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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