the purpose of carrying on the fur trade. He also char-
tered the Ark, the ship that carried the expedition, and
paid the way of twenty-five servants. In all he probably
funded nearly one-fourth of the passengers who did not
pay their own transportation. Lord Baltimore later
claimed that he put most of his fortune into founding
Maryland, an assertion probably not far from the truth.
With all the problems and heavy charges on his per-
sonal fortune, Lord Baltimore still had grounds for
optimism. His six largest investor-leaders all fitted his
model of the manor lord. All were from English ruling
families. If they had been willing to conform, at least
outwardly, to the Church of England, as others in their
families had sometimes done, they would have been eli-
gible to hold offices of power in England, such as justice
of the peace or a seat in Parliament. Leonard Calvert
was the Baron's next younger brother. Jerome Hawley
was son of a member of Parliament and brother to a
governor of Barbados. Like Baltimore himself, he had
good connections at the court of Charles I, whose wife
was a French Catholic princess. Thomas Cornwallis's
great-grandfather had served in the household of Queen
Mary; his grandfather, Sir Charles, had been ambassa-
dor to Spain; and his father, Sir William, had sat in
Parliament. The Wintour brothers' father, Captain Ed-
ward Winters, had sailed with Sir Francis Drake, been
captain of a ship against the Armada, and a member of
several Parliaments. Lady Anne, their mother, was the
daughter of the Earl of Worcester and their oldest
brother, Sir John, was the Catholic Queen's secretary.
Richard Gerard, who returned to England, served King
Charles I during the English Civil War and figured in
the court of Charles II.