#135 The “Plundering Time” Of Maryland Part 1

The History of the Americans

Jack Henneman

History

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This is the first of two episodes that recounts Maryland’s “Plundering Time,” when the English Civil War spilled into the Chesapeake. Protestants would rebel against Catholics, and Richard Ingle, a Protestant merchant-trader who had been the principal commercial link between the early Maryland colony and England, would loot the colony and almost put an end to the Calverts’ rule there. This episode is the prelude to that ugly and also comical moment. It was, ultimately, a farce of impulsivity and ego that almost redrew the map of the future United States.

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Selected references for this episode

That Time Maryland and Virginia Went to War

Timothy B. Riordan, The Plundering Time: Maryland and the English Civil War, 1645–1646

Manfred Jonas, “The Claiborne-Calvert Controversy: An Episode in the Colonization of North America,” Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien, 1966.

First English Civil War (Wikipedia)

Podcast: Rejects and Revolutionaries, “English Civil War 7: The Plundering Time”

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast, episode 135.
0:11.7	I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and I am recording this episode on December 11, 23, in Austin, Texas.
0:19.9	We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning
0:25.4	without intentional presentism.
0:28.9	We have twice teased the plundering time of Maryland.
0:34.3	The first was back in April 2023 in the episode, That Time Maryland and Virginia
0:40.8	went to war, a useful prerequisite for this episode. And again, more obliquely in our recent
0:47.1	episode, Opa Kan Kanah's Last Stand. That time Maryland and Virginia went to war tells the story of the early conflict between the
0:57.1	vengeful Virginian trader Thomas Claiborne, who had built a settlement for trading fur on Kent
1:04.3	Island in the northern Chesapeake. Kent Island was smack in the middle of Lord Baltimore's
1:10.4	Maryland proprietary grant, and Lord Baltimore's Maryland proprietary grant.
1:13.3	And when Baltimore's brother Leonard Calvert arrived with the Ark and the Dove in 1634,
1:20.1	he and Claiborne came into conflict when Claiborne would not subject himself to Calvert's authority.
1:27.0	After some failed diplomacy in the first naval skirmishes in the Chesapeake,
1:32.3	Calvert ejected Claiborne from Kent Island.
1:36.1	Claiborne would spend the rest of his life nurturing his grudge against the Calvert's.
1:41.5	We shall return to the Tees and hope it cancana's last stand, for those of you who
1:47.0	do not remember the moment. But first, let's review the broader situation. One of the things I've
1:53.2	learned in doing this podcast is that early colonial Maryland was more interesting than I'd been
1:59.0	led to believe.
2:06.9	Early Maryland is mentioned only in passing, if at all, in the surveys of American history,
2:13.0	usually with reference to its Catholicism or early policy of religious freedom among Christians.
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