His son Benedict, fourth lord, turned from the Catholic Church and became a member of the Church of England.

Dying presently, he left a young son, Charles, fifth Lord Baltimore, to be brought up in the fold of the Established Church.
Reconciled now to the dominant creed, with a Maryland where Catholics were heavily penalized, Baltimore resumed the government under favor of the Crown.

But it was a government with a difference.

In Maryland, as everywhere, the people were beginning to hold the reins.

Not again the old lord and the old underling! For years to come the lords would say that they governed, but strong life arose beneath, around, and above their governing.
Maryland had by 1715 within her bounds more than forty thousand white men and nearly ten thousand black men.