. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . ferred her own sons for places ofauthority. The country felt itself honouredby those who were Virginias born; andemigrants never again desired to live inEngland. Prosperity advanced with free-dom; dreams of new staples and infinitewealth were indulged; while the populationof Virginia, at the epoch of the restoration,may have been about thirty of the recent emigrants had been roy-alists in England, good office
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . ferred her own sons for places ofauthority. The country felt itself honouredby those who were Virginias born; andemigrants never again desired to live inEngland. Prosperity advanced with free-dom; dreams of new staples and infinitewealth were indulged; while the populationof Virginia, at the epoch of the restoration,may have been about thirty of the recent emigrants had been roy-alists in England, good officers in the war,men of education, of property, and of condi-tion. The revolution had not subdued theircharacters; but the waters of the Atlanticdivided them from the political strifes of Europe; their industry was employedin making the best advantage of their plantations; the interests and libertiesof Virginia, the land which they adopted as their country, were dearer to themthan the monarchial principles which they had espoused in England; andtherefore no bitterness could exist between the firmest partisans of the Stuartsand the friends of republican liberty .. Cecil Calvebt (Lord Baltimore) (1605-1675) THE COLONISATION OF MARYLAND The whole territory of Maryland was included under the second charterof Virginia; but the dissolution of the London Company by James I, in 1624,restored to the crown the right to make a fresh grant; and this right was notconsidered to have been vitiated by the trading colony established on KentIsland, in the heart of the province, by William Clayborne, in 1631. Theeffective settlement of the province was destined to be made under the auspices VIRGIXIA AND MARYLAND TO THE EESTOEATION 599 [1639-1633 of the Calvert family. George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, had earlybecome interested in American colonisation. His first attempts were madeon the inliospitable shores of Newfoundland; and he twice visited his settle-ment on that island, freely e
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