Debate followed, ending with a request from the Assembly that the visitor depart from Virginia.

Some harshness of speech ensued, but hospitality and the amenities fairly saved the situation.

One Thomas Tindall was pilloried for "giving my lord Baltimore the lie and threatening to knock him down." Baltimore thereupon set sail, but not, perhaps, until he had gained that knowledge of conditions which he desired.
In England he found the King willing to make him a large grant, with no less powers than had clothed him in Avalon.

Territory should be taken from the old Virginia; it must be of unsettled land--Indians of course not counting.

Baltimore first thought of the stretch south of the river James between Virginia and Spanish Florida--a fair land of woods and streams, of good harbors, and summer weather.