And be it also further Enacted by the same authority ... that whatsoever person or persons shall... declare call or denominate any person or persons whatsoever ... within this
Province... an Heretic, Schismatic, Idolator, puritan, Independant, Prespiterian popish priest,
Jesuit, Jesuited papist, Lutheran, Calvinist, Anabaptist, Brownist, Antinomian, Barrowist,
Roundhead, Separatist, or any other name or term in a reproachful (disrespectful) manner
relating to matter of Religion shall for every such offense forfeit and lose the sum of ten
shillings sterling or the value thereof to be levied on the goods and chattels of every such
Offender and Offenders, the one half thereof to be forfeited and paid unto the person and
persons of whom such reproachful words are or shall be spoken or uttered, and the other
half thereof to the Lord Proprietary and his heirs Lords and Proprietaries of this Province...
Source: Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
1. A historian would best use this document as
(1) evidence of the punitive nature of colonial laws in Maryland
(2) evidence of intolerance of religious worship in colonial law
(3) evidence of colonial support for the democratic principle of religious tolerance
(4) the existence of a unified religious community in colonial America
2. This document most likely led to which result?
(1) forced exile of members of Protestant religious denominations from Maryland
(2) forfeiture of English citizenship by religious residents of Maryland
(3) conversion of thousands of Maryland residents from Catholicism to Protestantism
(4) the thriving of a variety of religious communities in the colony of Maryland