He would be Palatine, the King his suzerain.

In Maryland the great planters, in effect his barons, should live upon estates, manorial in size and with manorial rights.

The laboring men--the impecunious adventurers whom these greater adventurers brought out--would form a tenantry, the Lord Proprietary's men's men.

It is true that, according to charter, provision was made for an Assembly.

Here were to sit "freemen of the province," that is to say, all white males who were not in the position of indentured servants.