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390 HISTORY OF MARYLAND.
selves treated as aliens and inferiors in a colony which had been founded by
their ancestors and fellow-believers, who, out of Christian charity, had
opened an asylum for the very party that was now denying them the rights
of freemen. Among these were Charles and James Carroll, who, with a small
band of Catholic gentlemen1 had conceived the plan of emigrating to the
territory belonging to France. Charles Carroll, during a visit to his son in
France, applied to the French government for a grant of land on the Arkansas
river; but the extent of the tract demanded startled the minister as Mr,
Carroll pointed it out on the map. He considered it too vast to be given to a
subject; and Mr. Carroll was obliged to return without having gained the
concession. Soon after his return, the rigour of the objectionable laws was
relaxed, and the project of emigration was abandoned. Mr. Carroll, who had
been for twenty-five years the proprietary's agent in the province, was
re-appointed by Lord Baltimore with increased authority; and this act gave-
great offence to Governor Hart, who represented to his Lordship that Mr..
Carroll was " a professed Papist, and the first fomenter of our late disturbances, and had acquired a vast estate in this province by the office he
formerly occupied, and his practice in the law." At the opening session of
the Assembly in 1720, Governor Hart thus recites his grievances:
" I shall not entertain you with an historical relation of obtaining the first grant of
this province, nor yet mention the administration of the government under the late
Lord Proprietary, believing it will suffice that I acknowledge the Papists had more than an
equal share with the Protestants in holding judicial and ministerial offices here from the
date of the Charter in 1632, to the year of our Lord 1691, when their late Majesties, King
William and Queen Mary, were pleased to send you a Governor of their appointment.
After this Maryland continued happily governed for 24 years, the respective governors in
that space receiving their commissions and instructions immediately from the crown, of
which I had the last honor. But so soon as his present sacred Majesty condescended to
restore the now Lord Proprietary (on his professing himself a Protestant) to his hereditary government, the Papists instantly laid in their claim to be also restored to their
former pretended privileges, which, when offered to me for my approbation by their
principal agent [Charles Carroll], was dismissed with the answer I would oppose it to
the utmost of my power. Hence our troubles took their rise.
" Upon the first insurrection of the Rebels in Great Britain against his Majesty's
person and government, those of the same evil disposition here were so elated with the'
hopes of their imaginary success, and so open and daring on that presumption, that I
was early obliged to check and restrain their follies by a proclamation published the-
11th of February, 1715, to which I refer you for my reasons of so doing.
" On the 19th of June following, the supposed birth-day of the pretender, the great
guns of this city were fired off late in the night. These offenders were soon discovered
by a reward published in a proclamation, and afterwards punished according to their
demerits.2 Soon after this transaction, Mr. Charles Carroll, a professed Papist, arrived
1 Among these we find the names of Henry 2 Charles Carroll's nephew was among the
Darnall, Henry Darnall, Jr., William Diggs, number arrested for firing the guns.
John Diggs, Benjamin Hall, Clement Hall, Wil- On the 5th of May, 1684, Charles Calvert, the
liam Fitz Redmond, Henry Wharton, Charles third Lord Baltimore, commissioned Col. Henry
Diggs, Peter Attwood (priest), Major Nicholas Darnall, Col. William Digges, Major Nicholas-
Sewell, and Richard Bennett. Sewall, and John Darnall, his " especial and
| 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 | 00000417 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 390 HISTORY OF MARYLAND. selves treated as aliens and inferiors in a colony which had been founded by their ancestors and fellow-believers, who, out of Christian charity, had opened an asylum for the very party that was now denying them the rights of freemen. Among these were Charles and James Carroll, who, with a small band of Catholic gentlemen1 had conceived the plan of emigrating to the territory belonging to France. Charles Carroll, during a visit to his son in France, applied to the French government for a grant of land on the Arkansas river; but the extent of the tract demanded startled the minister as Mr, Carroll pointed it out on the map. He considered it too vast to be given to a subject; and Mr. Carroll was obliged to return without having gained the concession. Soon after his return, the rigour of the objectionable laws was relaxed, and the project of emigration was abandoned. Mr. Carroll, who had been for twenty-five years the proprietary's agent in the province, was re-appointed by Lord Baltimore with increased authority; and this act gave- great offence to Governor Hart, who represented to his Lordship that Mr.. Carroll was " a professed Papist, and the first fomenter of our late disturbances, and had acquired a vast estate in this province by the office he formerly occupied, and his practice in the law." At the opening session of the Assembly in 1720, Governor Hart thus recites his grievances: " I shall not entertain you with an historical relation of obtaining the first grant of this province, nor yet mention the administration of the government under the late Lord Proprietary, believing it will suffice that I acknowledge the Papists had more than an equal share with the Protestants in holding judicial and ministerial offices here from the date of the Charter in 1632, to the year of our Lord 1691, when their late Majesties, King William and Queen Mary, were pleased to send you a Governor of their appointment. After this Maryland continued happily governed for 24 years, the respective governors in that space receiving their commissions and instructions immediately from the crown, of which I had the last honor. But so soon as his present sacred Majesty condescended to restore the now Lord Proprietary (on his professing himself a Protestant) to his hereditary government, the Papists instantly laid in their claim to be also restored to their former pretended privileges, which, when offered to me for my approbation by their principal agent [Charles Carroll], was dismissed with the answer I would oppose it to the utmost of my power. Hence our troubles took their rise. " Upon the first insurrection of the Rebels in Great Britain against his Majesty's person and government, those of the same evil disposition here were so elated with the' hopes of their imaginary success, and so open and daring on that presumption, that I was early obliged to check and restrain their follies by a proclamation published the- 11th of February, 1715, to which I refer you for my reasons of so doing. " On the 19th of June following, the supposed birth-day of the pretender, the great guns of this city were fired off late in the night. These offenders were soon discovered by a reward published in a proclamation, and afterwards punished according to their demerits.2 Soon after this transaction, Mr. Charles Carroll, a professed Papist, arrived 1 Among these we find the names of Henry 2 Charles Carroll's nephew was among the Darnall, Henry Darnall, Jr., William Diggs, number arrested for firing the guns. John Diggs, Benjamin Hall, Clement Hall, Wil- On the 5th of May, 1684, Charles Calvert, the liam Fitz Redmond, Henry Wharton, Charles third Lord Baltimore, commissioned Col. Henry Diggs, Peter Attwood (priest), Major Nicholas Darnall, Col. William Digges, Major Nicholas- Sewell, and Richard Bennett. Sewall, and John Darnall, his " especial and |
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