territorial rights against William Penn and the Duke of York.

17. *Hon. Benedict Leonard Calvert (Cath., Baltimore's infant son and
heir), left as nominal Lt. General by com. of 1 May 1684 (AM, XVII, 247).
Executive power devolved upon a "Board of Deputy Governors" established by
the same instrument, viz: *Col George Talbot, President (Cath.), Col. Thomas
Taillor (Prot.), *Col. Vincent Lowe (Cath.), *Col. Henry Darnall I (Cath.),
*Col William Digges (Prot., wife Cath., a niece of Col. V. Lowe, Col. William
Stevens (Prot.), Col. William Burgess (Prot., Sewall's father-in-law), *Maj.
Nicholas Sewall (Cath., nephew of Lowe and brother-in-law of Digges), and

*John Darnall (Cath, brother of Col. Henry Darnall). John Darnall died 14

Dec. 1684 and Col. Stevens in March, 1687/8; they were succeeded at the Board
by Clement Hill, Sr. (Cath., Col. H. Darnall's brother-in-law), appointed 21
Sept. 1685 and *Col. Edward Pye (Cath, nephew of Lowe and brother-in-law of
Sewall and Digges), appointed 23 July 1688. Meanwhile, on 31 Oct. 1684, Col.
Talbot had murdered Collector Christopher Rousby. He then had the province,

and the presidency devolved upon Col. Thomas Taillor. Taillor was in turn suc-

ceeded, on 3 Oct. 1688, by one William Joseph of London (Cath,), appointed by
His Lordship's commission of 23 July of that year (AM, VIII, 42), Joseph and
the Board surrendered to the Protestant Associators, 1 Aug. 1689.

18. Capt. John Coode (Prot. convert, former wife Cath., dau. of Thomas

Gerrard above), Col. Henry Jowles, Kenelm Cheseldyne, and others, styling them-
selves the Committee of the Protestant Freemen, seized the government, 1 Aug.
1689 (AM, VIII, 107). Jowles and Cheseldyne were in same way related. The as-
sembly of May, 1692 voted the former 20,000 lb. and the latter 100,000 lb. of

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