English and Catholic : the Lords Baltimore in the seventeenth century
Skillfully told here, the story of the Calverts' bold experiment in advancing freedom of conscience is the story of the roots of American liberty.
Biographies
1 online resource (xii, 319 pages) : illustrations
9781421402000, 9780801890833, 1421402009, 0801890837
646981131
Introduction : "a man is not English who gives first allegiance elsewhere" : reconciling national and religious loyalties in an age of uniformity
"There should be a correspondence betwixt the church and the state" : uniformity, the penal legislation, and the early Stuarts
"Conformitie to the form of service of God now established" : building a career at court, 1580-1620
"But by God's help many have been lifted out of the mire of corruption" : George Calvert's conversion and resignation, 1621-1625
"Upon this new shuffle of the packe" : the Catholic Lord Baltimore in Ireland and Newfoundland, 1625-1629
"If your majesty will please to grant me a precinct of land with such priviledges as the king your father my gracious master was pleased to graunt me" : securing the charter, 1629-1632
"Such a designe when rightly understood will not want undertakers" : selling Lord Baltimore's vision, 1632-1638
"With free liberty of religion" : the Calvert model for church-state relations, 1633-1655
"The people there cannot subsist & continue in peace and safety without som good government" : a second testing of religious freedom, 1653-1676
"Scandalous and offensive to the government" : the "popish chappel" at St. Mary's City and the end of religious freedom, 1676-1705
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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