The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-07-07

course, the Cnarter was engroSSeQ LOT
Lord Baltimore. In the contemporary
portrait of Cecilius Calvert, he is
shown with the Charter of Maryland
held in his right hand.
The original parchment presented
to Lord Baltimore by the King is not
among the Calvert papers at the
Maryland Historical Society; neither
has it been found among the State
papers in other repositories. So far
as is known it has never been offered
for sale in London, where many Cal
vert documents of Importance have
been secured by Marylanders during
the past few years. Among the lat
ter, by a happy coincidence, original
manuscripts bearing on the story of
the first steps toward Maryland's
Charter, have come to Baltimore.
They were secured by DR.. Hugh H.
Young in 1920 at a sale of Calvert
papers at Quaritch's, in London.
The first of these is the original
draft of Sir George Calvert's letter to
King Charles 1, dated at Ferryland in
Newfoundland, August 10, 1929, in
which he asked for grant of land in
Virginia, with such privileges as the
King your father my gracious master
granted me here" In this letter Sir
George thanked his Majesty upon
my kneese for assistance in lending
me faire shipp," etc.
Another is the warrant from the
King "to Mr.. William Noye Esqr. His
Majesty Atturney Generall," signed
by the Earle of Dorsete, Lord Went
worth and Lord Cottington, dated in
February, 1851, directing him to pre-
pare a grant to Lord Baltimore "of
that tract or precinct of land lying
from the Bay of Chesapeake and the
River of Pohatan otherwise called
James River on the North {.
unto the River of Passamagus on the
South, etc. with the same con-
ditions of honour and advantage as
the other patent was granted which
he had from the late King, his Ma
ties Father for part of
Newfoundland with all the
clauses therein conteyned; saving that
he is not to have any exemption from
Custome or other Dutyes, etc."
The Sloan manuscript states that
the old dissolved Company of Virginia
endeavored to obstruct this warrant,
and to comply with their wishes his
Lordship desired his Majesty to grant
him in lieu thereof some part of that
continent to the northward, which was
accordingly granted, and bill pre-
pared and brought to his Majesty to
sign. This new warrant, dated March
II, 1882, "for grant of land in Am
erica near adjoining to the old Colony
of Virginia" is the first Charter in
which "the Province of MARYLAND in
memory and honor of the Queene"
was granted to a Calvert, the first
Lord Baltimore. That he died be-
fore it passed the Great Seal we know,
but it's presence in Maryland is of
more than passing interest.
In fact, all of these original docu
ments belonging to DR.. Young consti-
tute museum manuscripts in connec-
ton with Maryland history and should
if possible, be acquired by the State
for it's Hall of Records now about to
be built as memorial to the Lords
Baltimore.
We would not do full honor to the
founder of Maryland today nor to the
memory of his father, Sir George Cal
vert, who was the original mover in
the effort to settle Maryland, did we
not refresh our memories regarding
the remarkable provisions of this
Charter and emphasize the high trib-
ute to Sir George Calvert and to his
son Cecilius incorporated in the Char
ter itself.
This is true particularly as the doc
ument has forever put on record the
motives actuating the Calverts in
their colonization dreams. 1t should
silence those who have questioned
their high purposes, for the fulfill
ment of which they expended their
several fortunes. Both father and
son, of course, hoped for material
success in founding a province. None
the less they were moved by an ideal
in the provisions of its government, as
proven by the terms of the Charter,
prepared, it is believed, by Sir George
Calvert's own hand. With a slight
reduction in the southern boundary,
it is the same document that made US
not only the Land of Sanctuary to
those of all faiths, but the Free State
as well, by giving Maryland exemp-
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