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One cardinal feature of Lord Baltimore's colony found no expression either in the government of Durham or in his own charter. On their liberality in the question of religion the fame of both George and Cecilius Calvert most securely rests.
Of course they must not be contrary to the laws of England. Treatment of Catholics.% The deed for Maryland had not been issued when Lord Baltimore died. It was therefore made out in the name of his son, Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, who, like the first, was a Roman Catholic, and was influenced in his attempts at colonization by a desire to found a refuge for people of his own faith.
'Who is your man? I asked. 'Ben-Hur, the Jew, said he. Then I: 'What shall it be? How much? He answered, 'A a Excuse me, Messala. By Jove's thunder, I cannot go on for laughter! Ha, ha, ha!" The listeners leaned forward. Messala looked to Cecilius. "A shekel," said the latter. "A shekel! A shekel!" A burst of scornful laughter ran fast upon the repetition.
He had a brother living in Arabia, to whom he related the miracles he had beheld, and who was thus called to the path of salvation, came to Jerusalem, was baptised by the name of Cecilius, and was charged, together with Ctesiphon, to assist the deacons in the newly-formed Christian community. Ctesiphon accompanied the Apostle St. James the Greater into Spain, and also returned with him.
His father was an Irish baronet, Sir George Talbot, of Cartown in Kildare, who had married Grace, one of the younger sisters of Cecilius, the second Proprietary and father of Charles Calvert. He was, therefore, as the commission describes him, the cousin of Lord Baltimore, who had now invested him with a leading authority in the administration of the government.
The traditions of the neighborhood assert the origin of the manor and its quaint, happy and not unmusical name to have been briefly this: That the founder of Luckenough was Alexander Kalouga, a Polish soldier of fortune, some time in the service of Cecilius Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, first Lord Proprietary of Maryland.
With this he came back to America and took possession of his Maryland, where at present his son, as governor, resides. Also, the grant was definite in bounds, from the Potomac to 40° N. lat. Cecilius Calvert, the second lord, died in 1675. Charles Calvert, the third, was at this time both proprietary and governor, having come out to his province this winter, arriving in February, 1680.
"Up the street; up to the Omphalus, and beyond who shall say how far? Rivers of people; never so many in the city before. They say we will see the whole world at the Circus to-morrow." Messala laughed scornfully. "The idiots! Perpol! They never beheld a Circensian with Caesar for editor. But, my Drusus, what found you?" "Nothing." "O ah! You forget," said Cecilius. "What?" asked Drusus.
Now it so fell out, that about this very time the affairs of Syria were in great disorder, and this on the occasion following: Cecilius Bassus, one of Pompey's party, laid a treacherous design against Sextus Caesar, and slew him, and then took his army, and got the management of public affairs into his own hand; so there arose a great war about Apamia, while Caesar's generals came against him with an army of horsemen and footmen; to these Antipater also sent succors, and his sons with them, as calling to mind the kindnesses they had received from Caesar, and on that account he thought it but just to require punishment for him, and to take vengeance on the man that had murdered him.
The apse and aisle ends were square, and the nave was vaulted with a wagon vault. The great excursion from Spalato is to Salona, a city large enough to quarter the entire army of the Consul L. Cecilius Metellus in 119 B.C., and then known as Colonia Martia Julia.
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