Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "a man is not English who gives first allegiance elsewhere" : reconciling national and religious loyalties in an age of uniformity
  • "There should be a correspondence betwixt the church and the state" : uniformity, the penal legislation, and the early Stuarts
  • "Conformitie to the form of service of God now established" : building a career at court, 1580-1620
  • "But by God's help many have been lifted out of the mire of corruption" : George Calvert's conversion and resignation, 1621-1625
  • "Upon this new shuffle of the packe" : the Catholic Lord Baltimore in Ireland and Newfoundland, 1625-1629
  • "If your majesty will please to grant me a precinct of land with such priviledges as the king your father my gracious master was pleased to graunt me" : securing the charter, 1629-1632
  • "Such a designe when rightly understood will not want undertakers" : selling Lord Baltimore's vision, 1632-1638
  • "With free liberty of religion" : the Calvert model for church-state relations, 1633-1655
  • "The people there cannot subsist & continue in peace and safety without som good government" : a second testing of religious freedom, 1653-1676
  • "Scandalous and offensive to the government" : the "popish chappel" at St. Mary's City and the end of religious freedom, 1676-1705.