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RELIGIOUS TOLERATION. 153
encouraged a great number, not only of the Church of England, of Presbyterians, Quakers, and all kinds of dissenters, to settle in Maryland, which
before that time, was almost wholly in the hands of Roman Catholics.
When, upon the revolution, power changed hands in the province, the new
men made but an indifferent requital for the liberties and indulgences they
had enjoyed under the old administration. They not only deprived the
harmless Catholics of all share in government, and of all the rights of freemen, but they even adopted the whole body of the penal laws of England
against them."
Douglass, in his Summary, vol. ii, London, 1760, says: " Upon a new
royal regulation in Virginia, several families went over from England to
settle there; amongst them was Lord Baltimore, a rigid Roman Catholic;
for the advantage of a more full exercise of his religion he retired
thither."
The article "Maryland" in the Modern Universal History, published in
London in 1780, has the following account of the motives and objects of our
colonists: " The Lord Baltimore, who was of the Roman Catholic religion,
and had obtained the grant to be an asylum to himself and those of his
persuasion from the persecutions of the times, appointed his brother Lionel
[Leonard,] Calvert, governor of his new colony, etc. The first plantations,
consisting of about two hundred colonists, were sent thither in 1633, chiefly,
if not wholly Roman Catholics, many of them gentlemen of fortune; and,
like the Protestants of New England, their settlement was founded upon a
strong desire for the unmolested practice of their own religion."
In addition to this testimony, we have public documents which prove
that these motives were admitted in Maryland.
About the year 1751 the policy of requiring Catholics to pay on their lands
double the amount of taxes exacted from the Protestant inhabitants, was
first introduced. On this occasion, among other efforts to protect themselves
from this unreasonable and unjust imposition, they addressed a petition to
the governor, which contains the following passage:
" Many Roman Catholic gentlemen, of good and ancient families in - the
kingdoms of England and Ireland, and many others of lesser note, to avoid
the penal laws in force in their native countries, and other vexations to which
they were liable at home, quitted their countries, their friends and relations,
and everything dear to them, to enjoy these privileges, that freedom, liberty,
and equality in everything here, especially a full liberty of conscience, and
to that end only transported themselves into this province." And in another
place, in the same petition, they say: " For the province being granted to a
Roman Catholic, the act concerning religion having passed, etc., the Roman
Catholics looked upon Maryland as an asylum and place of rest for themselves and their posterity."
cAt a later date, 1758, the Upper House of Assembly refused to require
the'double tax from Catholics, and among other reasons gave the following:
| 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 | 00000178 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | RELIGIOUS TOLERATION. 153 encouraged a great number, not only of the Church of England, of Presbyterians, Quakers, and all kinds of dissenters, to settle in Maryland, which before that time, was almost wholly in the hands of Roman Catholics. When, upon the revolution, power changed hands in the province, the new men made but an indifferent requital for the liberties and indulgences they had enjoyed under the old administration. They not only deprived the harmless Catholics of all share in government, and of all the rights of freemen, but they even adopted the whole body of the penal laws of England against them." Douglass, in his Summary, vol. ii, London, 1760, says: " Upon a new royal regulation in Virginia, several families went over from England to settle there; amongst them was Lord Baltimore, a rigid Roman Catholic; for the advantage of a more full exercise of his religion he retired thither." The article "Maryland" in the Modern Universal History, published in London in 1780, has the following account of the motives and objects of our colonists: " The Lord Baltimore, who was of the Roman Catholic religion, and had obtained the grant to be an asylum to himself and those of his persuasion from the persecutions of the times, appointed his brother Lionel [Leonard,] Calvert, governor of his new colony, etc. The first plantations, consisting of about two hundred colonists, were sent thither in 1633, chiefly, if not wholly Roman Catholics, many of them gentlemen of fortune; and, like the Protestants of New England, their settlement was founded upon a strong desire for the unmolested practice of their own religion." In addition to this testimony, we have public documents which prove that these motives were admitted in Maryland. About the year 1751 the policy of requiring Catholics to pay on their lands double the amount of taxes exacted from the Protestant inhabitants, was first introduced. On this occasion, among other efforts to protect themselves from this unreasonable and unjust imposition, they addressed a petition to the governor, which contains the following passage: " Many Roman Catholic gentlemen, of good and ancient families in - the kingdoms of England and Ireland, and many others of lesser note, to avoid the penal laws in force in their native countries, and other vexations to which they were liable at home, quitted their countries, their friends and relations, and everything dear to them, to enjoy these privileges, that freedom, liberty, and equality in everything here, especially a full liberty of conscience, and to that end only transported themselves into this province." And in another place, in the same petition, they say: " For the province being granted to a Roman Catholic, the act concerning religion having passed, etc., the Roman Catholics looked upon Maryland as an asylum and place of rest for themselves and their posterity." cAt a later date, 1758, the Upper House of Assembly refused to require the'double tax from Catholics, and among other reasons gave the following: |
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