I shall endeavour to the utmost of my power, to deserve it." With his immediate following he thereupon does sail far southward.

In October, 1629, he comes in between the capes, past Point Comfort and so up to Jamestown--to the embarrassment of that capital, as will soon be evident.
Here in Church of England Virginia was a "popish recusant!" Here was an old "court party" man, one of James's commissioners, a person of rank and prestige, known, for all his recusancy, to be in favor with the present King.

Here was the Proprietary of Avalon, guessed to be dissatisfied with his chilly holding, on the scent perhaps of balmier, easier things! The Assembly was in session when Lord Baltimore came to Jamestown.
All arrivers in Virginia must take the oath of supremacy.

The Assembly proposed this to the visitor who, as Roman Catholic, could not take it, and said as much, but offered his own declaration of friendliness to the powers that were.

This was declined.