man aboard ship. Already he had had an active and
often danger-filled life as a missionary and teacher.
Born in London in 1579, he trained for the priesthood in
Spain. In 1605 he was ordained and returned to England
as a missionary, although it was illegal for Catholic
priests to be in England at all. Before a year had passed
he was in prison and then banished forever from his
native land. He next entered the Society of Jesus and
joined the new novitiate being formed especially for the
English community in Louvain. In 1609 he took his first
vows, completing the final four in 1619. Over the years
he taught in various places, but especially at Louvain
and at Liege, where he was Professor of Sacred Scrip-
ture. Intermittently he also continued dangerous mis-
sionary work in England.

   Andrew White was eager to undertake a New World
mission. As early as 1629 he was in correspondence with
the first Lord Baltimore and by 1633 he was actively
cooperating with the second Baron. He wrote the Decla-
ration of Lord Baltemore's Plantation in Mary-land,
which Lord Baltimore had printed in English for circu-
lation to prospective investors. Father White's English
superior, the Jesuit Provincial, sent a Latin version to
Rome to help explain the Maryland project and gain
permission for the English Province to participate.²⁶

   Father Andrew White was a man of enthusiasms, as
his writings show. To plant Christianity among the
Indians was to make men "Angels who undertake it."²⁷
The narrative he sent Lord Baltimore of the voyage and
the first settlement abounds with joyful description. The
Chesapeake Bay was "the most delightful water I ever
saw"; the Potomac River "the sweetest and greatest
river I have ever seen, so that the Thames is but a little