" He is writing to King Charles, and he goes on to say "I have
had strong temptations to leave all proceedings in plantations . . . but my
inclination carrying me naturally to these kind of works . . . I am
determined to commit this place to fishermen that are able to encounter
storms and hard weather, and to remove myself with some forty persons to
your Majesty's dominion of Virginia where, if your Majesty will please to
grant me a precinct of land . . . I shall endeavour to the utmost of my
power, to deserve it."
With his immediate following he thereupon does sail far southward. In
October, 1629, he comes in between the capes, past Point Comfort and so up
to Jamestown -- to the embarrassment of that capital, as will soon be evident.
Here in Church of England Virginia was a "popish recusant!" Here was an old
"court party" man, one of James's commissioners, a person of rank and
prestige, known, for all his recusancy, to be in favor with the present
King. Here was the Proprietary of Avalon, guessed to be dissatisfied with
his chilly holding, on the scent perhaps of balmier, easier things!
The Assembly was in session when Lord Baltimore came to Jamestown. All
arrivers in Virginia must take the oath of supremacy. The Assembly proposed
this to the visitor who, as Roman Catholic, could not take it, and said as
much, but offered his own declaration of friendliness to the powers that
were. This was declined. Debate followed, ending with a request from the
Assembly that the visitor depart from Virginia.
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