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ing creeds and sects should live together in religious 

 toleration. This was an undreamed-of condition until 

 Sir George Calvert's broad humanity conceived it, and 

 the friendship of the King, Charles I, for him, granted 

 the charter which assured it. 



That he died in the year in which this charter was 

 issued made no real difference in his great plan; for 

 his son Cecilius, into whose hands it was put in June, 

 1632, went on as his father would have done, collect- 

 ing immediately the nucleus of the Colony, so that by 

 March of the following year, about two hundred ar- 

 rived off Point Comfort. Leonard Calvert, brother of 

 the older Cecilius, came as their Governor; and under 

 him and his motto, "Peace to all — ^proscription of 

 none," this little group took up their lives in the aban- 

 doned Indian huts of the ancient native village which 

 they piously renamed "St. Mary's." Upon the charter 

 given to Lord Baltimore the charter of Penn's later 

 grant was modeled, with few alterations. Hence it 

 seems curious that so strong an antagonism should 

 have existed between the domains of these two great 

 men; but the question of boundary rights is a very 

 delicate one — a question that has often strained the 

 friendship of the good and excellent. 



Each Colony, being vested in a single Lord Pro- 

 prietary rather than in a Company, as the other 

 patents were, developed in a manner somewhat more 



