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The late 1630s were a contentious time in English politics.

King Charles faced open opposition to his rule, every time he had a Protestant leader imprisoned or every time a Protestant gathering was broken up by force of arms, the opposition to the king's rule grew even stronger.

It became clear that war was on the horizon, regardless of what the king might do to stop it. As a result, both sides militarized and prepared for war.

By 1641, everyone was drawing battle lines, literally battle lines, food was being

stockpiled and forts were being manned by soldiers. Peasants were armed and noblemen spent their days riding around the countryside looking

menacing. Much like the American Civil War, the lines that were drawn prior to the fighting were on hundreds and

hundreds of tiny fronts.

And today we're going to be concerned with one of those fronts, perhaps the farthest away from the center of the conflict.

It was a military backwater, which is kind of funny, considering it would eventually become the center of power for the most expansive and powerful military that the world would ever know.

It was, however, engine over which forces were struggling and it had the potential to become, well, America.

This is episode 156, High Treason.

America was key to the religious equation taking place in England at this point.

And that's not historical analysis, you know, hindsight is 20-20, but people at the time knew that.

One of the most prominent Puritan publications at the time said

The eyes of all Europe are looking upon our endeavors to spread the Gospel among the heathen people of Virginia and plant an English nation there.

Now of course the Puritans would become a larger factor later on up to the north of

Virginia, New England. Today we're talking about the Chesapeake, Virginia and Maryland, and the fight between those two colonies.

At this point in our story, 1641, the tensions on the Chesapeake had reached something of an equilibrium.

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