. Historic towns of the Southern States. Annapolis 49 was asked was allegiance to the English Crown ;one fifth of all gold and silver to be discoveredin the new do-main, and an an-nual offering, tobe made atWindsor Castleon Easter Tues-day, of two In-dian arrow-heads. Thecharter thusgiven was thefreest ever be-stowed upon anycolony, and inreturn Lord Bal-timore namedhis new posses-sions in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria,whose bigotry and arrogance had so much todo with the loss of her husbands crown andlife, and which — so strange are the relationsof cause and effect — formed one of the broadf
. Historic towns of the Southern States. Annapolis 49 was asked was allegiance to the English Crown ;one fifth of all gold and silver to be discoveredin the new do-main, and an an-nual offering, tobe made atWindsor Castleon Easter Tues-day, of two In-dian arrow-heads. Thecharter thusgiven was thefreest ever be-stowed upon anycolony, and inreturn Lord Bal-timore namedhis new posses-sions in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria,whose bigotry and arrogance had so much todo with the loss of her husbands crown andlife, and which — so strange are the relationsof cause and effect — formed one of the broadfoundation stones on which the modern super-structure of civil and religious freedom November 30, 1633, two little ships, the. CECILIUS CALVERT, SECOND LORD BALTI-MORE. REPRODUCED FROM AN OLD PRINT. 50 Annapolis Ark and the Dove, set sail from Cowes, undercommand of Leonard Calvert, brother of theLord Proprietary, and having on board agoodly company of gentlemen — was but the common sight of the puttingout to sea of two insicrnificant boats to thosewho watched them from the shore that au-tumn day ; but it stands out as marking a greatera in the history of human progress. Thepious and catholic Cecilius Calvert, carryingout the designs of his great father, had de-creed that all men living under his protectionshould be free to serve God according to thedictates of their own consciences,—a decreeso far in advance of their times as to place thenames of the Calverts forever in the foremostrank of the worlds greatest and wisest men. After many adventures, on the 25th of March,the Feast of the Annunciation, the colonistslanded. A precious early chronicle tells usthat Heere we went to a place where
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