[890] The Maryland Historical Society has a manuscript copy of some of the Sloane manuscripts in the British Museum, pertaining to the first Lord Baltimore and Maryland. Mr. Alexander gave to the State Library at Annapolis some of the manuscripts relating to Maryland in Sion College, London. A number of the Maryland papers in the state-paper office have been published in Scharf’s History of Maryland, and in the Report on the Virginia and Maryland Boundary Line, 1873. The Journal of the Dutch Embassy to Maryland in 1659, and some of the communications between the Maryland Council and the Dutch at New Amstel have been published in Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York, ii. 84 et seq. The 1880 Index, p. 246, to accessions of manuscripts in the British Museum shows various papers of Cecil Calvert.
[891] A description of the occupations of the planters of Maryland, and of the culture of tobacco by them in the year 1680, is contained in the “Journal of a voyage to New York and a Tour in several of the American colonies,” by Jaspar Dankers and Peter Sluyter, published in the Memoirs of the Long Island Historical Society, vol. i. pp. 194, 214-216, 218-221.
[892] An article in Lippincott’s Magazine for July, 1871, describes the topography and the present condition of St. Mary’s.
[893] There is a fine portrait of the first Lord Baltimore in the gallery of the Earl of Verulam at Glastonbury, England. It was painted by Mytens, court painter to James I. An engraving from it is in the possession of the Maryland Historical Society. In 1882 a copy of this portrait was presented to the State of Maryland by John W. Garrett, Esq. It is engraved in McSherry’s Maryland, p. 21, as from an original in the great gallery of Sir Francis Bacon; and again in S. H. Gay’s Popular History of the United States, i. 485. An engraved portrait of Cecilius, second Lord Baltimore, at the age of fifty-one, made by Blotling, in 1657, is in the possession of the Maryland Historical Society. Engravings of these portraits of the two lords are given in the present chapter.
The Baltimore arms are those of Calverts, quartered with Crosslands. The Calvert arms are barry of six, or and sable, over all a bend counterchanged. Crosslands: quarterly, argent and gules, over all a cross bottony counterchanged. Lord Baltimore used: quarterly, first and fourth paly of six, or and sable, a bend counterchanged; second and third, quarterly, argent and gules, a cross bottony counterchanged. Crest: on a ducal coronet proper, two pennons, the dexter or, the sinister sable; the staves, gules. Supporters: two leopards, guardant coward, proper. Motto: Fatti maschii, parole femine.
The first great seal of the Province was lost during Ingle’s Rebellion; and in 1648 the Proprietary sent out another seal, slightly different. This seal had engraven on one side the figure of the Proprietary in armor on horseback, with drawn sword and a helmet with a great plume of feathers, the trappings being adorned with the family arms. The inscription round about this side was: Cecilius absolutus dominus Terra Mariæ et Avaloniæ Baro de Baltimore. On the other side of the seal was engraven a scutcheon with the family arms; namely, six pieces impaled with a band dexter counterchanged, quartered with a cross bottony, and counterchanged; the whole scutcheon being supported with a fisherman on one side and a ploughman on the other (in the place of the family leopards), standing upon a scroll, whereon the Baltimore motto was inscribed; namely, Fatti maschii, parole femine. Above the scutcheon was a count-palatine’s cap, and over that a helmet, with the crest of the family arms; namely, a ducal crown with two half bannerets set upright. Behind the scutcheon and supporters was engraven a large ermine mantle, and the inscription about this side of the seal was, Scuto bonæ voluntatis tuæ coronasti nos. In 1657 Lord Baltimore sent out another seal, similar in design, which was used till 1705. Subsequent changes were made in the seal and arms of the Province and State, but in 1876 the last described side of the Great Seal sent out in 1648 was adopted as the arms of Maryland. A full account of the pedigree of the Calverts will be found in An Appeal to the citizens of Maryland, from the legitimate descendants of the Baltimore family, by Charles Browning, Baltimore, 1821. [Fuller’s Worthies of England and Anthony Wood’s Athenæ Oxoniensis give us important facts regarding the first Lord Baltimore. See John G. Morris’s The Lords Baltimore, 1874, No. 8 of the Fund Publications of the Historical Society; and Neill’s English Colonization in North America, ch. xi.—Ed.]
[894] [He undertook it at the instance of Sir John Dalrymple. See his chapters ix. and xv. See, also, his Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies. Chalmers had come to Maryland in 1763 to give legal assistance to an uncle in pursuing a land claim. Many of his papers were bought at his sale by Sparks, and are now in Harvard College Library.—Ed.]
[895] [Compare George William Brown’s Origin and Growth of Civil Liberty in Maryland, a discourse before the Historical Society in 1850. And Brantz Mayer’s Calvert and Penn,—a discourse before the Pennsylvania Historical Society in 1852.—Ed.]
[896] [Bozman was born in 1757 and died in 1823. He had published in 1811 a preliminary Sketch of the History of Maryland during the three first years after its Settlement. Some of the old records, supposed to have been lost since he used them, were found at Annapolis in 1875, and serve to show the accuracy with which he copied them. Gay’s Popular History of the United States, i. 515.—Ed.]
[897] New Series, vol. ix.