Note 8 — CALVERT AND PENN.

The Baron Von Raumer, in his Hist. of the XVI and XVII Centuries, vol. 2, p. 263, quoting from Tillieres, says of Calvert: "He is an honorable, sensible well-minded man, courteous towards strangers, full of respect towards embassadors, zealously intent on the welfare of England; but by reason of all these good qualities, entirely without consideration or influence."

The only original work or tract by which we know the character of Sir George Calvert's mind is "The Answer to Tom Tell-Troth, the Practise of Princes and the Lamentations of the Kirke, written by Lord Baltimore, late Secretary of State." London, printed 1642:—a copy of which, in MS., is in the collections of the Maryland Hist. Soc. This is a quaint specimen of pedantic politics and toryism—larded with Latin quotations, and altogether redolent of James's Court. It was addressed to Charles I, and shows the author's intimate acquaintance with the political history and movements of the continental powers. We may judge Calvert's politics by the following passage in which he commends the doctrines of his old master:—

"King James," says he, "in his oration to the Parliament, 1620, used these words very judiciattie; Kings and Kingdoms were before Parliaments; the Parliament was never called for the purpose to meddle with complaints against the King, the Church, or State matters, but ad consultandum de rebus arduis, Nos et Regnum nostrum concernantibus; as the writ will inform you. I was never the cause, nor guiltie of the election of my sonne by the Bohemians, neither would I be content that any other king should dispute whether I am a lawful King or no, and to tosse crowns like Tennis-balls."