But there was no persecution.

In the bland and wide Virginia air minds failed to come into hard and frequent collision.

For all the ferocities of the statute books, acute suffering for difference of opinion, whether political or religious, did not bulk large in the life of early Virginia.
The Commissioners, after the reduction of Virginia, had a like part to play with Maryland.

At St.Mary's, as at Jamestown, they demanded and at length received submission to the Commonwealth.

There was here the less trouble owing to Baltimore's foresight in appointing to the office of Governor William Stone, whose opinions, political and religious, accorded with those of revolutionary England.