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364 HISTORY OF MARYLAND.
fence made its appearance among the people of the lower counties. Whatever
faufts may have been alleged against the Catholic clergy, they have never
been charged with shrinking from their duties in times of peril; and while
the disease was raging theywent from house to house, helping the sick, and
administering the consolations and last offices of their faith to the dying.
This conduct was not unnoticed by the Lower House, who made it the subject
of the following message to the governor:
" Upon reading a certain letter from a reverend minister of the Church of England,
which your Excellency was pleased to communicate to us, complaining to your Excellency that the Popish priests in Charles county do, of their own accord, in this raging
and violent mortality in that county, make it their business to go up and down the
county, to persons' houses when dying and frantic, and endeavor to seduce and make
proselytes of them, and in such condition boldly presume to administer the sacrament to
them ; we have put it to the vote in the House if a law should be made to restrain such
their presumption, or not; and have concluded to make no such law at present, but humbly intreat your Excellency that you would be pleased to issue your proclamation to
restrain and prohibit such their extravagance and presumptuous behavior."
A short time later, the Upper House think it necessary to bring a specific
offender to the governor's notice, in these terms:
" It being represented to this board that Wm. Hunter, a Popish priest, in Charles
county, committed divers enormities in disswading several persons, especially poor, ignorant people of the Church of England, from their faith, and endeavoring to draw them to
the Popish faith, consulted and debated whether it may not be advisable that the said
Hunter be wholly silenced and not suffered to preach or say mass in any part of this
province, and thereupon it is thought advisable that the same be wholly left to his Excellency's judgment to silence him or not, as his demerits require."
On the 4th of October, 1698, Governor Francis Nicholson was transferred
by the king to Virginia, and Colonel Nathaniel Blackiston was appointed in
his stead. He qualified on the 2d of January, 1698 O.S. (1699 N.S.) Before
Nicholson's departure, however, the assembly appropriated £100 to purchase of Mr. John Dent, Cool Springs, now called Whitemarsh, in St.
Mary's county, and fifty acres adjoining, and for the erection of "small tenements for the good and. benefit of such poor, impotent and lame persons as
shall resort thither." Governor Blackiston alludes to this as a subject of
special thankfulness, in an address to the assembly, wherein, after enumerating many blessings for which the people should be thankful to the
Almighty, adds: " and for restoring health to us, and blessing us with several
beneficial and healing springs of water, called the Cool Springs, which, by
His blessing, have wrought many wonderful and signal cures amongst several
distempered and impotent persons."
By this we learn that the epidemic had subsided. Notwithstanding their
serious misfortunes, the colony seems at this time to have been in a thriving
state, as the governor declares:
"As for public workhouses, we adjudge them altogether needless. None need stand
still for want of employment. The province wants workmen; workmen want not work.
Here are no beggars ; and such as are superanuated are reasonably well provided for by
the counties."
| 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 | 00000391 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 364 HISTORY OF MARYLAND. fence made its appearance among the people of the lower counties. Whatever faufts may have been alleged against the Catholic clergy, they have never been charged with shrinking from their duties in times of peril; and while the disease was raging theywent from house to house, helping the sick, and administering the consolations and last offices of their faith to the dying. This conduct was not unnoticed by the Lower House, who made it the subject of the following message to the governor: " Upon reading a certain letter from a reverend minister of the Church of England, which your Excellency was pleased to communicate to us, complaining to your Excellency that the Popish priests in Charles county do, of their own accord, in this raging and violent mortality in that county, make it their business to go up and down the county, to persons' houses when dying and frantic, and endeavor to seduce and make proselytes of them, and in such condition boldly presume to administer the sacrament to them ; we have put it to the vote in the House if a law should be made to restrain such their presumption, or not; and have concluded to make no such law at present, but humbly intreat your Excellency that you would be pleased to issue your proclamation to restrain and prohibit such their extravagance and presumptuous behavior." A short time later, the Upper House think it necessary to bring a specific offender to the governor's notice, in these terms: " It being represented to this board that Wm. Hunter, a Popish priest, in Charles county, committed divers enormities in disswading several persons, especially poor, ignorant people of the Church of England, from their faith, and endeavoring to draw them to the Popish faith, consulted and debated whether it may not be advisable that the said Hunter be wholly silenced and not suffered to preach or say mass in any part of this province, and thereupon it is thought advisable that the same be wholly left to his Excellency's judgment to silence him or not, as his demerits require." On the 4th of October, 1698, Governor Francis Nicholson was transferred by the king to Virginia, and Colonel Nathaniel Blackiston was appointed in his stead. He qualified on the 2d of January, 1698 O.S. (1699 N.S.) Before Nicholson's departure, however, the assembly appropriated £100 to purchase of Mr. John Dent, Cool Springs, now called Whitemarsh, in St. Mary's county, and fifty acres adjoining, and for the erection of "small tenements for the good and. benefit of such poor, impotent and lame persons as shall resort thither." Governor Blackiston alludes to this as a subject of special thankfulness, in an address to the assembly, wherein, after enumerating many blessings for which the people should be thankful to the Almighty, adds: " and for restoring health to us, and blessing us with several beneficial and healing springs of water, called the Cool Springs, which, by His blessing, have wrought many wonderful and signal cures amongst several distempered and impotent persons." By this we learn that the epidemic had subsided. Notwithstanding their serious misfortunes, the colony seems at this time to have been in a thriving state, as the governor declares: "As for public workhouses, we adjudge them altogether needless. None need stand still for want of employment. The province wants workmen; workmen want not work. Here are no beggars ; and such as are superanuated are reasonably well provided for by the counties." |
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