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CHAPTER cess, and were presently complained of by the jealous XV. English merchants as interferences with their trade.

1685.

The accession of James II., professed Catholic as he was, proved, however, by no means very favorable to the Catholic proprietor of Maryland. The Quaker Penn was much more in favor with that papist king. In the controversy between him and Lord Baltimore as to bounds, the proprietor of Maryland found himself obliged to relinquish, as we shall see in a subsequent chapter, half the peninsula between the Chesapeake and the Delaware, besides a wide strip along the northern limit of his province. Nor was even the charter of Maryland safe. It shared the common danger of other charters at that time, and, in spite of Lord Baltimore's remonstrances and entreaties, a writ of Quo Warranto issued 1688. against it. Baltimore hastened to England to defend his rights, but before a decision was arrived at the process 1689. was arrested by the dethronement of James.

END OF VOL. I.

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