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Excerpt from George Calvert and Cecilius Calvert: Barons Baltimore of Baltimore

If the present sketch be in any degree less open to this reproach, it is due to the fact that the writer has had some advantages that were denied to his predecessors. In particular he has been able to consult, in their originals, the ancient papers of the Calvert family; a body of manuscripts unknown to previous historians, recently discovered in England among the litter and rubbish of an old conservatory, rescued from destruction, and acquired by the Mary land Historical Society. Some of these papers, as throwing new and important light on the events of the time, have been quoted at considerable length.

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Excerpt from George Calvert and Cecilius Calvert: Barons Baltimore of Baltimore

Both George and Cecilius Calvert may claim the title of founders of Maryland. The original design belongs to the former; the charter was a modification of his earlier charter of Avalon, and was, no doubt, drawn up in conformity with his suggestions; only his personal favor with the king would have obtained a grant of such a nature, and nothing but what we may call the accident of his death prevented his being the first proprietary. On the other hand, it was Cecilius in whose name the charter was drawn, who sent out the first colonists and guided their earliest political steps, and who watched over the infancy of the colony and shielded it from ruin.

The characters of the two seem much alike. There is the same patience, the same humanity of disposition, the same moderation, and the same steadiness of purpose. But in one respect there is a great difference for the biographer.

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