The new country received the name Terra Mariae--Maryland--for Henrietta Maria, then Queen of England.
Here was a new land and a Lord Proprietor with kingly powers.

Virginians seated on the James promptly petitioned King Charles not to do them wrong by so dividing their portion of the earth.

But King and Privy Council answered only that Virginia and Maryland must "assist each other on all occasions as becometh fellow-subjects." William Claiborne, indeed, continued with a determined voice to cry out that lands given to Baltimore were not, as had been claimed, unsettled, seeing that he himself had under patent a town on Kent Island and another at the mouth of the Susquehanna.
Baltimore was a reflective man, a dreamer in the good sense of the term, and religiously minded.

At the height of seeming good fortune he could write: "All things, my lord, in this world pass away....

They are but lent us till God please to call for them back again, that we may not esteem anything our own, or set our hearts upon anything but Him alone, who only remains forever." Like his King, Baltimore could carry far his prerogative and privilege, maintaining the while not a few degrees of inner freedom.