg
yor
Lordships pardon that I did not send those accompts I Signifyed I would send last yeare the which I will not omitt to perfect and those of this year with a true accompt of the fines, forfeiturs and Escheats I know of I intend to gett my freind
Mr
Nottly to Assist me in draweinge
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out my accompt of the Seuerall years past, all which
yor
Lopp
shall haue without faile by Conaway and Groome, I will alsoe Returne
yor
Lopp
an accompt of the Tobaccoes exported as the Lords Commissioners Requires, And hope
yor
Lordship will bee mindfull of a Consideration for my trouble in their business, I shall bee very Glad to haue my mothers picture which
yor
Lopp
thinkes to send mee next yeare.
Mr
Sam Leadbeater who Came in Tully is ariued, And is
wth
a Kinsman of his
Mr
Benj. Solly who I suppose will assist him in any thinge hee Can, As yett hee has not Spoke to mee, I humbly thanke
yor
Lordship for the
hhd
of vines, butt old Tully has been soe Crosgrained that before I could send for them hee sett saile vp the Bay, that I fear the vines may bee Spoyled afore I gett them out of his vessell, Butt I haue sent a messenger for the hogshead, And doe intend to trouble the
Capt
about itt, I vnderstand by this Letter that Tully does petition
yor
Lopp
for 7 or 800 Acres of land vp the Bay formerly Hattons and by his mistake said to bee Lewis Stocketts who neuer Enjoyed a foote of itt, I intend to petition
yor
Lordshipp for itt myselfe for a very good freind of mine, And hope
yor
Lordship will not dispose of itt to Tully till my petition Come, I will returne a True accompt of itt with the other Escheated Lands the younge woman Anne Rouse
yor
Lordshipp sent my wife, is ariued and Entertained by my wife, I hope shee may proue vsefull, with our most humble thankes to
yor
Lordshipp, And I hope I haue now answered all
yor
Lordships Letters and Euery perticular Contained in them which Required answer, humbly begging
yr
Lopps Blessing to
Yr
Lops
most dutifull & Obedient son
Charles Calvert
24th
Aprill 1672
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May it please
yr
Lop.
Since I finisht my answer to
yr
Lops l??? I happened to haue some discourse
wth
the
Chancellr
touching
Sr
Wm
Talbot, and his returning hither, and I find that he is of opinion that wee shall haue my Cozens
Compa
no more, vpon what grounds I know not, but I hope from no good hand, for I should bee much disheartened if it should be so, for he was a greate comfort to me both in respect of his relation & parts, and truly but that I was confident of his good resolutions in returning hither to vs, I would neuer haue
vndrtaken
the charge & care of his Affaires here the
Chancellr
moued to me the sending of a l?? to
yr
Lop,
wch
he said was ready writ to request the
Secrers
place for himselfe, and would haue had me haue seconded it, but I made him this answer, that I had greate hopes
yr
Lop
would prevaile
wth
Sr
Wm
to returne to vs, and the promisses
wch
Sr
Wm
had made me likewise gaue me the same hopes, whether he will send this l?? he mention'd I know not but I gaue him no
encouragemt
at all, but assured on the contrary that
Sr
Wm
would haue reason to take it vnkindly from him to beleeue he had changed his resolutions afore wee had more certainty of it I humbly beg of
yr
Lop
to send him to vs for I haue little comfort or satisfaction in the society of any of the Rest of the Councell here; by Capt Conaway I shall send all the Rest of my Cosens effects & shall then giue him an accompt of aboue a hundred thousand pounds of tobacco that by his order I haue pay'd here & the rest sent him home; Capt Cooper is now at my howse and stays for my dispatch, he has entreated me, to desire of
yr
Lop. a protection for his ship the next year in case of Embargo vpon Shipping
wch
he feares the warrs may occation his behauiour & ciuilitys I hope will deserue this fauour from
yr
Lop
Wch
is my humble request in his behalfe to
yr
Lop
I am
Yr
Lops most Obedient Son
Charles Calvert
26th
Aprill 1672.
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No. 16.
GOVERNOR CHARLES CALVERT TO CECILIUS, LORD BALTIMORE.
[Indorsement.]
2 June 1673
3d
Duplicate of my sons Answer
to my l??? sent this last
Shipping for Maryland—
Sent inclosed in my
sons letter dated
2d
August 1673.
May it Please
yr
Lop
Yours of the
15th
of August by
Capt
George Hilson I Received, which assures me that
yor
Lopp
hath Receiued as well my L??? as all the bills of Exchange I sent
yor
Lopp
this last yeare, which is to me a greate satisfaction, Considering how Troublesome the times are; Sorry I am to heare of poore old Tullyes misfortune, and for Hollinsworth he hath beene since with me, but of that I shall give
yor
Lopp
a more full account hereafter. As for that Caution
yor
Lopp
is pleased to giue me for my owne security (my house at Matapenny standing so neare the water) I humbly thanke
yor
Lopp
for
yor
advice, and shall Endeavour my owne Security by Removing up to Zachiah, and also shalbe very Cautious of what shipps I goe on Board of, but for that
yor
Lopp
writes me about Gookins ship, and their designe, (wanting only the Concurrence of the Master) I never heard any thing of it, before now from
yor
Lopp
.
I am heartily sorry to heare that my Cozen Talbot hath so behaved himself both towards
yor
Lopp
and his mother, and
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truly I must Confesse that in this he hath much Deceived me in my thoughts of him, for I alwaves supposed him to be a person of that
honor
and worth, that unkindnes to a mother, and ingratitude to a Rela??n that had so much oblidged him as
yor
Lopp
had beene much below the Generosity of his Temper. I am glad that
Mrs
Boughton hath Received her Tobacco, and doe wish she had sould it as well as the Rest, for I tooke all Care imaginable in the Collecting it here, so that I Dare boldly affirme, that if any Tobacco would ffetch money hers would. I am glad that
yor
Lopp
Received the Wallnut Tree plankes and peices of that wood, and the hogshead of sweete sented Tobacco, as also Cis Two wilde Cat skynas, and Doe heartily Rejoyce that
yor
Lopp
likes them.
The Duplicate of
yor
Lopps
of the
8th
of October sent by Capt Croscombe I Received, though the originall was lost (wee understanding since that Croscombe was taken) I have often spoken to my Cozen Baker Brookes to give
yor
Lopp
an account of the Escheated Lands, and shall once more put both him and James Thompson in minde of Complyeing with
yor
Lopps
Desires, according to
yor
former comands to them, and by the last of these Shipps, I hope they will Retorne
yor
Lopp
that account from their owne hands that
yor
Lopp
wilbe well satisfyed with, but as yet my Lord I must needes confesse I have had very little account from Either myself, while I Received this
Lre
from
yor
Lopp
I never knew other then that my Cozen Brookes had sent
Mr
Langford his
10??
and Charles Playdell his ffee, I shall speake to him but truly that place now is become so inconsiderable, that I beleeve he will humbly suplicate
yor
Lopp
to take off John Langfords
10??
p an? for now their is little worke for a
Surveyor
in Maryland, but howsomever for Charles Playdells Fee I will take Effectuall Care that he sends him that; when the warrant to Chandler
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yor
Lopp
writes of Comes to hand it shalbe Entred upon Record and a graunt in
yor
Lopps
name passed according as
yor
Lopp
hath therein Directed.
Yor
Lopp
writes that all the bills of Exchange are pd. Excepting Ould Tullyes, Truly my Lord I am glad to heare that the Rest are so well payd, but for the poore ould man his losse hath beene so greate that I hope
yor
Lopp
will not Expect it from him, and for the sueing his security here I tooke none of him for I looked vpon him as a man sufficient, and one that had beene an ould Trader here in
yor
Lopps
Province, lately
yor
Lopps
Admirall and one
tht
I went and Came in his ship & from whom have Received some Civillityes
wn
under his Dominion in his wooden Kingdome.
Touching what
yor
Lopp
writes about the Imposition money, I have still taken it of the Masters hitherto, and shall Doe without
yor
Lopp
Directs otherwayes, but severall psons object here that
Sr
William Barkely in Case of shipwrack taking or Casting away makes allowance, and Constantly Receives the Imposition money of the Marchant that freights the Tobacco, and not of the Master as I Doe here, so that if he showes Masters of shipps any Act of favour more in Virginia then
yor
Lopp
does here,
yor
Lopp
will finde the
priudice
more then the advantage, in the meane time I shall pceed as I have done untill I shall Receive other Directions from
yor
Lopp
I only acquaint
yor
Lopp
of it, that if
yor
Lopp
should be complained to, you might be
prpared
.
I Retorne
yor
Lopp
my humble thankes for Delivering the bonds & account of shipping to my Lord Shafstsbury and
comrs
of the Treasury, & shall Endeavour in my care for the future to merrit that good Character his
Lopp
is pleased to favour me with.
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I am very much oblidged to that honnest & Civill gentleman
Mr
Massey for his kinde Character of me
wch
I must confesse to be more then I have merited from him, although I have used my utmost
Endeavor
to oblidge him, & shalbe glad of all opptunityes to serve so pious & so Deserving a pson, as I finde him to be, and indeed a pson that is so much a gentleman, and good Company
wch
is
somewt
Rare here in Maryland, and for my writing to
yor
Lopp
that I Designed to allow him but
10l
p an? if I did so my Lord it was a mistake for I never designed him lesse
thn
20l
p an? according to
yor
Lopps
Comands, and that he might be assured of it I showed him that pt of
yor
Lopps
Lre
.
ffor the
Chancelor
&
Colls
Complaint to
yor
Lopp
I payd them as I thought to their Satisfaction for they made no objection
agt
it,
yor
Lopp
having sctled the
Chaneclors
ffees at
1d
p li at
tht
Rate I payd them—
yor
Lopp
hath reserved to
yor
self the best bills of Exchange & Ready money & therefore I thought I must pay them in Tobacco out of
yor
Lopps
Rents & did not thinke it convenient too much to undervallue the Comodity of the Country, and for their Receipt of it I have their full discharge but what
yor
Lopp
shall
ordr
for the future in that affayre I shall Readily & obediently comply with.
ffor
Major
Fitzharberts Complaint I Doe much admire at that time, but of the particuler actions of that pson shall give
yor
Lopp
a full account in one
undr
my owne hand.
I have severall times put the Coll & Cozen Darnell in minde of Complyeing with
yor
Lopps
Desires in pcuring those Rarityes which
yor
Lopp
Expects from them and have myself proffered very greate Rates to severall psons here to procure them knowing how acceptable they would be to
yor
Lopp
but finde the people here of that Rugged humour, that I can finde
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no pson that will make it their busines for any Reward unlesse they should accidentally take them. I Doe not Doubt but my Cozen Calvert and Darnell will themselves by these Shipps give
yor
Lopp
a particuler accompt of their Care in this affayre, and if I can for any gratuity whatsoever procure any such shall Carefully send them to
yor
Lopp
by some of these Shipps.
I have also Received a coppy of the Receipt
yor
Lopp
gave to Capt Cornwallis for Rent of some land here, and doe humbly take notice thereof, and assure
yor
Lopp
that nothing shalbe done here in that busines without
yor
Lopps
further
ordr
Hollinsworth hath also by his owne hand Delivered me
yor
Lopps
Lre
in his behalfe, and since the faith of the Country is passed to the Indians in that affayre I have referred him to the Assembly the busines not being to be done by me nor
yor
Lopps
Councill here I humbly conceive without their Consent.
I finde that the lines of those lands layd out for
yor
Lopp
by
Mr
White are not at all for
yor
Lopps
advantage the good land being in most left out, neither were the Surveys pfected although they were Delivered into the office by
Mr
White, but I shall use my utmost Endeavour to have
yor
Lopp
Right done you in that case, which when I have Effected I shall send you a Coppy of the Record of them, I have already Resurvey'd
yor
Lopps
Mannor
of Choptico and have throwen out many Intruders there, and shall take that Course for the future, that all
yor
Lopps
Mannors
here shalbe Cleare according to former Instructions from
yor
Lopp
.
Mr
Carew doth officiate at St. Maryes & so hath done since his coming in, & with
Mr
ffosters Consent, who is called away by Catholiques at patuxent, I Conceive the Catholiques of the Congregation at
St
Maryes, are very cold in their Contribution to
Mr
Carew (who is so modest a gentleman that I beleeve he
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never demanded any thing of 'em. wherefore I Conceive he gets little but what small stipend his Patron allowes him,
wch
I wish be well payd. I have offered him my service to speake to the Catholiques about it, but he wholy refused it and seemes contented, yet I finde in Discourse with him a very greate inclination to Remove from his Patrons to the Ridge in Ann Arundell County, where he hath Reconciled some to the Church, and I beleeve he hopes of a more advantageous (though not more honorable) Patronage there—but this as a secret!
Before
Wm
Brookes died, he had a greate inclination for a young woman here who is my servant to whom upon his Deathbed he gave
3000li
of Tobacco, and
800li
of Tob to the Church, his Estate was very inconsiderable, and (after those Legacyes are payd) if their be any Overplus, when got in I shall Retorne it to
yor
Lopp
for his Brother; his Seale according to
yor
Lopps
Comands I send by this shipping.
The Duplicate of
yor
Lopps
of the ninth of October I Received and Doe suppose that
Sr
William Talbot will not come here without
yor
Lopps
favour and Consent, for he is not so dull to thinke, that without that, it would be worth his time and trouble to undertake so long a voyadge. This
acct
of
Sr
Wm
Talbot from
yor
Lopps
owne hand hath much startled many that knew him, who Could scarce have beleived it had it come another way.
ffor the proffits of the place I have already ordered the collecting of them, and shall make a full Retorne of the produce of them to
yor
Lopp
(I meane of what Can be Collected) this shipping but I feare the London shipps coming in so late this yeare, I shall finde it a hard matter to procure freight for all this shipping, but shall doe my utmost Endeavour, According to
yor
Lopps
Comands I have signifyed to those gentlemen that
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Sr
William Talbots Comission is Revoaked by
yor
Lopp
and he is not like to Come here any more, I Retorne
yor
Lopp
thankes for Retorning me that noate of the bills of Exchange which I have Received.
The Duplicate of
yor
Lopps
Lre
of the
24th
of October I Received, and doe not at all admire at
Mr
Henry Courseys informa??n to
yor
Lopp
about a boy one Thatcher a servant of mine, which
savors
somewhat of his former kindnes and Carriage to me, for had it layen in his power to have Done me any mischeif I doe beleeve he
wld
have beene glad of nothing more then to have Effected it for my owne pt I doe protest I never Troubled any
servt
of mine or any other pson about Religion, and I Conceive
Sr
Joseph Williamson hath given
yor
Lopp
satisfaction in that and that that was only a ly of Courseys raysing, for the lad he is of very little use to me, and if
Sr
Joseph Williamson pleases to take any Care for his passage I shall send him to him, and be glad to pleasure a pson that may be so usefull to
yor
Lopp
(and consequently to me) in a farre greater matter, but I Conceive that when
Sr
Joseph sees him he will misse of his Expectation, for I never found any Delight or satisfaction in him in that musicall point, for which
Mr
Coursey or his father have famed him to be so Excellent at. I Doe Remember that I did write
yor
Lopp
about sending
yor
Acct
by
Capt
Pery but did not, but since I hope
yor
Lopp
hath Received it for I have sent it by five or six severall oppertunityes.
I should be heartily glad to heare that the Controversy betweene his Royall highnes and
yor
Lopp
about the Horekeele &c were Determined, and I assure
yor
Lopp
it would be very wellcome newes to many psons here who have a Desire to seate and Inhabite there, and yet are unwilling to Remove their goods Servants and stocks untill they certeinly know
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undr
whose
Governmt
they are like to be but howsomever in the meane time I shall Encourage all psons that I Can to scare there, &
Endeavor
the
prservation
of
yor
Interest there to the utmost of my power.
I humbly thanke
yor
Lopp
for those Expressions of favour and Kindnes to
Doctor
Wharton, and have acquainted him of them for which he is very thankfull, and will write
yor
Lopp
more at Large himself by these shipps, I have already built a Country house for summer time at Zachya, according to the fashion of the building of this Country, but by what I have Done already I finde building here to be very Chargeable, and am loth to bestow much more of it, least (though the place be so healthfull)when I have Done Cis should not like it. I Retorne
yor
Lopp
thankes for sending me in that warrant for
Mr
Allen, and shall punctually observe
yor
Lopps
co?ands about
yor
Mannors
and Escheated lands, and from time to time shall give
yor
Lopp
a pfect account of our pceedings therein,
wch
I hope wilbe satisfactory to
yor
Lopp
. I Rejoyce much that my ffrend
Mr
Charles ffortescu is so well Recoverd & likely to live, I Retorne
yor
Lopp
my humble thankes for giving me satisfaction in it, for he is a pson that I have alwayes had a greate Kindnes and Respect for.
Yor
Lopps
of the 10th of November in the behalfe of my Cozen Darnell I Received, and have already taken Care for an
Employmt
for him, which I hope (when he is Capable to manage & Execute himself) will pve very considerable to him, and in the meane time finde him a sufficient competency to mainteine him, I humbly Conceive
yor
Lopp
and his father from his owne hand will Receive an account of my Care of him.
Yor
Lopps
of the 12th of November in behalfe of
Mr
Stephen Goffe by his owne hand I Received to whom for some time I gave
Enterteinmt
at my owne house and have advised
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him to an honnest man to live with this summer neare Zachiah that he may be neare me, and withall I have given him such advise and particuler Cautions as I thought fit, and I shall according to
yor
Lopps
comands give you a pticuler account touching him, in a single
Lre
only Relating to him, to which I Referre
yor
Lopp
for full satisfaction concerning him.
Yor
Lopps
of the
20th
of November I Received, in which was Enclosed the noate of the Tokens
yor
Lopp
was pleased to send me my wife and Children, I have also Received the thinges themselves, as also my mothers picture which wilbe a great Ornament to my
Parlor
and though the Painter hath not done it for her advantage as
yor
Lopp
writes yet those thinges are much Esteemed here for all which Tokens of
yor
Lopps
favor
to me my wife and Children wee humbly Retome
yor
Lopp
thankes.
I have Received
Mr
Ogilbyes Bookes but desire no more such
prsents
, but shall answere
yor
Lopps
Expectation to the Gentleman, since
yor
Lopp
writes me you conceive my
honor
is Engaged, though such
favor
wilbe very Chargeable.
I Retorne
yr
Lopp
my humble thankes for
yor
greate Care Charge & Trouble in procuring me that Sallary from the
Comrs
of the Customes, and shall humbly submit to what
yor
Lopp
shall thinke fit and gratefully accept of what
yor
Lopp
shall please to allow me out of it. The Seale which
yor
Lopp
sent me is Excellently well Done, and I have Received it, and am much better satisfyed that it is in steele then if it had beene in silver, for it I Retorne
yor
Lopp
my humble thankes.
The boy that
yor
Lopp
designed for Cis is arived but hath a scall'd head, and though a little boy a greate Theife, wherefore the scalld head makes him Dangerous, and his theiving quallity inconvenient if cured to be kept by me, so not to put
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myself to that Trouble shall not Enterteine him, but Dispose of him somewhere neare me that I may have an Eye to him now & then that his mother when she desires it may have an account of him.
I Retorne
yor
Lopp
my most humble thankes for
yor
kinde
Enterteinmt
to Richard Keene and his wife, at my Request, who are very proud of the
favor
yor
Lopp
hath showen them.
Yor
Lopps
of the
21th
of November on the behalfe of
Mr
Robert Dowglas I Received by his owne hand whome at
prsent
I Enterteine at my owne house, and Employ him to teach my Children and shall give him all
Encouragemt
that lyes in my power, shall Endeavour the promoting of a schoole here, and make him the Master in the meane time till he Can more advantageously Dispose of himself he shalbe wellcome where he is, but doubt he will not finde the people here so desirous of that benefit of Educating their Children in that nature as he might pbably Expect, for the Remotenes of the habitation of one pson from another, wilbe a greate obstacle to a schoole in that way that I pceive
yor
Lopp
ariues at, and that would much Conduce to the pffit and advantage of the youth of this Province.
Yor
Lopps
of the
24th
of November I have Received and touching
yor
Lopps
Dues here I am glad to heare from
yor
Lopp
that you are so well satisfyed with my Care in that affayre the last yeare, and be assured My Lord that the very best bills I shall
Endeavor
to retorne
yor
Lopp
either by Bristoll or London, but all of London If I finde them good and likely to be payd and for what shalbe wanting
yor
Lopp
shall not neede to feare that I will put
yor
Lopp
further then Bristoll. when I Did write to
yor
Lopp
that I thought a third pt. of the Tobacco made here the last yeare would be left in the Country, wee had not then in the
Major
pt. of the ships, but
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afterwards there Came many more who I Conceive Carryed away most of the Tobacco made last yeare of the Imposition of which I have already given
yor
Lopp
account and for what is left in the Country at any time, it is next to an impossibillity for me to give
yor
Lopp
an account but if any were left in the Country last yeare, it wilbe accounted and payd for this yeare, if it were good, and kept well & worth sending home.
I Retorne
yor
Lopp
humble thankes for
yor
great Civillity to
Capt
Dunch in making him
yor
Admirall here at my Request, who is very thankfull and proud of that
yor
favor
and hath signified his gratefull
acknowlegemt
thereof to me upon Severall occasions since his arivall here, I hope their was no incivillity from Capt Dunch to
yor
Lopp
but only some little Difference betweene
Mr
Burke and him.
I humbly thanke
yor
Lopp
for giving
Mr
Arthur satisfaction in his scruple of my bill of Exchange of
10l
payable to John Lucumb, I forgetting to advise him of it, but I shalbe more punctuall with
Mr
Arthur in those affayres for the future, and shalby theis shipps send him a Receipt for it,
wch
will assure him that I allow of the
paymt
thereof according to
yor
Lopps
comand.
Touching that 700 Acres of land
wch
I Desired
yor
Lopps
favor
in, it is since owned and an heir appeares who is in possession thereof, so that their is now no occasion to send an account thereof to
yor
Lopp
but when any such like occasion againe
prsents
, I shall send
yor
Lopp
a full and Ample account of anything that I intend to desire
yor
Lopps
favour to graunt me.
My wife
prsents
her humble deauty to
yor
Lopp
and is very sorry that the Squirells did not Come safe and that those that did had that misfortune, as for one to Escape and the other dy
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she will Endeavour the getting more this yeare and hopes that they (if she gets any) may have better successe.
I Did give
Mr
Notley the trouble to Collect some dues of shipping in Patomeke River the last yeare but it was only when I was out of the way nor doe I conceive (he having so much busines of his owne) he would be willing to undertake it, but if he could be pswaded to it, I doubt not but he would so behave himself in it that he would give
yor
Lopp
a greate deale of satisfaction, and Ease me of a greate deale of Trouble. As for the Seizing of Winsor, Sencerfe & Croscombe the last yeare for being Dutch built and tradeing with Dutch goods I humbly Conceive the suspicions upon them were sufficiently Cleared at their tryall, and I Doubt not in the least that at their tryall their appeared no Reason for their seizure but only Jealousy, and for
Mr
Notleys pt I am Confident he neither is nor would be Concerned in anything that should be
prjudicial
to
yor
Lopp
or the
Governmt
here, and if any abuse have beene offered by them shipps it hath beene Conived and winked at by the officers of the Custome house where they have Cleared for they alwayes bring with them as authentique Testimonials, and Certifficates from his
Maties
Customers
Collectors
& other officers as any Londoner that trades here.
I shall Continue in Doeing what Service I can for
yor
Lopp
touching the Horekeele in
ordr
to
wch
on the
19th
of June last I issued out a proclamaco??n
undr
yor
Lopps
greate Seale declaring and affecting
yor
Lopps
Right to that place and Erected the same into a County, and Called it by the name of Worcester County, assuring the then Inhabitants there that if they would take out Patents from
yor
Lopp
and take the oath of fidelity they should have all
favor
and proteccon and also for a further
Encouragemt
to them, did Empower one Jenkins (whom I ordered to reside there) to take pfe of their Rights to
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land graunt warrants &c so that they might not be forced to travayle so farre as St Maryes for the Doeing thereof, and I having graunted the Indian Trade to one
Mr
Thomas Jones a marchant here, and he alledging the most advantageous place for that was the Horekeele, & that that was
yor
Lopps
right but kept from you by New Yorke, and he undertaking to Reduce it to
yor
Lopps
obedience, I gave him a Comission to be a Capt. for the said County of Worcester, and to leavy men &c, and to march up thither and take possession of that place for
yor
Lopps
use, and Did associate with him one
Capt
Paul Marsh of Somerset County. In Jones Comission for the Indian Trade their is a Clause incerted for his seizing any Truck that he should ketch any pson tradeing with
wthout
lycense first obteined for the same from
yr
Lopp
or
Lr
here, which is according to the Law of the Country. According to his Co?on Jones goes up to the Horekeele with a party of men, and there after some small matter of Resistance, brings all there in subjection to
yor
Lopp
and tooke the oath of fidellity to you, but in Jones Managing this busines he was a little too Rough for he seized great quantityes of Truck for the Indian Trade,
wch
was designed for Trade with the Indians though he did not ketch them tradeing with them, and used them a little severely at first by binding them &c upon which were many Complaintes, and though I am well satisfyed Jones hath done
yor
Lopp
good Service in it and that their were many Reasons to be given for his Actings, yet severall psons here Exclaimed much of him, and made the busines seeme much fowler then it was I Conceive because he had his Comission from me and because I had
somewt
of a gratuity for his Co?on for Indian Trade, wherefore to give all psons satisfaction I in open Court tooke away and Cancelled Jones Co?on for Indian trade, and ordered him to redeliver unto
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the Dutchmen all their goods he had seized of theirs
wch
he accordingly did, and now the place Requires nothing more then a Confirmation of
yor
Lopps
right to it, for it is now peaceably possessed in
yor
Lopps
Right, and Survey'd by virtu of
yor
Lopps
ordrs
for severall of the Inhabitants of this Province, who yet seeme loth to Draw their Estates thither not Certeinly knowing who are to be their Masters, I humbly take notice of the Co?on
yor
Lopp
gives me, and if nothing but force will doe, I shall then make use of it to the utmost
agt
all such as shall withstand
yor
Lopps
Just Right there howsomever hope
yor
Lopp
will peure a speedy End to be made
wth
his Royall highnes about it. Though as yet many have not gone out of Maryland and Virginea to Portroyall, and those that have
wth
ill successe Enough, yet aboundance, Remove dayly from Barbadoes and other Islands thither, and although they have Removed theire Estates have yet forgot provisions, whereby they are all almost starved for want of Corne.
As for the Magazine
yor
Lopp
seemes to Chide me for my neglect of it, the Assembly having taken such particular Care about it in the Act of
2s
a
hhd
& that
Capt
Coop informed you I had sent for 20 Muskets by him I sent for fifty by him, but I thanke him he brought me none, I sent for 100 to
Mr
Notleys Correspondent, in all I sent for 250, of which I have but 20 come in, and that was from Bristol, the Reason of the not coming of'em in according to my
ordr
is the warrs and trouble at home, but doe assure
yor
Lopp
shall take such Effectuall Care about it this yeare,
tht
yor
Lopp
shall have no Reason to Chide nor the Country to Complaine of me. ffor the use of Carabines in this Country I understand not therefore shall send for none without
yor
Lopps
positive
ordr
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Touching the fines and
amerciamts
here myself & the Councill have
prsumed
to make use of them to Defray
yor
Charge at Court times and Assemblyes, but now they come to be so small, that wee cannot be trusted upon Creditt of them, and I am forced now to Enterteyne the Councill at my owne Charge at St. Johns.
And Concerning all lands that are Escheated to
yor
Lopp
I have yearly sent to the Respective sherriffs for an Exact account but yet never could get any, this yeare I have sent out a strict comand to them for that purpose, I hope that will bring it, and as soone as I Receive it, I shall send it to
yor
Lopp
Yor
Lopp
writes you would have all Patents Recorded before they passe the greate scale I Conceive that was a mistake of
yor
Lopps
Secretary, I humbly conceiving that it was
yor
Lopps
Intentions, and meaning that all Patents should passe the greate Scale before they are Recorded, for I Conceive the Seale is necessary and Essential to the graunt, and that the graunt cannot in any way be perfected untill it hath passed the Seale, yet wee have beene forced to doe otherwayes here, that is after I had signed them, the Clerke to Record them, and then Deliver them to the
Chancelor
for the
Chancelor
would not seale any Patent untill payd in money for the seale, and where one pson is able to procure money here, their is hundreds that Can procure none so that if wee should not have Recorded their Patents before sealed their would have beene such a Confusion in the Secretaryes office that it had never beene to have beene Righted againe, and truly I must needes acquaint
yor
Lopp
that the
Chancelors
standing so Rigorously upon his pay in money for the scale of Patents before he would seale them has not only hindered himself & the Secretary's office sufficiently but also many hundreds of people from taking up of land that other wayes would have Done
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it so that severall people at last have come amongest themselves to question his ffees, and alledge that it was never consented to in the Assembly as other ffees have beene, and therefore have no Reason to pay'em at all, whereas had he let them freely had their patents his ffees for the Seale would never have beene scrupled I humbly Desire
yor
Lopps
full
ordrs
in this busines, that such a greivance as this is to the Country, and
prjudice
to
yor
Lopp
in having
yor
Rents increased & Revenues inlarged may be quite throwne aside, and and that you will give
ordr
to the
Chancelor
accordingly,
Yor
Lopps
orders about
4s
a hundred Acres for Escheated Lands to be graunted from
yor
Lopp
shalbe punctually observed.
I am sorry to heare Mrs Boughton lost her Tobacco in Capt Tully which I hope she conceives not my fault but the misfortune of the times.
ffor my Cozen Brookes importuning to be Discharged of the Councill, I Conceive it was only to get a confirm??n of the place I had then given him & now since
yor
Lopp
hath beene gratiously pleased to Confirme it I suppose he
wld
be very well Contented to serve
yor
Lopp
as one of
yor
Lopps
Councill here provided he could but get off John Langfords
10l
p an? but about this I conceive he will write
yor
Lopp
more fully himself.
The assembly hath beene prorouged in Reguard of my not having any Comands from
yor
Lopp
and the Speaker
Mr
Notleys being sick, but when they sit I will take speciall care to doe my utmost in Complyance
wth
yor
Lopps
comands touching the passing & mending those Acts
yor
Lopp
mentions in
yor
Lre
.
Touching those 3
hdds
of Tob: that were missing
Capt
Tully hath given Caution that when
paymt
is made
yor
Lopp
shall have satisfaction. I Retorn
yor
Lopp
thankes for
yor
kindnes
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to my Brother Low, and hope he will doe his
Endeavor
to Deserve it from
yor
Lopp
when occasion
prsents
. My wife is yery glad the Dryed peaches came safe to
yor
hand though not so good as they might have beene, had they beene
prserued
by one that had more skill & Convenience. The season of the yeare is now late to pcure Tob. Especially good sweetesented, but if possible I can I will send
yor
Lopp
a
hhd
, or
wt
I can pcure by some of these shipps.
If my Lord Willoughby and
Sr
Peter Colleton doe come into Maryland (as
yor
Lopp
writes they intend) though I doe not Expect that
honor
here) I shall
endeavor
to give them the hansomest Reception and
Enterteinmt
here Maryland can afford. Concerning
Mr
Gerards Land I have Employed a
Surveyor
to Runne it over privately and am now satisfyed, that he holds Tenne or Twelve Thowsand acres more then his due and now assoone as Ever my busines is a little over, shall have it Justly surveyed, and Doe
yor
Lopp
and the said Gerard Right in it, and if possible send
yor
Lopp
an account of it by one of the last shipps.
I Retorne
yor
Lopp
my humble thankes for the two hampers of wine
yor
Lopp
sent me, they prove Excellently good and come safe to hand without Damage.
I have according to
yor
Lopps
comands put the good men in minde of the Anniversary dayes
yor
Lopp
would have observed here, and of their adding my sister Blackestones name to them, who doe all assure me they will take all Care imaginable in observing
yor
Lopps
co?ands therein. Concerning those ffees sent in by
Mr
Langhorne for the
Chancelor
I did Conceive it wholy Related to the
Chancelors
office and that he would have beene so Carefull in that matter, as to have given
yor
Lopp
a particular accompt wherein the Difficulty lay, but since he hath not I shall minde him of it, what I
undrstand
of
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it, is this, that in the said list of ffees is thinges Charged there that are never made use of here, and many things left out there that wee have dayly occasion for here, but for those thinges that are necessary here the said Directions are very much wanting in this in that it does not distinguish how much in Every pticuler is due to the
Chancelor
for the seale, the Rest belongs to the Secretaryes office, where all the Records of that busines are kept and all writs Comissions Decrees
ordrs
&c transcribed and written. As in the said list is allowed for a Subpena ad Respondend
2s
now the quere is how much for the making and Recording it, and how much for the seale. the
Chancelor
takes in all businesses that passe the seale, as much as if he writ them & kept the Records of them whereby it comes about that people
genrrally
pay Double ffees in such Cases, Those that have beene acquainted with Chancery busines in England alledge the
Ld
Chancelor
takes nothing for the seale of Chancery writt &c but that true it is when the Lord
Chancelor
pens the seale, on a certeine day his Secretary gives notice to the Clerkes and other officers of that Court to attend who have any such Cursory pcesse to passe the Seale, and they pay the
Chancelors
Secretaryes but
6d
a peice for one writ with another, and the number of them that are so sealed at one opening makes it very advantageous to those Secretaryes, and the Residue of the ffees for such writs, goes to the severall officers of the Court of Chancery, through whose hands they passe for this I humbly conceive
yor
Lopp
may Receive full satisfaction from
Mr
Langhorne and when
yor
Lopp
sends me
yor
ordr
in that case, they shalbe fully observed, I only write this to
yor
Lopp
the more fully that people may not pay twice for doeing their busines but that the
Chancelors
ffee for Every writ in Chancery may be Duly setled, or else (that since wee sit here in a Double Capacity aswell Chancery
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as Provincial
Cort
and one Clerke serves for both busines, and wee try aswell Chancery as Provincial
Cort
busines at one sitting) the same seale (which is the lesser Seale of the Province) that seales the Provincial writs may also seale the Chancery writs, since one is as Cursory as the other, and that only Patents Pardons or Speciall busines touching publique affayres may passe
undr
the greate Seale, but for this I humbly Reserve it to
yor
Lopps
Directions by the next.
According to
yor
Lopps
comands about Coll Carters Land I have searched fully into it, and finde that it is not Escheated, but that the Rent for the same (with that he
pd
yor
Lopp
in England) is fully pd to this last yeare,
I will
endeavor
my utmost in pswading the London Masters to take into their severall Shipps Billets as
yor
Lopp
Desires, and hope to give
yor
Lopp
satisfaction therein. I am very glad to understand from
yor
Lopp
the Blackwallnut planke has made so noble a shovell board Table. I shall Continue the same Care in raking security here for all
paymts
of bills of Exchange to
yor
Lopp
and shall
Endeavor
yor
Lopps
satisfaction herein according to Direction, and take foure bills, three of which I shall send to
yor
Lopp
accompanyd with
Lres
of advise and the fourth keept here, I shall also send double Coppyes of all bonds for feare of a miscarriage, and also of the Account of the Tobacco Exported, which shalbe sent to
yor
Lopp
for
yor
Delivery thereof to the
Lds
Comrs
&
Comrs
of the Treasury. Assoone as I can get Augustin Harman Downe here shall get him to pfect his Mapp and incert
yor
Lopps
Mannors
in it according to
yor
ordr
I have Received the bounds of Choptico
Mannor
and have since Resurveyed it with some additions according to
yor
Lopps
ordr
with a Reserve, and of the Certifficate of Survey shall send you a Coppy by the last shipps.
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That
hdd
of vines
yor
Lopp
tooke so much Care to send in the last yeare by Capt Tully for want of Care in a timely Delivery are all perrished and not one of them come up for which I am heartily sorry, having had greate hopes that if they had beene put into the ground in time here, that the soyle would have so well agreed with them that in a short time they would have Come to a greate pfec??n here, and that I might have beene able in some few yeares out of their produce to have sent
yor
Lopp
a glasse of wine of the growth of this Province.
I Retorne
yor
Lopp
thankes for pcuring
Capt
Cooper and
Capt
Dunch the
favor
of a proteccon & also the liberty of wearing the Kings Jack. I also humbly thanke
yor
Lopp
for
yor
Civillity to
Mrs
Wyan but some Reporte here have buzzed abroad that my Letter procured her nothing, but what helpes she had in England it was by meanes of some Letters of the
Chancelors
Lady to some frends of hers there, who had assisted her, I have acquainted her husband also of
yor
Lopps
Civillity and Kindnes to her, who seemes very thankfull to
yor
Lopp
for the same. Concerning that
Lre
from his
Maty
about Thatchers sonne, I shall take notice of it when come to hand as
yor
Lopp
Directs.
I am certeinly informed of the Arivall of one Man of warre in Virginia called the Barnaby, and when the
ordrs
come to hand, they shalbe punctually observed, I hope
Major
Genrall
Smith will have as little successe in that busines as the former Agent Coll Morrison, and spend their moneys with as little satisfaction to his Employers which wilbe for
yor
Lopps
Interest here. And for the graunting of his
Maties
Rents in Virginia to the Lords Arlington and Culpepper, wee have heard as yet nothing of it here, but suppose the news wilbe very unwellcome to
Sr
Wm
Barkeley. Those two acts
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yor
Lopp
sent I Rec'd, and shall Deliver a Coppy of Each to the
Chancelor
according to
yor
Lopps
ordr
Also I Received the Case of
Mr
Henry Scarborough stated, and also a Coppy thereof from his Attorney here, and when they make their addresses in
ordr
to the psecution of it, they shall have all Right & Justice Done them, for I am well satisfyed
Mr
Scarborough hath had much wrong done him, of which the
Chancelor
I suppose is sufficiently sensible, and I conceive
Mr
Scarborough did very wisely in making the
Chancelor
a
Defendt
for some Reasons (
wch
I will comunicate to
yor
Lopp
in another
Lre
of my owne writing) I will not meddle with anything as to Discourse with the
Chancelor
about that affayre but shall wholy referre it to the Court and then fully pursue
yor
Lopps
Directions.
ffor
tht
25li
yor
Lopp
is pleased to
ordr
me to pay unto the Coll out of the proffits of the Secretaryes place this yeare, I have already owned
yor
Lopps
ordr
to him, and shall accordingly make Convenient
paymt
thereof to his Mother, to whom he hath Desired me to pay the same, and truly my Lord I am very glad of the opptunity for she very much wants it, and I never knew him assist her in any thing of this nature before.
I have already acquainted my Cozen Brookes of
yor
Lopps
ordrs
for the setling of a Court of Inquiry about Escheated Lands of which I have Desired him to take notice, and shall use the utmost of my Endeavour that
yor
Lopp
may have a satisfactory account given you in that affayre.
Mr
Abbington hath since his coming in likewise made his Complaint to me touching that servant, and hath so farre satisfyed me that I am apt to beleive he may have had wrong Done him, though he hath still had here the Repute of a pritty severe Master.
As to what
yor
Lopp
is pleased to write about
Mr
ffoster and
Mr
Warren, at that time my Lord they both seemed to take
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it very unkindly that
yor
Lopp
should Extend
yor
favors
to others that were not come in more then to them Considering they had beene here so long, and therefore I did
Endeavor
to give them
Encouragemt
that
yor
Lopp
would Doubtlesse conferre the same favour upon them which was all that I gave them, and now since
yor
Lopp
hath confirmed them those dubious words of mine they both seeme to acknowledge
yor
Lopps
favor
and kindnes to them in a very high manner, and when this
paymt
does Comence to them, I shall observe
yor
Lopps
comands & stop the Corne.
That Act of Assembly that provides freight for
yor
Lopp
is yet in force, and by virtu of the same I doe Demand pportionable freight in the Respective shipps for
yor
Lopps
goods and doubt not of pcuring sufficient to give
yor
Lopp
satisfaction.
ffor such
Lres
as come to me under Covert from
yor
Lopp
for other psons I have constantly taken such care for the speedy Delivery of 'em as this Country affordes, which is to send them by the first Conveniency of one that lives neare them,
wch
if such a Conveniency does not imediately
prsent
, or the pson by whom I send them prove Careles it is no fault of mine here being no post office or way as yet contrived in this Province for the speedy Dispatch of the same.
Yor
Lopps
of the
25th
of November I Received as also all those warrants that
yor
Lopp
mentiones therein which I will safely Deliver to the psons that are therein concerned. And for that warrant
yor
Lopp
is gratiously pleased to graunt unto
Doctor
Wharton, I Retorne
yor
Lopp
my humble thankes, and shall take Care the land shalbe seized for
yor
Lopps
use by the sheriff of the County, and for the
paymt
of the money I wilbe his security and
ordr
yor
Lopp
the money and for
Mr
Playdells ffee I will take Care it be retorned him before I Deliver the warrants according to Direction.
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As for
yor
Lopps
favor
to
Mr
White it shalbe taken notice of, and
ordr
shalbe given to Ridgely to Record it according to
yor
Lopps
comands, so that
Mr
White shall finde wee dot him Right here, and if any other be in the like nature they must Runn the Hazard of what will Ensue, but those that I Either know or Can heare of that are in the same condition I shall give them notice how to have it Remedyed (vizt) by
yor
Lopps
Dispensation.
And as for Alanson if he have had any injury by any Survey if wee can any way finde it he shall fully Receive the benefit of
yor
Lopps
favor
.
The Comission and seale for Judge for probate of wills &c I Received and Delivered according to
yor
Lopps
ordr
but touching this in one of my owne hand to
yor
Lopp
I shall Discourse more fully.
Concerning that
favor
yor
Lopp
intends to bestow on the widdow and Orphans of Bartholomew Coates Deceased this warrant is of no use, and
Sr
Wm
Talbot did mistake the Case,
wch
truly is thus—500 Acres of land in possession of Chandler, and pt of Oversee's Land lyeing in Portobacco Creeke over against
Mrs
ffookes Escheates to
yor
Lopp
Bartholomew Coates upon Confidence of
yor
Lopps
favor
built and Cleared upon it and I gave him an
ordr
to the
Surveyor
to Resurvey it according to the auntient bounds, that so knowing what it Conteyned might ascerteine his Request to
yor
Lopp
It appeares by the Certifficate of Resurvey to be five hundred and fifty acres, a coppy of
wch
I send
yor
Lopp
It is all the Estate he hath left to his wife and Children, which I hope
yor
Lopp
(they having beene Servants to
yor
family) will graciously confirme to them, so that the bounds of the Land must be specefyed in the warrant, and it having beene already survey'd and Escheated a Co?on warrant will not serve, but their must be
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a speciall Recitall of the Escheate and bounds and then a Co?and from
yor
Lopp
to cause a Patent of Confirma??n to be here passed. Assoone as the severall sherriffs Retornes me their account of Escheated Lands I shall send
yor
Lopp
a fayre list of them, with their names, place where they ly, quantity of Acres, goodnes of the Soyle &c and then I hope
yor
Lopp
will answere my Aunt Peaselyes Expectation.
Yor
Lopps
of the
26th
of November I Received, and I doe humbly Retorne
yor
Lopp
thankes for
yor
great Care and Charge in pcuring me that Sallary from the Lords
Comrs
of the Treasury, and I shall use my utmost skill and
Endeavor
to Comply with their
Lopps
Directions, and I shall in obedience to
yor
Lopps
comands appointe a person to Receive it but shall humbly Desire
yor
Lopps
assistance in the procuring
paymt
thereof, for
wthout
yor
Lopps
favor
in following it there I have very little hopes in pcuring it. I have Received
Lres
from the Comissioners of the Treasury
wch
are to one and the same Effect as theirs to
yor
Lopp
was the last yeare. I shall send to
yor
Lopp
by this Conveniency the
Instrumt
you Comand Executed here as
yor
Lopp
Directs, and also a particuler
Lre
from myself to the Comissioners
undr
my owne hand to pay it to
yor
Lopp
or
yor
ordr
Touching the supposed mistake in my last yeares account this is humbly to Certefy
yor
Lopp
that their was no mistake for it is true that their was arived 87 shipps, but at that time there was Cleared but 81, those which were not Cleared then are to be allowed this yeare as
yor
Lopp
by the account Currant
herewth
sent will see. I shall Endeavour to give the Lords
Comrs
all imaginable satisfaction that can be according to
yor
Lopps
comands, and make my account pfect and full both as to the Ports they come from, and are bound to.
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I have Received that Dispensation of his
Maties
and shall carefully observe the
Comrs
ordr
about it, of
wch
I Received the Duplicate aswell as the Originall.
Yor
Lopps
of the
2d
of December in the behalfe of
Capt
Burges by his owne hand I Received, and am very well satisfyed that he hath given
yor
Lopp
assurance of his obedience and Complyance with
yor
Lopp
for the future. I hope he will performe his pmise in the same to
yor
Lopp
, and the more to urge him thereunto I shall give him all
Encouragemt
accordingly.
Yor
Lopps
of the
3d
of December by
Capt
Connoway I Received and accordingly thanked him for the Delivery of those things so Carefully and have assured him of all
Encouragemt
here, and to Countenance and serve him here in any Just thing that lyes in my power, which I doubt not but he will very well Deserve and gratefully acknowledge.
Yor
Lopps
also of the
4th
of December I Received, together with the Books and Materialls for the Secretaryes office, and also the noate of the particular prizes of them all, and shall take Care according to
yor
Lopps
Comands that
yor
Lopp
be Reimbursed out of the proffits of the Secretaryes office for those that are for that use, and for the Rest shalbe
yor
Lopps
faithfull
factor
I humbly Retorne
yor
Lopp
thankes for making good what was omitted by me in
ordr
to the hogshead of Tobacco I sent
Mr
Langhorne, and Doe allow of what
yor
Lopp
payd for the freight and Custome thereof because Desired by
Mr
Langhorne, and shall repay the same to
yor
Lopp
I shall also in obedience to
yor
Lopps
co?ands, write to the Earle of shaftsbury and my Lord high Treasurer in which I shall Retorne them my humble
acknowledgemts
for their noble
favors
which Letters written with my owne hand I shall send unto
yor
Lopp
with flyeing seales. I also Received the
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noate of Directions for the severall superscriptions, and in my
Lre
to the Lord Treasurer, shall signify an account of the Tob. that is Exported, But as to the monethly satisfactory account this yeare, the
Lre
Came so late to hand that it is impossible for me to doe it now, but the next yeare god willing shall Comply fully with their
Lopps
Desires and in my Letters to them shall intimate so much.
The Two Chests and the Keyes to them I have Received, as also the Acts of
Parliamt,
and his
Maties
ordr
of Dispensation dated the
10th
of May 1672, also I have Received Twelve Drumheads and lines to them and the scantlings of Blackwallnut,
wch
scantlings came so late to my hand, that by theis shipps I cannot send them to
yor
Lopp
but by the next shall use my utmost
Endeavor
to fullfill
yor
Lopps
Comands in the same. As for
Mr
Lewellen in whose behalfe
yor
Lopp
writes to me, he is already Employed by
Mr
Notley so will need no assistance or
favor
from me, but if he should have occasion shalbe Ready to doe him what Kindnes I can. As for Ellis he is at
prsent
Employed by me, he is married here, and when it lyes in my power to show him any
favor
I shalbe Ready for his fathers sake. And as for
Mr
Chilcot of Ann Arundell County, I cannot in
honor
make him sheriff of that County, for the gentleman that now is in that office, hath so honnestly and hansomely behaved himself, that it would seeme very unhansome in me at
prsent
to Remove him, but if it in any other way ly in my power to serve
Mr
Chilcot, when he comes to bring
yor
Lopps
Lre
of Recomendation, I shall serve him in that way, that he shall owne
yor
Lopps
favor
& kindnes in Recomending him.
Yor
Lopps
of the
16th
of December Received, together with those papers
yor
Lopp
mentions Enclosed therein and shall punctually observe
yor
Lopps
Directions in Rela??n to the
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Comrs
of the Custome house, and shall also from time to time send to
yor
Lopp
coppyes of all such
Lres
as shall come to me from his
Maty:
Comrs:
of the treasury, or others as I shall Judge Convenient to be sent to
yor
Lopp
and as
yor
Lopp
desires.
Sr
Richard Belings
Lre
is behalfe of
Mr
Gough I have received, and shall Retorne him an answere giving him therein an account both of the Gentleman and his Cargoe, which if he husbands according to the advice and Cautions I have given him, I doubt not but it wilbe both for his owne advantage & for the satisfaction of his frends and Relations. I should be very glad for
Mr
Whites sake that the match betweene his Royall highnes and the Arch Dutchesse of Jusprugh may goe forward because he writ me word that he is in hopes of some
Employmt
there.
As for that informa??n of Thurstons to
yor
Lopp
touching that tract of land at the head of Gunn powder River above the falls there (if it prove true) I shall Reserve two
Mannors
there for
yor
Lopp
and shall give him and his son a graunt or graunts for what they shall Duly prove Rights for according to
yor
Lopps
conditions of plantation.
And as for that inform??n of that lyeing fellow Thurston about Hattons land I humbly conceive it is already answered in that I writ
yor
Lopp
already that their is an heire to it, who is now in possession thereof, and for the sheriffs selling it I never gave any
ordr
to that Effect, indeed Thurston was with me about it, but I Doubting their was an heire, and understanding something to that Effect, did doe nothing in it but told him if none such appeared he should have it for
17000li
of Tob, by which it may appeare to
yor
Lopp
it was not sold to any other. I Received a coppy of a particuler of all
yor
Lopps
Dispatches with a second bill of Lading as also the
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same from
Mr
Burke. ffor those
Lres
to the Lord
Chancelor
and Treasurer, I have already signifyed to
yor
Lopp
they shalbe written in my owne hand according to
yor
Lopps
Comands, and for Thatcher in the begining of this
Lre
have fully answered that.
Yor
Lopps
last of the
10th
of January I Received, together with those Duplicates & other papers
yor
Lopp
Enclosed therein; I have informed
Mr
Massey of the miscarriage of his Letters from his frends for the which he is very sorry. I Retorne
yor
Lopp
my humble thankes for
yor
greate Care and Trouble in pcuring my sallary from the Comissioners of the Treasury, which I hope
yor
Lopp
will Continue from time to time in the getting of it into
yor
hands.
According to
yor
Lopps
comands concerning the Horekeele I shall
Endeavor
to give all due
Encouragemt
to all psons that will seate there, untill busines be Decided betweene
yor
Lopp
and his Royall highnes
wch
I hope
yor
Lopp
will
Endeavor
speedily to Effect, since it is so much for
yor
Lopps
Interest.
Concerning Young and Tullyes bills I have already I humbly conceive given
yor
Lopp
a sufficient answere, and for the future I shall observe
yor
Lopps
Directions in
ordr
to the Drawing of the Bills of Exchange, but for the Letters of Advice they will and must doe that as they thinke Convenient, for in their
Lre
of Advice the Masters gives their Marchants Advice, that it is for the Dutyes of the ship &c upon which the Marchant payes it, when pchance if the Master drawes it generall, and without such advise, that is for the Dues of the ship, the Masters bill will certeinly be protested, by the Marchant who hath no Reason to pay him any thing but his wages, and what he Expends upon
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the ship and so conceive
yor
Lopps
best Remedy in a bad matter wilbe to sue the security here.
Yr
Lops most dutifull
& Obedient son
Charles Calvert
2d
June 1673.
No. 17.
PART OF A LETTER-BOOK OF GOVERNOR CHARLES CALVERT.
that
yo
gett l??? from him and my Cosen Copley as often as you can that I & my wife may haue the comfort of hearing from them by the first Shipps next yeare, as to the moneys you mention my Cosen Copley had, I allow of it; The Allowance, as you signifie, is somewhat high, and may be wonder'd at, but in that I cannot as yett help my selfe, & Provided my Child do well I shall think the lesse of it; you did well to charge Cis to write to you often and pray putt him in mind of his promisse in that particular. You signifie that doctor Walgraue and severall other familys are gon for france & Islanders, and that if my Children want any Phisick
Mr
Nelson hast assured you he will procure an able Phisitian for them; for
wch
I thank you and for the good news of my Childrens health at Chelsy, & son Benedict at Hammersmith & that he is (as you write) as lusty and braue a Child as any in Middlesex.
I wish my wife had acquainted you afore she left England what necessaryes she had provided for my Children at Chelsy & Hammersmith, that there might not haue been such a noise of Complaints as you write there hath been in that particular;
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but I hope
yr
care
wth
my order to Brother Nick Lowe will be sufficient for the future, and that all partys will haue no more cause to apprehend a want for any thing necessary for my Children: and besides my order
wch
I sent you some time since for my Brother Lowe to supply, I also sent Bills of Exc. to
Mr
Barnaby Dunck & desired his eye over my Children to see if all things were complyed with by Nick Lowe: herewith I send you an
acct
of what Bills of Exc. and other moneys I orderd into my Brother Lowes hands, there to lye for supplying all occationes in relation to my Children and my other Concernes; so that I suppose I did all that was needfull. Just now comes the Mate of one Capt Canham, and brings me l??? from severall persons; with the mate came one
Mr
Jesfrie Fleetwood who likewise has deliver'd me severall l??? from
yr
selfe my Cosen Mary darnall and other persons; the dates of
yrs
that came by the mate & Fleetwood are as followeth,
4th
of
Jany
6
th
of Feb. 7
th
11
th
17. & 30
th
of March, being six in all, by these l??? I am sufficiently made sensible how kind and carefull you haue been of my Children & Concernes and do assure you it is a great satisfaction to me and my wife to
vndrstand
by all l??? from you and our other freinds that our Children were well and such care taken of them as doth sufficiently satisfie vs &
tht
they will not want any thing requisit for them to haue.
I will now giue some short answer to these last I??? I
recd
from you, the
Comandr
of the York
Mercht
Capt
Christophr
Evelin being ready for sailing, I received the l??? and other things you sent by Roddy, Partis, & Groome
wch
you make mentione in
yrs
of the 4
th
of
Janur
I haue received
Mr
Blackthwates l???
wch
you mention in
yrs
of the
6th
of
Febr
and am glad
Mr
Wyse was well and that severall persons besides D. Arthur was out vpon Baile—
Yr
l?? of the 7
th
of March
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maketh mention that Arthur had
recd
Covell's Bill, as for my note due to Bar. dunck I haue orderd him
paymt
out of the Bill of
Exca
for the Charles Walter dunch
Comandr
it is good newes to me that
yo
appear'd vpon the Exchange, and I hope God will protect you and all that are innocent from the malice of wicked persons, my wife and I am very very well satisfied that my Cosen darnall will trouble her selfe in seeing necessarys bought for my Children, and assist you in that affaire, you did well to pay
yr
respects to
Sr
Clement Armiger, As for the Buttler's Annuity it must be
pd
out of the Yorkeshyre estate, for though I orderd my Sister flue hundred pounds out of that Estate, yet with this reserue that those should be allowed out of it likewise, and so much you must acquaint
Mr
Alliband and my vncle Weld. As to your concerne and that of
Mrs
Rawlins I will drawne on
Mr
Barnaby dunch for you both; and am resolved to giue Order to my new Attorneys to lett my howse, for since persons of the Romish perswasion are not to be permitted to be in
Londn
it will not be convenient for me to keepe that howse any longer. My Brother Henry Lowe hath not write though you mention that he was in Towne. by
yr
l?? of the 11
th
of March I
vndrstand
that there has been greate trouble about a Gowne for my wifes daughter Jenny; and that you were Blam'd by some of my wifes Relatives, but I shall take care to cleere you in that or any thing else they may take vnkindly from you. My wife and I think as you do about the weaning of our son Benedict Leo. and that till he haue some teeth it will not be safe, but if the nurse should proue with Child, then our son ought to be wean'd out of hand, and I find you haue taken care it shall be don in such case,
wch
was well thought of and I thank you kindly for the charge you gaue the nurse therein. You signifie that my Irish rent has not been paid but I hope care will be
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taken by my Attorneys in it when it may be convenient to sue Morris & Cleyborn for it. As to
Jno
the Coachman he must be dismist & ought to haue been vpon his quitting my son's services, order shall be given to my Brother Low to pay him of his wages. I am glad to
vndrstand
that
Mrs
Bayard her sister Dell Joynes & her husband haue been carefull of all matters comitted to theire charge
wch
I will take care to requite them for,
wch
yr
l?? of the 11
th
of March I
reced
a copy of an
acct
wch
you write, my Cosen Copley gaue you; amounting to 80
l
: 10
li
: 05
D
as you made it, my Brother Nick low I hope hast satisfied it according to my order to him In your lre of the 17
th
of March I find that my wiles Brothers had caused 10
l
or 12
l
pounds to be layd out in cloths for the Children without acquainting any of my Attorneys but I suppose for the future there will be a better vnderstanding amongst those I haue imployed to assist you in the care of my Children both I and my wife supposeing there was no such greate cause of complaint as was pretended.
I will in my Ires to my Brother Nick Lowe excuse your not letting of him know where my son Cis was lodged; As to the barrell of Tob: you mentioned brought by Groome I freely bestow it on you to make what you can of it. I am somewhat troubled to understand that my Cosen Smithson had
pd
but one hundred pounds to my Sister out of my Yorkshire rentt and that as he writt word there would be so much money layd out in building a mannor howse art Danby & in repaireing some other Tenants howses there which will be lost to me if I should be cast by
Sr
Wm
Blackston Your last l?? being the
30th
of March giues me the welcome news of my Childrens healths and particularly of little Cis and was glad to see the l?? he writt to you the l?? being not dated, but as you conceiue was to haue borne date the 25
th
of March, I am
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uery glad to vnderstand that
Mr
Wyse is well and that you hope he will continue so and that he has receiued moneys for the Tob: I left in his hands I am glad you acquainted
Mr
Wyse of the part I hold in the Cecelius and by that meanes caused a stop to be made of any
paymt
for fraight which you signifie was demanded of
Mr
Wyse. As to the Ladies concerne I will take care it shall be made good to her. You signifie that my l??? by the Lowe were not come to your hands which I wonder much att, for by
Capt
Oswould Wheately I sent a packett vnder couer to
Mr
Daniell Arthur, which I desired the master to deliuer to
Mr
George Cornish, who I vnderstood was to meete him att the Isle of Wight, but if
Mr
Cornish came not there I then suppose the master might deliuer my packett of l??? to a passenger that went in his ship, who had beene boatswaine of the Charles, when I came ouer, and if that person had them I hope he would be carefull to deliuer them. I am glad my vncle Wild came of well before the Lords, but am sorry he is not one of the new
parliamt
I vnderstand
Collr
Spencer is Secretary of
Virga
and about four or fiue dayes since did congratulate him the new honour he had thereby
receiud
from his
Matie
this being all att
prsent
I haue leisure to write only to assure you that by all opportunities you shall heare from me, and the same I desire from you, and that you will likewise mind my Attorneys (viz)
Mr
Nicholas Lowe
Mr
Thomas Gilbert and
Mr
Barnaby Dunck to write by euery shipp and that you giue them notice when any shipp shall be ready to sayle and so I rest
p Capt. Evelin.
9th
July 1679.
Your uery loueing friend
C B.
Bills of
Exac
on Barnaby Dunck payable to
Richd
Burk or
ordr
for forty pounds sterling, being for his wages & Annuity—
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Maryland 10
th
Jully 1679.
Cosen Darnall
I haue now to giue you thanks for your seuerall letters of these following dates viz 2
d
January 6
th
feb. & 16
th
ditto 3
d
march 7
th
& 26
th
ditto by these letters you haue taken a great deale of trouble and paines in letting me know in what Condition my Children were in vnderstanding from others as well as from your letters your great kindnesse towards them for which my wife and I returne you hearty thanks begging the Continuance of your Care and kindnesse towards them and that you'l please to write by all oportunities to vs as you haue donn I was very sorry to vnderstand of my Cosen your husbands Indisposition as Likewise for the great trouble he finds at present there I shall heerwith send him a supply of moneys as alsoe a small tocken of my kindnesse to your selfe which Ile desire you will accept of from
Your
affect
Kinsman
C. B.
Deere Coosen
To
Mrs
Mary Darnall
at the Lady Summersetts
house neare berne Stile
In London
p
Captn
Eueling
10
th
July 1679
Bills of
Exca
on
Mr
Barnaby Dunck to pay vnto
Mr
Phillip darnall the sume of twenty pounds sterling, and to take receipt for the
sd
sume; first & second.
10
th
July 1679.
Bills on ditto payable to
Mrs
Mary Darnall for Tenn pounds
sterl
first & second Bill, one p Evelin, other p Sheppard.
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Maryland Jully 10
th
1679
Deere Sister
I have received yours by
Mr
fleetwood and for your sake I shall shew him what kindnesse lies in my power I writt to you by
Captn
Oswold Wheatley but doe not vnderstand you haue received that letter therin I gaue you an accompt of our ariuall and well being I was once resolued to haue seene you this summer but the death of
Mr
Notley hath Caused such an alteration in affaires with me that I Canot possibly quitt the prouince this shipping which is noe small trouble to me this with my humble seruice to aunt Summersett is all I will trouble you with and therfore Conclude as I am
Your most
affect
Bro.
C. B.
Deere Sister
To Madam Elizabeth Caluert
In London
p
Captn
Eveling
Maryland Jully 10
th
1679.
Mr
Allibond
I haue received yours of the 10
th
feb. by
Mr
fleetwood and was glad to vnderstand by him that you and your wife were well and at your house in London I had not received any from you vntill this by
mr
fleetwood you may be asshured I shall show the Gentleman what kindness I Can and wherin Else I Can serue you
You shall find me—
Your most aff. freind
C. B.
To
Mr
Richard Allibond
In London.
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Maryland Jully 10
th
1679.
Good Brother
I will now acknowledge the receipt as alsoe giue you thanks for those letters I haue
reced
from you the last to which I haue not as yet giuen you an answere are of the dates following
22th
feb.
25th
March the first of these you mention to haue sent me seuerall letters but I haue recevd but one more besides these I haue already mentioned; I am glad to vnderstand you are soe well discharged from your old acquaintance and knaue Bellamy your other letter of the
25th
of March mentiones that you had writt at large to me by the same Conueyance that it Came by, but I haue not receined any such letter as yet you acknowledge the recept of mine of the
15th
feb. by a Lime Vessell and giue me to vnderstand that you had suplied my Children with some necessaries afore that request of mine came to your hands for
wch
both I and my wife most kindly thanke you and alsoe for what you wrote Concerning
Mr
Arthur hauing some time since sent directions for the drawing out what moneys I had in his hands As to your Concerne in your Brother Vins hands I haue donn what I durst doe betwixt two brothers and at last haue procured for you twenty six hoxeds of tobacco as by the Inclosed accompt you will perceiue but I was Contented to be disappointed my selfe rather then you should be any longer without some returns from him and of this you will be satisfied by the Inclosed letter which I received from him with the noties for the twenty six hoxeds; more I will Endeuor to procure for you the next shiping for you may be assured I will be your faithfull solicitor herein, now Brother as to the Effects I haue already Consigned vnto you being as followeth, first with my letter of the
5th
March I sent you bills of
Exa
amounting to the summ of
281l.
3s.
0d
. further in
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my letter to you of the
25th
Aprill I sent you two bills of
Exa
of Boddys & Ellys for the summ of
166l
3s
4d
all which I hope will come safe to your hands, I alsoe sent you an order for
Mr
Wise and Lombard to pay you the produce of the tobacos left in theire hands, and alsoe the Interest of what Cash I left with them being
2000ls
for which there was
5l
p Cent to be paid me, I shall renew those orders and send them againe with this hauing lately vnderstood that the said Wise & Lombard haue sold the tobaccos to
Mr
William Drope. I Likewise am aduised that John the Coachman who waited on my son was sometime since dismissed from my sons seruice and that notwithstanding his wages ran on still, therefore vpon your recept heerof I desire and alsoe order you to pay him of his said wages which by agreement was
6l
for the whole yeare, heerin pray faile not. I haue thought fitt and presumd to Constitute you my Cosen Thomas Gilbert
Mr
Barnaby Dunck and my seruant Richard Burk my attorneys to act for me in Case of any law of suites or other businesse
wch
may happen before I see you, by vertue of which letter of Atturney I must desire you with any two or three of my atturneys to see my house lett that I haue in Southhampton building for as much as you can gett and when any Tenant presents to take Care that an accompt be had of all my things and a note of them all be taken by you &
Richd
Burk, and the goods and things lodged in some place where you
Mr
Dunck &
Ricd
Burk shall think fitt, so they be carefully secured, herein Good Brother pray faile not, and in particular to take Speciall care of my Trunck in my dressing Roome in
wch
are my deeds & writings for all my Estate in
Engld
Ireland & Else where, this and the Care of my Children and that I may heare often from you is all I will desire and trouble you with at
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this time with my very kind respects to my Sister I remaine
Deere Brother
Your
affect
fr?nd &
Serut
C. B.
To
Mr
Nicholas Lowe
merchant in Philpot Lane
In London
p
Captn
Eueling
post script.
Brother
Vpon the remouall of the goods and other things in my house aboue Specified my wife your Sister earnestly entreats you that great Care may be taken of a great trunck
wch
stands in her Chamber betwixt the bedd and the Chimney there being in it seuerall bottles of Cordiall Waters and Likewise some flent glasses which will all be broke if not with great Care Carried away; it is alsoe requested that as much Care be taken in the remouing my wifes best Chest of drawers and that an Exact accompt be taken of the things in them and lastly that my Scritoire in my dressing roome be Carefully remoued alsoe which is all at this time from
Your Lo: Bro in Law
p
Captn
Eueling
I send
yu
herewith a Bill of
Exca
for
Capt
Evelin's dutys drawne
14 July 1679 on Tho. Griffith for the sume of
50l
:
16s
:
04d
on Bro. N. Lowe in fauour
of
Mrs
Rawlins for flue pounds sterling
Yours,
C. B.
Maryland Jully
15th
1679
Mrs
Byard.
I am informed by my wife of your great Care and kindnesse vnto my Children for which I kindly thanke you I alsoe
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am aduised that you haue layd out in necessaries for my Children to the vallue of four pounds sterling or thereabouts which sume if it be not already allowed and paid you by my Brother Nick Lowe you may demaund it of him and alsoe the sume of fIue pounds sterling which with the five pounds lent you by my wife at Chelsey will be tenn pounds which sume I intend you as a recompence for
yor
Care and trouble about my Children and soe I rest
Your Loueing freind
C. B.
To
Mrs
Byard at Chelsy
neere London p
Captn
Christopher Eueling.
Maryland
15th
Jully 1679.
Good Brother
That which I haue written to
Mrs
Byard in the aboue letter to her I desire you will doe me the fauour to Comply with (viz) in relation to the mony aboue mentioned and Charge what you pay unto her to the accompt of—
Your Lo: Bro: in Law
C: B:
To
Mr
Nicholas Lowe
mert
in Philpot Lane
In London.
Maryland
14th
Jully 1679
Dick Burk.
I haue appointed my Bro: Nick Lowe
Mr
Thomas Gilbert
Mr
Barnaby Dunck and your selfe to be my atturneys Reuoaking the former power I left
wth
Copley, Arthur, and Allibond and wheras I haue writ to my Brother Nick Lowe to Joyne with you and
Mr
Dunck in the setting of my house yet if the times should be any thing more faueorable I would then haue you tell my brother from me that you & he may
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forbeare letting of it vntill my further orders to you and the rest of my atturneys by the first shipp from hence next fall
I rest
C. B.
14th
July 1679
Brother Lowe
I did by a former order as now I doe againe by this desire you to pay out moneys to My seruant Richard Burk for the occasions of my Children and alsoe to reimbourse the said Burk all such moneys as he had lay'd downe in necessaries for my Children afore that order of mine came to your hands, or since and that what moneys you pay him for the occasions aboue Specified you take perticular receipts from vnder his hand the which I desire you to keepe for
Your affec Bro: in Law
C. B.
To
Mr
Nicholas Lowe—
In London.
14th
July 1679
Mr
Dunck
This goeth by
Captn
Christopher Eueling and is the last opportunity I shall haue of sending to you vntill the returne of the shipping by
Captn
Sheppard
Comandr
of the
St
George who is yet in Pottomock, I writt you a letter dated the first of June & therein were inclosed seuerall bills of
Exa
for the sume of
1432ls
:
7s
:
2d
the second bills for which su?es as alsoe a Coppy of that letter I send you heerwith; I Likewise haue heere Enclosed a letter of Atturney to your selfe Bro: Lowe,
Mr
Thomas Gilbert and Dick Burk for you to act in my behalfe in Case of any Law of suits which may happen about any part of my Estate in England or Ireland or on any other
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occasion whatsoeuer, desireing you as I haue formerly donn to Enquire after my Children and to know of Dick Burk how they are furnished and supplied by my brother Lowe whome I haue desired to supply theire wants, he haueing moneys of mine in his hands to that purpose. There was shiped on the
Virga
factor Robert Jowles
Comandr
thirty fiue hhds of tobacco on my accompt, and fifteene vpon Thomas Notleys accompt who is dead and I and Coll Rozier are Executors to his Estate soe that I desire those fifteene as well as the thirty fiue may be sould by you onely I desire that the accompt may be kept seuerally. I haue drawne a bill of
Exa
on you in fauor of Richard Burk for forty pounds ster. which when tendered pray Comply with being dated the
10th
instant a bill drawne on you of the same date for tenn pounds paiable to
Mrs
Mary Darnall and one other of the like date for twenty pounds paiable to
Mr
Phillip Darnall all which I desire that you will be pleased to satisfie according to theire seuerall tenours. And now I haue onely this to request that you will be pleased to buy for me the seuerall particulars sett downe in a memorandum heerwith sent you and that by the first and safest opportunity they may be sent to me and that you will be so kind as to write by all opportunities to—
Mine and wives kind respects
to
madme
Dunck and the same
to your brother
Your Lo: freind
C.B.
14th
July 1679
Cosen Gilbert
I hope you will be so kind as to excuse the trouble I hereby p'sume to throw vpon you, and not onely this but likewise that you'll pardon me for nominateing you one of my Attorneys
wch
I begg you'll please to accept of your Relatione to
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my wife and
yr
greate kindnesse & Civilitys to me vpon all occationes when I was in England makes me thus bold with you; Assureing you when it shall lye in my way to serue you I will as readily do it as any Relation or freind you haue: I haue herewith sent a l?? to the
Ld
Anglesey and one to the Lord Tsaueonberge
wch
I begg you'll favour me to deliver
wth
your owne hand, and putt theire
Lordpps
in mind of theire kindnesse they promised to shew me in my Absence and that I would haue returnd this shipping but haueing lost him that was my
Lieut
Genl
here and the greate Apprehensions of mischiefes from Forraine Indians
wch
the
managemt
of Affaires in Virginia hath drawne on vs occationes my stay vntill the next returne of shipping; And if any thing relateing to my Province should be moved at the Councell for Forraine Plantationes that you would please to appeare there for me and lett
thm
know the reason I returne not as I once resolved to haue don:
Sr
Robt
Southwell who is Cheife
Secry
to the Lords for Plantatione affaires will acquaint you if any thing be moved at that board, to whome give my humble service; and if you can when the other occationes will permitt it present my humble service to the Marquis of dorchester and Lord Craven and desire the continuance of theire Lop??. favour towards me you will herein highly oblige me whome you shall ever find gratefull for what civilitys and favours you think fitt to lay on
deare Cosen
Yr
Affect
freind & serv
t
C.B.
Coppys of l??? to
Mr
Barnaby Dunck from the
24th
of
Novembr
1679 to the
of 1680.
This is by a Beddiford vessell, named the beginning one Atkins
Mr
& being the first bound from these parts, I thought
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it necessary to giue
yu
notice of my receipt of yours of the
7th
August with the enclosed
acct
of Daniell Arthurs ballance
wch
yu
haue
recd
Capt
Phillipps, Oswold Wheatly, young
Edwd
Paine and
Capt
James Strong being arriued here from
Londo
and now your Bro: Walter is dayly expected by whome I hope to receiue a further
acct
from
yo
of the bills of
Exa
I sent
yu
by
Capt
Eueling
Comandr
of the York
Mercht
, which were duplicatts and the second Bills to those which went
wth
Capt
Sheppard both
wch
Shipps I was informed by Strong were iust arriued in the Downes as he sett saile from thence. I and my wife hold our selues much obliged to
yu
for
yor
great kindnesse and Care of our Children as also of my concernes in
yor
hands for
wch
I will endeavour to make some suitable returne in any thing wherein I can serue
yo
and
yors
By the first
Londo
vessell I will glue
yo
an answer to
yors
aboue menconed and hope to be able by Phillipps to consigne a small quantity of my Ridge tob: haueing an ambitione to send some in that lucky Shipp. Mine and my wifes kind respects to
Mada
Dunck
wth
the same to
yor
selfe I rest
Yor
Loueing Friend
Vast Cropps of Tob: made in
virga
and this Province so that
I do expect it will be a drugg; its sayd that there is made
this last Cropp in
Virga
as much as has beene in three yeares togeather and in Maryland the greatest Cropp that euer I
heard of.
Decembr
30th
1679
Mr
Dunck
This goeth by
Capt
Phillipps who this day came from Arrundell into Patuxent River and only Stayeth for this l??. On Christmas day your Brother Walter came into Patuxent
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wth
the Charles and is now going up with her to Severne from whence is expected within three dayes the Lone Oswold Wheately
Comandr
Yors
p
yor
Bro: Walter I haue
recd
for which I kindly thank
yo
and for the trouble
yo
haue in my Concernes I haue not had any Leisure as yett to pervse any of
yor
l??? so as to be able to returne that answer which I intend to make by the next opportunity and shall only now desire
yo
to take notice by this that if my howse in Southampton Buildings be not lett out that it be kept vnlett and my goods to remaine therein haueing changed my resolu??ns touching my Children whome I now resolue shall liue togeather there and to that end I am resolued to haue my Son Cecill sent for to towne hopeing by May to be with them my selfe. I am satisfied from severall hands of
yor
Care and kindnesse to them the which I pray continue towards them and also that
yo
will take Care with my other Attorneys that my Concerns now in Chancery may not suffer for want of good Councell and such necessary disbursements on them as my Seruant Richard Burke shall informe
yo
from whome
yo
will haue an
acct
of what I can but in short now hint vnto
yo
being resolued to enlarge in this and other matters when my howse is Cleere from the Crowd of people which this Christmas I haue with me. By the Crowne Malegoe I send
yo
tenn
hhads
of my Ridge Tob: which I desire
yo
will lett goe with the rest to Holland where I hope for a good markett it being good bright Tob: and Suitable to that place. Mine and my wifes respects to
yor
selfe and
Mada
Dunck I take Leave in haste—
Yor
Truely Loueing Friend—
I haue
recd
all the goods
yo
shipt and
sent me on the Charles with my
thankes for the same—
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Feb.
13th
1679
Sr
This serues Cheifly to advize
yo
that I haue drawne three bills of
Exa
all of one Tenor and date for thirty pounds three shillings sterling payable vnto
Mr
Wm
Meade or his
ordr
haueing
recd
the value thereof of
Mr
Robert Roberts which I desire you will punctually Comply with and the same place to the
acct
of
Yor
very loueing Friend
To
Mr
Barnaby Dunck
Mercht
att
St
Marie Hill
Londo
Feb.
26th
1679.
Mr
Dunck
Sr.
I haue drawne on
yo
this Day three Bills of
Exa
all of one tenor and date for the Sume of three hundred fifty fiue pounds Sterling payable att thirty day sight to
Mrs
Katharine Grudgefield or her
ordr
in part of fiue hundred pounds sterling a Legacy left her by her Bro: Thomas Nottley
Esqr
Decd
late Govenour of Maryland which Bills pray accpt and pay punctually according to
tenor
take receipt for the same and place it to the
acct
of
Yor
Loueing Friend
To
Mr
Barnaby Dunck
Mercht
att
St
Marie Hill in
Londo
41
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No. 18.
WILLIAM PENN TO CHARLES, LORD BALTIMORE.
[Indorsement.]
Wm
Pens Letter to my Lord
Baltemore of the
10th
of Aprill
1681
[Superscription.]
For my
Honord
Freind the Lord
Baltimore
Govr
&
Proprtr
of Maryland
Westminster
10th
2mo
Ap. 1681—
It haueing graciously pleas'd the King vpon divers good considerations to make me a neighbour to Mary-land, I thought it necessary to make some offer of Freindship, & give a fitt rise for a future good correspondence. I omitt the Perticulers of my pretentions, they are so kindly & amply exprest in the Kings letter & to a man of good sense, 'tis enough to be once told of the matter.
The Bearer is a Gentleman & my Kinsman, to whom I haue left the manage of my affaires; as his integrety will insist vpon my right, his prudence & experience will always guide him from an indecent thing. I only begg one thing 'tis short but the text of all
tht
can be said, do to me as thou wouldest be done to. I am a strainger in the affaires of the Country, he can haue little light from me, I do so much depend vpon the influence & prevalence The Kings goodness will haue vpon thee,
tht
I omitt to be any further solicitous, belieueing
tht
a great & prudent man, will always act
wth
caution & obedience to the mind of his Prince; so
tht
this
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lettr
was rather to be civil, then to pass so ill a
complemt
vpon the Lord Baltimore, or the Kings letter, as to think it could giue any aide to the one, or light to the other.
I shall conclude
wth
this request that It would please thee to giue my Cousen & Deputy all the dispatch possible in the business of the bounds
tht
obserueing our just limitts in
tht
& all other things we may begin & mantaine our Just & freindly intercourse
wch
I do here promess to endeavour & obserue on my part
wth
all the truth & care Imaginable; & whateuer favours he receiues, I shall place to my account; & perhaps there are many ways by
wch
I may discharge them,
wch
may giue the Lord Baltimore reason to belieue I do not undeserue the usage & quality of his
Very true Freind
My Respects to thy lady
WM
Penn.
My Kinsmans name is William Markham.
No. 19.
WILLIAM PENN TO FRISBY, JONES, AND OTHERS.
[Indorsement.]
Wm
Penn's L?? of
the
16th
7ber
1681 to
some Inhabitants
of Baltemore County
and Cecill County.
[Superscription.]
For James Frisby,
Edwd
Jones, August
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Herman George
Ouldfeild, Henry
Ward & Henry
Johnson at their
Plantations in
Penn-Sylvania
[Indorsement.]
received this
letr
out of
the
hands of
Jno
Highland comming
from
Syr
Wm
Penn from London,
with
Mr
Haige, at my house in
Bohe?.
manor
the 14. January
Ao
168½ into my Custody.
Seal.
Penn
Arms.
Teste
Augustine Herrman
—
London
16th
7
bre
1681
My Freinds
I hope I do not improperly call you so, because in being so, you will extreamly befreind your selues, as well as perform an act of Duty to the King & Justice to me.
I am equally a strainger to you all, but
yr
being represented men of substance & reputation in
tht
part of the bay,
wch
I presume falls within my Pattent, I chose to take this opertunity to begin our acquaintance & by you
wth
the rest of the people on
yr
side of my Country & do assure you & them,
tht
I will be so farr from takeing any advantage to draw great proffits to my selfe,
tht
you shall find me & my
govermt
easy free & Just and as you shall study to be faire & respectfull to me & my Just Interests, I will not be short of giueing you all reasonable assurances on my part
tht
I will liue kindly & well
wth
you & for this you haue my word under my hand. I think fitt to Caution you, (if within my bounds, as I am ready
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to believe, but I desire no more then my own)
tht
none of you pay any more Taxes or
Sessmts
by any order or law of Maryland; for if you do, it will be greatly to your own wrong as well as my prejudice; though I am not conscious to my selfe of such an insufficiency of
powr
here
wth
my Superiors as not to be able to weather
tht
difficulty if you should. But the opinion I haue of the Lord Baltimores Prudence as well as Justice & of your regard to your own Interests & future good of your Posterity, makes me to waue all objections of
tht
nature & to hope we shall all do the thing
tht
is Just & honest (
wch
is allways wise) according to our respectiue stations. I have no more to add, but my good wishes for all
yr
happiness, &
tht
by the help of Almighty god, next Spring, you shall haue some testemony of my best endeavours to contribute towards it, as becomes my Duty to god, to the King & to their people. I am
Pray Salute me to
all
yr
Neighbours
Your Reall Frd:
WM
Penn.
No. 20.
WILLIAM PENN TO CHARLES, LORD BALTIMORE.
12 March 168⅔
l?? to me from
Mr
Pen
being in to the
Ld
Baltemores
of the
24th
of
Janur
1682
My Noble Freind
I must needs hold my selfe obleidged to thee for the Civil Reception I found in Maryland as well as
tht
respect
tht
was
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shown by the last express, the news it brought gave Credit to a Rumer I was unwilling to receive, I mean the death of thy Uncle, a man of Prudence & Ingeneous Conversation. It is a Sermon of Mortality, & so much vigor to be so soon vanisht, shows
wt
fraile things we are, & how little we act the wise & the good men to persue
wth
stifness a comfort
tht
cannot keep us Company further then the grave.
My many & urgent businesses would not give me leave to send the Inclosed sooner, I hope the delay has proved no manner of disappointment to thee of an Apology in this affaire I will say no more till we meet. A Story came the other day to my Ears that the Lord Baltimore was
wth
Capt
Conway at
Capt
Wards, their takeing an observation, as also up the Sasquehanagh River; but I gave no Credit to it, takeing it for graunted That I should have had notice of so neer an approach from the Lord baltimores order, the thing being of
tht
moment & in me disrespectfull had I had reason to have beleived it, not to have waited vpon him, & he so neer. I hope by the end of this month, to have some prospect when I may attend thee (the
Genll
Assembly sitting at this time) I am extreamly desireous to yeild in all points not essentially distructive to my right, & the great & Costly merrits of my Cause, resolveing
wth
much care & affection to approve my selfe
Thy very Loveing
Neighbour & True Frd:
Wm. Penn.
My Respects
to thy lady
Philadelphia
12th
1mo
83
The narrative inclosed to me had its defects
wch
our
2d
intervew may help
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No. 21.
WILLIAM PENN TO CHARLES, LORD BALTIMORE.
[Indorsement.]
Mr
Penns L?? of the
30th
May (83) to the
Lord Baltemore
My Noble
Frd
Major Sawyer being yet behind, I embrace the opertunity to recommend to the Lord Baltimore thos divers amicable proposals & expedients that I offerd to him for an happy issue of our present affaire. This is so necessary to me, & of
tht
mighty moment, (both
wth
respect to the plantation of
yr
side of my Country,
wth
a number of people ready to seat it) The
injoymt
of my famely (a comfort inestimable here below) now at a great distance, & must so remaine till this dispute be ended) & finally the
settlemt
of my heirs in an undisturbed Right before I dye. That he will excuse my importunity for his Speedy & final resolve; haveing upon serious thoughts, determined
wth
myselfe, to embarque for England by the first Conveniency. If the Lord Baltimore is not pleased to receive any of the former proposals; much more If he should continue to think of any claime to any of thes Lower Countys. And this I thought fitt to mention, because I would not be often troublesome to the
Ld
Baltimore & his people
wth
expresses in this hot season of the year. I have no more to add, but that I hope the Lord Baltimore will please to impute the meanness of his
entertainmt
to the unexpectedness of the occasion, &
tht
he will give me leave to assure him I am
wth
much sincerity & affection.
My Noble
Frd
Newcastle the
30.
3mo
83
Thy very
Resptll
Frd
WM
Penn
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No. 22.
WILLIAM PENN TO CHARLES, LORD BALTIMORE.
[Indorsement.]
6th
of June 1683
Wm
Penns L?? to the
Lord Baltemore
My Noble
Frd
If vpon my arrival in this Province, I did immediately dispatch my Secretary with two other gentlemen to Salute the Lord Baltimore & assure him of my respects & frdshp's If so soon as I had pay'd my duty to my Royall Patrone the Duke, I did incontinently take a longe Journy in a cold and unpleasant season,
tht
I might personally give him the further Pledges, of a freindly agreement & neighbourhood. And if I did then therefore wave to press myn own Advantages, because I found it uneasy to him; And lastly, if in my after Correspondences, and especially as our last intervew, I have declined the rigour of my plea & both propos'd and prest some of the mildest & most healing expedients
tht
if possible, we might, be the last Arbitrators of our own affaires without the need of an other umpire, then the good will we ought to bear to a mutual & lasting union, The Lord Baltimore, I would think, will be so kinde as to lett me hope, he will pardon me if I stop here, & shall hold myself acquitted by the endeavours I have used,
wth
so much Industry & submission, for a freindly Issue. And if there were anything below what I have already offer'd besides Ruine to my Province, God is both my wittness & my Judge, I should be but too apt to encline.
My Noble
Frd
I am not mov'd by the power of Ambition or Avarice; It is Conveniency yea necessity
tht
bids me
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stand. I deal freely. I have outrun all Councels,
tht
I might purchase peace, tho' with loss; but
wth
distruction, even nature & Reason forbid. What I seek be it myn own, & so my due; or the Lord
Baltimr
& as such, if he please, my Purchass, It is of
tht
minute Consequence to him & mighty moment to me, because to his Country the Tale or Skirt, to my Province the Mouth or Inlett, that the disproportion of the vallue & Conveniency
tht
it beares to either of us, will defend, at least, indulge my greater Importunity; And yet while the advantage seems to be mine, It is most manefest it will be greatly his proffitt to comply; since it will lay his Province between two planted Countrys, And the People transporting themselves to Pennsilvania in Ships consign'd to Maryland and thos ships yearly bringing such englesh goods as we shall want, will naturally draw our people into his Province to furnish themselves, & to make Maryland the Mark of english Trade, at least for many yeares.
What shall I say, My Noble Freind, if the powerfull charmes of interest, if the Love of good neighbourhood, if
tht
wch
is always to be prefer'd,
wth
Persons of the Lord Baltimores Loyalty, I mean Duty to the King, prevale, I must yet promess myselfe an agreement in some faire & happy expedient, & lay by (
wch
shall be
wth
delight) the thoughts of an englesh voyage,
tht
else, the state of my affaires here, & of my famely there, will of necessity obleidge me to &
tht
speedely.
I shall end
wth
this assurance
wch
I have often Given, and shall most religiously observe, that I shall sincerely embrace all occasions by
wch
I may approve my selfe
My Noble
Frd
Thy very Firme
& Affect.
Frd
&
Neighr
Philadelphia
6th
4mo
Jn
83.
WM
Penn
42
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No. 23.
CHARLES, LORD BALTIMORE, TO WM. MARKHAM.
[Indorsement.]
His
Lorpps
Letter to Markham
of the
5th
of June 1682.
Munday the
5th
of June 1682
Sr
I haue receiud
yors
of the
26th
of the last month and am Sorry it came noe sooner to my hands for I haue dispatcht some Gentlemen away to meet you at the time Appointed and therefore am no wise willing to put of this buisnesse of the ascertaining the bounds betwixt
Mr
Pen and me There are many Reasons to be giuen by me for it but at present shall only offer you these two, ffirst that by a letter from his Most sacred Maiesty procured and sent by the said Penn I am Commanded to joyne with
Mr
Penn or his Agents for the speedy settling our bounds and then
Mr
Penns owne letter which you brought me prest very much the same thing; Secondly that
Mr
Penn the last shipping writt and sent in a letter to seuerall Gentlemen of note that are Certainly within my Prouince as
Mr
Augustin Herman
Captn
Ward, Coll Wells &c hinting to them that he was confident they would come within his
Gouermt
a thing not kindly taken and to be plaine not according to the Goulden rule mentioned in
Mr
Penns Letter to me,
Doe to thy neighbor as thou wouldst he should doe to thee
Now certainly such proceedings were not Neighbour like and when I haue the happiness to see my friend I must be plaine
wth
him as to that point for as I desire noe more then my due soe I take it very vnkindly that some of the Inhabitants vp the Bay should be soe Posest as
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they haue been by
tht
Letter of
Mr
William Penns—ffor these reasons
Sr
I must begg leaue to say I will not admitt of any further delay you well knowing
tht
yor
Late sickness has bin the only hinderance hitherto. Let me therfore now presse you to send persons qualified and equally impowr'd
wth
those persons who on my part are already gon and will be in all probability with you afore this will arriue at your hands I haueing Possitiuely orderd them to request the same from you on the behalfe of
Yor
faithfull friend &
Serut
C. B:
Superscription
To the
Hoble
Capn
Wm
Markham
Gour
of Pensiluania
hast hast Post hast.