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 was asked was allegiance to the English Crown; one fifth of all gold and silver to be discovered in the new domain, and an annual offering, to be made at Windsor Castle on Easter Tuesday, of two Indian arrow-*heads. The charter thus given was the freest ever bestowed upon any colony, and in return Lord Baltimore named his new possessions in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria, whose bigotry and arrogance had so much to do with the loss of her husband's crown and life, and which—so strange are the relations of cause and effect—formed one of the broad foundation stones on which the modern super-*structure of civil and religious freedom rests.

CECILIUS CALVERT, SECOND LORD BALTIMORE.

REPRODUCED FROM AN OLD PRINT.

On November 30, 1633, two little ships, the