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The Restoration of the Proprietary of Maryland and the Legislation Against the Roman Catho- Lics During the Governorship of Capt /f^ ? ^^ AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. MARYLAND^ AND THE THE RESTORATION OF THE PROPRIETARY OF DURING THE LEGISLATION AGAINST THE ROMAN CATHOLICS GOVERNORSHIP OF CAPT. JOHN HART (1714-1720). BY BERNARD C. STEINER, Ph. D., BALTIMORE, MD. LIBRARIAN, ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY, Historical Association for 1899, ,Fro,n the Annnal Report of the American Vol. I, pages 231-307.) WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 19 0. FEB 3 D. of V VIIT.—THE RESTORATION OF THE PROPRIETARY OF MARYLAND AND THE LEGISLATION AGAINST THE ROMAN CATHO- LICS DURING THE GOVERNORSHIP OF CAPT. JOHN HART (1714-17211). By BERNARD C. STEINER, Ph. D., LIBRARIAN, ENOCH I'RATT FREE LIBRARY, BALTIMORE, MI) 229 THE RESTORATION OF THE PROPRIETARY OF MARYLAND AND THE LEGISLATION AGAINST THE ROMAN CATHOLICS DURING THE GOVERNORSHIP OF CAPT. JOHN HART (1 714-1720). Bv Bernard C. Steiner. Tli(^ Ch'own of England had goveniod the province of Mary- land for ovoY twenty years when B(Miediet Leonard Calvert, eldest son and heir of Chai'les, the third Lord Baltimore, '"publicly renoimccMl the Romish errors." Seizing- upon the fact of a Protestant revolution in jVIarylaiid. which followed hard upon the Protestant revolution in England, King Wil- liam had deprivc^d th(^ proprietary of his political rights over his palatinate. The change had undou))tedly been for the benefit of the province. It is true th(^ old religious freedom had been succeeded by the establishment of the Church of England; l)ut justice was probably better administered, edu- cation for the first time received attention, and the nepotism which was the inevitable consequence of regarding- the prov- ince as the proprietary's private property had passed away with the change of government. The Roman Catholics chafed at their deprivation from the control of government, and even threatened to remove to the domains of His Most Christian Majesty of France,' but the Protestants were the majority and the heads of the great Protestant families formed the council. The Church of England was established by law, but its ad- herents were like the squires of England—caring- more for it as a national faith than as a rule of life. Scattered on their plantations, there were many planters whose adherence to the Church was merely nominal, and as the living-s were in the presentation of the Gov(M-iniient, the character of the clergy was often far from inunacuhxte. Good men there were in both laity and clerg}' of the established church. Many good 'Scharf, 1,390. 231 232 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. men were found in the Quaker meetings which Fox, Christi- son, and the other zealous missionaries had founded. In the Eastern Shore Makemie was introducing Presbyterianism into American soil. The Puritans of Providence had become Quakers or Anglicans, and the "Papists" were far more important from the prominence of their leaders than their number, which was less than one-tenth of the population of the province.^ The settlements of the 40,000 people in the province were still along the rivers which empty into the Chesapeake Bay. Until the Germans from Pennsylvania drifted along the valleys of the Blue Ridge, after 1730, the back country was unsettled. Annapolis was the only town, and that had only a few hundred inhabitants. St. Marys Cit}^ had died when the capital had been withdrawn. Almost ever3'one was engaged in the cultivation of tobacco, and this staple of the province was the common currencj^, being given in payment at the rate of 1 penny per pound. In England the assembly of the province was represented by Col. Nathaniel Blakiston, who, having been once a governor of Maryland, knew well its circumstances and possessed the full confidence of the provincials. The proprietary had an agent in Maryland to attend to his private affairs and to watch that the governor and assembly did not encroach upon his lands and revenues. This position had been held by Charles Carroll, a prominent Roman Catholic, since Col. Henry Darnall had laid it down, al)out 1G92. Carroll had acquired a " vast estate in this province by the office he formerly occupied and his practice in the law." We shall frequently come across him as the leader of the Roman Catholics. Maj. Gen. Edward Lloyd, president of the council, had held the executive power in the province since the death of (to\'- ernor John Seymour, on July 30, 1709. Head of a family which has remained prominent in Maryland until this day, he was drawing from the treasury two salaries, one as tempo- rary governor and one as councilor. This, we shall see, gave rise to trouble. It was seldom that a locum tenens retained power for four years, as Lloyd did, l)ut probably the last effort of the aged proprietary to regain control of his province caused the delay. In February 17^? Charles, Lord Balti- 'Scharf, 1, 370. RESTORATION OF PROPRIETARY OB^ MARYLAND. 283 moro, petitioned ^ that the government might be restored to him. Apparently the Crown was willing- at iirst to commis- sion his nominee, Col. John Corbet, and a commission was made out for him on June 27, 1711. Difficulties arose, how- ever, for on July 21 Sir Edward Northey told the Queen that she has the right to appoint a governor, until satisfied that the proprietor can sufficiently secure the pi-ovince against the enemy. For this or some other reason Cor])et was never sent out. Meantime Benedict Leonard, the heir of the pro- prietar3^ ''having for some years expressed to several his inclinations to ))ecome a member of the Church of England," finally "publicly renounced the Romish errors" and conmui- nicated in the Church of England. ' It is usually supposed that this step was taken through mercenary motives, but we know too little of the circumstances to dogmatize upon the matter. The argument "post hoc, ergo proter hoc" is always dangerous. Ho had married, in 1098, Charlotte Fitzroy Lee, daughter of the Earl of Lichfield, and had by her four sons and two daughters. Their married life had not been happy, and they had separated some years l)efore this date. The children were sent to "Popish seminaries abroad" by the grandfather and educated there at his expense. To Benedict Leonard the proprietary had given an allowance of £4:50 per annum until the son's change of faith, when this was withdrawn. Inune- diately after his ])ecoming a member of the Anglican Church, Calvert sent for his children and placed them at Protestant schools in and about London. Queen Anne, whose Protestant councilors recognized the value of gaining over the nobility, granted Benedict a. pension of £'300 per annum during the life of his father for the main- tenance of his children, and appointed Capt. John Hart "captain-general and governor in chief of Her Majesty's province of Marvland." Hart's tributes to his patron and friend, that he was a "person of very distinguishing judg- ment" (June 1, 1715, council) and had a "gentle and sweet disposition" (lower house, April 23, 1716), are the only bits of description extant concerning the character of Benedict Leonard Calvert. Of Captain Hart himself we know ver}^ litth\ save what the Maryland records show us. He was nephew to John Vesey, iScharf, 1, ;i77. 2 Ibid., 379. 234 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. the Archbishop of Tuam, whoso sister Lettice had married Merrick Hart, of Crobert, County Craven, Ireland. John and Lettice Vesey were children of the veneral)le Thomas Vesey, and thus C-aptain Hart came of a family long- devoted to the service of the Episcopal C-hurch of Ireland. ArchlMshop John Vesey was born at Col)rannel, C'ounty Derry, Ireland, and was successively Archdeacon of Armagh and Bishop of Limerick before he reached his highest dignity. He died in 1716, shortly after his nephew ])ecame governoi- of Maryland. Captain Hart had served for several years in Spain and Portu- gal during the wars of the Spanish succession. Beyond these facts his whole life, apart from the six years of his governor- ship, is almost a blank. How well he bore his honors here we shall see shortly. He was recommended for the governor- ship by Calvert upon promising to return to him £o()<) per annum out of the profits of the government. This seems a large amount, but we must remember the governorship of Maryland was an extremely luci'ative post. On January 1, 171 4, Lord Bolingbroke, the secretary of state, dii'(H'ted that a commission be drafted for Hart.' This was speiHlily prepared,^ as were also a series of instructions to guide him in the conduct of his office.'' With these in his possession. Hart started from England i>i the early spring and arrived in Maryland on May 2!», 171-1. The province had been nearly live years without a permanent goAcrnor, and this one might oidy spend part of the year in Maryland, if he chose to take ad^ antage of the commission given him to reside at New York during the hot season.* The tirst .year, at least (and, indeed, we have no evid(Mice that Hart spent any length of time out of Maryland during his administnition), the new governor found sufficient to occupy him in his province. After pu])lishing his commission and the treaty of peace with Spain, Hart at once summoned the provincial assembly, which met at Annapolis on June 22, 1711. It was the third session of thisassembl}', which had l)een prorogued in the pre- ceding November. The upper house, or the '"council in as- sembly," consisted of 12 members—wealthy planters, chief 1 March 12, 17;i, the board (it trade rccommondcd that Tobias Bowles be made governor.
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