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could only taunt him with being ‘an Hispamo-
lized Papist.’
1 His son,
Cecil Calvert, succeeded to his honors and fortunes.
For him, the heir of his father's intentions,
2 not less than of his father's fortunes, the charter of
Maryland was published and confirmed;
and he obtained the high distinction of successfully performing what the colonial companies had hardly been able to achieve.
At a vast expense, he planted a colony, which for several generations descended as a patrimony to his heirs.
Virginia regarded the severing of her territory with
apprehension, and before any colonists had embarked under the charter of
Baltimore, her commissioners had in
England remonstrated against the grant as an invasion of her commercial rights, an infringement on her domains, and a discouragement to her planters.
In
Strafford, Lord Baltimore found a friend,--for
Strafford had been the friend of the father,
3—and the remonstrance was in vain; the privy council sustained the
proprietary charter, and, advising the parties to an amicable adjustment of all disputes, commanded a free commerce and a good correspondence between the respective colonies.
4
Nor was it long before gentlemen of birth and quality resolved to adventure their lives and a good part of their fortunes in the enterprise of planting a colony under so favorable a charter.
Lord Baltimore, who, for some unknown reason, abandoned his purpose of conducting the emigrants in person, appointed his brother to act as his lieutenant; and, on Friday, the
twenty-second of November, with a small but favoring gale,
Leonard Calvert, and about two hundred people,
