Spanish alarms that terrified the south. From
the first they have with them women and children. They know that their
settlement is "home." Soon other ships and colonists follow the Ark and
the Dove to St. Mary's, and the history of this middle colony is well
begun.

In Virginia, meantime, there was jealousy enough of the new colony,
taking as it did territory held to be Virginian and renaming it, not
for the old, independent, Protestant, virgin queen, but for a French,
Catholic, queen consort--even settling it with believers in the Mass
and bringing in Jesuits! It was, says a Jamestown settler, "accounted a
crime almost as heinous as treason to favour, nay to speak well of that
colony." Beside the Virginian folk as a whole, one man, in particular,
William Claiborne, nursed an individual grievance. He had it from
Governor Calvert that he might dwell on in Kent Island, trading from
there, but only under license from the Lord Proprietor and as an
inhabitant of Maryland, not of Virginia. Claiborne, with the Assembly
at Jamestown secretly on his side, resisted this interference with his
rights, and, as he continued to trade with a high hand, he soon fell
under suspicion of stirring up the Indians against the Marylanders.

At the time, this quarrel rang loud through Maryland and Virginia, and
even echoed across the Atlantic. Leonard Calvert had a trading-boat of
Claiborne's seized in the Patuxent River. Thereupon Claiborne's men,
with the shallop Cockatrice, in retaliation attacked Maryland pinnaces
and lost both their lives and their boat. For several years Maryland and
Kent Island continued intermittently to make petty war on each other.
At last, in 1638, Calvert took the island by main force and hanged
for piracy a captain of Claiborne's. The Maryland Assembly brought the
trader under a Bill of Attainder; and a little later, in England, the
Lords Commissioners of Foreign Plantations formally awarded Kent Island
to the Lord Proprietor. Thus defeated, Claiborne, nursing his wrath,
moved down the bay to Virginia.

CHAPTER X. CHURCH AND KINGDOM

Virginia, all this time, with Maryland a thorn in her side, was
wrestling with an autocratic governor, John Harvey. This avaricious
tyrant sowed the wind until in 1635 he was like to reap the whirlwind.
Though he was the King's Governor and in good odor in England, where
rested the overpower to which Virginia must bow, yet in this year
Virginia blew upon her courage until it w