Maryland (Monarchist World)

Maryland was established by Cecil Calvert, a son of former Secretary of State (Kingdom of England) George Calvert who had petitioned for a royal charter shortly before his death. Cecil recieved the charter in light of his father's passing from Charles I where in Maryland would be named for Queen Consort Henrieta Maria of France, rather then the Virgin Mother Mary as the name was intended to reference. For Maryland was to be a refuge for English Catholics who would have a voice in the running of the colony- an oppurtunity they did not enjoy in the Kingdom of England as only Angelicans where permitted office. The charter specifies that Maryland will have the right to declare war at it's own descretion, to collect tax as it deems fit, and to establish a nobility. The condition upon which this charater is maintained is as follows; 1/5 of all gold and silver found in Maryland is to be delieved to the King and every Easter the Lord Baltimore must present two Native American arrows at the royal castle in Windsor every Easter. So long as these conditions are maintained the charter shall stand. In 1647 during the English Civil War a Parlaimentarian Puritan uprising known as Caliborne and Ingle's Rebellion was put down by the Governor Lord Baltimore.

Governance
The Lord Balitmore is the Proprietor of the Maryland Colony who may summon at his leisure a General Assembly consisting of every Lord of every Manor who shall recieve equal seating accompanied by two freemen for every hundred men of the territory to serve as a law making body and advisory. Essentially a House of Lords and House of Commons.

Following Caliborne and Ingle's Rebellion in 1647 the General Assembly of Maryland passed the Maryland Tolerance Act in St. Mary's City. This act establishes the Freedom of Worship for all Trinitarian Christians in Maryland though it also decrees death for those who deny the divinity of Jesus or who deny the Holy Trinity. This act has effectively deminished much of the religious tensions in Maryland.

Developer Notes

 * English Civil War: In OTL, following a Parliamentarian Victory in 1649 the Puritan population (who consist of Maryland's majority population in that year) rose up against the Lord Balitmore and the General Assembly and ousted it's Catholic's legislatures and under their new Cornwellian Governor repealed the Tolerance Act and made both Angelicanism and Roman Catholicism illegal in the state establish a long history of religious pursicution that would last till 1692 and expand what would become a Puritan hegemony in New England. With a Royalist Victorythis act is not repealed and with no Parliamentary victory in England this uprising doesn't occure. Maryland continues to be a Catholic refuge in North America (as well as a refuge for various other desenting Christian faiths) and to operate under it's original Charles the First given charter and establish a nobility in North America.