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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87444	A just and cleere refutation of a false and scandalous pamphlet, entituled, Babylons fall in Maryland, &c. and, a true discovery of certaine strange and inhumane proceedings of some ungratefull people in Maryland, towards those who formerly preserved them in time of their greatest distresse. To which is added a law in Maryland concerning religion, and a declaration concerning the same. / By John Langford Gentleman, Servant to the Lord Baltemore.	Langford, John, Gentleman, servant to Lord Baltimore.	1655 (1655)	Wing J1220; Wing L387; Thomason E853_25; ESTC R16909	16,616	35

A just and cleere REFUTATION of a false and scandalous Pamphlet Entituled Babylons fall in Maryland c. AND A true Discovery of certaine strange and inhumane proceedings of some ungratefull people in Maryland towards those who formerly preserved them in time of their greatest distresse To which is added a Law in Maryland concerning Religion and a Declaration concerning the same By John Langford Gentleman Servant to the Lord BALTEMORE Hee that is first in his owne cause seemeth just but his neighbour commeth and searcheth him Prov. 18.17 Whose hatred is covered by deceit his wickednesse shall be shewed before the whole Congregation Prov. 26 26. London Printed for the Author 1655. A just and cleere refutation of a false and scandalous Pamphlet c. HAving lately met with a Pamphlet entituled Babylons Fall in Maryland c. which layes many false and scandalous aspersions upon the Lord Baltemore his Government and Officers in Maryland put forth by one Leonard Strong and attested by William Durand pretending to be Secretary of that Province It was thought fit in regard I have beene acquainted with and imployed by my Lord Baltemore in his affairs relating to that Province both heere and there for above twenty years last past That I should publish this brief Refutation therof to undeceive such as may be deluded by it Captaine Stone who is well known to be a zealous and well affected Protestant being Governour of Maryland under the Lord Baltemore did receive and protect in Maryland those people and their families mentioned by Mr. Strong when they were distressed in Virginia under Sir William Berkley among whom it is to be noted that Mr. Richard Bennet afterwards Governour of Virginia was one and thereupon a Commission was granted by Charles Stuart the eldest Son of the late King to Sir William Davenant constituting him Governor of the said Province alleadging therin the reasons to be because the Lord Baltemore did visibly adhere to the Rebels in England as he terms them in that Commission and admitted all kind of Sectaries and Schismaticks and ill affected persons into that Plantation These people seated themselves at a place by them called Providence but by an Act of a Generall Assembly there called Anne-Arundell in Mariland and there was nothing promised by my Lord or Capt. Stone to them but what was performed they were first acquainted by Capt. Stone before they came there with that Oath of Fidelity which was to be taken by those who would have any Land there from his Lordship and the Oath which was required of them to take before they could have any Parent for Land there was ratified by an Act of a Generall Assembly of that Province wherin those very men had their Burgesses there being an expresse Clause in it That it should not bee understood to infringe or prejudice Liberty of Conscience in point of Religion as will appear by the Oath it selfe nor had they any regrett to the Oath till they were as much refreshed with their intertainment there as the Snake in the Fable was with the Country mans breast for which some of them are equally thankfull But it is now it seems thought by some of those people too much below them to take an Oath to the Lord Proprietary of that Province though many Protestants of much better quality have taken it and which is more then can be hoped for from some of these men kept it As to the Government there they knew it very well before they came thither and if they had not liked it they might have forborne comming or staying there for they were never forced to either the chiefe Officers under my Lord there are Protestants the Jurisdiction exercised there by them is no other then what is warranted by his Lordships Patent of that Province which gives him the power and priviledges of a Count Palatine there depending on the Supream Authority of England with power to make Lawes with the Peoples consent and of Martiall Law in cases of Mutiny Rebellion or Sedition without which powers and priviledges his Lordship would not have undertaken that Plantation and have beene at so great a charge and run so many hazards as he hath done for it There are none there sworn to uphold Antichrist as Mr. Strong falsly suggests nor doeth the Oath of Fidelity bind any man to maintain any other Jurisdiction or Dominion of my Lords than what is granted by his Patent for by expresse words it relates to such only as are therein contained whatsoever Mr. Strong sayes to the contrary Though some of those people it seemes thinke it unfit that my Lord should have such a jurisdiction and dominion there unto which he hath as good a right as Mr. Strong or any of those people can claime to any thing they have yet they it seemes by their arrogant and insolent proceedings thinke it fit for them to exercise farre more absolute Jurisdictions and Dominion there then my Lord ever did such as in truth are Arbitrary and Barbarous without any lawfull right or Authority at all nor are they contented with freedome for themselves of Conscience Person and Estate all which are establisht to them by Law there and injoyed by them in as ample manner as ever any people did in any place of the world unlesse they may have the liberty to debarr others from the like freedome and that they may domineere and doe what they please As to the pretended Commission mentioned by Mr. Strong from the supreame Authority of England in 1652. for reducing of Maryland there was no such thing but the ground of that pretence was this In September 1651. when the Councell of State sent Commissioners from hence that is to say Capt. Dennis Capt. Steg and Capt. Curtes to reduce Virginia to the obedience of the Parliament the said Councell appointed a Committee of themselves for the carrying on of the affaires of the Admirallty to give instructions to the said Commissioners for that business and Colonell George Thomson being then in the Chaire of that Committee Maryland was at first inserted in their instructions to bee reduced as well as Virginia but the Committee being afterwards satisfied by all the Merchants that traded thither who were engaged to assist with their ships in the reducement of Virginia that Maryland was not in opposition to the Parliament that Captaine Stone the Lord Baltemores Leivtenant there was generally knowne to have beene alwayes zealously affected to the Parliament and that divers of the Parliaments friends were by the Lord Baltemores especiall directions received into Maryland and well treated there when they were faine to leave Virginia for their good affections to the Parliament then the said Committee thought it not fit at all to disturbe that Plantation and therfore in the presence of many of the said Merchants caused Maryland to bee struck out of the said instructions and the Councell of State did therupon give Licence to many Ships to trade at that time to Maryland