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Province, and that none 011 penaltie (mentioned) should disturb
each other in their several professions, nor give the urging
terms, either of Roundheads, sectarie Independent, Jesuit, Pa-
pist etc., Intending an absolute peace and Union: the Oath of
fidelitie (although none other than such as every Lord of a
manor requires of his tenent) was overhauled, and this clause
added to it (provided it infringed not the libertie of the con-
science).”
“They sat downe joyfully, followed their vocations cheer-
fully, trade increased in their Province, and divers others, we.re
by this encouraged and invited over from Virginia.”
“But these people Unding themselves in a capacitie not
only to capitulate, but to oversway, those that had so received
and relieved them.”
“Begau to pick quarrels, first with the Papists, next with
the Oath, and lastly declared their aversness to all conformitie,
wholly ayming (as themselves since confessed) to deprive the
Lord Proprietor of all his interest in that country and make
it their own.”
After the royal power feil in England, Maryland became
the scene of political and religious strife ’). Clayborne who had
established himself on Kent Island, urged perhaps by a con-
viction of having been wronged1 2), and still more by the liope
1) “For this was an age in which difference of religion was almost sure
to lead to active hostility, since their was scarcely a single sect which was Con-
tent to be merely tolerated, but each sought to force others to join it, and none
more so than the Puritan party to which many of the influential Marylanders
belonged.” Doyles “America”, p. 150.
2) The Isle of Kent came within the bounds of the Assembiy of Mary-
land, and therefore came under its jurisdiction. Clayborne tried to dodge this
fact, and petitioned the Council for a graut. It was decided upon at Whitehall
April 4 1638, and the Order reads thus — “That no grant from his Majesty
should pass to the said Clayborne or any others of the said Isle of Kent, or
other parts or places within the said Patent, where of his Majesty’s Attorney
and Solicitor General are hereby prayed to take notice, and concerning the
violences and wrongs by the said Clayborne, and the rest complained of in the
said petition of his Majesty their Lordships did now also declare, that they found
no cause at all to relieve them, but to leave both sides therein to the ordinary
course of justice.” Hazard vol. I. 431,
Province, and that none 011 penaltie (mentioned) should disturb
each other in their several professions, nor give the urging
terms, either of Roundheads, sectarie Independent, Jesuit, Pa-
pist etc., Intending an absolute peace and Union: the Oath of
fidelitie (although none other than such as every Lord of a
manor requires of his tenent) was overhauled, and this clause
added to it (provided it infringed not the libertie of the con-
science).”
“They sat downe joyfully, followed their vocations cheer-
fully, trade increased in their Province, and divers others, we.re
by this encouraged and invited over from Virginia.”
“But these people Unding themselves in a capacitie not
only to capitulate, but to oversway, those that had so received
and relieved them.”
“Begau to pick quarrels, first with the Papists, next with
the Oath, and lastly declared their aversness to all conformitie,
wholly ayming (as themselves since confessed) to deprive the
Lord Proprietor of all his interest in that country and make
it their own.”
After the royal power feil in England, Maryland became
the scene of political and religious strife ’). Clayborne who had
established himself on Kent Island, urged perhaps by a con-
viction of having been wronged1 2), and still more by the liope
1) “For this was an age in which difference of religion was almost sure
to lead to active hostility, since their was scarcely a single sect which was Con-
tent to be merely tolerated, but each sought to force others to join it, and none
more so than the Puritan party to which many of the influential Marylanders
belonged.” Doyles “America”, p. 150.
2) The Isle of Kent came within the bounds of the Assembiy of Mary-
land, and therefore came under its jurisdiction. Clayborne tried to dodge this
fact, and petitioned the Council for a graut. It was decided upon at Whitehall
April 4 1638, and the Order reads thus — “That no grant from his Majesty
should pass to the said Clayborne or any others of the said Isle of Kent, or
other parts or places within the said Patent, where of his Majesty’s Attorney
and Solicitor General are hereby prayed to take notice, and concerning the
violences and wrongs by the said Clayborne, and the rest complained of in the
said petition of his Majesty their Lordships did now also declare, that they found
no cause at all to relieve them, but to leave both sides therein to the ordinary
course of justice.” Hazard vol. I. 431,