Thus this Province at the vast charges, and by the unweary'd industry and endeavor of the present Lord Baltimore, the now absolute Lord and proprietary of the same, was first planted, and hath since been supply'd with people and other necessaries, so effectually, that in this present year 1671, the number of English there amounts to fifteen or twenty thousand inhabitants, for whose encouragement there is a fundamental law established there by his Lordship; whereby Liberty of Conscience is allowed...so that no man who is a Christian is in danger of being disturbed for his religion, and all persons being satisfied touching his Lordships right, as granted by his superior sovereign, the King of Great Britain, and possessed by the consent and agreement from the first Indian owners, every person who repaireth thither, intending to become an inhabitant, finds himself secure, as well in the quite enjoyment of his property, as of his conscience.