DATE: Sunday 15 June
TIME: 2 – 5 pm
PRICE: Adult £4.80, Concession £3.80, Child £2.80, Family (2+3) £14
Friends/Volunteers free
PLACE: Kiplin Hall, near Scorton, Richmond
(Off the B6271 between Scorton and Northallerton)
On the afternoon of Sunday 15 June at
Kiplin Hall, members of Richmond Amateur Dramatic Society (RADS) will
re-enact the preparations and anxieties that surrounded the colonisation of
Maryland in the early 17th century. Dressed in costume of the period, the
actors will commemorate the founding of the colony of Maryland and the
signing of the Charter by King Charles I in June 1632. RADS member, Mavis
Palfreman, has written a series of conversations in which members of the
Calvert family discuss the Charter and the news coming back from the colony.
Throughout the afternoon, visitors may eavesdrop on the conversations of
Cecil and Leonard Calvert and their wives, the two Annes, and hear about
their preparations for the journey and the first settlers’ impressions of
the new colony’s native inhabitants.
Cecil Calvert, the eldest son of George
Calvert who built Kiplin Hall in the 1620s, became the 2nd Lord Baltimore on the
death of his father in 1632. George had spent a number of years planning the
foundation of the colony and drawing up the Charter, but sadly died two months
before the king put his seal to it. Cecil and his younger brother, Leonard,
continued with their father’s plans and, on 20 June 1632, Charles I granted a
Charter to Cecil to establish a colony in Maryland. In November 1633, Leonard
sailed to America to establish the colony with 150 settlers and 50 sailors, all
crammed into 2 small wooden boats, the Ark and the Dove. The boats landed in
March 1634 and their life in the New World had begun.
Andrew Slade and Mavis Palfreman will play
Cecil and Anne Calvert, and Gary and Julie Winn will play Leonard and Anne
Calvert in living history at Kiplin Hall on Sunday June 15 between 2 and 5 pm.
Admission to the Hall is £4.80 (adult); £3.80 (concession); £2.80 (child) and
£14 (family 3+2). No need to book. |
