scene 144

Charter of Pennsylvania 145

Boundaries between Penn and Baltimore 145, 146

Old manors in Maryland 146

Life on the manors 147

The court leet and court baron 148

Changes wrought by slavery 148, 149

A fierce spirit of liberty combined with ingrained respect for law 149

Cecilius Calvert and his son Charles 150

Sources of discontent in Maryland 150

A pleasant little family party 151

Conflict between the Council and the Burgesses 151, 152

Burgesses claim to be a House of Commons, but the Council will not admit it 152

How Rev. Charles Nichollet was fined for preaching politics 153

The Cessation Act of 1666 153

Acts concerning the relief of Quakers and the appointment of sheriffs 153, 154

Restriction of suffrage in 1670 154, 155

Death of Cecilius, Lord Baltimore 155

Rebellion of Davis and Pate, 1676; their execution 156

How George Talbot, lord of Susquehanna Manor, slew a revenue collector and was carried to Virginia for trial 157

How his wife took him from jail, and how he was kept hidden until a pardon was secured 158

“A Complaint from Heaven with a Hue and Cry” 159

The anti-Catholic panic of 1689 159

Causes of the panic 160

How John Coode overthrew the palatinate government 161

But did not thereby bring the millennium 162

How Nicholson removed the capital from St. Mary’s to Annapolis 162, 163

Unpopularity of the establishment of the Church of England 163

Episcopal parsons 164

Exemption of Protestant dissenters from civil disabilities 165

Seymour reprimands the Catholic priests 166

Cruel laws against Catholics 167

Crown requisitions 168

Benedict Calvert, fourth Lord Baltimore, becomes a Protestant and the palatinate is revived 168, 169

Change in the political situation 170

Charles Carroll entertains a plan for a migration to the Mississippi Valley 171

How the seeds of revolution were planted in Maryland 171

End of the palatinate 172, 173