UC-NRLF SMt,B 3 M=^7 >^'fv v.-m .-'Wv; mr::^^: U^ 4 "1 LIBRARYREESE nil-:OF CALIFORNIA.OFUNIVERSITY C7JS.S M). Sfuixb-^xiblicaitoii^Ono, 18. THE FOlIPmON OF lARILAID A N D I' n K Oiio'iii of tk Act Coiicei'oiog ReligioD Prepared for and partly read before the Maryland Historical Society BRADLEY T. JOHNSON, A Membek of the Society. aHiiiim-D. 18B0.f Be^st IIFO Jj 3^xin&-'^xib(icatioiT.,^Tto. 18. THE FOUNDATION OF lARfLANI) A N D T H K (hip of tlie let Coiicei'iiiiij^ lldiiiioii April 21, 1649. I'ie|)are(l fur and partly read Itelbre llie Marylaud Ilistorii'al Society BY BRADLEY T. JOHNSON, A Mkmber of thk Socikty. ^nHimorc, 188:-3. REESE PUBLICATION FUND.PEx\BODY Publication.Committee on 882-83.1 W. M. LEE,J. HENKY STOCKBRIDGE, BRADLEY T. .TOHKSON. Murphy & Co.,Printed by John Historical Society,Printers to thk Maryland Baltimore, 1883. PREFACE. The investigation, of whicli the following j^aper is the result, commencedwas under the decided bias toward the opinion thaf Cecil Calvert had prosecuted his enterprise of colonization actuated solely [)y material motives, and that the Act ofconcerning Religion was, in fact, only the echo the liberal sentiments of the Separatist or Indei)endent sec- tion of the Puritan Eno-land.sect in The records have forced conclusions herein setme to the forth. It is possible that newly discovered evidence, hereafter attained, may require some modification of them.
UC-NRLF SMt,B 3 M=^7 >^'fv v.-m .-'Wv; mr::^^: U^ 4"1 LIBRARYREESE nil-:OF CALIFORNIA.OFUNIVERSITY C7JS.S M).Sfuixb-^xiblicaitoii^Ono, 18. THE FOlIPmON OF lARILAID A N D I' n K Oiio'iii of tk Act Coiicei'oiog ReligioD Prepared for and partly read before the Maryland Historical Society BRADLEY T. JOHNSON, A Membek of the Society. aHiiiim-D. 18B0.fBe^stIIFO Jj