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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

England to keep Courts c. and to summon an Assembly in October following At this Assembly there was a full and lawful Representative of the whole Province where the Act of Reducement of this Province by Commission from the Councel of State in England to Richard Bennet Esq Colonel William Cleyborne Emund Curtis was freely and fully acknowledged by the whole Assembly the Burgesse of every respective County and Limit confirming the same and submitting thereunto And did pass and record an Act That whosoever did publish any Writ or Summons Declaration or Proclamation either in the Lord Baltamore 's or any other name then the Government so setled as aforesaid had and received should be accounted a Delinquent against the Commonwealth of England and dealt with accordingly The same Assembly did make Protestation against a Declaration sent over by his Lordship and recorded by his Secretary wherein the said Lord did declare the people at Providence by him called Annardundel to be Rebels and strictly charged his Officers efficaciously to deal with them accordingly but no ground or reason thereof could be found But their not compliance with his Arbitrary and Popish Government and the adhering to the Engagement and the Reducement aforesaid and Government setled by the aforesaid Commissioners After this Assembly the Province was quiet and so continued until the later end of January about which time the Ship Golden Fortune whereof Captain Tilman was Commander arrived in Maryland Then the Lord Baltamore's Officers and the Popish party began to divulge abroad and boast much of power which came in that Ship from his Highness the Lord Protector to confirm the Lord Baltamore's Patent to him and to re-establish his Officers in their former places under him which pretended power they assumed to themselves Captain Stone and the rest giving out threatning speeches That now the Rebels at Putuxent and Severne should know that he was Governour again giving Order That neither Act of the said Assembly should be observed nor Writ from the power established by the Commissioners aforesaid obeyed but what should issue forth in the name of the Lord Proprietory viz. Lord Baltamore And further the said Captain Stone gave several Commissions to the Papists and other desperate and bloody fellows to muster and raise men in arms to be ready upon all occasions giving out that he would go to Putuxent and seize the Records of the Province at the place where they were appointed to be kept by an Act of the Assembly and to apprehend Mr. Richard Preston also at whose house they were which shortly after was effected by Vertue of a Warrant in Captain Stone 's name without Proclaiming or shewing any power by which he acted such high Robberies But in threatning speeches declared That they would have the Government and for the terror of others would hang some of the Commissioners which were entrusted with the Government by the Commissioners of the Common-wealth of England under his Highness the Lord Protector namely Captain William Fuller Mr. Richard Preston and Mr. William Durand About this time Captain William Fuller Mr. William Durand Mr. Leonard Strong and Mr. Richard Ewen to whom among others the Government was committed sent two Messengers of quality and trust with Letters to Captain Stone in a way of peace and love desiring him to make it known by what power he surprised the Records and desiring him the said Captain Stone to give an Answer as by the Letter relation thereunto being had more at large appeareth But the said Captain Stone instead of giving a satisfactory Answer imprisoned the Messengers and in much wrath and sury said he would shew no power at last he affirmed that he acted by a power from Lord Baltamore and that the Lord Protector had confirmed the Lord Baltamore's power If so Sir said one of the Messengers if it be confirmed let that appear and it will satisfie Confirmed said Captain Stone I 'll confirm it and so sent them home After this the said Captain Stone and his Officers proceeded in their wicked design yet to colour it over the said Captain Stone published a Proclamation to deceive the amazed and distracted people at Putuxent wherein he called God to witness that he intended not to use any hostile way to them or the people at Providence Which Protestation how false and feigned it was the following proceedings of himself and Officers will clearly evidence to all the World for notwithstanding this Proclamation and Protestation the said Captain Stone sent up to Putuxent one William Eltonhead and Josias Fendal and with them twenty men in Arms who did beset and entred the house of Mr. Richard Preston with intent to surprise him but not finding him at home took away in Guns Swords and Ammunition to the value of 30 l. sterling rans●cked every place in and about the house to seek for the said Richard Preston and as some of the Company then said with purpose to hang him for his rebellion against the Lord Baltamore At the same time they surprised John Sutton who was appointed by the Assembly and Secretary to attend the Records for any that should have occasion to use them either for search or Copy and carried him away Prisoner with such Guns and Ammunition he had and kept him about twenty dayes even so they dealt with Lieutenant Peter Johnson several other houses at Putuxent they served in the like kinde And when they were desired to shew by what power or Commission they so acted they would in a proud bravado clap their hands on their swords and say Here is a Commission This was no sooner effected at Putuxent but presently they mustered in Arms two hundred or two hundred and fifty men at the house of the aforesaid Eltonhead which Eltonhead and Fendal sent up by night several Boats with armed men and forced many of Putuxen whether they would or not to go with them upon their warlike Expedition to Providence taking all the Guns Powder Shot and Provision they could anywhere finde And when they had done what they pleased at Putuxent they bent all their Forces towards Providence the chief place of the residence of most of the Commissioners and people that were forced out of Virginia by Sir William Barkely for conscience sake Some of the said Company marching by Land others by Water they that marched by Land did much spoil and robbery in all the Houses and Plantations where they came breaking open Doors Trunks and Chests In this barbarous manner they carried it for about forty miles Now again the Commissioners at Providence sent other Messengers with a Letter to Captaine Stone still complaining his proceedings and seeking the knowledge of his power and that some better accommodation might be attended to prevent the ruine and desolation of the whole Province which this course was very likely to bring to pass If he were resolved to come to no Parley or Treaty they protested in the said writing that by the help of