The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-07-18

ceeQlng COlOnel ana MIS-. hdE1OIu
came and looked over an adjoin-
ing fence. Mrs. Hartford said to
me: 81 wonder if he ever buried e
them"
Mr.. White explained his search con-
tinued from July 5 to II, and then
was abandoned as futile.
1t was during last month that, sur
prisingly, there were put up at auc-
ton in London the latest rediscovered
lot of Calvert papers, containing a
good deal Of early Maryland history.
There was a l'tt'e bidding in behalf of
an unidentified American collector, but
the papers were finally disposed of to
a London professor for $4,000, very
small fragment of the value placed on
the Calvert papers at the Historical
Society. Much of this London lot,
Judging from the catalogue, is an
original copy, or an original draft,
which had been kept by the writer for
his own record.
One of the communications is a
draft of letter to King Charles | by
George Calvert, the first Baron
Baltimore, then in Avalon in New
foundland, dated August 10, 1929,
praying for land in Virginia which
should be considerably warmer than
that in Newfoundland, even in Au-
gust. He would have found it so.
This, of course, is the letter which led
to the founding of the Maryland col
ony. There are four warrants to the
! Acknowledgement from the Lords
Committee of Trade and Plantations,
which show the trouble Calvert had in
fixing his boundaries so as to satisfy
| the Virginians, who, as a matter of
fact, are still suspicious that Mary
land has some Potomac territory it is
not entitled to. There is no record of
a 1884 voyage to the head of Chesa-
peake Bay by one Cyprian Thorow-
good, giving among other things tall
tales of the local Indians, "valorous
and stout" and an account of
how they treated their prisoners
by slowly burning them alive and
in the meantime cutting off pieces
of flesh to boil and eat before
them from whom they cut it.
= !;
There is a 9,00O-word letter from
Robert Wintour, dated September ",
1886, probably the same Wintour who
became a councillor in 1888. 1t de-
scribes the colony and its proprietor
at length and favorably. There is also
series of letters, starting politely
and ending in a furious wrangle, be-
tween Baltimore and William Penn.
The papers recovered by the So
ciety in 1888 consist of nearly 1000
documents on paper and parchment,
all in admirable preservation, some of
them dating back to the reign of
Henry VIII, long before the barony of
Baltimore was created or Maryland
| dreamed of. Others relate to the con-
dition Of the plantation in 1910, a
series of Council books and journals
Of the Upper and Lower Houses Of the
Assembly and copies of laws trans
mitted to the proprietary for his as
sent and approval.
There also are grants for land and
rent rolls Of the various counties from
1910 to 1861. The collection includes
a great mass of documents illustrat-
ing every phase of the boundary dis
pute between Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania from granting Of the latter col
ony to the completion of the Mason
Dixon survey in 1853, with maps sub
mitted in the famous suit. Here also
is a map on which Cape Henlopen was
misplaced so that the boundary OF
Delaware was some twenty miles
south of the line agreed upon.
Also in the collection are receipts
for the two Indian arrows which the
proprietary was bound by the char
ter to tender every year at Windsor
Castle. Among these is the first re-
ceipt, dated 1888. There is the orig
inal patent creating George Calvert
the first baron of Baltimore, beau
tiful piece of calligraphy and illumi
nation, bearing the great seal Of
James | and a miniature of the King
The face was marred when the society
obtained it and since has been re
stored.
One paper is in a sense the mos
ancient Maryland document known t.
be in existence, for, although thu
charter was older, only copies of /
remain. The document in mind is re
markable in clearly showing the in
tentions Of the proprietary with re
spect to religious liberation. Man!
have dated this policy from the Ac
of 1919, but the document itself i
proof that this act only formulated
the policy which had ruled the prov
ince from the beginning.
The Ark and the Dove left Graves
end October 18, 1888, and proceede,
to the Isle of Wight, where Father
White and Altman were taken o.