The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1903-03-27


for Miss Mory by the Clarendon Press
of Oxford. So we'll was this done that
the old manuscript notes in ink, and
even in lead pencil, were plainly visi-
bic. From them one learned that this
little book, the "Relations of Mary
land' of 1885, had once belonged to
Sir Hans Sloane, whose manuscripts
were the foundation of the British
Museum collection. The note written
on the fyleaf by its next owner, DR..
Michel Lort, F. R. S., about 1885,
who had bought it for 9s., or 50 25, de-
clares that
In the great Cause concerning the Linn
its of Pennsylvania and Maryland, de-
pending for many years between the Pro-
prietors Mr. Penn and Lord Baltimore.
This Book "a copy of which could only be
found in the Library of Sir Hans Sloane)
was produced in the Court of Chancery,
and allowed of no evidence, proper care
being taken to prove it genuine, and a
Person whom Sir Hans would only in
trust it with atten ding the Court for sew
eral days with it. The Cause was de-
termined about the year 1850 in favor of
Mr.. Penn
The person intrusted with this book by
Sir Hans Sloane was DR.. Thomas Staror,
who went afterward to Jamaica, and there
he died. NJ. L.
"This famous case" said the lecturer,
(which was decided after century's
litigation and delay in favor Of Penn,
who desired to obtain port on the
Chesapeake for his colony, deprived
Maryland of all the lower portion of
Pennsylvania from the 4O0 of latitude,
to which she was entitled hy her char
ter, and which now includes Philadel-
phia, York and other well-known
places. Mason and Dixon's line, run
in l764G7, settled the boundary. By
the loss of Delaware and portion of
West Virginia, rightfully within her
charter bounds, Maryland was COM
PEELED to relinquish very large por-
tion of her original area
This little volume, which, with its
maps, was so valuable a piece of evi-
dence in this celebrated case, passed to
George Chalmers, the great authority
on American affairs as his crested
bookmark shows, and after being pur-
chased by DR.. Balkeley Bordmil, Bod
ley's librarian, was finally "bought for
ZIG at B. BIS sale'' in 1861, as pen
ciled note tells, and thus found habi.
tation at the Bodleian. While a few
other copies are in existence-one at
the Peabody Institute, another at the
Maryland Historical Society and an
other at Harvard (without the map),
and fourth changed hands recently
for $400-the checkered history of this
English volume is no less interesting.
1t narrates the incidents of the going
to America, the first contact and inter-
course with the Indians, and the settle
ment at St. Mary's. Later Miss Mory
found an earlier and smaller edition of
1884, at the British Museum, another
copy of which does not seem to be in
existence, and this is without doubt
the earliest printed book concerning
Maryland. 1t contains an account of
the journey over, dated From St.
Mare's, in Maryland, 81 May, 1884,"
just two months after the actual settle
ment at St. Mary's, on March o..
The accounts are similar to Father
Whites narrative, and probably, like
that, were based upon the original
manuscript account, which was authen-
ticated by Leonard Calvert, and came
into the possession of the Marylanu
Historical Society in 1894.
THE VOYAGE TO MARYLAND.
The voyage to the new world was
traced on map by Miss Mory, who
told of the departure of the Maryland
pilgrims in the Ark and Dove, Octo.
Der Is, 1858, from London, and their
dramatic recall, while in the Downs,
to take the oath of allegiance. A
special message by courier to bring
them back was dispatched from the
Privy Council to Admiral Pennington
This reached the Admiral at Sandwich,
then one of the great ports Of Englan'
now, as Miss Mory found when she
visited it by chance recently, small
inland town two miles away from the
sea, which once washed its shores so
tumultuonsly. She told of the final
departure of the voyagers November
%, 1888, and the journey across the
Atlantic, which, with stoppages at the
Barbados and St. Christophers, con-
sumed three months, until they reached
their desired haven, the shores of the
Chesapeake, Marah 5, 1854. On March
IS. the plantino of the COLONY Of Mary.