or cruel treatment will prevent them from reaching their
goals. The young servants who came to Maryland were
promised land at the end of their service and in England
there was no such promise. Those with the enterprise to
go went to make their fortunes. They probably did not
expect to obtain great riches; but surely they hoped for a
better future than they knew England was prepared to
supply.

   Did any go primarily because they were Catholics? It
is usually said that the servants were mostly Protestants.
The fact that Lord Baltimore's first instructions espe-
cially warned against offending the Protestants on the
Ark suggests that this assertion has basis in fact. Unfor-
tunately only twelve of the servants left any signs of
their religion. Of these, six were Catholic and six were
Protestant, and some of the Catholics may have con-
verted after coming to Maryland. The Jesuits wrote with
joy of the converts they made during the first few years.
Probably most of the servants sought opportunity,
rather than freedom to be Catholic.³⁸

   The known careers of two servants serve to illuminate
the lives of others who sailed on the Ark and the Dove.
William Edwin was 21 when the Ark departed. He went
as a servant of Richard Gerard, who returned to England
and transferred to the Jesuits the land owed him for
Edwin's transportation. Edwin was a Protestant, but
one loyal to Lord Baltimore, and did not leave with
most of the other early Protestant settlers after Ingle's
Rebellion. He was free of his service and a planter by
1638, when he gave his proxy to the Jesuit overseer, Wil-
liam Lewis, to represent him in the Assembly. At that
time Edwin was probably a tenant on a Jesuit manor.
Eventually he took up land of his own and opened an