Old Virginia and her neighbours

168 OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS.symptom of the inflammatory effect wrought uponthe English mind by the gigantic war againstLouis XIV,, and immediately afterward by thewild attempt of the so-called James III. to seizethe crown of Great Britain. From the accessionof William and Mary to the end of the reign ofAnne, war against France was perpetual exceptfor the breathing spell after the Peace of Ryswick.This state of things brought a fresh burden uponMaryland. War between France and Great Brit-Crown ^i" meant war between the AlgonquinrequiBitions.^^.-^gg ^^^ ^^^ English colonies aided bythe Five Nations.The new situation was heraldedin the Congress which met at New York in 1690,at Leisler'sinvitation, when Maryland was calledupon to contribute men and money toward theinvasion of Canada. With the advent of theroyal government came royal requisitions for militarypurposes ; and although this new burden wasdue to the new continental situation rather than tothe change in the provincial government, it wasone thing the more to make Marylanders lookback with regret to the days of the j)roprietaryrule.For four-and-twenty years after 1691 the thirdLord Baltimore lived in England in the fullenjoyment of his private rights and revenues,Benedictthough deprived of his government. Hisbecomes a ^^^5 Benedict Leonard Calvert, was aProtestant,pi-jnce who took sccular views ofpolicy, like the great Henry of Navarre.publicHe preferredhis palatinate to his church, and abjuredthe Catholic faith, much to the wrath and disgust