HSTAA 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cecil Calvert, 2Nd Baron Baltimore, Toleration, Mary Dyer
28 Oct 2018
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10% enslaved and free blacks turn towards religious toleration. Kind grand land & right to sell land to individuals, not corporations. Proprietor had to answer to the king & abide by english law. Hints of church-and-state separation (but only applies to christians) Sir george calvert (lord baltimore) sole proprietor of maryland. Tremendous amount of power placed under one person feudal lordship. Cecilius sees the colony as an economic & social project. Catholics a sizable minority, but retain positions of power. Lords retain full use of land from cecilius himself. Rights of englishmen common people interpreted it as common law. English civil war (catholics & protestants) spills over into maryland. Planters (protestants) try to seize power from the elite (catholics) Charter grants cecilius full, free, and absolute power . Cecilius thought ordinary folk had no place in government. Colonists start making demands as to the rights of englishmen. First settlement in 3 decades (partly because of the civil war)
