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trato^rs as if I my selfe had bene present & had signed &
sealed the same. Gyuen vnder my hand & scale att Armes,
att Hook, this 15^th Nouemb^r Ano Dni 1646 Sig.
C: Baltemore

Liber A.

Ordinance for Maryland
L Baltimore
To bee sent to H. Comons

The Lords and Comons nowe in Parlyam^t assembled being
informed by the Comissioners for forraigne Plantations, that
many of the Inhabitants of Maryland in America haue pe-
ticoned against the oppressions they haue vndergone vnder
the Tyrannicall goverment of that Province, since its first
setling by Recusants, whoe haue not only seduced but forced
many of his Ma^ts subiects from their religion, and that the said
Comissioners had considered of the Lres Patents graunted by
his Ma^tie in the ight yeare of his Raigne to Cecill Caluert
Baron of Baltimore concerning the said Mary land, and of his
deputing of Leonard Caluerte to bee Governor there vnder
him, whoe receiued a Comission from Oxford to seize such
persons, ships and goods as belonged to any of London, which
the said Caluert and his Agents registered and proclaymed in
Virginia, and endeavoured to execute in Maryland, and that
one Brent the Deputy Governor had actually seized vppon a
ship employed vnder the Parlyament, because shee was of
London, and then tampered with the ships Company to take
an oath against the Parlyam^t and to carry the said ship to
Bristoll then in hostility against the Parlyament : The said
Lords and Comons taking the same into Consideration doe
order ordaine and declare, That the said Cecill Caluert Lord
of Baltimore hath wickedly broken the trust reposed in him by
the said Lres Patents, and that it is convenient and necessary
that the said Lres Patents bee repealed and made voyde, and
doe hereby repeale the same accordingly and order and
ordaine that the said Cecill Caluert and Leonard Caluerte the
said Governor by him appointed, and the said Brent the
Deputy Governor, and all other Officers of the said Calverts
appointment bee removed and displaced; And that the said
Comission^rs for forraigne Plantations doe take care according
to the trust in them reposed to nominate and appoint an able
Governor and other fitt Officers of the Protestant Religion and
well affected to the Parlyament to hold and execute the said
respectiue Offices and places in the roome and stead of the said
Cecill Caluert Leonard Calvert Brent and other the
Ministers hereby remoued And Bee it ordayned that aswell
the said newe Governor, and all other Officers soe to bee ap-

House of
Lords
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