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NEW DISTURBANCES. 285
endeavors to promote the interests of the province the assembly, in the year
1682, "to demonstrate its gratitude, duty and affection to the proprietary,
prayed his acceptance of 100,000 lb., of tobacco, to be levied this present
year," for which the proprietary tendered his thanks, but replied that " considering the great charge of the province, he did not think fit to accept
thereof."* This was the act of a man familiar with a court where the
leading spirits were a Buckingham, an Ashley, a Danby and a Lauderdale,
and where the monarch himself was a pensioner of France.
Yet, despite the professed or real attachment of his colonists, events were
ripening that threatened Baltimore's ruin and the lasting disgrace of the
colony. The spirit that Claiborne, Ingle and Fendall had aroused, was
again awaking. The infamous "Popish plot" had provoked the worst
passions of bigotry and fanaticism in England, and its effects had crossed
the Atlantic and were agitating men's spirits, while the crafty and
unscrupulous saw hopes of profit in the coining storm, and inflamed the
popular mind with suspicion and hatred of the Catholics. Fendall, who had
overthrown the government of Cromwell, and tried to overthrow that of the
proprietary, now abused the lenity which had unwisely been shown him, to
foment new disturbances. He held out tempting prospects of plunder and
aggrandizement to those like-minded ^ith himself, and was assisted in
his schemes by one John Coode, "a wretch with no common share of
villainy."2 The plot, however, failed; Fendall was tried in 1681 for
seditious practices, and instead of the gallows which he richly deserved, was
punished by fine and banishment, while Coode was acquitted.
Of these troubles Lord Baltimore gives an account in the following
letter, dated July 19, 1681, to the Earl of Anglesea, president of the privy
council:
" My Noble Good Lord,
" I should not presume to offer your Lordshipp the trouble of perusing these lines, did
I not hold my selfe obliged to lett your Lordshipp understand in short the present state and
condition both of Virginia and Maryland in relation to some Northern Indians, that are
lately come downe into both colonies, who have committed outrages and murders in both
governments. These Northern Indians pretend no desyne of mischiefe towards the
English, but tell us they're resolv'd to destroy all our neighbouring Indians, whome when
they're subdued conquered & destroyed, I beleeve their next desyne will be against the
Inhabitants of both these colonies, whose stocks of Cattle and hoggs they already make
bold with, and especially in Virginia, where these savages kill and destroy hoggs and
Cattle afore the faces of the Owners of them, and if the English make any opposition,
they're imediately fir'd at by these Indian villians, and upon the like occasion were five
men and a woman killed about a month since in Mary Land. Upon these disturbances
given us by these heathen Rogues some evill ill disposed spirits have been tampering to
stirr up the Inhabitants of Mary Land and those of the North part of Virginia, to meeting,
of which I haveing notice, as alsoe being certainly inform'd who were the chiefe
contrivers and carriers on of the designe, I immediately sent orders for the apprehending
one Josias Fendall and John Coade two rank Baconists; the first of these was some
1 Chalmers, p. 375. 2 HaAvks, p. 54.
| 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 | 00000312 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | NEW DISTURBANCES. 285 endeavors to promote the interests of the province the assembly, in the year 1682, "to demonstrate its gratitude, duty and affection to the proprietary, prayed his acceptance of 100,000 lb., of tobacco, to be levied this present year," for which the proprietary tendered his thanks, but replied that " considering the great charge of the province, he did not think fit to accept thereof."* This was the act of a man familiar with a court where the leading spirits were a Buckingham, an Ashley, a Danby and a Lauderdale, and where the monarch himself was a pensioner of France. Yet, despite the professed or real attachment of his colonists, events were ripening that threatened Baltimore's ruin and the lasting disgrace of the colony. The spirit that Claiborne, Ingle and Fendall had aroused, was again awaking. The infamous "Popish plot" had provoked the worst passions of bigotry and fanaticism in England, and its effects had crossed the Atlantic and were agitating men's spirits, while the crafty and unscrupulous saw hopes of profit in the coining storm, and inflamed the popular mind with suspicion and hatred of the Catholics. Fendall, who had overthrown the government of Cromwell, and tried to overthrow that of the proprietary, now abused the lenity which had unwisely been shown him, to foment new disturbances. He held out tempting prospects of plunder and aggrandizement to those like-minded ^ith himself, and was assisted in his schemes by one John Coode, "a wretch with no common share of villainy."2 The plot, however, failed; Fendall was tried in 1681 for seditious practices, and instead of the gallows which he richly deserved, was punished by fine and banishment, while Coode was acquitted. Of these troubles Lord Baltimore gives an account in the following letter, dated July 19, 1681, to the Earl of Anglesea, president of the privy council: " My Noble Good Lord, " I should not presume to offer your Lordshipp the trouble of perusing these lines, did I not hold my selfe obliged to lett your Lordshipp understand in short the present state and condition both of Virginia and Maryland in relation to some Northern Indians, that are lately come downe into both colonies, who have committed outrages and murders in both governments. These Northern Indians pretend no desyne of mischiefe towards the English, but tell us they're resolv'd to destroy all our neighbouring Indians, whome when they're subdued conquered & destroyed, I beleeve their next desyne will be against the Inhabitants of both these colonies, whose stocks of Cattle and hoggs they already make bold with, and especially in Virginia, where these savages kill and destroy hoggs and Cattle afore the faces of the Owners of them, and if the English make any opposition, they're imediately fir'd at by these Indian villians, and upon the like occasion were five men and a woman killed about a month since in Mary Land. Upon these disturbances given us by these heathen Rogues some evill ill disposed spirits have been tampering to stirr up the Inhabitants of Mary Land and those of the North part of Virginia, to meeting, of which I haveing notice, as alsoe being certainly inform'd who were the chiefe contrivers and carriers on of the designe, I immediately sent orders for the apprehending one Josias Fendall and John Coade two rank Baconists; the first of these was some 1 Chalmers, p. 375. 2 HaAvks, p. 54. |
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