ed with many brave rivers, and as yet altogether
uninhabited by the English, he began to think of making a new plantation
of his own. And for his more certain direction in obtaining a grant of
it, he undertook a journey northward, to discover the land up the bay,
and observe what might most conveniently square with his intent.

His lordship finding all things in this discovery according to his wish,
returned to England. And because the Virginia settlements at that time
reached no farther than the south side of Potomac river, his lordship
got a grant of the propriety of Maryland, bounding it to the south by
Potomac river, on the western shore; and by an east line from Point
Lookout, on the eastern shore; but died himself before he could embark
for the promised land.

Maryland had the honor to receive its name from queen Mary, royal
consort to king Charles the first.

Sec. 57. The old Lord Baltimore being thus taken off, and leaving his
designs unfinished, his son and heir, in the year 1633, obtained a
confirmation of the patent to himself, and went over in person to plant
his new colony.

By this unhappy accident, a country which nature had so well contrived
for one, became two separate governments. This produced a most unhappy
inconvenience to both; for, these two being the only countries under the
dominion of England that plant tobacco in any quantity, the ill
consequences to both is, that when one colony goes about to prohibit the
trash, or mend the staple of that commodity, to help the market, then
the other, to take advantage of that market, pours into England all they
can make, both good and bad, without distinction. This is very injurious
to the other colony, which had voluntarily suffered so great a
diminution in the quantity, to mend the quality; and this is notoriously
manifested from that incomparable Virginia law, appointing sworn agents
to examine their tobacco.

Sec. 58. Neither was this all the mischief that happened to Virginia upon
this grant; for the example of it had dreadful consequences, and was in
the end one of the occasions of another massacre by the Indians. For
this precedent of my Lord Baltimore's grant, which entrenched upon the
charters and hounds of Virginia, was hint enough for other courtiers,
(who never intended a settlement as my lord did) to find out something
of the same kind to make money of. This was the occasion of several very
large defalcations from Virginia within a few year