Another eighth of the people held with the Church of England.

The rest, the mass of the folk, were dissenters from that Church.

And now all the Protestant elements together--the Quakers excepted--solidified into political and religious opposition to the Proprietary's rule.
Baltimore, still in England, had immediately, upon the accession of William and Mary, dispatched orders to the Maryland Council to proclaim them King and Queen.

But his messenger died at sea, and there was delay in sending another.

In Maryland the Council would not proclaim the new sovereigns without instructions, and it was even rumored that Catholic Maryland meant to withstand the new order.
In effect the old days were over.