Yet the Governor could not bring himself to forget his oath to Lord Baltimore and agree to the demand of the Commissioners that he should administer the Government in the name of "the Keepers of the Liberties of England." After some hesitation the Commissioners decided to respect his scruples and allow him to govern in the name of the Lord Proprietary, as he had solemnly promised.
In Virginia and in Maryland the Commonwealth and the Lord Protector stand where stood the Kingdom and the King.

Many are far better satisfied than they were before; and the confirmed royalist consumes his grumbling in his own circle.

The old, exhausting quarrel seems laid to rest.

But within this wider peace breaks out suddenly an interior strife.

Virginia would, if she could, have back all her old northward territory.