This young man, likewise able and sagacious, and at every step in his father's confidence, could and did proceed even in detail according to what had been planned.

All his father's rights had descended to him; in Maryland he was Proprietary with as ample power as ever a Count Palatine had enjoyed.

He took up the advantage and the burden.
The father's idea had been to go with his colonists to Maryland, and this it seems that the son also meant to do.

But now, in London, there deepened a clamor against such Catholic enterprise.

Once he were away, lips would be at the King's ear.