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From: Pat Doster <>
Subject: [MDSTMARY-L] "Peculiar Socal Conditions of Md." (cont'd)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 08:20:27 -0500
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Every fifty years or so, history is rewritten. For understanding Maryland's first settlers read
"The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America," by Kevin Phillips, a commentator for NPR, featured on C-Span's book review programs.

In the succession of the Stuarts lies the roots of Maryland's formation as a Royalist haven for British Catholics. Stuarts came from Scotland to take over English monarchy left vacant by Eliz.1st. Mary, her sister, Queen of Scots, had a son, James I of Eng. James I and his son, Charles I, waffled between supporting Catholic subjects and persecuting the rest, or vice-versa. As a young man, George Calvert, had been a member of the Virginia Co in 1609. His loyal service to the Crown resulted in Maryland's Charter. Caverts began recruitment in Yorkshire."Kiplin Hall," the Calvert estate lies in N. Yorkshire in the valley of the Swale (River), s. of Darlington.
Kiplin Hall today is a "Jacobean manor full of art treasure, where Lord Baltimore, founder of State of Maryland USA once lived." ("Touring Guide to Britain," Reader's Digest Assoc. Limited, 1992, Map 199 Ec)
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Continuation of "Side-Lights on Md's History" by Hester Dorsey Richardson, 1913, Vol I, pp. 54-55:

"Maryland was an English settlement, and as we well know, a Palatinate - a little kingdom with an English Lord as Sovereign. Social lines were *not relaxed because of freedom of conscience. All men were *not declared free and equal.
When, in the history of England, could one of the (lower) class at the end of his indenture to a tradesman sit in the House of Lords or with the King's Privy Council?
When was an underling ever given command of the military forces of the Sovereign?

There seems only one logical explanation when men "transported" and "indentured" after fulfiling their services quickly appeared as high dignitaries in the legislative halls and on the field, and it is this:

Social caste was so immutably fixed, so absolutely stationary, that an English gentleman could be transported, could turn his hand to earning his livng, and still be an English gentleman! The fact that well-born young men dared to accept subordinate positions, in an hour of financial need, proclaims the Province a settlement of gentlemen. Maryland's high authorities, instead of trying to keep such men down, shared honors with them."

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