Archives of Maryland, Vol. 41 PDF Download

Author: Bernard Christian Steiner
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333064471
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Excerpt from Archives of Maryland, Vol. 41: Proceedings of the Provincial Court of Maryland, 1658-1662 The second editor of the Archives, Clayton C. Hall, Esq., gave a similar judgment in his Lords Baltimore, at p. 61, thus: Throughout, Cecilius seems never to have lost courage and, under all circumstances, he bore himself With wisdom, patience, forbearance, and tact and, by these qualities, he tri umphed in the end. His own interests and his own authority, he carefully guarded, but at the same time, he as carefully sought the welfare of the Province and of the people, who were in a sense his subjects, and when con cessions seemed reasonably demanded, he knew how and when to yield and so exercised a much less autocratic power than was conferred by the terms of the charter from which his authority was derived. These estimates coincide with the Opinion of the present editor. With the period now begun in this volume, the student of Maryland History loses the wise guidance of John Leeds Bozman, the first historian of Maryland, whose remarkable work closes at this date. A new period had been reached, new questions arose, new conditions of living were experienced, the separation of Maryland from Virginia was certain, and thirty years followed before Balti more's power in the Province should again be overthrown. The Province no longer had only two centres of life; but shores Of the Chesapeake were becom ing dotted with plantations and the tobacco ships penetrated nearly every river and estuary which was tributary to the Bay. Lord Baltimore was to reap the fruit of his labors and his descendants should gain a rich return from the Province which he had founded and over which he had resumed his rule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.