Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lord Baltimore's Struggle With the Jesuits, 1634-1649
The early colonizers of Maryland, though Sprung from a common stock, were not a homogeneous people in their sym pathies and antipathies. Maryland soil, as early as the mid dle of the Seventeenth century, had been occupied by three distinct classes of settlers. Clayborne was first in the field with his Protestant settlement on Kent Island, in Chesapeake Bay. Profit, and not piety, was the guiding influence with Clayborne; preemption, and not redemption, gave pith and purpose to his enterprise. Between these Church of England men, backed in their possession by fairly good legal claims, and the later Roman Catholic settlers at St. Mary's there was no more sympathy or community of interest than is indicated in the armed conflict that actually ensued between them. Aside from the sporadic attempts of Clayborne to vindicate his property rights by arms, he and his band have no impor tant formative influence in the early life of the Maryland colony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
