[528] Thurloe, iii. 650, iv. 4.
[529] There are several letters by D'Oyley in Thurloe.
[530] See papers in Thurloe, v. 482-487.
Puritan emigrants from Virginia are charged with fomenting quarrels in Maryland.—Leah and Rachel, quoted in Anderson, ii. 32.
[531] The persecution of the Roman Catholics in England has been noticed already. We may add, that in 1656-57, a new oath of adjuration was prescribed for discovering Papists, and a penalty of £100 was to be inflicted on any one who attended mass. The ordinance altogether was very severe.—Scobell, 443. Butler, (Rom. Cath., ii. 407,) mentions the execution of a priest for the exercise of his functions.
[532] Thurloe., iv. 55. Bancroft, i. 261, on the authority of Chalmers.
[533] Bancroft, i. 263.
In a pamphlet, entitled Hammond versus Heamans, preserved in the State Paper Office, there is published what is said to be "His Highness's absolute (though neglected) command to Richard Bennet, late Governor of Virginia, and all others, not to disturb the Lord Baltimore's plantation in Maryland."—1655, vol. xii. 59.
[534] Vol. i. p. 340.
[535] Anderson, ii. 272.