Books, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Books, Vol. 3 Queen Anne of England departed this life on the first day of August, 1714; and by October of the same year the Governor of Maryland began to hear rumors of the event. To make certain of a fact so important to him in his official capacity, Governor Hart, on October 9, adjourned his Assembly, and set out "on a long and expensive journey to Philadelphia." That city was the capital of the adjoining State, and can now be reached from any railroad point in Maryland in a few hours. It appears that it took Governor Hart about a week to reach Philadelphia, and about as long to make the return trip, for we find him back at his post of duty, at St. Mary´s on the 27th of October. He had been able to get hold of a London newspaper, in which the announcement of the Queen´s death appeared; but no official notice from the English government had been received in any of the Colonies. I mention this detail as a striking illustration of the difference between those days, and ours. Following the Protestant revolution in the Mother Country, there was an overthrow of the Roman Catholics by the Protestants in Maryland. A small battle was fought, quite a number of men were shot down, and practically all of the Catholics were captured - including their leader. King William III., the Protestant monarch of Great Britain, annulled Lord Baltimore´s powers over Maryland; and the colony had been governed, for 20 years, by the Crown of England, when Benedict Leonard Calvert, oldest son and heir of the third Lord Baltimore publicly renounced the Romish errors. There is no evidence that he changed his religion to put himself in position to regain the Maryland palatinate, when his father should die, though, of course, such a suspicion is natural to the suspicious. It seems to me that none of these Calverts cared much about religion. When the first Calvert turned Catholic, he knew perfectly well that at heart the Stuart dynasty was Romanist; and there is a vehement presumption that he knew his change of faith would make him a favorite with the son and grandsons of Mary, Queen of Scots, whose lovely and scheme-hatching head a Protestant queen had caused to be chopped off. 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.
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