CHAPTER IX.

LEAH AND RACHEL.

William Claiborne and his projects 286

Kent Island occupied by Claiborne 287

Conflicting grants 288

Star Chamber decision and Claiborne's resistance 289

Lord Baltimore's instructions 290

The Virginia council supports Claiborne 290, 291

Complications with the Indians 291, 292

Reprisals and skirmishes 293

Affairs in Virginia; complaints against Governor Harvey 293, 294

Rage of Virginia against Maryland 294, 295

How Rev. Anthony Panton called Mr. Secretary Kemp a jackanapes 295

Indignation meeting at the house of William Warren 296

Arrest of the principal speakers 296

Scene in the council room 296, 297

How Sir John Harvey was thrust out of the government 297

How King Charles sent him back to Virginia 298

Downfall of Harvey 299

George Evelin sent to Kent Island 299

Kent Island seized by Leonard Calvert 300

The Lords of Trade decide against Claiborne 301

Puritans in Virginia 301, 302

The Act of Uniformity of 1631 303

Puritan ministers sent from New England to Virginia 303

The new Act of Uniformity, 1643 304

Expulsion of the New England ministers 304

Indian massacre of 1644 305

Conflicting views of theodicy 306

Invasion of Maryland by Claiborne and Ingle 306-308

Expulsion of Claiborne and Ingle from Maryland 308

Lord Baltimore appoints William Stone as governor 308

Toleration Act of 1649 309-311

Migration of Puritans from Virginia to Maryland 312

Designs of the Puritans 313

Reluctant submission of Virginia to Cromwell 314

Claiborne and Bennett undertake to settle the affairs of Maryland 315

Renewal of the troubles 316

The Puritan Assembly and its notion of a toleration act 316

Civil war in Maryland; battle of the Severn, 1655 317

Lord Baltimore is sustained by Cromwell and peace reigns once more 318

MAPS.

Tidewater Virginia, _from a sketch by the author_ _Frontispiece_

Michael Lok's Map, 1582, _from Hakluyt's Voyages to America_ 60

The Palatinate of Maryland, _from a sketch by the author_ 274

OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS.