A history of the United States . ed at Jamestown in October,1629. He was not a welcomeguest, though the council appearsto have treated him with respect,if we may judge by the followingentry on the record: ThomasTindall to be pilloried two hours for giving my Lord Balti-more the lie and threatening to knock him down. Lord Baltimore, who was a favorite of James I, had beena member of the Virginia Company, but of the factionTheMarv- which opposed Sir Edwin Sandys and the Earl ofland grant, Southampton. In addition to this he was a^^^ Catholic and when it became known that he contemplated a grant
A history of the United States . ed at Jamestown in October,1629. He was not a welcomeguest, though the council appearsto have treated him with respect,if we may judge by the followingentry on the record: ThomasTindall to be pilloried two hours for giving my Lord Balti-more the lie and threatening to knock him down. Lord Baltimore, who was a favorite of James I, had beena member of the Virginia Company, but of the factionTheMarv- which opposed Sir Edwin Sandys and the Earl ofland grant, Southampton. In addition to this he was a^^^ Catholic and when it became known that he contemplated a grant for himself south of the James River,Secretary Claiborne was sent to England to oppose hisapplication. Claiborne was only partially successful, forin 1632 Lord Baltimore received a grant on the north sideof the Potomac, extending as far as the fortieth parallel,and stretching from the meridian of the source of the Potomacon the west to the Atlantic Ocean on the east. The newcolony was named Terra Marice, or Maryland, in honor of. Lady Berkeley, wife of SirWilliam Berkeley. English Colonization, 1584-1G60 29 Queen Henrietta Maria, though Terra Marice had, no doubt,a special significance to Catholics. George Calvert died before the charter passed the seal,but it was confirmed to his son Cecilius Calvert, secondLord Baltimore. By the terms of the charter _ . /_ , , , 1 1 p The palati- the government or Maryland was modeled alter nateformthat of the bishopric of Durham, a county palat- °* govern-inate on the Scottish border, whose bishop asruler of the county had been vested in early times withalmost absolute powers for the protection of the borderagainst the forays ofthe Scotch. The po-sition of Lord Balti-more as proprietor ofMaryland was that ofa great feudal land-holder of the MiddleAges. To the king asoverlord he had to de-liver two Indian ar-rows at Windsor Castleeach year in Easterweek, and a fifth partof all the gold andsilver mined in thecolony. The principallimitation up
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