The London Company dissolved in the mean while. Baltimore successfully applied to Charles for a grant of the unoccupied land on the Chesapeake, and in 1632 the king gave him permission to frame a charter for a province, to suit himself. The grant included the present area of Maryland, notwithstanding the territory was clearly within the limits of the Virginia charter, and Kent Island, opposite the site of Annapolis, was already occupied. It is believed that the Maryland charter was penned by Lord Baltimore himself. Before it passed the seals, Calvert died, (c) leaving his son Cecil heir to his title and fortune, [[ c April 25,]] The charter was executed about two months afterward, (d) and signed by Cecil, with no alteration from the original except in the name of the province. It was called [[ d June 20]] Maryland, in honor of Henrietta Maria, the queen of Charles the First, instead of _Crescentia,_ * Fuller's Worthies of England. ** The Oath of Supremacy was one denying the supremacy of the pope in ecclesiastical or temporal affairs in England, which was required to be taken, along with the Oath of Allegiance, by persons, in order to qualify them for office. [[[Character of the first Maryland Charter.--Toleration its chief Glory.--Baltimore's Policy.]]] {396}as the first Lord Baltimore named it. This charter was full of the ideas of absolutism and royal prerogatives which distinguished the character and career of James and his son Charles. It made the proprietor absolute lord of the province--"_Absolutus Domimus et Propritarius_"--with the royalties of a count palatine. [Illustration: 9406]