The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-02-09
STATES FIRST PROMOTION TRACT
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he
Proposeth many very large condi-
tions, to such as shall for the same
ends joyne with him in this honora-
BILE Action. Whereof the chiefe is
this, that besides honors and place
which freely he meaneth to conferre
upon the merits of Bloud, Valour,
Vertue, and larger Ventures of Gen
tlemen, for every hundred pounds
ventura in Transportation of five
able men (being twenty pound a
MANI which will trasport and fur
nish them with Armes, Tooles,
Cloathes, Utensils and Victuals for
one twelve-month; whether they
goe in person, or commit their men
and money to my Lords Officer APP
pointed for that purpose: or to any
other who will take care of them
and it, and receive and use the div
ident Of land for their benefit; shall
receive of my Lord a manor of
good land, to the full quantity of
1000 Akers for them and their
heyres for ever in that Country;
besides a good share in a rich Trade
hereafter mentioned, and sundry
other incouragements and privi-
lodges if they go in this first Voy-
age; which, when they repaye to my
Lord, they shall better understand.
And this for every hundred pound
ventured by one or more whether
more or Jesse be ventured.
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In a supplementary paragraph of the
Declaration the promoter of Lord Bal
timore's plantation gives a sidelight
on the daily life of Cecilius Calvert,
in which we learn that this piOus
knight, between his combats in which
he tilted his lance against his enc
mics of the old Virginia Company, was
actively engaged in selling" Mary
land to men of fortune, influence and
spirit.
We find that Cecilius, after broad
casting his promotion tract in Lon
don and the United Kingdom, next
made gesture much in the spirit of
the modern American go-getter, by
turning his house gin Bloomsbury at
the upper end of Holborne," into a
booking office for would-be adventur-
ers. Here, we are told in his Declare
ton
Any man desireth to adventure in
this Plantation may bee informed
of every particular more at large
concerning Transportation and Pro-
visions for their men, and also for
the speedy raising of them, if hee
repayre to the LORD BALTIMORE,
who hath good advantage to assist
him in those things, by reason of
the many Provisions hee maketh
both for himselfe and others in that
kinde: Provided alwayes, that they
assigne one to oversee theyr Ac-
compts for theyr better satisfat-
ton, and his Lordships discharge.
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Calvert himself was not to be drawn
into handling the funds of the pros
pective colonists, for, while a member
of the nobility might direct coloni-
cation enterprise and let others share
in the benefit of buying "provisions
for the adventures use in large
he could not engage in
trading himself to the extent of hand
ling the money. Therefore each adj
venturer had to bring some one to do
the bartering and to oversee the ac-
counts.
After describing in his notable adj /
the "serene and gentle
Ayre" and comparing the climate to
'Sevill, Jerusalem and the best parts
of Arabia Felix" Calvert gives glow
ing accounts of the two goodly
hayes" both "rich bosomes of fish,"
and makes the following remarkable
of the great fishing in
those waters:
For that the Northeast Wind blow
ing ever constant from the Canary
Isles, ROLES the Ocean and the fish
with it into Mexico-Bay, where find
ing no passage South nor West, is
forced up North with a strong cur
rent, and sweepeth long with it
great shoales of Fish, by the Cost
of Florida, Virginia, Maryland,
England and Newfoundland,
which fleeing the Whales, who feed
upon them, make to the Land and
take the Protection of shallower
waters, and inlets thereof, where
they are easily taken.
Turning from the waters to the
and, the document speaks glowingly
If the forests of the Maryland Prov
nee. "Of the great woods with which
he country is covered" the author