"Religious toleration was not new to the men and women of Maryland. Planned by George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, and actually founded by his son Cecil, the province was primarily a haven for persecuted Catholics; yet its founders had welcomed, and even sought, Protestants as settlers. Furthermore, back in November, 1633, in the first paragraph of his instructions to the governor and commissioners, the second Lord Baltimore had warned his Catholic and Protestant colonists, then leaving for the New World, that they were not to give offense to one another in matters of religion." Based on the excerpt above and the readings in the modules, what happened in Maryland that Lord Baltimore was trying to prevent?

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