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LORD BALTIMORE RETURNS TO ENGLAND. 49
who would not acknowledge all the prerogatives of his majesty, and asked
him to depart in the next ship. Before his departure he must have been
treated rather rudely, for we find that in the beginning of the next year,
some persons who had insulted him were brought to justice. A record of
March 25th, 1630, (0. S.), reads: "Thomas Tindall to be pilloried two
hours for giving my Lord Baltimore the lie and threatening to knock
him down."1
Disappointed in finding a residence among the Virginians, but not
discouraged, Lord Baltimore turned his attention and his hopes to the
neighboring territory. Then it was that his eyes were cast upon the
region along the Chesapeake Bay, as yet unsettled, and by the amenity
of its situation and the fertility of its resources, inviting him to its
inspection. Here, if he could but obtain a grant from the crown, he
might retreat to his own territory, and, under his own government, build
up in the wilderness a home for religious freedom. Having determined
on his course, Lord Baltimore left his wife and some of his children by
her in Virginia, and embarked for England. Arriving there, he found
that the king had written the letter of November 22d, 1629, advising
him to "desist from further prosecuting his designs and to return to
his native country," and, for the first time, he also heard of the remonstrance of the Virginia commissioners.
The king's friendship for Baltimore was not impaired by any reports from
Virginia, as appears from the application of his Lordship, in December, 1629,
to the Privy Council:
" That your Lordship would be pleased to procure me a letter from my Lords of the
Council to the Governor of Virginia in favor of my wife now there, that he would afford
her his best assistance upon her return into England in all things reasonable for her
accommodation, in her passage and for recovery of any debts due unto me in Virginia,
or for disposing of her servants according to the custom of the country2 if she shall think
fit'to leave any behind her or upon any other occasion, wherein she may have use of his
lawful favor.
" Moreover that your Lordship would be pleased to move his Majesty that whereas
upon my humble suit unto him from Newfoundland for a proportion to be granted unto
me in Virginia, he was graciously pleased to signify by Sir Francis Cottington that I
should have any part not already granted, that his Majesty would give me leave to
choose such a part now, and to pass it unto me, with the like power and privileges as the
King his father of happy memory did grant me that precinct in Newfoundland, and I
shall contribute my best endeavors, with the rest of his loyal subjects, to enlarge his
Empire in that part of the world, by such gentlemen and others, as will adventure to
join with me, though I go not myself in person."
1 Henning's Virginia Statutes, i., p. 552. Mr. a This phrase, "according to the custom of
Bozman, (Vol. i., p. 255), argues, with consider- the country," would seem to show that Balti-
able force, that the charter of Virginia having more took his idea of the " redemptioner"
been annulled, and the assembly itself being an system from Virginia. The phrase constantly
uncommissioned, self-constituted body, it had occurs in the laws of the province, and seems
no legal right to tender these oaths to Balti- to have become a legal technicality,
more.
| 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 | 00000074 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | LORD BALTIMORE RETURNS TO ENGLAND. 49 who would not acknowledge all the prerogatives of his majesty, and asked him to depart in the next ship. Before his departure he must have been treated rather rudely, for we find that in the beginning of the next year, some persons who had insulted him were brought to justice. A record of March 25th, 1630, (0. S.), reads: "Thomas Tindall to be pilloried two hours for giving my Lord Baltimore the lie and threatening to knock him down."1 Disappointed in finding a residence among the Virginians, but not discouraged, Lord Baltimore turned his attention and his hopes to the neighboring territory. Then it was that his eyes were cast upon the region along the Chesapeake Bay, as yet unsettled, and by the amenity of its situation and the fertility of its resources, inviting him to its inspection. Here, if he could but obtain a grant from the crown, he might retreat to his own territory, and, under his own government, build up in the wilderness a home for religious freedom. Having determined on his course, Lord Baltimore left his wife and some of his children by her in Virginia, and embarked for England. Arriving there, he found that the king had written the letter of November 22d, 1629, advising him to "desist from further prosecuting his designs and to return to his native country," and, for the first time, he also heard of the remonstrance of the Virginia commissioners. The king's friendship for Baltimore was not impaired by any reports from Virginia, as appears from the application of his Lordship, in December, 1629, to the Privy Council: " That your Lordship would be pleased to procure me a letter from my Lords of the Council to the Governor of Virginia in favor of my wife now there, that he would afford her his best assistance upon her return into England in all things reasonable for her accommodation, in her passage and for recovery of any debts due unto me in Virginia, or for disposing of her servants according to the custom of the country2 if she shall think fit'to leave any behind her or upon any other occasion, wherein she may have use of his lawful favor. " Moreover that your Lordship would be pleased to move his Majesty that whereas upon my humble suit unto him from Newfoundland for a proportion to be granted unto me in Virginia, he was graciously pleased to signify by Sir Francis Cottington that I should have any part not already granted, that his Majesty would give me leave to choose such a part now, and to pass it unto me, with the like power and privileges as the King his father of happy memory did grant me that precinct in Newfoundland, and I shall contribute my best endeavors, with the rest of his loyal subjects, to enlarge his Empire in that part of the world, by such gentlemen and others, as will adventure to join with me, though I go not myself in person." 1 Henning's Virginia Statutes, i., p. 552. Mr. a This phrase, "according to the custom of Bozman, (Vol. i., p. 255), argues, with consider- the country," would seem to show that Balti- able force, that the charter of Virginia having more took his idea of the " redemptioner" been annulled, and the assembly itself being an system from Virginia. The phrase constantly uncommissioned, self-constituted body, it had occurs in the laws of the province, and seems no legal right to tender these oaths to Balti- to have become a legal technicality, more. |
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