Charles I

(1600-1649), King of Great Britain from 1625 to 1649, in 1628 granted a charter to the governor and company of Ma achusetts Bay Colony. His arbitrary rule and his persecutions of religious sects through Archbishop Laud caused a great emigration to New England. He was always hostile to the government set up there. In 1629 he gave the “‘ Province of Carolina ’’ to Sir Robert Heath, his attorney-general. t fn 1632 he gave to Cecilius Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, a proprietary grant of Maryland. 138