#151 Rogues and Dogs and Fendall’s Rebellion

The History of the Americans

Jack Henneman

History

4.9 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This episode is about a radically democratic political movement in Maryland in the 1650s. Veterans of the New Model Army, many of whom had been swimming in political movements like the Levellers, came to Maryland and joined with other Protestants chafing under Catholic and aristocratic rule. Blood would be shed at the Battle of the Severn, and in the aftermath Lord Baltimore would install a man named Josias Fendall as the fourth governor of his proprietary colony. Fendall, it would turn out, decided he agreed with the populists, and led a legislative revolution that, for a time, would make Maryland the most politically radical government, other than in Rhode Island, anywhere in the English world.

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Primary reference for this episode

Noeleen McIlvenna, Early American Rebels: Pursuing Democracy from Maryland to Carolina, 1640-1700 (Commission earned)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 151.
0:11.1	I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and I am recording this episode very early in the morning on May 11th,
0:18.0	2024 in Austin, Texas.
0:21.4	We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning without intentional presentism.
0:29.4	As mentioned by me, by various means, there will be a meetup of Houston area fans of the podcast next Friday, May 17, 2024.
0:41.2	Put the year in there, because somebody might be listening to this some year in the future.
0:45.6	From roughly four to seven at the St. Arnold Brewing Company Beer Garden,
0:51.5	2000 Lions Avenue, Houston, Texas. Lions is spelled like the great city in France,
0:58.9	L-Y-O-N-S, not like the big cat. They don't make reservations, but it's a big place with lots of tables.
1:08.3	I'll try to get there a bit early and grab a table, at which point I will post a selfie,
1:13.2	confirming my presence on X and Facebook and such.
1:17.2	Let me know if you think you can make it,
1:19.4	because then I'll grab two tables if I can
1:22.3	or assign the first guest to the job of holding down the fort at another one.
1:27.6	Okay, I've gotten several emails that the name of the older regicide discussed in the last
1:33.8	episode is properly pronounced Waley rather than Wally.
1:39.6	Serves me right for not spending enough time in New Haven.
1:47.0	Oh well, mispronunciations have happened before and will happen again. We are back in Maryland, now about 1648. As longstanding and attentive listeners
1:56.5	know from our episodes on Maryland's plundering time, which dropped in December
2:01.2	2023, the English Civil Wars had spilled into the Chesapeake and microcosm.
2:08.0	Even after Richard Engel, surely you remember him, was long gone and the Calvert's were
2:13.5	back in control, the turmoil in Maryland would continue into the 1660s.
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