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214 HISTORY OF MARYLAND.
Severn, went over the river of Patuxent, and there at length received a
message from the said Captain Stone, that the next day he would meet and
treat in the woods; and thereupon being in some fear of a party to come
from Virginia, he condescended to lay down his power lately assumed from
the Lord Baltimore, and to submit (as he had once before done) to such
government as the commissioners should appoint under his highness the lord
protector."
They then took possession of the province, and issued, on the 22d of
July, 1654, in the name of Oliver Cromwell, whom Governor Stone, on the
6th of May, had already proclaimed lord protector, &c, a commission to-
Captain William Fuller, Eichard Preston, William Durand, Edward Lloyd,.
Captain John Smith, Leonard Strong, John Lawson, John Hatch, Eichard
Wells and Eichard Ewen, constituting them a board of commissioners to'
administer the government.
Mr. John Hammond, in his pamphlet of Hammond vs. Heamans,,
published in London in 1655, speaking of Governor Stone's resignation of
the government of Maryland into the hands of Cromwell's commissioners,,
says:
" At such times as Bennet and Claiborne came into Maryland, and had compacted to*
take the government out of the hands of Captain Stone, after he had notice of the power
they had gathered, he likewise impowered himself for defence, and was in possibility to
have cut Bennet and Claiborne and all off, but those few Papists that were in Maryland
(for indeed they are but few) importunately perswaded Governour Stone not to fight, lest,
the cry against the Papists (if any hurt were clone) would be so great that many mischiefs,
would ensue, wholly referring themselves to the will of God, and the Lord Protector's;
determination ; and although the Protestant party, with indignation to be so fooled, submitted to what their Governour was perswaded to do, yet could not but complaine in that,
particular against the cowardise of the Papists.
" After they had dispossest Governour Stone of his Authority, and had, by promises to-
dis-bandon their party, perswaded him to do the like, they presented him with a draught"
for resignation under his hand, which, when he refused, their whole party, upon notice
given, on a sudden returned, to the astonishment of himself and affrightment of his wife
and children, and required him peremptorily to subscribe to what they had written,;
which he did, saying, It matters not what it is, I will, being thus enforced; write what ye
will have me sign; it cannot be binding nor valid; so here the observance of Bennet and
Claiborne's promises; and after this they would have impowered him, as Governour, from
them, which, with scorn, he refused; nor did Governour Stone, even in his own esteem,,
nor in the eyes of those that had been faithfu.ll to his Government, look on himself as lesse
or otherwise than Governour, nor even received other title, howbeit he ceased to act
until he heard further from England."
The commission issued by Bennett and Cromwell to the ten Maryland
commissioners further authorized them to " summon an assembly, to begin on
the 20th day of October, (then) next, for which assembly all such should be
disabled to give any vote, or to be elected members thereof, as have borne
arms in war against the parliament, or do profess the Roman Catholic
religion"
| Title | History of Maryland - 1 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000239 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 214 HISTORY OF MARYLAND. Severn, went over the river of Patuxent, and there at length received a message from the said Captain Stone, that the next day he would meet and treat in the woods; and thereupon being in some fear of a party to come from Virginia, he condescended to lay down his power lately assumed from the Lord Baltimore, and to submit (as he had once before done) to such government as the commissioners should appoint under his highness the lord protector." They then took possession of the province, and issued, on the 22d of July, 1654, in the name of Oliver Cromwell, whom Governor Stone, on the 6th of May, had already proclaimed lord protector, &c, a commission to- Captain William Fuller, Eichard Preston, William Durand, Edward Lloyd,. Captain John Smith, Leonard Strong, John Lawson, John Hatch, Eichard Wells and Eichard Ewen, constituting them a board of commissioners to' administer the government. Mr. John Hammond, in his pamphlet of Hammond vs. Heamans,, published in London in 1655, speaking of Governor Stone's resignation of the government of Maryland into the hands of Cromwell's commissioners,, says: " At such times as Bennet and Claiborne came into Maryland, and had compacted to* take the government out of the hands of Captain Stone, after he had notice of the power they had gathered, he likewise impowered himself for defence, and was in possibility to have cut Bennet and Claiborne and all off, but those few Papists that were in Maryland (for indeed they are but few) importunately perswaded Governour Stone not to fight, lest, the cry against the Papists (if any hurt were clone) would be so great that many mischiefs, would ensue, wholly referring themselves to the will of God, and the Lord Protector's; determination ; and although the Protestant party, with indignation to be so fooled, submitted to what their Governour was perswaded to do, yet could not but complaine in that, particular against the cowardise of the Papists. " After they had dispossest Governour Stone of his Authority, and had, by promises to- dis-bandon their party, perswaded him to do the like, they presented him with a draught" for resignation under his hand, which, when he refused, their whole party, upon notice given, on a sudden returned, to the astonishment of himself and affrightment of his wife and children, and required him peremptorily to subscribe to what they had written,; which he did, saying, It matters not what it is, I will, being thus enforced; write what ye will have me sign; it cannot be binding nor valid; so here the observance of Bennet and Claiborne's promises; and after this they would have impowered him, as Governour, from them, which, with scorn, he refused; nor did Governour Stone, even in his own esteem,, nor in the eyes of those that had been faithfu.ll to his Government, look on himself as lesse or otherwise than Governour, nor even received other title, howbeit he ceased to act until he heard further from England." The commission issued by Bennett and Cromwell to the ten Maryland commissioners further authorized them to " summon an assembly, to begin on the 20th day of October, (then) next, for which assembly all such should be disabled to give any vote, or to be elected members thereof, as have borne arms in war against the parliament, or do profess the Roman Catholic religion" |
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