"At the height of Bacon's Rebellion, in September 1676, sixty persons, led by William Davyes and John Pate, assembled in Calvert County, Maryland, to declare their opposition to crushing taxation and to Lord Baltimore's disfranchisement of the freemen. They also declared their refusal to swear to a new loyalty oath proposed by the proprietor. They refused to obey the governor's order to disband on promise to consider their grievances in the next Assembly, pointing out that the manipulated Assembly no longer represented the people. But the death of Bacon caused the quick collapse of the embryo Davyes-Pate rebellion, and Davyes and Pate were hanged after being denounced as traitors. The governor observed with satisfaction that the people were now suitably "terrified." The threat was over, but the governor wrote in warning to Lord Baltimore that never had a people been "more replete with malignancy and frenzy." Apparently, the Maryland regime had had a close call. The result increased the bitterness in the colony against the proprietor."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Murray N. Rothbard, "The Aftermath of Bacon's Rebellion in the Other Southern Colonies," ch. 14, Pt. II of Conceived in Liberty vol. 1 (Arlington House, 1975), p. 126.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Notley
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Thomas Notley
Thomas Notley was the 8th Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1676 through 1679. He was appointed to succeed Jesse Wharton by the colony's proprietor, Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore. Calvert arrived in the colony in January 1678 or 1679, but appears to have allowed Notley to retain his title until Notley's death in April, 1679, when Calvert assumed the mantle of governor himself.
3 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Thomas Notley →
Related Quotes
"The last public levy was 297 lbs. (of tobacco) per poll, and the great levy the year before has given occasion for ma…"
"In 1667 a Maryland slave who had come from Barbados lived on the plantation of Barbadian immigrant and Maryland gover…"
"The upper house being dissolved, Governor Fendall gave up the remaining powers of government given to him by Lord Bal…"
"The other case of hanging a woman as a witch occurred on a vessel also bound for Maryland of which John Greene was th…"
"The real causes of the disturbances that now arose are scarcely explained by Maryland historians. Governor Fendall is…"
"Appointed by the Parliamentary Commissioners in England, Puritan governors twice convened unicameral legislatures in …"
"However, the struggle against the oppression of the feudal proprietary in Maryland had not been crushed. The veteran …"
"Calvert, however, proved extremely agile and managed to convice Cromwell and Parliament that religious toleration and…"
"The question of his drunkenness was never finally determined, however, as Gerrard was soon faced with a far more seri…"
"[A]fter Leonard Calvert died in 1648, Lord Baltimore appointed the Protestant William Stone as governor. He required …"