Maryland, Baltimore's projected colony in, 236; change to, from Avalon, 239; small migration to, 240; policy of toleration in, 242, 250, 265, n. 25; committed to guardian angels, 243; arrival of the Catholic pilgrims, 244; ceremonies of the landing in, 244; said to have been named by King Charles, 245; called Colony of St. Maries, 245; efforts to convert the Protestants in, 246; openly a Catholic colony, 247, 264, n. 17; import tax on Catholic servants and convicts, 248, 264, n. 19; opposition to Maryland, 249; Puritan settlers invited, 252; civil wars of, 253, 254; Act of Toleration passed, 255; again a proprietary government under Calvert, 257; disastrous results of religious differences in, 266. Maryland Archives, 245, m.; 262, n. 10; 265, n. 21. Maryland Assembly too cunning to be trapped by Baltimore, 255. Maryland charter, ambiguity of the, designed, 225, 236, 251, 259, n. 4; 262, n. 11; compared with charter of Avalon, 234; provisions of, 235, 236; extensive powers granted by, 236, 263, n. 12. Mass celebrated in defiance of law, 226; abhorred by the Puritans in Avalon, 228. Massachusetts Bay, failure of commercial settlements on, 189; patent to lands in, granted to the Massachusetts Company, 207. Massachusetts charter, Laud's effort to vacate the, 282, 284. Massachusetts colony, government under Endecott, 217, n. 7; people homogenous in religious affairs, 266; religious opinion, main source of disturbance in, 266, 267; self-consciousness of the, 278; preparations for resistance in, 284; failure as an agricultural colony, 320; three profound disturbances in, 326; in commotion over the Hutchinson controversy, 335. Massachusetts Company, rise of the, 199, 207; first colony of, under John Endecott, 199, 207; second company of emigrants, 203; fear that the charter might be revoked, 208; company and colony to be merged in one, 209; transfers its government and charter to Massachusetts Bay, 210; the commercial corporation becomes a colonial government, 211; the colonists believed they were founding a new church, 212. Massachusetts government, evolution of the, 207; first court of, at Charlestown, 210; later became representative, 211; relieved from strain by the borough system, 276; a government of congregations, 308, n. 6; theocratical, 279; religious intolerance of the, 297, 349, n. 9; anomalous in character, 323; angered by Hooker's secession, 326. Massachusetts Historical Collections, 310, n. 15; 318, m.; 320, m.; 347, n. 1; 348, n. 7. Massachusetts Records, 206, m.; 285, m.; 290, m.; 291, m.; 308, n. 11; 310, n. 13, 17; 317, m.; 320, m.; 337, m. Massacre by the Indians put an end to all projects, 84, 92. Masson's Life of Milton, 137, n. 6.