The world: historical and actual . newnationality was growing up beneath the genial sunand the free air of young Virginia, as subsequentevents served to prove. Maryland was carved out of Virginia during thereign of Charles I. In 1629 that sovereign grantedthe state of Maryland substantially to George Cal-vert, Lord Baltimore. His lordship was a papist,and designed the establishment of an asylum forpersecuted Romanists. So far was he from being apapist of the Spanish type, however, that the colonywhich he established was the most tolerant of anyin the new world. He called the country Mary-land
The world: historical and actual . newnationality was growing up beneath the genial sunand the free air of young Virginia, as subsequentevents served to prove. Maryland was carved out of Virginia during thereign of Charles I. In 1629 that sovereign grantedthe state of Maryland substantially to George Cal-vert, Lord Baltimore. His lordship was a papist,and designed the establishment of an asylum forpersecuted Romanists. So far was he from being apapist of the Spanish type, however, that the colonywhich he established was the most tolerant of anyin the new world. He called the country Mary-land in honor of the Virgin Mary. The chief citybears his own name. His colony became a refuge for Episcopalians from New England, for dissentersfrom Virginia, and othervictims of many Protestantswere there at one timein Maryland, and so un-grateful were they, thatthey actually expelledall Roman Catholicsfrom the colonial legis-lature. In 1G91 the pro-prietary charter was re-voked and remained insuspense until 1715, when. CECIL, SECOND LORD BALTIMORE. the
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