Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Maryland

(U.S. America) was so named in compliment to Queen Henrietta Maria. In the Latin charter it is called Terra Marice.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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