Maryland begun.%--A year later James died, and Charles I.came to the throne.

As Virginia was now a royal colony, the land belonged to the King; and as he was at liberty to do what he pleased with it, he cut off a piece and gave it to Lord Baltimore.

George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, was a Roman Catholic nobleman who for years past had been interested in the colonization of America, and had tried to plant a colony in Newfoundland.

The severity of the climate caused failure, and in 1629 he turned his attention to Virginia and visited Jamestown.

But religious feeling ran as high there as it did anywhere.