The battle was won by the Providence men.
They slew or wounded fifty of the St.Mary's men and desperately wounded Stone himself and took many prisoners, ten of whom were afterwards condemned to death and four were actually executed.
Now followed a period of up and down, the Commissioners and the Proprietary alike appealing to the Lord Protector for some expression of his "determinate will." Both sides received encouragement inasmuch as he decided for neither.

His own authority being denied by neither, Cromwell may have preferred to hold these distant factions in a canceling, neutralizing posture.

But far weightier matters, in fact, were occupying his mind.

In 1657, weary of her "very sad, distracted, and unsettled condition," Maryland herself proceeded--Puritan, Prelatist, and Catholic together--to agree henceforth to disagree.

Toleration viewed in retrospect appears dimly to have been seen for the angel that it was.
Maryland would return to the Proprietary's rule, provided there should be complete indemnity for political offenses and a solemn promise that the Toleration Act of 1649 should never be repealed.