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MARYLAND.
There now enters upon the scene in Virginia a man of middle age, not without experience in planting colonies, by name George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore.

Of Flemish ancestry, born in Yorkshire, scholar at Oxford, traveler, clerk of the Privy Council, a Secretary of State under James, member of the House of Commons, member of the Virginia Company, he knew many of the ramifications of life.

A man of worth and weight, he was placed by temperament and education upon the side of the court party and the Crown in the growing contest over rights.

About the year 1625, under what influence is not known, he had openly professed the Roman Catholic faith--and that took courage in the seventeenth century, in England! Some years before, Calvert had obtained from the Crown a grant of a part of Newfoundland, had named it Avalon, and had built great hopes upon its settlement.