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 [Pg xxi] 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 By John Fiske VOLUME II (of II)

CONTENTS VOLUME II.