Excerpt from Maryland, Two Hundred Years Ago: A Discourse Such was the termination of that great drama, in which Charles had been a prominent actor; and in which, by his exaggerated estimate of the kingly prerogative, by his blind ness to the spread of true ideas of political and religious liberty, by his weak subterfuges and despicable insincerity, by the bigotry of his religious and the obstinacy of his politi cal advisers, he had been lcd into straits from which there was no escape; and found, in the executioner's axe, the only means of unloosing the Gordian knot of difficulty and distress, in which he beheld himself entangled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.