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Book Review

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John D. Krugler. English and Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century. (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 122nd Series [2004], number 1.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 319. $46.00.

This valuable book is a study of the first three Lords Baltimore and their role as proprietors of Maryland, the only successful overseas colony developed by English Catholics during the seventeenth century. John D. Krugler argues convincingly that most English Catholics in this period wished to separate their religious and secular lives, and hence to combine spiritual allegiance to the pope with political allegiance to the king. Krugler shows that this same desire underpinned the vision that the three Lords Baltimore pursued in Maryland, a colony in which they sought to promote liberty of conscience and to allow people to worship freely regardless of their religious preferences. In essence, this book analyses that vision and the problems that the three Lords Baltimore experienced in their attempts to realize it. . . .

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