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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VII (search)
lled him to pay but little attention to the disturbances in Maryland. On the one hand, he respected the rights of property of Lord Baltimore; on the other, he protected his own political partisans, corresponded with his commissioners, and expressed no displeasure at their exercise of power. Thurloe, i. 724, and IV. 55. Hazard, i. 594, quotes but one of the rescripts. Hammond, 24. The right to the jurisdiction of Maryland remained, Chap. VII.} therefore, a disputed question. Fuller, Preston, and the others, appointed by Clayborne, actually possessed authority; while Lord Baltimore, with the apparent sanc- 1656 July 10. tion of the protector, commissioned McMahon, 211. Josias Fendall to appear as his lieutenant. Fendall had, the preceding year, been engaged in exciting an insurrection, under pretence of instructions from Stone; he now appear- 1657 Sept. ed as an open but unsuccessful insurgent. Little is known of his disturbance, except that it occasioned a heavy public