内容简介：
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE II. Cecilius, Second Lord Baltimore. OF the airly life of Cecilius, the second Lord Baltimore, but little is known, beyond the facts that he was baptized and confirmed in the Church of England. His father was conspicuous in the public and political life of England, and hence some of the principal events of his life can be gathered from the histories of his times. Cecilius on the contrary never held any public office, and appears to have avoided rather than sought notoriety. His energies during many years were directed chiefly to the affairs,?often troubled affairs,?of his Province in the new world, and in his acts and correspondence in relation to them, are to be found the chief indications of the life and character of the man. Cecilius was born in 1606, and named after Sir Robert Cecil, the warm friend of his father, to whom the latter owed his introduction to, and advancement hij public life. In 1621, at the age of fifteen, he entered Trinity College, Oxford, but no record of his graduation has been found. He married Lady Anne Arundel, daughter of Lord Arundel of War- dour, a lady who appears, from a portrait of her now in existence, to have been possessed of remarkable beauty. According to Bishop Goodman, who found in this marriage one of the causes for his father's conversion to the Church of Rome, avowed in 1625, Cecilius could have been but eighteen years of age at the date thus ascribed for his marriage. As a matter of fact, it is plain from MS. evidence, now in the possession of the Maryland Historical Society,1 that this marriage did not take place until 1629, when Cecilius was twenty-three years of age; but Bishop Goodman's careless inaccuracy has led to the assertion by nearly every one who has written upon this subject that he was married at the age of...