(1) Copies of this edition of The Charter of Maryland are found
in the John Carter Brown Library, in the library of Benjamin
Howell Griswold of Baltimore, and in the collection of the late
Herschel V. Jones of Minneapolis. See the Catalogue of the John
Carter Brown Library, vol. II, part I, page 243. For a description
of Mr. Griswold's copy, see the Rare Americana, catalogue (1927)
of Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, item No. 1452.

   (2) Only two copies are known of the Relation of 1634, one in
the British Museum, the other in the John Carter Brown Library.
See the Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library, vol. II, part
I, page 250. The printed version of this Relation has never been
fully reprinted, though a transcript of its narrative portion was
published in 1865 by Joel Munsell of Albany, edited by Brantz
Mayer, as Shea's Early Southern Tracts, No. I. The failure of the
editor to explain that this was a reprint of only a portion of the
original tract has caused a misapprehension of the work to exist
in many quarters until the present day. It should be said that
until the discovery of the Declaration, here presented, and the
recognition of the possible priority of the Charles I Charter, the
Relation of 1634 was rightly regarded as the first Maryland tract
in spite of the attribution of the date 1633 to a later document by
Father Thomas Hughes. In his History of the Society of Jesus in
North America (Text 1, 257-259), Father Hughes gives the impres-
sion that the Objections Answered Concerning Maryland was a
publication of 1633, but on this point see Lathrop C. Harper's
contribution to Bibliographical Essays. A Tribute to Wilberforce
fames, pages 143-148, entitled "A Maryland Tract of 1646", in
which the Objections Answered, though probably composed in
1633, is shown to have been published in 1646 as part of the rare
tract A Moderate and Safe Expedient of that year. Father Hughes
knew only the fragment of this publication, pages 9-16, contain-
ing the Objections Answered, found in the Stonyhurst College Mss.
Complete copies of A Moderate and Safe Expedient are found only
in the John Carter Brown Library and in the library of Willard
A. Baldwin of New York.

   (3) Copies of the Relation of 1635 are found in several libraries,
as for example: British Museum, Library of Congress, Harvard,

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