aws. Among the first laws passed was one giving to every
human being upon payment of poll-tax the right to worship freely
according to the dictates of his own conscience. America thus became the
refuge for those who had any peculiarity of religious belief, until
to-day no doubt more varieties of religion may be found here than almost
anywhere else in the world.

In 1635 the Virginia Colony and Lord Baltimore had some words over the
boundaries between the Jamestown and Maryland Colonies. Clayborne was
the Jamestown man who made the most trouble. He had started a couple of
town sites on the Maryland tract, plotted them, and sold lots to
Yorkshire tenderfeet, and so when Lord Baltimore claimed the lands
Clayborne attacked him, and there was a running skirmish for several
years, till at last the Rebellion collapsed in 1645 and Clayborne fled.

The Protestants now held the best hand, and outvoted the Catholics, so
up to 1691 there was a never-dying fight between the two, which must
have been entertaining to the unregenerate outsider who was taxed to pay
for a double set of legislators. This fight between the Catholics and
Protestants shows that intolerance is not confined to a monarchy.

In 1715 the fourth Lord Baltimore recovered the government by the aid of
the police, and religious toleration was restored. Maryland remained
under this system of government until the Revolution, which will be
referred to later on in the most thrilling set of original pictures and
word-paintings that the reader has ever met with.

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QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION.

_Q._ Who was William Penn?

_A._ He founded Pennsylvania.

_Q._ Was he a great fighter?

_A._ No. He was a peaceable man, and did not believe in killing men
or fighting.

_Q._ Would he have fought for a purse of forty thousand dollars?

_A._ No. He could do better buying coal lands of the Indians.

_Q._ What is religious freedom?

_A._ It is the art of giving intolerance a little more room.

_Q._ Who was Lord Baltimore?

_A._ See foregoing chapter.

_Q._ What do you understand by rebellion?

_A._ It is an unsuccessful attempt by armed subjects to overcome
the parent government.

_Q._ Is it right or wrong?

_A._ I do not know, but will go and inquire.

CHAPTER X.

THE EARLY ARISTOCRACY.

Lord Clarendon and several other noblemen in 1