Claiborne would head the Puritans of Providence; and a troop should be raised in Virginia and march northward.

The Commissioners actually advanced upon St.Mary's, and with so superior a force that Stone surrendered, and a Puritan Government was inaugurated.

A Puritan Assembly met, debarring any Catholics.

Presently it passed an act annulling the Proprietary's Act of Toleration.

Professors of the religion of Rome should "be restrained from the exercise thereof." The hand of the law was to fall heavily upon "popery, prelacy, or licentiousness of opinion." Thus was intolerance alive again in the only land where she had seemed to die! In England now there was hardly a Parliament, but only the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell.