The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the PeopleEggleston, Edward
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The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People
Eggleston, Edward
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
[Sidenote: Note 1, page 223.]
"Voto a Dios que la Corte d'Inglatierra es como un libro de cavalleros
andantes." Quoted by Chamberlain in Birch, i, 413. In view of the
swift mutations of fortune among courtiers, Dudley Carleton the
younger wrote on December 18, 1624, "He is happiest who has least to
do at court"--a truth which Calvert probably had come to appreciate by
that time.
[Sidenote: Note 2, page 224.]
"The third man who was thought to gain by the Spaniard was Secretary
Calvert; and as he was the only secretary employed in the Spanish
match, so undoubtedly he did what good offices he could therein for
religion's sake, being infinitely addicted to the Roman Catholic
faith, having been converted thereunto by Count Gondomar and Count
Arundel.... Now this man did protest to a friend of his own that he
never got by the Spaniards so much as a pair of pockets; which it
should seem is a usual gift among them, being excellently perfumed,
and may be valued at twenty nobles or ten pounds price." Goodman's
Court of King James, i, 376, 377.
[Sidenote: Note 3, page 225.]
Whitbourne gives these names. Those who believe that Calvert was
already actuated by religious zeal, remind us that Glastonbury (by a
curious legendary confusion of names) was also called Avalon, and that
in the Christian legend Joseph of Arimathea began at Glastonbury the
planting of the Christian religion in Britain. See Anderson's Church
of England in the Colonies, second edition, i, 325, 326. This
interpretation of Calvert's intention in naming his colony was early
given. British Museum, Sloane MSS. XXG. 3662, folio 24, date 1670.
When Calvert's first colony was sent out the Scotch settlement in
Newfoundland was of twelve years' standing, while the Bristol colony
had been seated there five years. Calvert's enterprise seems to have
been pushed with more energy and with a more liberal expenditure than
its predecessors. Compare Whitbourne _passim_ with the statement of
Sir William Alexander in his Encouragement to Colonies, 1624, p. 25.
[Sidenote: Note 4, page 225.]
Among the papers at Landsdowne House which I was permitted to examine
by the kindness of Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, there is an unpublished
work by James Abercromby, written in 1752. It discusses with acuteness
the nature of the several colonial governments. I shall refer to it
hereafter under the title of Abercromby's Examination, Landsdowne
House, 47. Abercromby was, so far as I know, the first to point out
the apparently intentional ambiguity of the passages in the Maryland
charter that have to do with religion.
[Sidenote: Note 5, page 226.]
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