The magazine of American history with notes and queries . onersof Plantations, and the matter came before him. The result was that theLords Commissioners decided the controversy point blank in favor ofBaltimore, and Clayborne the Rebel was notified that he had no longerany rights in Maryland. Thus, in the summer of 1639, when these eventsoccurred, Claybornes fortunes had suffered shipwreck, and he had failedin ail things. He was driven from Kent Island, had become an ex-ecrable villain and Judas Iscariot; and though Charles I., commiseratinghis fate, appointed him Treasurer of Virginia forlife
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . onersof Plantations, and the matter came before him. The result was that theLords Commissioners decided the controversy point blank in favor ofBaltimore, and Clayborne the Rebel was notified that he had no longerany rights in Maryland. Thus, in the summer of 1639, when these eventsoccurred, Claybornes fortunes had suffered shipwreck, and he had failedin ail things. He was driven from Kent Island, had become an ex-ecrable villain and Judas Iscariot; and though Charles I., commiseratinghis fate, appointed him Treasurer of Virginia forlife, that was a poor satisfac-tion indeed to a man of hishigh spirit. What to do now was thevery serious question. Itseemed that nothing furtherwas to be effected in con-nection with Maryland, sincethe Queen and the highestofficials had arrayed them-selves against him. But theRebel was persevering, andhad the patience of hismothers character. He hadalso in his veins the hard-fighting Cleburne blood ; andit might be that the timewould come when, in spite of. ARMS OF SECRETARY WILLIAM CLAIBORNE. g6 CLAYBORNE THE REBEL queens and commissioners, he would recover possession of his Kent England the king and Parliament seemed to be coming to irreconcilablefeud ; public affairs were out of joint, and his majestys throne was evennow oscillating. The day might soon arrive when others beside the LordsCommissioners of Plantations would regulate American affairs; and he,the Rebel, might himself become a commissioner with plenary powers todecide the fate of Lord Baltimore. That time came in due season ; meanwhile the resolute politicianshowed that his energies were not rusting. He returned to Virginia,where he was still Secretary of State, and, seeing his opportunity, hepromptly seized it. In 1645 the day of trouble had arrived for king andqueen. Crown and Parliament were at daggers draw ; and Sir WilliamBerkeley, the Governor of Virginia, had gone to England to consult withhis master
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