Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate

In addition to a succinct history of the Calvert family and the milieu in which they flourished in England The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate describes the lives and times of the 200 adventurers who participated in the original expedition ot Maryland their part in the founding and settlement of the colony and the development of colonial Maryland's distinctive manorial system. The bulk of this volume of course consists of biographical and genealogical sketches of the 200 adventurers each developed in meticulous detail from surviving documents by the famous Maryland genealogist Harry Wright Newman. From contemporary court records letters and miscellaneous papers Mr. Newman has wrought a definitive history of these early Marylanders and has accomplished single-handedly for the passengers of the Ark and the Dove what has taken a legion of researchers to do for the passengers of the Mayflower