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CHAPTER III.
Cjeoilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, having obtained the
charter of Maryland, hastened to avail himself of his grant, and began his
preparations for assembling and transporting a colony.1 It was his original
design to accompany the expedition in person, but he abandoned this intention,
and confided the settlement to his younger brothers, Leonard and George/
constituting the former lieutenant-governor, or general. (As the great object
perhaps was to provide a refuge from persecution for those of the faith then
proscribed in England, a great part of the original emigrants were Eoman
Catholics^ They had been for years the objects of increased dread and
antipathy to all classes of their fellow subjects, and had experienced from the
English government a progressive severity of persecution^ Upon every side
in England, at this time, men's minds were disturbed by notes of alarm.
Among the loudest and most vehement of these was the clamour which the
Puritans were raising against the policy of the English court toward the
Eoman church. The extreme dread and hatred of this church for which
they were always conspicuous, had been exacerbated by the proceedings
connected with the proposed marriage of Charles, when Prince of Wales,
.with the Infanta of Spain, and afterwards by those which attended his actual
marriage with Henrietta Maria, of France. ) The union of a Protestant king
of Protestant England, with a Catholic princess, daughter of a powerful
monarch, who was actively hostile to the form of Protestantism which existed
in his own dominions, seemed to their minds ominous of mischief, and these
feelings of mistrust and apprehension, over which they had long been brooding, were quickened by the extraordinary grant to a Catholic proprietor of an
important territory in America, investing him at the same time with the
amplest powers which a royal charter could confer.
Yet their apprehensions were unfounded. If, at any time, from motives
of humanity or a regard for the feelings of the queen, Charles seemed inclined
to a less rigorous execution of the statutes against recusants and nonconformists, such seeming moderation was usually but the precursor of some public
and signal proof of his orthodoxy and of his subserviency to the intolerant
spirit in which the disabling statutes had been enacted. He knew that he
1 After Lord Baltimore obtained the charter from Caecilius, Lord Baltimore, his interests
for Maryland he still retained his property at there, which he refused to part with. Notwith-
Avalon, and governed his little colony by depu- standing this, Sir David Kirk lived there until
ties. About the year 1654 Sir Davia Kirk, an his death, and gave his name to a sound a short
English nobleman, determined to remove to distance from Cape Breton.—Oldmixon, i., p. 11.
Newfoundland, and made an effort to purchase
| 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 | 00000088 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | CHAPTER III. Cjeoilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, having obtained the charter of Maryland, hastened to avail himself of his grant, and began his preparations for assembling and transporting a colony.1 It was his original design to accompany the expedition in person, but he abandoned this intention, and confided the settlement to his younger brothers, Leonard and George/ constituting the former lieutenant-governor, or general. (As the great object perhaps was to provide a refuge from persecution for those of the faith then proscribed in England, a great part of the original emigrants were Eoman Catholics^ They had been for years the objects of increased dread and antipathy to all classes of their fellow subjects, and had experienced from the English government a progressive severity of persecution^ Upon every side in England, at this time, men's minds were disturbed by notes of alarm. Among the loudest and most vehement of these was the clamour which the Puritans were raising against the policy of the English court toward the Eoman church. The extreme dread and hatred of this church for which they were always conspicuous, had been exacerbated by the proceedings connected with the proposed marriage of Charles, when Prince of Wales, .with the Infanta of Spain, and afterwards by those which attended his actual marriage with Henrietta Maria, of France. ) The union of a Protestant king of Protestant England, with a Catholic princess, daughter of a powerful monarch, who was actively hostile to the form of Protestantism which existed in his own dominions, seemed to their minds ominous of mischief, and these feelings of mistrust and apprehension, over which they had long been brooding, were quickened by the extraordinary grant to a Catholic proprietor of an important territory in America, investing him at the same time with the amplest powers which a royal charter could confer. Yet their apprehensions were unfounded. If, at any time, from motives of humanity or a regard for the feelings of the queen, Charles seemed inclined to a less rigorous execution of the statutes against recusants and nonconformists, such seeming moderation was usually but the precursor of some public and signal proof of his orthodoxy and of his subserviency to the intolerant spirit in which the disabling statutes had been enacted. He knew that he 1 After Lord Baltimore obtained the charter from Caecilius, Lord Baltimore, his interests for Maryland he still retained his property at there, which he refused to part with. Notwith- Avalon, and governed his little colony by depu- standing this, Sir David Kirk lived there until ties. About the year 1654 Sir Davia Kirk, an his death, and gave his name to a sound a short English nobleman, determined to remove to distance from Cape Breton.—Oldmixon, i., p. 11. Newfoundland, and made an effort to purchase |
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