...knight, late baron of BALTIMORE, in our said kingdom of Ireland, treading in the steps of his father, being animated with a laudable and pious zeal for...colony of the English nation, to a certain region, herein after described, in a country hitherto uncultivated, in the parts of America, and partly occupied...

..."to transport a numerous colony, to a country hitherto uncultivated in the parts of America," was "« laudable and pious zeal for extending the Christian...religion, and also the territories of our empire;" and in Sec. iii. Charles adds that the motive actuating him in granting the charter was his desire...

...reputation, the increase of the wealth of his family, and, as the Maryland charter expresses it, " a laudable and pious zeal for extending the Christian religion, and also the territories of our (the British) empire." We may commend him for all these motives as in their nature honorable, just...

...commencement the charter recites, that Lord Baltimore " treading in the footsteps of his father by being animated with a laudable and pious zeal for extending the Christian religion — patris inhserens vestigiis laudabili quodam et pio christianam religionem dilatandi studio." This...

...bearing upon religious matters. In the first place, then, it says, Section 2d, of Lord Baltimore, that v' being animated with a laudable and pious zeal for extending the Christian religion," &c. It may indeed have been the animating zeal of 11 the first Lord Baltimore, to extend the Christian...

...place, or promontory, called Watkin'e Point."* The preamble referred to Lord Baltimore's purpose " to transport, by his own industry and expense, a numerous...colony of the English nation, to a certain region in a country hitherto uncultivated, in the parts of America." This expression »The River Wighco, above...

...the charter, — in that part which is technically called the recital — it is said that Gal vert " being animated with a laudable and pious zeal for extending the Christian religion, and the territories of our empire, besought leave to transport a numerous colony of the English nation...

...Christian Religion. And it is observable that King Charles, in the Charter of the State, names a " zeal for extending the Christian Religion, and also the territories of our empire," as animating .the Baron of Baltimore, and- the inducements to the Grant. In 1851 and since, these declarations...

...Whereas, our well beloved and right trusty subject, Cecilius Cal vert, Baron of Baltimore," etc., " being animated with a laudable and pious zeal for...country hitherto uncultivated in the parts of America," etc. "Know ye, therefore, that we, encouraging with our royal favour the pious and noble purpose of...

...reputation, the increase of the wealth of his family, and, as the Maryland charter expresses it, " a laudable and pious zeal for extending the Christian religion, and also the territories of our (the British) empire." We may commend him for all these motives as in their nature honorable, just...