. Dulany's history of Maryland. peake. Thenceon a right line across the bay to Watkins Point, with allthe isles and islets within those limits. 9. On the 15th of April, 1632, before the patent con-firming the grant of the territory of Crescentia to LordBaltimore could pass the great seal of the realm of Eng-land, that distinguished nobleman died, in the fifty-thiidyear of his age, and was buried in St. Dunstans Church,Fleet Street, London. 10. Cecilius Calvert, eldest son of George, Lord Balti-more, deceased, was heir by the laws of England to his 16 THE HISTOKY OF MARYLAND. fathers baronial h
. Dulany's history of Maryland. peake. Thenceon a right line across the bay to Watkins Point, with allthe isles and islets within those limits. 9. On the 15th of April, 1632, before the patent con-firming the grant of the territory of Crescentia to LordBaltimore could pass the great seal of the realm of Eng-land, that distinguished nobleman died, in the fifty-thiidyear of his age, and was buried in St. Dunstans Church,Fleet Street, London. 10. Cecilius Calvert, eldest son of George, Lord Balti-more, deceased, was heir by the laws of England to his 16 THE HISTOKY OF MARYLAND. fathers baronial honors and lilies, as well as to the greaterportion of his vast estates, and he became the second LordBaron of Baltimore in tlie kingdom of Ireland. 11. On the 20th of June, lGo2, a charter for the terri-tory in America, which the iirst Lord Baltimore proposedto call by the name of Crescentia, passed the great seal infavor of his son, whom the king styled * our well-belovedCecilius Calvert, Baron of Baltimore in our said kingdom. CHAULKS I. AND HIS COIKT. of Ireland, treading in the steps of his father; and thename of the territory was changed from Crescentia to thatof JLfri/hffid. This was done in honor of Queen Ilem-ietta3laria, daughter of King Henry IV., of France, whom KingCharles, grantor of the charter of ^Maryland, married in1025. 1:2. The charter reads that the territory granted is inthe parts of America not yet cultivated, though inhabitedby a barbarous poojde, and it is provided that the province LEONARD CALVERT, FIRST GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND. lY shall not be holden or reputed as a part of Virginia, or ofany other colony, but immediately dependent on the crownof Phigland. 13. At this time, one hundred and forty years had goneby since Columbus discovered America ; Ue Soto had dis-covered tlic Mississippi River ; the Pilgrims had landed onPlymouth Rock ; the Dutch had settled at New Amsterdam ;and the colony of Virginia at Jamestown : but it was leftto Lord Baltimore to ex
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