Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, had prepared
as well as he could for his New World venture. The ship-
board society resembled his plan, with men of birth as
leaders, and men and women used to hard work com-
mitted to several years of service. The Jesuit mission-
aries provided his Catholics with a ministry, exercised
he hoped, with suitable discretion. As he wrote Sir
Thomas Wentworth, an old friend of his father's, shortly
after the departure of the Ark and the Dove, "I have
sent a hopeful Colony to Maryland, with a fair and
probable Expectation of good Success."⁵³

   Father Andrew White rushed his first report on the
voyage back to Lord Baltimore, who in turn quickly (by
July or August 1634) published a version of it as A Rela-
tion of ... Maryland, along with new conditions of
Plantation and the advertisement for a second voyage:

   Whosoever intends to partake in this second Voyage,
must come, or send before the 20. of October next
ensuing, to M. William Peaseley Esq. his Lordsh.
brother-in-law, at his house on the back-side of
Drury-lane, over against the Cock-pit on the field-
side: And there to him deliuer their transportation-
money, according to the number of men they meane
to send over, at the rate of sixe pounds a man, to the
end convenient passage may bee reserved for them, in
his Lordsh. shipping; beyond which time it will not
be profitable for any to partake in this second
Voyage.

15. July 1634

   Success was still by no means certain, but as one con-
temporary wrote at the close of a translation of the
Maryland charter, possibly completed as early as 1635,
"a good end crowns the work."