MARYLAND
HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
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Vol. XXII.
December, 1927 No.4
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CALVERT AND DARNALL GLEANINGS FROM
ENGLISH WILLS.
Mrs. Russel Hastings.
(Continued from Vol. XXII, p. 245.)
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The Calvert wills which follow, most of the hitherto unpublished, correct
certain minor errors that have crept into the accounts of the Baltimores;
but four interesting genealogical puzzles relating to the family still
remain unsolved. The maiden name of Johanna, first Lady Baltimore, is a
mystery. The identity of Leonard Calvert's wife (now that it is know that
Margaret Brent's sister Ann was a non-juring spinster in 1651, ten years
after the birth of Leonard Calvert's children) is undiscovered, although
she was quite possibly a member of the prolific Brent family. The degree of
cousinship to the Proprietary of Governor Charles Calvert, his mother the
Countess Henrietta Calvert, his aunt Mme. Margaret Lazenby, and his
possible cousin Charles Calvert Lazenby, is still unclarified; and the name
of the mother of Benedict Calvert of Maryland whose daughter was given in
marriage to George Washington's stepson, has not emerged from its long and
interesting obscurity. The recent discovery of eight Calvert portraits by
Hesseluis and Wollaston in Browning's village of Asolo, Italy, where they
had been for almost two centuries in the possession of Onorio Razolini's
descendants, had revived interest in the Governor's identity. The portraits
(now in Baltimore) depict the Governor, his daughter, her husband Benedict
Calvert, and several of their children, and from inscriptions in Italian
and English on canvas and stretchers, we have learned certain dated of
birth and death which were hitherto unknown. For some reason the romances
of American history have seemed unimportant to its chroniclers, and thus we
almost believe that we have come to be what we are without any of the deep
undercurrents of human life. When one day serious historians turn to the
drama and color of our past, the annals of the Calvert will emerge as
perhaps the most fascinating Saga of them all.
The WILL of CECILIUS CALVERT, second Lord BALTIMORE, 1. dated 22 Nov. 1675.
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1 Cecilius Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, and the actual founder of
Maryland, was named for his father's patron, Robert Cecil, Earl of
Salisbury. he was bapt. at Bexley in Kent, 2 March, 1605/6, and his
godparents were the Earl of Cumberland (a Clifford), Robert Cecil, Earl of
Salisbury, and Lady Wooton, their substitutes being "Sir Oliffe, Sir John
Leighes" and Mrs. Nicholas Boteler, his grandmother (Genealogist, new
series, Vol. 1, p. 59). Less than twenty years later, Sir George Calvert,
the child's father, was a convert to the Catholicism (together with his
entire family, it may safely be assumed) and the boy was given his
confirmation name of Cecilius, according to the Catholic custom. This was
a variation of a saint's name and therefore superseded the use of the
earlier name of Cecil (Sloane Mss., No. 3662, British Museum. Transcript in
Md. Hist. Soc. Mss. Coll. ). Cecilius Calvert matriculated at Trinity
College, Oxford, in 1621. The settlement upon his approaching marriage to
Anne Arundell was signed 20 March, 1627/8. An original copy of this
instrument is among the Calvert Papers in the Md. Hist. Soc. Mss. Coll. The
bride was thirteen years at the time, if the age given in her M. I. in the
parish church of Tisbury, Wilts, is correct (23 July, 1649, in her 34 th
year). Cecilius, Lord Baltimore, was buried 7 Dec., 1675 (Reg. of St. Giles
in the Fields, London. -- Bump notes).
Their children were listed by Benedict Leonard Calvert, the antiquarlan
Governor of Maryland, for Hearne the Diarist, 19 Feb., 17179/20. This list
supplemented the chart he had given Hearne previously on 1 Sept., 1718
(Hearne, Diary; Md. Hist. Mag., Vol. II, p. 369). It was discovered by Mr.
Bump in Rawlinson Mss., Bodleian Library, Oxford, and follows , somewhat
amplified from other sources: Georgiana, b. Aug., 1629, d. in infancy;
Mary, b. 18 July, 1633, d. in 2 weeks; George, b. 15 Sept., 1634, d. June,
1636 (see Md. Archives, Vol.III, p. 25); Frances, b. Nov., 1635, d. 27
Dec., 1635; Nan or Ann, b. 9 Oct.., 1636, d. 6 May, 1661 [buried 7 May,
1661], Register of St. Giles in the Fields, London]; Charles, b. 27 Aug.,
1637 [later Lord Baltimore]; Mary , b. 30 Nov., 1638, d. 24 Sept., 1671;
Cecilius, b. 23 Feb., 1639/40, d. Feb., 1640/41. This list does not include
the daughter Elizabeth mentioned in Cecilius' will, who was buried 16 Jan.,
1711/12 (Register of St. Giles in the Fields, London ) and whose Admon. is
given, post. This is apparently only an oversight, however, as the
antiquarian Governor names her in the Pedigree Chart. Mary Calvert above
(1638-1671) m. circa 1660, Sir William Blackiston, s. of Sir Ralph
Blackiston and Margaret Fenwick of Giblside, Whickham Parish, Durham, by
whom she had Cecil and Margaret, who d. in infancy. The marriage was
unhappy and Lady Mary Blackiston returned to her father's home for the
remainder of her life. Sir Richard Allibond, the lawyer, m. Barbara
Blackiston of the Gibside family and was active in the disagreements over
property which arose between the Calverts and the Blackistons (Dict. of
Nat. Biog.; Calvert Papers in the Md. Hist. Soc. Mss. Coll.; Hoare, Modern
Wilts, Vol. IV, p. 146; Surtees, Durham, 1820, Vol. II, p. 255, etc.;
Burke, Extinct and Dormant Baronetoics). The reader is referred to the
article on the Lords Baltimore in Gibbs' Peerage, which was compiled in
collaboration and with the utmost care by G.E.Cokayne of London (1825-1911)
and Charles Weathers Bump of Baltimore. Many of Cokayne's Mss. notes are
contained in the Bump collection.
" In the Namr of God Amen. I CECILL Lord BALTIMORE Baron of Baltimore in
the Kingdome of Ireland, being sick of Bodie but Of good and disposing
mind, and memorie doe make this my last will and Testament And first I
bequeath my Soule to the mercifull Reception of its creator and Redeemer My
Bodie to the earth to be decently interred And as to my worldly Estate
wherewith, it hath pleased God to blesse me & dispose as followeth Imprimis
I will and bequeath that all my just debts be with what possible speed payd
and dis-charged out of my personall estate except the debts which I am
owing to my cousin SMITHSON and MR. CLEMENT and for which securitie is
given out of my lands in Yorkshire which said debts my will is shall be
payd out of thje profitts of my land in Yorkshire and not out of my
personal estate And whereas i have heretofore comveyed all my lands and
hereditaments within the Countie of Yorke unto HUMPHREY WELD Esquire JOHN
CALVERT and CALVERT SMITHSON and their heires unto the severall uses and
trusts in the Indenture whereby such conveyance is made contryn'd subject
nevertheless I have lately apppinted and directed under my hand and seale
the payment of two thousnad five hundred pounds unto my daughter ELIZABETH
CALVERT out of the profits of my said Yorkshire Estate and until payment
thereof the yearlie summe of one hundred and sixtie pounds to her and alsoe
the yearely Rent or summe of one hundred and twentie pounds unto RICHARD
BURKE and GEORGE PEARSON their executors administrators and assigns for the
terme of nynety and nyne yeares from my decease I doe hereby confirm the
said payments and declare that the said HUMPHREY WELD , JOHN CALVERT and
CALVERT SMITHSON their heires and assigns shall stand and be seised of the
Iandes and hereditaments soe by mee to them conveyed in trust and to the
intent for the payment of the said two thousand five hundred pounds and the
said annuall payments of one hundred and sixtie pounds and one hundred and
twenty pounds herein before mentioned which said two thousnad five hundred
pounds and one hundred and sixtie pounds and I do hereby declare shall be
in discharge and satisfaction of the provision of one thousand five hundred
pounds and the Annuitie of nynetie pounds in the said Indenture of
conveyance mentioned to be payable to my said daughter ELIZABETH CALVERT
Item I give and bequeath unto RICHARD BURKE whom I have found to be a
faithfull servant for many yeares the summe of one hundred pounds which I
desire may be payd out of my personall estate the next after my debts other
then those secured by mortgage and funerall expences And it is my will and
desire that my debts funerall expences and legacies shall be payd out of my
personall estate and the product of the profits and the Revenue due and
payable and arisingor accrewing to mee from and out of my Province of
Mary-land or by reason of any duety tax or imposition to me payable for or
by reason of any Goods or commodities shipt brought or transported from
thence due and payable at any tyme within twelve moneths next after my
decease And in case my debts funerall expenses and Legacies happen to
surmount my personall estate and the provision I hereby disign for
satisfaction thereof Then my will is that the same shall be payd and
satisfied out of the profits of my Youkshire lands according to the trust
in the said settlement thereof mentioned yet soe as the faresaid annuall
payments of one hundred and sixtie pounds to my daughter ELIZABETH and one
hundred and twentie pounds to RICHARD BURKE and GEORGE PEARSON be in the
first place intirely and punctually payd And whereas there is due to mee by
the appointment discretion or assignment of my deceased daughter the Lady
MARY BLACKISTON a considerable summe of maney out of the Lands and
heraditaments late belonging to Sr. WILLIAM BLACKISTON in the Countie of
Durham And whereof I am nowe seized in fee simple subject to severall
trusts I doe hereby give and devise all and every the summe and summes of
money which are any wayes due payable or hereafter to be paud by reason of
any trust lymitation use Estate Annutiy or Payment whatsoever heretofore
had provided and made for and in relation to the said Aame MARY BLACKISTON
out of the Lands and Tenements in the Coutie of Durham late belonging to
the said Sr.WILLIAM BLACKISTON and w'ch by the Appointment or Assignment of
the said Dame MARY BLACKISTON are nowe become payable to mee as the same
shall be raised I doe give and bequeath the same unto my said daughter
ELIZABETH CALVERT to be paud to her or her assignes as soon as the same may
be out of the profits of the said Lands and Tenements raised agreeable to
the uses and Trusts the Estate I have therein is subject unto And to the
end the said Estate and the profits thereof may be disposed of and
immployed agreeable to such uses and Trusts i doe hereby give and bequeath
all my Mannors Lands Tenements Collieries and heraditaments whatsoever with
their and every of their rights members and appurtenances and all easments
and commodities whatsoever scituate lying and being in the Countie of
Durham and which were late belonging unto Sr. WILLIAM BLACKISTON of Gibside
together with all deeds thereunto relating or belonging unto RICHARD LEE of
Rochester in the Countie of Kent esqr an JOHN MANLEY of london getn their
heires and assignees forever subject to such uses and trusts as in the deed
of conveyance thereof to mee are conteyned and expressed And in regard
there will be some difficultie in the management and concernes of the said
Estate It is my will and desire That the said RICHARD LEE and JOHN MANLEY
and their heires should from tyme to tyme followe the advise and directions
of RICHARD ALLIBOND of Grayes-Inn Esqr in the management and disposall
thereof and in all suits relating thereunto hee being acquainted with all
things realting to the said estate and that they shall make unto him such
certaine yearley allowance out of
the profitts of the said estate for his trouble and paines therein as to
them shall seem requisite and convenient in prudence and discretion the
nature and qualitie of the said Affaires being duely considered Item I will
and bequeath unto RICHARD ALLIBOND
of Grayes-Inne the summe of fortie pounds as a recompence for business
heretofore by him done for mee and desiring him to be assistant in what hee
may to my executors Item I give and bequeath unto GEORGE PEARSON my servant
the summe of thirteene pounts which tow said summes of fortie pounds to
RICHARD ALLIBOND and thirtee pounds I will to be paud out of the money due
me for wood sold at Gibside as soon as the same shall be paid in my great
Luadstone I give to my sonne CHARLES CALVERT Esqu which I desire may be by
him left to his heire and soe to be contynued as an heireloone in the
Familie item I give and bequeath unto my said [sic] cousin PHILIP DARNELL
one Annuitie or yearlie Rent of tenn pounds to be yearely payd to him
during his naturall life out of my Rent and Revenue in Mary-land And also I
give unto my servant RICHARD BURKE one Annuitie or yearely Rent of twentie
pounds per annum to be yearly paid to him payd out of my Rents and Revenue
in Mary-land during his naturall life which said two Annuities I doe charge
my sonne CHARLES CALVERT and his Heires to take care they may be justly and
punctually payd by all the Tyes and Obligations wherewith hee and they can
be bound by a dying parent Item I will and bequeath unto MRS ELIONOR
BARRETT the summe of one hundred pounds to be payd as soon as the same can
be raised out of my personall estate or profits of my lands in Yorkshire
And I will that my daughter ELIZABETH doe forthwith after my decease
dispose and imploy the summe of one hundred pounds to such uses and intents
as I have declared to her Item I give and bequeath black cloth for a
mourning sute unto my brother HUMPHREY WELD and his servant that waits on
him Item [sic] in black cloth for mourning Apparel for my sister GRACE
TALBOT The like for my daughterELIZABETH and her waiting woman And the
like to MRS ANN COTES Item I give and bequeath cloath for mourning sutes to
the severall persons hereafter named (viz) To my cousin PHILIP DARNELL ,
RICHARD ALLIBOND, RICHARD BURKE and GEORGE PEARSON and unto my Page ROBERT
BAITTS and my footman THOMAS NACHER. my fathers picture at length at
muscell Hill I give to my sonne CHARLES CALVERT My servants wages I
desire may be forthwith payd Item i give unto RICHARD LANGHORNE ofthe
Temple esqr one of my Pendulum clocks which hee shall make choice of The
rest of my goods Chatells and personall estate whatsoever I give and
bequeath unto my daughter ELIZABETH CALVERT And of this my last will and
Testament (revoking all former wills) I make and ordaine my brother
HUMHPREY WELD of Lulworth Castle in the Countie of Dorset esqr and my deat
daughter ELIZABETH CALVERT Executors In witness whereof I have hereunto
put my havd and seale this two and twentieth day of November in the yeare
of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy five-- C. BALTIMORE --
Sealed published and declared in the presence of SAM. NELSON--FRA.
DEDDELL -- EDW. PEDLEY --THO. MOORE.
Whereas I am indebted to several tradesmen to the value of four hundred
pounds or thereabouts, It is my will that those debts and the Legacies I
have given and made noe speciall Provision for be payd out of the profits
of my Irish and Yorkshire Estate or the one of them Then I will that my
daughter ELIZABETH one of my executors shall have soe much out of the
profits of the said estates as they shall pay in discharge of the said
debts andlegacies above all provisions for her made Item I give to my said
daughter ELIZABETH the Profits and Revenue of the port Duties and the
Moitie of the Imposition on Tobacco in my Province of Mary-land for the
Space of one yeare from the tyme of my decease And it is my will that the
Settlements I have heretofore made of my Yorkshire and irish Estates be
good and valid to the p'formance my last will and testament and the
Provisions therein And that the trustees of the said estates stand be
seised and possessed of the said estates and terms therein lymitted and
appointed for the due performance of my last will and Testament and other
Declarations by mee made and the uses in the said Settlem'ts conteyned
according to the true meaning of my said last Will Declarations and
Settlements And my will that is this be taken as part of my last will and
Testament and added thereun to In witnesse whereof I have hereunto put my
hand and Seale this eighth and twentieth day of November An'o Domini one
thousand six hundred seaventie five --
C. BALTEMORE."
Proved with a Codicil 3 Feb., 1675/6. (Extracted from the Principal
Registry of the probate Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of
Justice.
II Bence; 28 O B. Non-Official copy in the Md.Hist. Soc. Mss.Coll.)
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