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"Aye, as if it was yesterday!" answered the old man with a smile. "Miss Bewery's marriage? why, of course!" "Who was she?" demanded Bryce. "Governess at the vicarage," replied Claybourne. "Nice, sweet young lady." "And the man she married? Mr. Brake," continued Bryce. "Who was he?"
However, the Carolinias were growing from fugitive settlements into commonwealths, and, in 1666, William Drummond, the friend of John Stevens, was appointed governor of North Carolinia. Claybourne, who, after a struggle of twenty years, had succeeded in conquering Maryland, saw, with the decline of the commonwealth of England, his own hopes go down. In 1658, the Catholics of St.
In 1654, Claybourne, who was in possession of Kent Island, was threatened by the Catholics from Maryland, and John Stevens, with his friend Hugh Price and half a dozen more, went to aid in the defence of the island. They camped at the mouth of the Severn, in the vicinity of the present city of Annapolis, where they were joined by Claybourne and a body of three hundred men.
Leonard Calvert was governor of Maryland, and a misunderstanding arose between him and Claybourne on Kent Island. Claybourne must go, for the island was part of Maryland, although the right of his lordship's patent was yet undetermined in England. Claybourne resisted.
"Lighter and sweeter quarters shall be found. Your wife's a brave lady, Captain Percy" "And a passing fair one," said Claybourne under his breath. "I left a friend below in the hold, your Honor," I said. "He came with me from Jamestown because he was my friend. The King hath never heard of him. And he's no more a pirate than I or you, your Honor. He is a minister, a sober, meek, and godly man"
"The fact is, I was referred to you, yesterday, by the present vicar of Braden Medworth both he, and the sexton there, Claybourne, whom you, of course, remember, thought you would be able to give me some information on a subject which is of great importance to me." "I don't know the present vicar," remarked Mr. Gilwaters, motioning Bryce to a chair, and taking another close by.
"Remember both of 'em very well indeed," said Claybourne, "though I never set eyes on either after Miss Mary was wed to Mr. Brake. But I saw plenty of 'em both before that. They used to put up at the inn there that I saw you come out of just now.
A volley of musket-balls was poured into Claybourne's pinnace, and three of his men fell dead. Calvert captured the pinnace; but Claybourne escaped. He was driven from Kent Island and escaped to Virginia; but Sir John Harvey refused to surrender him, and John Stevens saw the rebel when he embarked for England, where he made a strong fight before the throne for Kent Island.
John Stevens remembered when William Claybourne, the famous rebel of colonial Virginia, tried to urge the people, against the will of the king, to drive the colonists out of Maryland, which they claimed as a part of their domain. Claybourne established a colony at Kent Island, from whence a burgess was sent.
In that open window sat an old, cheery-faced man, mending shoes, who blinked at the stranger through his big spectacles. Bryce saw his chance and turned in to open the book and point out the marriage entry. "Are you the Charles Claybourne mentioned there?" he asked, without ceremony. "That's me, sir!" replied the old shoemaker briskly, after a glance. "Yes right enough!"
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