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 DOCUiAIENTS /. The Catholic Mission in Maryland, 1641. The two documents which follow were discovered among the Barberini JMSS. in the Vatican Library by Dr. Arnold O. ]Meyer of the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome, and by him communicated to the Review. The designation of their place is : Cod. Barberini lat. 8690, " Colonia e Inghilterra, Carlo Rossetti 1641, II. 107, 37 ", foil. 173-175. The writer of the letter, Mgr. Carlo Rossetti, titular archbishop of Sardis and later of Tarsus, was at the time of its writing pontifical representative in London, and as such figures largely in the contemporary history of Catholicism in England. Not many days after the date of the letter, on September 27, he was made extraordinary nuncio at Cologne. The letter was apparently ad- dressed to either Cardinal Francesco or Cardinal Antonio Barberini, who were nephews of the reigning pope, Urban VIIL, and who in a sense occupied jointly a position analogous to that of cardinal secre- tary of state. The " relation " which is enclosed with the letter exists also, it appears, in other copies. One, perhaps to be regarded as the original and differing slightly from this, is in the Vatican Archives, " Xunziatura d'Inghilterra ", and it is understood that a paragraph from it is to be printed (under the number 19 D) in Father Thomas Hughes's forthcoming History of the Jesuits in North America. Another is in the Archives of the Propaganda. Much of the same information as is presented in this relation is also to be found in the extracts from the Annual Letters which accom- pany the Relatio Itineris in Marylandiam published by the Mary- land Historical Society. [fol. I73r] 7 sett. 41 Eniinentiss'"" e Rmo. D«. pTon Col'"":' II libro d'Henrici Spilmani de noii temerandis ecclesiis' Lunilini in 8". di cui gia hebbi comandamento da '. E. s'e finalnicntc trovato, e la settimana seguente penso poterlo havere per inviarlo all' I^. '. Qui congiunta le mando una relatione dell'Isola di Mariland. haven- ' /. e., Eminentissimo e Reverendissimo Domino Patrono Colendissimo. "Sir Henry Spelman, De iion Temerandis Ecclesiis: a Trade of the Rights and Resfect due unto Churches (London, 1613, and other editions'). ( 5S4 )