"The question of his drunkenness was never finally determined, however, as Gerrard was soon faced with a far more serious charge and that was of being implicated in a rebellion fomented by Josias Fendall. Fendall, it seems, had tried to change the government of Maryland "into the form of a Commonwealth," of which he aspired to be head, to "the great prejudice of his Lordship's right.""
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Raphael Semmes, Drunkenness, Profanity and Witchcraft," ch. 7 of Crime and Punishment in Early Maryland (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1938) p. 146.
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