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CHAPTEK XIV.
Upon the death of Queen Anne, in August, 1714, official notification" of
the accession of George I. was sent to the colonies, but the vessel bearing the
despatches being shipwrecked, they never came to hand. Of all the plantations thus left without formal notice of the change of dynasty in the mother
country, Maryland alone thought herself bound " by the laws of God and
man," to declare by Act of Assembly that, " on the dissolution of Anne, of
pious memory, George was, and of right ought to be, by the laws of the realm
of Great Britain, our sovereign liege lord."
Scarcely was the new monarch seated on the throne, wrhen the second
attack upon the charters of the colonies was made in parliament. In the
same month of August, Sir Edward Northey declared
that "the mischiefs in proprietary governments cannot
be remedied but by an act of parliament, since they
have power to make laws by their charters, which
cannot be regulated but by an act of the supreme
legislature." The Board of Trade, being informed
that eight of the twelve colonies enjoyed real independence under chartered forms, advised " that, since
neither Carolina nor Maryland, Connecticut nor Khode
Island, were obliged to submit their laws to royal
revision, an act of parliament was necessary to compel
them to do that, without which it was impossible to
enforce their submission ;" and to carry out this purpose, a bill was brought
in the House early in the next year for regulating charter governments. A
petition was immediately presented, in the name of the youthful Lord Baltimore, stating that he and his brothers and sisters were Protestants, and that
upon their revenues from Maryland they depended for their support, and
praying that his province might be spared. The other colonies also made
a vigorous opposition to a measure so threatening to their interests and their
independence.
This change of faith in the Calvert family had probably been the result
rather of policy than conviction. On the death of Charles, the* third Lord
Baltimore, his son, Benedict Leonard Calvert, succeeded to the title and his
possessions in Maryland. From 1692, down to this time, the powers of the
proprietary government had been withheld from the Calverts because of their
adhesion to the Catholic faith; and as the inhabitants of the colony were for
the most part Protestants, they willingly concurred in the policy of the crown,
which, while it protected the proprietary in the enjoyment of his private
rights and revenues, denied him the government of his province.
| 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 | 00000405 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | CHAPTEK XIV. Upon the death of Queen Anne, in August, 1714, official notification" of the accession of George I. was sent to the colonies, but the vessel bearing the despatches being shipwrecked, they never came to hand. Of all the plantations thus left without formal notice of the change of dynasty in the mother country, Maryland alone thought herself bound " by the laws of God and man," to declare by Act of Assembly that, " on the dissolution of Anne, of pious memory, George was, and of right ought to be, by the laws of the realm of Great Britain, our sovereign liege lord." Scarcely was the new monarch seated on the throne, wrhen the second attack upon the charters of the colonies was made in parliament. In the same month of August, Sir Edward Northey declared that "the mischiefs in proprietary governments cannot be remedied but by an act of parliament, since they have power to make laws by their charters, which cannot be regulated but by an act of the supreme legislature." The Board of Trade, being informed that eight of the twelve colonies enjoyed real independence under chartered forms, advised " that, since neither Carolina nor Maryland, Connecticut nor Khode Island, were obliged to submit their laws to royal revision, an act of parliament was necessary to compel them to do that, without which it was impossible to enforce their submission ;" and to carry out this purpose, a bill was brought in the House early in the next year for regulating charter governments. A petition was immediately presented, in the name of the youthful Lord Baltimore, stating that he and his brothers and sisters were Protestants, and that upon their revenues from Maryland they depended for their support, and praying that his province might be spared. The other colonies also made a vigorous opposition to a measure so threatening to their interests and their independence. This change of faith in the Calvert family had probably been the result rather of policy than conviction. On the death of Charles, the* third Lord Baltimore, his son, Benedict Leonard Calvert, succeeded to the title and his possessions in Maryland. From 1692, down to this time, the powers of the proprietary government had been withheld from the Calverts because of their adhesion to the Catholic faith; and as the inhabitants of the colony were for the most part Protestants, they willingly concurred in the policy of the crown, which, while it protected the proprietary in the enjoyment of his private rights and revenues, denied him the government of his province. |
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