The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-06-01

ored to appropriate great part of the reve.
nues of the proprietary arising out of certain
duties. These conhscatory proceedings, how.
ever, were too fragrant to succeed. Lord Ball
timore's claim to the coveted payments was
fully sustained, and from this time until the
day Of his death he seems to have had no diff
ficulty in collecting them.
The most drastic proceeding of this 1902
Assembly, however, was the statute making
the Church of England the established church
OF the province. Every county was divided
into parishes and taxes we've levied at the rate
of forty pounds of tobacco per poll for the
maintenance of the clergy, the repair of exist
ing churches and the construction of new
ones. Protestant dissenters and Quakers were
permitted to maintain their separate meeting
houses, provided they paid the tax, but the
lot of the Catholics was hard and before long
was rendered almost uncomfortable.
"
ONE of the unforeseen consequences OF the
new and stringent legislation enacted BY the
royal government was a complete check on
immigration. For ten years or more previously
to the arrival of Governor Copley the colony
had been the Mecca for settlers who had
become dissatisfied with conditions in other
colonies and for Englshmen who looked upon
Maryland as the land of their dreams.
In 1871 the population of the colony was
nearly 10000. At the close Of royal domina-
ton, "A years later, it had grown to only
$4,000, and large proportion of the increase
had come in before the Revolution of 16SS-9.
The same motives which had enticed men
here before the establishment of the royal
government no longer existed. The Catholics,
instead of federation, found oppression and
the dssenter felt he had little to gain by cast
ing his lot within the borders of the colony.
Sir Lionel Copley's career in Maryland
ended with his death on or about September
IL, 1893 That of his wife followed soon after.
"
1T SEEMS to have been expected that England
would send man-ofwar to carry them back
home, but England failed to do so and the
An order was passed for their burial in a
vault to be built at the expense of the colony
at St. Mary's, and for an elaborate funeral
ceremony to 'be performed by the next Pro-
vincial Court, with all the decency and gram
deur the Constitution and circumstances of
affairs will admit of, and that three brass
guns being all that's to be had be in readi-
ness, and also the militia of adjoining parts"
The ceremony seems to have taken place
with as much impressiveness and decorum as
the colony could muster on October S, 1894.
The vault which contains the dust of the first
royal Governor and his Lady is believed to
be the one which stands about fifteen feet
northeast of the old State House site at St.
Mary's and which for years was enormously
supposed to be the last rest place of Gov.
Leonard Calvert, of Lady Jane Calvert, wife
of the third Lord Baltimore, and of Cecilius
Calvert, the eldest son of Lady Jane and his
lordship. Two investigations, one over a GEN.
fury ago and the other lately, in preparation
for the memorial by the Colonial Danes, es-
tablished to general satisfaction that it is the
final abode of Sir Lionel and Lady Copley.
FORA SHORT TIME following the death of Gov
ernor Copley the government of Maryland
was administered by Sir Thomas Lawrence
pending the arrival from England of Francis
Nicholson, who had been commissioned Lieu
tenant Governor of the colony in 1901, with
the right of succession to the Governorship.
But the new Governor WAS delayed and the
doughty Sir Edmond Andres, who at one
time had been Governor of all New England,
New York and New Jersey and now was
Governor of Virginia, decided to pluck it on
the strength of commission which, when ex-
amined, was found to be effective only in the
event of Nicholson's death
That consideration, apparently, meant
nothing in Andres life. Being man of action
Che once had been arrested and sent to Eng
land for trial for overactivity), he seized the
Maryland government, but he was permitted
to enjoy his victory mere ten days WHEN he
was ousted without ceremony and returned to
Virginia Col Nicholas Greenbury, of the
Upper House of Assembly, assumed the gov
eminent as president, turning it over second
time-on May 7, 16o4-to Sir Thomas Law
renee, who remained in power until the acrivl
OF Governor Nicholson at the end of the TO-
lowing July.