to adventurers and an authentic copy of such conditions by us signed and transmitted into our said Province for every five men which he or they shall so transport thither and to his or her heires forever a grant of one thousand acres of English measure for the yearly rent of twenty shillings to be paid in the commodities of the country for every such thousand acres and to every other Adventurer which within the time next aforementioned hath or shall transport any number of persons less than five a grant of one hundred acres of land for him or herself and one hundred more for and in respect of his wife (if he brought any) and as much for and in respect of every man servant and fifty acres more for and in respect of every child under the age of sixteen years and for and in respect of every maid servant under the age of fourty years which he or she hath or shall so transport thither and to his or her heires forever for the yearly rent of twelve pence for every fifty acres.     And We do further Will and authorize you that every two thousand acres, and every three thousand acres, and every one thousand acres of land so to be passed or granted as aforesaid unto any Adventurer or Adventurers, be erected and created into a mannor to be called by such name as the Adventurer or Adventurers shall desire.     And We do hereby further authorize you that you cause to be granted unto every of the said Adventurers within every of their said mannors respectively, and to his or their heires a Court Barron and Court Leet, to be from time to time held within every such mannor respectively. And to the end you may the better be informed in what manner to pass every such grant, Court and Courts as aforesaid, according to our intention Wee have sent unto you, under our hand and seal a draught of a grant of a Mannor Court Leet and Court Barron, and a grant of a Freehold, which presidents you are to follow, changeing only the Adventurers names, the rents and Conditions of Plantation as the case shall require; for doing whereof this shall be your Sufficient Warrant, So we bid you heartily farewell. Given at Portsmouth, the eighth of August, 1636.                 Signed                 C. BALTIMORE. To our dear Brother Leonard Calvert, Esq.         and our Lieutenant Generall of the         Province of Maryland, or to any other our         Lieut. Generall there for the time being."         LIB. A. B. and H. folio 61, &c. ¾     By this Instrument, which is in part retrospective, and confirmatory of the former conditions, it may be perceived