<Ul> <Li> When New France was transferred to Great Britain in 1763, the Catholic Church remained under toleration, but Huguenots were allowed entrance where they had formerly been banned from settlement by Parisian authorities . </Li> <Li> The Colony of Maryland was founded by a charter granted in 1632 to George Calvert, secretary of state to Charles I, and his son Cecil, both recent converts to Catholicism . Under their leadership many English Catholic gentry families settled in Maryland . However, the colonial government was officially neutral in religious affairs, granting toleration to all Christian groups and enjoining them to avoid actions which antagonized the others . On several occasions low - church dissenters led insurrections which temporarily overthrew the Calvert rule . In 1689, when William and Mary came to the English throne, they acceded to demands to revoke the original royal charter . In 1701 the Church of England was proclaimed, and in the course of the eighteenth century Maryland Catholics were first barred from public office, then disenfranchised, although not all of the laws passed against them (notably laws restricting property rights and imposing penalties for sending children to be educated in foreign Catholic institutions) were enforced, and some Catholics even continued to hold public office . </Li> <Li> Spanish Florida was ceded to Great Britain in 1763, the British divided Florida into two colonies . Both East and West Florida continued a policy of toleration for the Catholic Residents . </Li> </Ul> <Li> When New France was transferred to Great Britain in 1763, the Catholic Church remained under toleration, but Huguenots were allowed entrance where they had formerly been banned from settlement by Parisian authorities . </Li> <Li> The Colony of Maryland was founded by a charter granted in 1632 to George Calvert, secretary of state to Charles I, and his son Cecil, both recent converts to Catholicism . Under their leadership many English Catholic gentry families settled in Maryland . However, the colonial government was officially neutral in religious affairs, granting toleration to all Christian groups and enjoining them to avoid actions which antagonized the others . On several occasions low - church dissenters led insurrections which temporarily overthrew the Calvert rule . In 1689, when William and Mary came to the English throne, they acceded to demands to revoke the original royal charter . In 1701 the Church of England was proclaimed, and in the course of the eighteenth century Maryland Catholics were first barred from public office, then disenfranchised, although not all of the laws passed against them (notably laws restricting property rights and imposing penalties for sending children to be educated in foreign Catholic institutions) were enforced, and some Catholics even continued to hold public office . </Li> <Li> Spanish Florida was ceded to Great Britain in 1763, the British divided Florida into two colonies . Both East and West Florida continued a policy of toleration for the Catholic Residents . </Li>

The desire for a separation of church and state came about as the result of