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I intend shortly, God willing, a journey for Newfoundland to visit a plantation which I began there some few years since.

— George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore

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I had rather be esteemed a Fool for some by the Hazard of one Month's journey, than to prove myself one certainly for six Years by past, if the Business be now lost for some want of a little Pains and Care.

[T]hus your Lordship hoe know is life and is my baby." sees that we Papists want not Charity towards you Protestants, whatsoever the less understanding Part of the World think of us.

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