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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61841	Babylon's fall in Maryland, a fair warning to Lord Baltamore, or, A relation of an assault made by divers papists, and popish officers of the Lord Baltamore's, against the Protestants in Maryland to whom God gave a great victory against a greater force of souldiers and armed men, who came to destroy them / published by Leonard Strong, agent for the people of Providence in Maryland.	Strong, Leonard, Agent for the people of Providence in Maryland.	1655 (1655)	Wing S5994; ESTC R17655	8,274	16

BABYLON's Fall in MARYLAND A fair WARNING to Lord Baltamore OR A RELATION Of an Assault made by divers Papists and Popish Officers of the Lord Baltamore's against the Protestants in Maryland to whom GOD gave a great Victory against a greater force of Souldiers and armed Men who came to destroy them Published by Leonard Strong Agent for the people of PROVIDENCE in MARY-LAND Printed for the Author 1655. Babylons fall in Maryland A fair warning to Lord Baltamore IN the yeer 1649. many both of the congregated Church and other well-affected people in Virginia being debarred from the free exercise of Religion under the Government of Sir William Barkely removed themselves Families and Estates into the Province of Maryland being thereunto invited by Captain William Stone then Governour for Lord Baltamore with promise of Liberty in Religion and Priviledges of English Subjects An Oath to the Lord Baltamore was urged upon this people soon after their coming up which if they did not take they must have no Land nor abiding in the Province This Oath was very scrupulously looked upon first In regard it bindes to acknowledge and be subject to a Royal Jurisdiction and absolute Dominion of the Lord Baltamore and to defend it and him against all power whatsoever This was thought far too high for him being a Subject to exact upon such terms as it was exacted and too much unsutable to the present liberty which God had given the English Subjects from Arbitrary and Popish Government as the Lord Baltamore's Government doth plainly appear to be Secondly It was exceedingly scrupled on another account viz. That they must swear to uphold that Government and those Officers who are sworn to countenance and uphold Antichrist in plain words exprest in the Officers Oath the Roman Catholick Religion And for these people to own such by an Oath whom in their hearts they could by no means close with what could it be accounted but Collusion Yet nevertheless the people that were then come up to Providence considering Lord Baltamore to be Lord of the soil and willing to acknowledge him and pay him his due Rents and Services upon that account took an Oath which was much qualified and moderated from its former rigour but this though it was accepted by Captain Stone the Lord Baltamore's Lieutenant yet utterly rejected by his Lordship who gave order That the Oath absolutely should be urged and gave special instructions and charge to his Leiutenant to proclaim That all that would not take the Oath within three Months after publication and pay Rents and sue out Patents should be expulsed the Province and the Land seized to his Lordships use who required his Officers to see the contents of the Proclamation executed Now the people having been formerly sensible of such yokes imposed contrary to what was promised them before they came into the Province complained by their Agent in England First to the Lord Baltamore desiring his Lordship That such burthens as the Oath and other great inconveniences mentioned in our instructions might be removed But the Lord Baltamore rejected the motion Our Agent presented a Petition to the then Councel of State where it hath been depending neer four yeers without any hearing Answer or Relief which hath brought unspeakable troubles upon this Province now at last occasioned the shedding of much English blood yea of the Saints in Maryland God grant that Right and Justice may have a more open course to flow into all the Dominions of England without obstructions and that innocent blood be not shed any more for want thereof In the yeer 1652. Richard Bennet Esq Colonel William Clayborne and Captain Edmund Curtis Commissioners from the Supream Authority of the Commonwealth of England arrived in Maryland in the Guiny Friggot to reduce that Province into the obedience of the Commonwealth of England according to their Commission which was effected by them first in their taking away the Commissions and Powers of the Lord Baltamore in the hands of Captain William Stone his Governour and Thomas Hatton his Secretary and the rest of the Lord Baltamores Councel as they had very good cause so to do for none of the English Dominions had more need of being reduced and caused them to take the Engagement to the Commonwealth of England as it was then without King or House of Lords And so they might have continued in their places still onely to the Commonwealth of England but they would not yield to issue out Writs in any other name then Lord Baltamore's because of their Oath to him In the yeer 1654. upon some Instructions and Relations from the Lord Baltamore out of England Captain William Stone and Mr. Thomas Hatton and the Popish Councellors rose up against the Reducement displacing those whom the States Commissioners had placed and introducing the old Popish Councel calling that which was done by commission from the Councel of State in England Rebellion against the Lord Baltamore and those that were Actors in it Factious and Seditious Persons which was done by a Proclamation full of railing terms published at Providence in the Church-meeting The Commissioners for the Commonwealth of England hearing that new Orders and Instructions were come to Maryland from Lord Baltamore and that one Scarborough a mischievous instrument of the Lord Baltamore was gone up Maryland resolved to come and see in what condition their affairs stood And finding a direct contradiction to and receding from that obedience to the Commonwealth of England which was promised but not performed by the Lord Baltamore's Officers applied themselves in a peaceable and loving way to perswade them into their due and promised obedience yet became the said Commissioners were given to understand That there was a mischievous design by Lord Baltamore's Officers and their Complices to apprehend their persons and to raise Forces against the lawful Power of the Commonwealth of England The said Commissioners desired some to come down from Providence and some from Putuxent to guard their Persons and defend themselves people from that power of mē in Arms which by this time Captain Stone had pressed in Lord Baltamore's name upon pain of death to assist him against the said Commissioners and gathered together in a formidable manner But the said Commissioners being greatly desirous of peace and willing to avoid the shedding of blood applyed themselves to the said Captain Stone to bring him to a parley and conference where after some arguing the said Captain Stone resigned up the Government which he took up in the Lord Baltamore's name into the hand of the Commissioners of England promising to be obedient to that Government which by their Authority should be set over them under his Highness the Lord Protector The ordering and governing the affairs of Maryland was then committed to Captain Will. Fuller Mr. Rich. Preston Mr. Richard Durand Mr. Edward Lloyd c. others mentioned in the Commission who were required to attend the Engagement of the Commonwealth of

God they were resolved to commit themselves into the hand of God and rather die like men then live like slaves This was also rejected by the said Captain Stone and his Complices the Messengers apprehended their Boat seized and onely three of six escaped to bring the report of their desperate and bloody design and that they were upon their march in a hostile way Capt. Stone and his Company still drew neerer to Providence unto a place called Herring-Creek where they apprehended one of the Commissioners and forced another man of quality to flie for his life having threatned to hang him up-at-his own door and not finding the man affrighted his wife and plundered the house of Ammunition and Provision threatning still what they would do to the people at Providence and that they would force the rebellious factious Roundheads to submit and then they would shew their power Having now left the Country behinde them bare of men save onely such as fled into the Woods from their cruelty and rapine as also of Arms and Ammunition the poor women urging this to them What should they do if the Indians should come upon them being thus strip'd of men and Arms to defend them and in what a sad and sorrowful condition they were left These merciless men answered scoffingly It matters not your sorrow is our joy And indeed it is too apparent that the Indians waited upon their motions and by examination it was found at Providence that the Indians were resolved in themselves or set on by the Popish faction or rather both together to fall upon us as indeed after the fight they did besetting houses killing one man and taking another prisoner Now the people at Providence perceiving such a tempest ready to fall upon them and all messages rejected prepared for their coming looking up and crying to the Lord of Hosts and King of Ston for counsel strength and courage being resolved in the strength of God to stand on their Guard and demand an account of these proceedings seeing no other remedy for so great a mischief could be found About this time Captain Stone sent two men to publish a Proclamation quite against the Law established by the Commissioners of the Commonwealth of England and against an Act of a lawful Assembly which being read and having no other Treaty to offer they were quietly dismissed to their own Company to whom they might have gone if they would That night Captain Stone and his Army appeared in the River of Severne at Providence with eleven or twelve Vessels greater and lesser some of which had plundred by the way in which their whole Army were wafted Capt. Fuller the Councel of War appointed at Providence Mr. Wil. Durand Secretary to go aboard the Golden Lion which then lay at Anchor in the River and to fix a Proclamation in the main mast directed to Captain Heamans Commander of the said Ship wherein he was required in the name of the Lord Protector and Commonwealth of England and for the maintenance of the just Libertyes Lives and Estates of the free Subjects thereof against an unjust power to be aiding and assisting in this service The said Captain Heamans at first was unwilling but afterwards seeing the equity of the Cause and the groundless proceedings of the Enemy he offered himself Ship and Men for that service to be directed by the said William Durand The Enemy was come within the command of the Ship at the shutting in of the evening the Captain of the Ship was required to command them aboard by a piece of Ordnance The Enemy with a great noise rejected the warning Then another Piece was levelled where they heard the Boats rowing the shot whereof lighting something neer but doing no hurt A Messenger came aboard but had nothing of any message to deliver save onely that Captain Stone thought the Captain of the Ship had been satisfied To which the Captain answered Satisfied with what I never saw any power Captain Stone had to do as he hath done but the superscription of a Letter I must and will appear for these in a good Cause That night the Enemy run into the Creek where they landed out of the reach of the Ship But in the morning all their Vessels were block'd up by a small Barque with two pieces of Ordinance which was commanded to lie in the mouth of the Creek and so kept from coming out The same day being the first day of the week and the 25 of March the Enemy appeared in a body upon a narrow neck of the Land neer their Vessels and with Drums and shoutings said Come ye Rogues come ye Rogues Roundheaded Dogs which caused the Captain of the Ship to give fire at them and forced them to march further off into the neck of Land In the mean time Capt. Will. Fuller with his Company came up the River with shoutings and couragious rejoycings and landed with a hundred and twenty men six mile distant from the Enemy and immediately sent away all their Sioaps and Boats committing themselves into the hand of God he marched directly where the Enemy lay waiting for him The Enemies Sentry shot immediately they appeared in order Captain Fuller still expecting that then at last possibly they might give a reason of their coming commanded his men upon pain of death not to shoot a Gun or give the first onset setting up the Standard of the Commonwealth of England against which the Enemy shot five or six Guns and killed one man in the front before a shot was made by the other Then the word was given In the Name of God fall on God is our Strength that was the Word for Providence the Marylanders Word was Hey for Saint Maries The Charge was fierce and sharp for the time but through the glorious presence of the Lord of Hosts manifested in and towards his poor oppressed people the Enemy could not endure but gave back and were so effectually charged home that they were all routed turned their backs threw down their Arms and begged mercy After the first Volley of shot a small Company of the Enemy from behinde a great tree fallen galled us and wounded divers of our men but were soon beaten off Of the whole company of the Marylanders there escaped onely four or five who run away out of the Army to carry News to their Confederates Captain Stone Colonel Price Captain Gerrard Captain Lewis Captain Hendall Captain Guither Major Chandler and all the rest of the Councellors Officers and Souldiers of the Lord Baltamore among whom both Commanders and Souldiers a great number being Papists were taken and so were all their Vessels Arms Ammunition provision about fifty men slain and wounded We lost onely two in the field but two died since of their wounds God did appear wonderful in the field and in the hearts of the people all confessing him to be the onely Worker of this victory and deliverance Examinatur per me William Durand Secretary of MARYLAND The Postscript THus God our Strength appeared for us and the blood which they thirsted after in others was given to themselves to drink the miseries which they threatned to the innocent fell upon the guilty the pit which they digged for others themselves fell into the cords which they brought to binde us bound themselves This is the Lord 's doing it may well be marvellous in our eyes What hath been written is but a very abstract of those great and various providences of God toward his people and against Antichrist a great Volume would not contain the wonders which the Lord himself hath wrought and manifested to the hearts of his people in this dispensation The sum is Satan and his seed rising up against the seed of the woman bruises the heel of Christ but destroyes himself utterly The further evil men proceed in their own way the neerer to destruction so is it with all flesh it works it self into ruine through the adored depths of the wisdom of God Those who are acquainted with the clear and familiar appearances of God to his people in times of distress can understand and rejoyce in what may be now a little further hinted First the Lord confounded the Language of Babel in the hearts projects and consultations of his people when they were devising to defend themselves from this danger till they came to that condition of Jehosaphat We know not what to do but our eyes are towards thee wilt thou judge them for we have no strength against this multitude Secondly Now the Lord gives testimony from himself in the Spirits of many of his Saints in a wonderful plain yet glorious manner for the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him so that as well women as men spake or rather God spake in them an express testimony what should be the issue of this conflict that is glory to God in the highest deliverance to his people destruction to Babylon Songs unto Sion which was revealed so powerfully evidently and certainly that it ravish'd the hearts of some astonish'd others and encouraged the heart both of General Captains and Souldiers as well as others that could not fight to a Triumph before the Engagement and the enjoyment of a victory by the assurance of faith before one stroke of the battle The bow of the Lord was made quite bare to be seen of all that had an eye to see his arrows were seen to be sharp in the heart of the Kings enemies before they fell under him God made the feeble to be as David and David as God they were carried out in the strength of the Lord who gave this testimony to one of the Captains just as the Enemy came up The Victory is yours but God shall be seen and not man in it After the battle what acknowledgement of God in is was in every mean Souldiers mouth as well as the Commanders what praising of God is beyond expression They run through all the Company Give God the glory Blessed be the name of the Lord. FINIS