John Carter Brown, New York Public, New York Historical
Society, Cornell University, Newberry. It has been reprinted by
Joseph Sabin, New York, 1865, and in J. Franklin Jameson's
Original Narratives of Early American History, "Narratives of
Early Maryland", edited by Clayton Colman Hall, New York,
1910, pages 63-112.

   (4) The earliest printed reference I have found to the tract is
the entry of its title without comment or description in Andrews
and Davenport, Guide to the Manuscript Materials for the History
of the United States to 1783, in the British Museum, and in Minor
London Archives, and in the Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge,
1908, page 339. It was used by Margaret Shove Morriss in her
Colonial Trade in Maryland (Johns Hopkins Studies in Political
and Social Science series XXXII, No. 3), 1914, where it is entered
and described as No. 2 of the appended bibliography. It was
through Dean Morriss's use of the tract that it came to the atten-
tion of Miss Alice H. Lerch, of the New York Public Library, and
that a photographic copy of it was procured at the suggestion of
Willard A. Baldwin for the purposes of this publication. There
seem to be no references to the tract in contemporary writings,
though on August 16, 1633, an English Jesuit named Clerk wrote to
a brother priest in Rome. "I send you a Relation of my Lord Balte-
mor's new plantation in Maryland, which perhaps you will will-
ingly see" (Hughes, work cited, Text I. 273). Except for this prob-
able reference the tract seems to have escaped attention until the
present century.

   (5) The collection of documents copied in Rome by Father
McSherry, referred to here as the McSherry Codex, was first
translated by N. C. Brooks and read at three meetings of the
Maryland Historical Society in 1844 and 1845. Its publication
without permission in 1846 as IV. No. 12. of Peter Force's Collec-
tion of Historical Tracts occasioned the amending of the Society's
existing by-law to read in effect that all papers and translations
read before the Society should become its property and be pub-
lished only with its consent. It was apparently because of this
incident that there appeared in 1847 separates of the Force tract
No. 12 with the following title-page. A Relation of the Colony of
the Lord Baron of Baltimore, in Maryland, near Virginia; a Narra-

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