A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . GEORGE CALVERTLGED BALTIMGRE, 1629.] LORD BALTIMORE IN VIRGINIA. 485 not mean to forego, if they could help it, so great a blessing. If thisdistinguished Catholic nobleman — who, should he settle among them,would bring other papists with him — objected to taking the oath,then, they may have reflected, they would be happily rid of Baltimorehim. T
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . GEORGE CALVERTLGED BALTIMGRE, 1629.] LORD BALTIMORE IN VIRGINIA. 485 not mean to forego, if they could help it, so great a blessing. If thisdistinguished Catholic nobleman — who, should he settle among them,would bring other papists with him — objected to taking the oath,then, they may have reflected, they would be happily rid of Baltimorehim. Their oath he declined to take, though not unwilling Jakethe**to subscribe to one of his own composing, which he thought gtanc^anci^would answer the purpose quite as well. Their answer was s^p^^^ request that he would take shipping for England by the earliestopportunit3^ He complied so far as to quit the colony, but before re-turning to England he made a voyage of observation to Chesapeake. II Scenery in the Chesapeake. Bay, where Lady*Baltimore had made a visit the year before.^ Hisfamily he left behind him at Jamestown; and that he returned thereafterward from England to take them away there is this interestingbit of evidence in the colonial records of Virginia: Thomas Tindallto be pilloried two hours for giving my Lord Baltimore the lie andthreatening to knock him down. ^ George Calvert, created baron of Baltimore a few weeks only be-fore the death of James I., was not a stranger to the Virginia had been a member of the London Council; through him, as sec-retary of state, the wishes of the king were conveyed when he sentto that body a list of persons, one of whom he desired should bechosen treasurer in place of Sandys. As a devoted servant of his 1 Note to The Aspinwall Papers. Bozmans History of Marijland. McSherrys Historyof Maryland. Neill, in his English Colonization, says, thsit this h\dy was not Lord Balti-mores wife, but gives no authority for the as
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