The magazine of American history with notes and queries . d pin-nace and attacksCalvert. The navalbattle took placenear the mouth ofthe Potomac andwas a brisk roar of cannonand the rattle ofmuskets reverber-ated along thepeaceful shore, andat the end of theMay day the Mary-landers were thevictors. Clay-born es captain,Ratcliffe Warren,and two of his menare dead, and the enemy capture his pinnace and bear it off in triumph. This was the end of the first act of the drama of Clayborne, theRebel. His enemies were victorious, and Kent Island escaped fromhis grasp. The territory was seize
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . d pin-nace and attacksCalvert. The navalbattle took placenear the mouth ofthe Potomac andwas a brisk roar of cannonand the rattle ofmuskets reverber-ated along thepeaceful shore, andat the end of theMay day the Mary-landers were thevictors. Clay-born es captain,Ratcliffe Warren,and two of his menare dead, and the enemy capture his pinnace and bear it off in triumph. This was the end of the first act of the drama of Clayborne, theRebel. His enemies were victorious, and Kent Island escaped fromhis grasp. The territory was seized by Leonard Calvert, and Claybornewas tried and found guilty of piracy and murder, in consequence ofwhich fact he had become a felon convict, as the historians inform is true is the statement of worthy Dr. Hawks, that he had escapedfrom justice. He was out of Calverts clutches in his own country of Vir-ginia, but was very far from meaning to give up the struggle. He was nota man to yield to his enemies, and was still dangerous. He had besides a. AN OLD VIRGINIAN. 94 CLAYBORNE THE REBEL powerful support in the public sentiment of the people of Virginia, and theplanters suddenly show that they are not to be trifled with. All at once aportentous scene takes place at Jamestown—something re-sembling a political earthquake. Sir John Harvey, theroyal governor, is the friend of Calvert, and is bitterlyhated for his rapacity. Which of these circumstances nowstung the Virginians to rebel is not known. As a matterof fact, on the 28th of April, 1635, Captain Matthews,with forty musketeers, surrounded the governors residence,while John Uty, one of the Council, placing his hand uponhim, said, I arrest you for treason ! This and the briefentry on another old sheet, April 28, 1635, Sir John Har-jobert vey thrust out of his government, are the sole remaining
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