Acknowledgments and Suggestions for Further Reading


A number of people helped in the preparation of this publication.  Henry Miller and Lois Green Carr of the St. Mary's City Commission research and interpretation team pointed to the Country's House as the site where the legislature in all probability met in April 1649. Henry Miller provided the illustration on the cover, overseeing the hard work of Don Winter to correct the 1986 conjectural drawing to reflect more recent discoveries and to have the building appear as it did in April 1649. Robert Forster carefully read the manuscript and, as always, made many constructive suggestions. Lynne MacAdam, with the assistance of Mimi Calver, Richard Richardson, and Kathy Beard, produced and proofread both the web and the printed versions.

To date, some of the best research and writing on An Act Concerning Religion and those who enacted it remain unpublished in Lois Green Carr's work, including "Toleration in Maryland: Why It Ended," and "The Original Experiment," both of which can be consulted in draft at the Maryland State Archives. A few excellent essays are in print and are more generally available, including:

Everstine, Carl N. "Maryland's Toleration Act: An Appraisal." Maryland Historical Magazine 79, no. 2, (Summer 1984): 99-116.

Fausz, J. Frederick. "By Warre Upon Our Enemies and Kinde Usage of Our Friends: The Secular Context of Religious Toleration in Maryland, 1620-1660" (Published privately by the author, 1983).

Krugler, John D. "With Promise of Liberty in Religion: The Catholic Lords Baltimore and Toleration in Seventeenth-Century Maryland, 1634-1692." Maryland Historical Magazine 79, no. 1, (Spring 1984): 21-43.

More on the history of the legislature and the lives of legislators in this period can be found in:
Papenfuse, Edward C., Jr., et al. A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979, 1985.

Jordan, David W. Foundations of Representative Government in Maryland, 1632-1715. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Everstine, Carl N. General Assembly of Maryland, 1634-1920. Charlottesville, VA: The Michie Company, 1980, 1982, 1984.

For An Act Concerning Religion and An Act for the Relief of the Jews in Maryland in the context of other documents see:
Daily Life in the New World, 1634-1715. Archives of Maryland (Documents for the Classroom) MSA SC 2221-3. (http://mdsa.net/msa/stagser/s1259/121/3916/html/0000.html)

Writing It All Down: The Art of Constitution Making for the State and the Nation, 1776-1833. Archives of Maryland (Documents for the Classroom) MSA SC 2221-4. (http://mdsa.net/msa/stagser/s1259/121/3918/html/0000.html)

Maryland State Archives Museum Without Walls - Religious Freedom Under Law
(http://mdsa.net/msa/educ/exhibits/html/exhibit.html)