of tobacco and caske"; "that upon the death of Mr.Robte Sly there is a reliefe due to the lord and that Mr.Gerard Sly is his next heire, who hath sworne fealty accordingly,"[19] [Footnote 19: John Johnson, _Old Maryland Manors_ (Johns Hopkins University _Studies_, I, no, 7, Baltimore, 1883), pp.

31-38.] St.Clement's was probably almost unique in its perseverance as a true manor; and it probably discarded its medieval machinery not long after the end of the existing record.

In general, since public land was to be had virtually free in reward for immigration whether in freedom or service, most of the so-called manors doubtless procured neither leaseholders nor essoines nor any other sort of tenants, and those of them which survived as estates found their salvation in becoming private plantations with servant and slave gangs tilling their tobacco fields.

In short, the Maryland manors began and ended much as the Virginia particular plantations had done before them.

Maryland on the whole assumed the features of her elder sister.