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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

Enemies owne Souldiers and so the rest of the Councellors were saved by the Petitions of the Women with some other friends which they found there onely Master William Eltonhead was shot to death whose death I much lament being shot in cold bloud and also Lievetenant William Lewis with one Mr. Leggat and a Germane which did live with Mr. Eltonhead which by all Relations that ever I did heare of the like barbarous act was never done amongst Christians They have Sequestred my Husbands Estate only they say they will allow a maintenance for me and my Children which I doe beleeve will bee but small They keep my Husband with the rest of the Councell and all other Officers still Prisoners I am very suddenly God willing bound up to see my Husband they will not so much as suffer him to write a Letter unto mee but they will have the perusall of what hee writes Captaine Tylman and his Mate Master Cook are very honest men and doe stand up much for your Honour they will informe you of more passages then I can remember at the present and I hope my Brother will be downe before Captain Tylman goes away and will write to you more at large for he is bound up this day for to see his Brother if they doe not detain him there as well as the rest the occasion I conceive of their detainment there is because they should not goe home to informe your Honour of the truth of the businesse before they make their owne tale in England which let them doe their worst which I do not question but you will vindicate my Husbands honour which hath ventured Life and Estate to keep your due heere which by force he hath lost And they give out words that they have won the Country by the sword and by it they will keepe the same let my Lord Protector send in what Writing hee pleaseth The Gunners Mate of Hemans since his comming down from Anne-Arundell to Patuxent hath boasted that he shot the first man that was shot of our Party All this I write is very true which I thought good to informe your Lordship because they will not suffer my Husband for to write himselfe I hope your Honour will be pleased for to looke upon my Sonne and for to wish him for to be of good comfort and not for to take our afflictions to heart And nothing else at present I rest Your Honours most humble Servant Varlinda Stone Post-script I hope your Honour will favour me so much that if my Sonne wants twenty or thirty pounds you will let him have it and it shall be payd your Honour againe Hemans the Master of the Golden Lion is a very Knave and that will be made plainly for to appeare to your Lordship for he hath abused my Husband most grosly A true Copy of the Oath of Fidelity to the Lord Proprietary of the Province of MARYLAND I A. B. Doe sweare that I will be true and faithfull so long as I shall be a member of this Province to the Right Hon. CAECILIUS Lord Baron of Baltemore Lord and Proprietary of this Province of Maryland and the Islands therunto belonging to his Heyres Lords and Proprietaries of the same and to his Lievetenant or Chiefe Governour heer for the time being And will not at any time by words or actions in publique or in private wittingly or willingly to the best of my understanding any way derogate from but will at all times as occasion shall require to the utmost of my power defend and maintain all such his sayd Lordships and his Heyres just and lawfull Right Title Interest Priviledges Iurisdictions Prerogative Propriety and Dominion over and in the sayd Province and Islands thereunto belonging and over the people who are or shall be therein for the time being as are granted to his sayd Lordship and his Heyres by the late King of England in his sayd Lordships Patent of the sayd Province under the Great Seale of England not any wise understood to infringe or prejudice Liberty of Conscience in point of Religion And I doe also sweare that I will with all expedition discover to his Lordship or to his Lievetenant or other Chiefe Governour of the sayd Province for the time being and also use my best endevour to prevent any Plot Conspiracy or Combination which I shall know or have just cause to suspect is or shall be intended against the person of his sayd Lordship or which shall tend any way to the disinherison or deprivation of his sayd Lordship or his Heyres their Right Title Jurisdiction and Dominion aforesayd or any part thereof And I doe swear that I will not either by myself or by any other person or persons directly or indirectly take accept receive purchase or possesse any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments within the sayd Province of Maryland or the Islands thereunto belonging from any Indian or Indians to any other use or uses but to the use of his said Lordship and his Heires Lords and Proprietaries of this Province or knowingly from any other person or persons not deriving a legall Title thereunto by from or under some grant from his said Lordship or his Heires Lords and Proprietaries of this Province legally passed or to be passed under his or their great Seale of the said Province for the time being So help me God c. THis Oath was appointed by my Lord to be taken by every one who had any Land granted to him in Maryland from his Lordship before any Patent thereof should passe the Seale to him and it was also appointed to be taken by a law made in Maryland in An. 1649. with the consent of the Protestāts as wel as the Roman Catholiks there by every inhabitant above the age of sixteene yeeres upon paine of Banishment in case of refusal and of fine in case of return and a second refusall but it was never yet imposed upon any nor any ever yet banished or fined for refusal of it onely they could have no land granted them from his Lordship unlesse they tooke it nor was there any other Oath appointed to bee taken upon any penalty whatsoever But there was another Oath appointed for the Governour and Councell onely in Maryland to take which have these clauses among others in them viz. That they shall not accept or execute any Place Office or Imployment in Maryland relating to the Government thereof from any Person or Authority but from the Lord Baltemore or his Heires and another Clause viz. that they shall not directly or indirectly trouble molest or discountenance any person whatsoever in the said Province professing to believe in JESUS CHRIST and in particular no Roman Catholick for or in respect of his or her Religion nor in his or her free exercise thereof within the said Province But this Oath was never imposed upon any body nor any penalty appointed for the refusall thereof for it was free for any man if hee did not like the Oath

not to accept of the place of Governour or one of the Councel there this last mentioned Oath of the Governour and Councel was appointed in the life time of the late King The Lord Baltemore conceiving it lawfull and justifiable by his Patent to require such an Oath from such as hee should imploy in Offices of so great trust in so remote a place for although by his Patent the sovereign Dominion of that Province bee reserved to the late King his Heirs and Successors yet the immediate and subordinate authority of the Government therof is granted to his Lorship his Heyres so as no man ought to act therein but by authority derived from him And hee appointed this Oath to be taken by the aforesayd Officers when he made Capt. Stone Governour and Mr. Tho. Hatton Secretary and others of his Councell there who being of different Judgement in Religion from himselfe his Lordship thought it but reasonable and fit that as he did oblige them by Oath not to disturbe any there who professed to beleeve in Jesus Christ so to expresse the Roman Catholickes in particular who were of his own judgement in matter of Religion A true Copy of a Law made in Maryland Entituled An Act concerning Religion FOrasmuch as in a well Governed and Christian Common-wealth matters concerning Religion and the Honour of God ought in the first place to bee taken into serious consideration and indevoured to be setled Bee it therefore Ordayned and Enacted by the Right Honourable CAECILIUS Lord Baron of Baltemore * This Title is given his Lordship in his Patent of Maryland absolute Lord and Proprietary of this Province with the Advice and Consent of the Upper and Lower House of this Generall Assembly that whatsoever Person or Persons within this Province and the Islands thereunto belonging shall from henceforth Blaspheame GOD that is curse him or shall deny our Saviour JESUS CHRIST to bee the Son of God or shall deny the Holy Trinity the Father Son and Holy Ghost or the Godhead of any of the sayd Three Persons of the Trinity or the Unity of the Godhead or shall use or utter any reproachfull speeches words or language concerning the Holy Trinity or any of the sayd three Persons thereof shal be punished with death and confiscation or forfeiture of all his or her Land and Goods to the Lord Proprietary and his Heires And bee it also Enacted by the Authority and with the advice and assent aforesaid That whatsoever Person or Persons shall from henceforth use or utter any reproachfull words or speeches concerning the Blessed Virgin MARY the Mother of our Saviour or the holy Apostles or Evangelists or any of them shall in such case for the first Offence forfeit to the sayd Lord Proprietary and his heires Lords and Proprietaries of this Province the sum of 5 l. sterling or the value thereof to bee levied on the goods and chattells of every such person so offending but in case such offender or offenders shall not then have goods and chattels sufficient for the satisfying of such forfeiture or that the same be not otherwise speedily satisfied that then such offender or offenders shall be publikely whipt and bee imprisoned during the pleasure of the Lord Proprietary or the Lievetenant or Chiefe Governour of this Province for the time being and that every such offender and offenders for every second offence shall forfeit 10 l. sterling or the value therof to be levied as aforesayd or in case such offender or offenders shall not then have goods and chattells within this Province sufficient for that purpose then to be publikely and severely whipt and imprisoned as before is expressed And that every person or persons before mentioned offending heerin the third time shall for such third offence forfeit all his lands and goods and be for ever banisht and expelled out of this Province And be i● also further Enacted by the same authority advice and assent that whatsoever person or persons shall from henceforth upon any occasion of offence or otherwise in a reproachfull maner or way declare call or denominate any person or persons whatsoever inhabiting residing trafficking trading or commercing within this Province or within any the Ports Harbors Creeks or Havens to the same belonging an Heretick Schismatick Idolater Puritan Presbyterian Independent Popish Priest Jesuit Jesuited Papist Lutheran Calvinist Anabaptist Brownist Antinomian Barrowist Roundhead Separatist or other name or terme in a reproachfull maner relating to matter of Religion shall for every such offence forfet and lose the sum of 10 s. sterling or the value therof to be levied on the goods and Chattels of every such offender and offenders the one halfe thereof to be forfeted and payd unto the person and persons of whom such reproachfull words are or shall bee spoken or uttered and the other halfe thereof to the Lord Proprietary and his Heirs Lords and Proprietaries of this Province But if such person or persons who shall at any time utter or speak any such reproachfull words or language shall not have goods or chattells sufficient and overt within this Province to bee taken to satisfie the penalty aforesayd or that the same bee not otherwise speedily satisfied that then the person and persons so offending shal be publikely whipt and shall suffer imprisonment without Bayle or Mainprise untill he she or they respectively shall satisfie the party offended or grieved by such reproachfull language by asking him or her respectively forgivenes publikely for such his offence before the Magistrate or chiefe Officer or Officers of the Towne or Place where such offence shall bee given And be it further likewise Enacted by the authority and consent aforesayd that every person and persons within this Province that shall at any time heereafter prophane the Sabaoth or Lords day called Sunday by frequent swearing drunkennesse or by any uncivill or disorderly Recreation or by working on that day when absolute necessity doth not require shall for every such first offence forfet 2 s. 6 d. sterling or the value therof and for the second offence 5 s. sterling or the value thereof and for the third offence and for everytime he shall offend in like maner afterwards 10 s. sterling or the value therof and in case such offender or offenders shall not have sufficient goods or chattells within this Province to satisfie any of the aforesayd penalties respectively heereby imposed for prophaning the Sabaoth or Lords day called Sunday as aforesaid then in every such Case the party so offending shall for the first and second offence in that kind be imprisoned till hee or she shall publikely in open Court before the chief Commander Judge or Magistrate of that County Towne or Precinct wherein such offence shall be committed acknowledge the scandall and offence hee hath in that respect given against God and the good and civill Government of this Province And for the third offence and for every time after shall also be publikely whipt