Assembly of Maryland (1650) passed a Eulogy Proclamation honoring Leonard Calvert, who had died three years earlier:
<Great and manifold are the benefits wherewith Almighty God hath blessed this colony, first brought and landed within the province of Maryland, at your lordship's charge, and continued by your care and industry, in the happy restitution of a blessed peace unto us, being lately wasted by a miserable dissension and unhappy war.
But more estimable are the blessings poured on this province, in planting Christianity among a people that knew not God, nor had heard of Christ. All which, we recognize and acknowledge to be done and performed, next under God, by your lordship's pious intention towards the advancement and propagation of the Christian religion, and the peace and happiness of this colony and province.> 1650AM001
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1650AM001. Assembly of Maryland (1650), Eulogy Proclamation honoring Leonard Calvert, who had died in 1647.