Maryland Under the Commonwealth

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Excerpt from Maryland Under the Commonwealth: A Chronicle of the Years 1649-1658 The year 1649 opens a distinct period in the history of the Province of Maryland. William Stone had come from the Eastern Shore of Virginia to be Governor, and with him, doubtless partly at his solicitation, came a number of settlers destined to bring a new religious and political in¿u ence into the Province. The legislature had just passed the famous toleration act, placing in permanent form what had been the policy of the Proprietary from the beginning of his colony. The coming of new settlers was shortly to lead to the formation of two new counties and to do away with the conditions existing when there were only two centres, St. Mary's and Kent Island. The fall of the monarchy in Eng land placed new influences in control there, which must be reckoned with, and the colonists, as always, were eagerly looking to the mother-country for countenance in their acts. A Protestant Governor in the Province had to satisfy a Roman Catholic Proprietary and a Puritan Commonwealth in England. Such were conditions when spring came in 1649. 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.