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GEORGE CALVERT'S RETIREMENT.
41
CHARLES I.
dictates of his conscience; and voluntarily associated his fortunes with a
church in the minority, laboring under disabilities, and the object of popular
odium. Few recorded changes of faith bear more convincing marks of
sincerity.
Calvert was consistent and reasonable, his opinions moderate, the tenor
of his life such that he had few enemies, and was entangled but little with
parties in his latter years. Before his conversion he
had been a successful aspirant to political station-
and had filled every position with honor and ability.
His services to King James were considered of high
value by that monarch, who relied upon him in his
hours of,need to retrace the evil steps he had taken,
and defend him before his unruly Parliament, and
this favor of the king towards the man who had
served him so faithfully throughout the troubles of
the Spanish negotiation did not forsake him after his
change of religion. But there was another feeling
which may have tended to secure Calvert in his con-
t^ujjTjCf. of the, king's favor. It was necessary to obtain the aid of the
Catholicsjnjgsjsiin^^ the Independents, who were becoming
^Jjl-IM^- pQAvej^ul4-a,nxLtha--CQnversion of Calyert_ presented a favorable
Ojpjp^rfanity_jiL irepressing,,JipoiL^lej4mg_jnan_J^^ 1 recol 1 action of
his kindnjsss.
After Lord Baltimore's resignation of the secretaryship, he proposed to
visit his colony in Newfoundland, as we learn from a letter of April 9th, 1625,
which says: "It is said the Lord Baltimore is now a professed Papist; was
going to Newfoundland and is stayed."1 Blackstone in his Commentaries
upon the law, " Of the Eights of Persons," Book L, chapter 7, section 265,
says, the king has the right "whenever-he sees proper, of confining his subjects
to stay within the realm, or of recalling them when beyond the seas."
Lord Baltimore, however, was still in favor with Charles I., and was the
next year called from his retirement in Ireland, to be employed at Brussels
in a treaty,of peace. It was announced by a London correspondent, under
date of March 2d,, 1626, that "the talk of divers great commissioners to go
over about a treaty of peace, stillholds, and Sir George Calvert, sent for out
of Ireland for that; service, is now come, and on Tuesday rode with the
Duke's grace toward the Court." He did not, for some reason, go to
Brussels, and being disengaged from, his many previous duties, he had now
leisure to mature his project of visiting his colony. On the 7th of April,
1627, he wrote from his lodgings in the Surrey to Edward Nicholas, secretary of the Duke of Buckingham, for the speedy despatch of the warrant
for his ships, the Arh, of Avalon, one hundred and sixty tons burden, and
the George, of Plymouth, one hundred and forty tons, to be exempted from
1 Terra. Marice, p. 36.
| Title | History of Maryland - 1 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000066 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | GEORGE CALVERT'S RETIREMENT. 41 CHARLES I. dictates of his conscience; and voluntarily associated his fortunes with a church in the minority, laboring under disabilities, and the object of popular odium. Few recorded changes of faith bear more convincing marks of sincerity. Calvert was consistent and reasonable, his opinions moderate, the tenor of his life such that he had few enemies, and was entangled but little with parties in his latter years. Before his conversion he had been a successful aspirant to political station- and had filled every position with honor and ability. His services to King James were considered of high value by that monarch, who relied upon him in his hours of,need to retrace the evil steps he had taken, and defend him before his unruly Parliament, and this favor of the king towards the man who had served him so faithfully throughout the troubles of the Spanish negotiation did not forsake him after his change of religion. But there was another feeling which may have tended to secure Calvert in his con- t^ujjTjCf. of the, king's favor. It was necessary to obtain the aid of the Catholicsjnjgsjsiin^^ the Independents, who were becoming ^Jjl-IM^- pQAvej^ul4-a,nxLtha--CQnversion of Calyert_ presented a favorable Ojpjp^rfanity_jiL irepressing,,JipoiL^lej4mg_jnan_J^^ 1 recol 1 action of his kindnjsss. After Lord Baltimore's resignation of the secretaryship, he proposed to visit his colony in Newfoundland, as we learn from a letter of April 9th, 1625, which says: "It is said the Lord Baltimore is now a professed Papist; was going to Newfoundland and is stayed."1 Blackstone in his Commentaries upon the law, " Of the Eights of Persons," Book L, chapter 7, section 265, says, the king has the right "whenever-he sees proper, of confining his subjects to stay within the realm, or of recalling them when beyond the seas." Lord Baltimore, however, was still in favor with Charles I., and was the next year called from his retirement in Ireland, to be employed at Brussels in a treaty,of peace. It was announced by a London correspondent, under date of March 2d,, 1626, that "the talk of divers great commissioners to go over about a treaty of peace, stillholds, and Sir George Calvert, sent for out of Ireland for that; service, is now come, and on Tuesday rode with the Duke's grace toward the Court." He did not, for some reason, go to Brussels, and being disengaged from, his many previous duties, he had now leisure to mature his project of visiting his colony. On the 7th of April, 1627, he wrote from his lodgings in the Surrey to Edward Nicholas, secretary of the Duke of Buckingham, for the speedy despatch of the warrant for his ships, the Arh, of Avalon, one hundred and sixty tons burden, and the George, of Plymouth, one hundred and forty tons, to be exempted from 1 Terra. Marice, p. 36. |
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