Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “For the Good and Happy Government” of Maryland
- Part I “In the Infancy of This Plantation”: 1632–1660
- 1 “A Country… Newly Planted”
- 2 “Divers Occurences & Difficulties”
- Part II “Lord Baltimore's Politick Maximes”: 1660–1689
- Part III “Wee Your Majesties Most Humble and Loyall Subjects”: 1689–1715
- Epilogue: “Our Present Happy Protestant Constitution”
- Appendixes
- A Note on the Sources
- Index
1 - “A Country… Newly Planted”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “For the Good and Happy Government” of Maryland
- Part I “In the Infancy of This Plantation”: 1632–1660
- 1 “A Country… Newly Planted”
- 2 “Divers Occurences & Difficulties”
- Part II “Lord Baltimore's Politick Maximes”: 1660–1689
- Part III “Wee Your Majesties Most Humble and Loyall Subjects”: 1689–1715
- Epilogue: “Our Present Happy Protestant Constitution”
- Appendixes
- A Note on the Sources
- Index
Summary
The government established is a monarchicall forme and (under his Majestie) successive in my Lord and his issue, assisted by a councell of select men chosen from among the Master Adventorors and a parl[i]am[en]t to be called when occasion shall require all the freeholders.
“A Short Treatise sett downe in a letter written by R. W. to his worthy friend, C. J. R.,” 1635Bee it Enacted by the Lord Propr wth the advise & consent of the Counsell & Burgesses of this province now assembled That this prnt assembly during the continuance thereof bee held by way of Upper & Lower howse to sitt in two distinct roomes a part, for the more convenient dispatch of the busines therein to bee consulted of. …And all Bills that shall bee passed by the sd Two howses of the maior part of both of them, & Enacted or Ordered by the Gour shall bee Lawes of the province after publicon thereof, under the hand of the Gour & the Great Seale of the sd Province as fully to all effects in Law as if they were advised & assented unto by all the ffreemen of the province personally.
An Act for the Settling of this present Assembly, 1650The Ark and the Dove departed from England on November 22, 1633, with the first settlers destined for Maryland. It was late winter before the weary passengers, between 150 and 200 in number, sailed into Chesa-peake Bay.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1988