Hammond versus Heamans.  
OR, An answer To an audacious Pamphlet, published by an impudent and ridiculous Fellow, named ROGER HEAMANS, Calling himself Commander of the Ship Golden Lion, wherein he endeavours by lies and holy expressions, to colour over his murders and treacheries committed in the Province of Maryland, to the utter ruin of that flourishing Plantation; Having for a great sum sold himself to proceed in those cruelties; it being altogether answered out of the abstract of credible Oaths taken here in England.  
In which is published His highness's absolute (though neglected) Command to Richard Bennet Esq late governor of Virginia, and all others, not to disturb the Lord Baltimore's Plantation in Maryland.  
By John Hammond, a Sufferer in these Calamities.  1 Sam 20. v. 23. 
As touching the thing which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the Lord be between thee and me.  Job 22. v. 5. 
Is not thy wickedness great, and thine iniquities innumerable?  Job 12. 7. 
Ye speak wickedly for God's defence, and talk deceitfully for his cause.  
Printed at London for the use of the Author, and are to be sold at the royal Exchange in Cornhill.   

Hammond versus Heamans.  
I Was very opposite to publish myself to the world a fool in print, resolving rather to wait the determination of the Supreme Authority of England, by whom (and not by railing invectives) we must be tried, than to have expressed so much indifferency as to have carped unseasonably at the proceeding of these inhuman, ingrateful, and bloodsucking Sectaries, which mention God in their lips, but their hearts are far from him; but that I see daily a broaching of lies, one confederating and in the neck of another, which begets belief amongst many, and carries a vulgar applause along with their action, the only way these people ever pitched on to effect their designs, and the rather are they credited by our silence.  
We desire to satisfy every man, and especially our worthy friends the noble Virginians in England, (for in Virginia they are sufficiently informed) and that by their unbiased discourses and relations they may undeceive such as the hypocricies of these fellows hath deluded.  
This, and the inward vexation which perplexeth me to read what they write, to hear what's reported, awakes me, as knowing more of their deceits and proceedings than any man living. I have at this present written, lying by me an historical relation of the transactions of Virginia and Maryland, under the Government and Tyranny of Richard Bennet and Colonel Claiborn, with many remarkable passages of such State-policies as they and their creatures used; but will for a while forbear to publish, as rather desiring this pen-jarring may cease; but if any of this rout shall any more disturb the world (for us they cannot do) with their seeming-sanctified lies, I will then not spare to acquaint the world what they are, and how they live, and give each of their Characters to open view, which now lies masked under the hood of holiness and good disposition, in which I shall somewhat more largely answer Leonard Strongs Babylon's fall, the Book of Virginia and Maryland, and other objections and allegations of theirs, being all full of impudence and ignorance.  
But that Heamans should dare to write amazes me, knowing his imbecility, his villainy, and therefore I shall in my answer to him, briefly and in his own tone anatomize and lay him open to the world a fool, to the State a Knave, to God a notorious offender, whose unfeigned repentance I cordially wish, and that his future portion of Grace may overbalance his former talents of wit and honesty, in the want of which the poor man hath been too too unhappy. But to the matter.  
Roger Heamans gives a great account in his whole relation of his extraordinary vigilancy and diligence in managing of his charge, and the trust imposed on him by his owners, but omits to insert what a disordered Ship and company he had, how mutinous and quarrelsome they were amongst themselves, and how upon every drunken bout they had, what Swords were drawn, what challenges made between the seamen and their great Commander, insomuch that the Inhabitants observing their carraiges, with derision and detestation reported of the fantasticness of Heamans and his rude ungoverned Ships Company.  
The insolency of these were such towards the Inhabitants, (observing the licentiousness of those parts) and taking occasion thereby, that they would sell commodities to whom they list, and lighting on greater prices, would of their own accords (after delivery made) repossess themselves again, scoffing at any pretence of Law or Justice, saying, (as it after proved too true) that their Ship was of force enough to awe the whole country, inflicting punishments on the Planters, and robbing houses as they went, all which is sufficiently proved by Depositions already taken.  
He relates how civilly he entreated Captain Stone, formerly governor Stone, who refused the title of governor from him, informing him that one Captain Fuller was Governor of the Province, and intimates, that from that relation he bends to Fuller, as governor ever after. How disconsonant to reason this is, let any judge that know reason, that know the passages, that know Captain Stone's temper.  
At such time as Bennet and Claiborn came into Maryland, and had compacted to take the Government out of the hands of Captain Stone, after he had notice of the power they had gathered, he likewise impowered himself for defence, and was in possibility to have cut Bennet and Claiborn and all off, but those few Papists that were in Maryland (for indeed they are but few) importunately persuaded governor Stone not to fight, left the cry against the Papists (if any hurt were done) would be so great, that many mischiefs would ensue, wholly referring themselves to the will of God, and the Lord Protectors determination; & although the Protestant party with indignation to be so fooled, submitted to what their governor was persuaded to do, yet could not but complain in that particular against the cowardice of the Papists.  
After they had dispossessed governor Stone of his Authority, and had by promises to disbandon their party, persuaded him to do the like, they presented him with a draught for resignation under his hand, which when he refused, their whole party upon notice given, on a sudden returned, to the astonishment of himself, and affrightment of his wife and children, and required perenitorily to subscribe to what they had written, which he did, saying, It matters not what it is, I will, being thus enforced, write what ye will have me, it cannot be binding nor valid; Lo here the observance of Bennet and Claiborns promises, and after this they would have impowered him as governor from them, which with scorn he refused; nor did governor Stone ever in his own esteem, nor in the eyes of those that had been faithful to his Government, look on himself as less or otherwise than governor, nor ever received other title, how be it he ceased to act until he heard further from England; yet in Heamans his hearing and aboard that Ship which he calls himself Commander of, governor Stone, and Secretary Hatton both, had some words with Mr. Preston the new-made Commander, complaining of their injurious assuming of the Government, and taking away of the Records, threatening, that unless they would return them again, they would compel them away. How then did he disown his Government? and for him to point to Fuller as governor, had not only been base, but ridiculous; for neither Fuller himself (Until after their murderous assasinations) nor the Commission he had from Bennet and Claiborn, did own or make him so; for after governor Stone refused to derive or meddle with power from Bennet and Claiborn, they erected no governor at all, but gave Commission to ten men, Fuller being first in that Commission, to be conservators of the peace, until further order; then how is Heaman's relation true?  
He next after some frivolous relations prosecutes his feigned narration of what his governor Fuller (for until Heamans made him one he was never any) had done in his absence, what Messages he had received from his Governor, how obedient he was to the supreme command of Fuller, how careful to follow his merchant's businesses, and yet how charitable and relenting to those poor-distressed souls that begged his assistance.— Hear this O ye Heavens!  
At such time as Captain Samuel Tilman, (a man ever to be honoured) arrived into Maryland, he repaired to governor Stone, acquainting him, that the Lord Baltemore had not lost his country as was bruited abroad, and brought him some instructions and certainties of his Highnesses owning him the said Stone for governor, and when he was reproved by one Captain John Smith, then High Sheriff, for giving captain Stone the frequent appellation of governor, he replied, I must and shall own him and no other for governor of these parts, for seeing my Lord Protector so styles him, and by that title writes to him, I neither can nor dare call him otherwise, and his example is my warrant.  
Upon this the said Smith (as a man affrighted) hies him home, repairs to Fuller and the rest, they treat with Heamans to assist their opposition, compound with him for a great quantity of Tobacco, and so prepare to oppose all power that should control theirs.  
Governor Stone sent me, not knowing of the compact of Heamans and the rest, to Patuxent to fetch the Records; I went unarmed amongst these Sons of Thunder, only three or four to row me, and despite of all their braves of raising the Country, calling in his Servants to apprehend me, threatened me with the severity of their new-made Law; myself alone seized and carried away the Records in defiance; at which time, what ever Heamans pretends of compacts with Heathens and Papists to destroy them, Richard Preston their great but then quaking-Commander, showed me a Letter from Heamans, wherein he promised the Ship, Ammunition and Men, should be at their service if occasion were, and encouraged them not to think of yielding to governor Stone, nor any power from the Lord Baltemore, and this was the first discovery that ever was made by governor Stone, and not a man in arms, nor intended to be at that time, and yet before this, merely upon captain Tilmans words, and their own jealousies, had Heamans confederated with, and hired himself to them, and yet this fellow must not only justify his Judas-like dealings, but as it were, challenge applause and merit.  
After this, myself again unarmed proclaimed a Proclamation amongst them, put in a new Commander in the face of the whole County met, who as people overjoyed to return to their former just government, as in their voluntary and humble Petitions, they presenting acknowledged the Lord Protector as Supreme was prayed for, and Pardons were as freely consented to, as entreated for.  
But those poor-oppressed souls of Severn, as Heamans styles them, being of another temper and County, & more remote, having Heamans and his company their assured Janiza●●●, rather choosing to lose their lives than their Lordings; sent peremptory Messengers to the governor, (not such as Heamans relates & sets down,) which we all here know to be invented, and rather kept and contrived to be published in England, than intended for their governor, who zealously affected peace, and twice before had suffered himself rather to be fooled out of his Government, than to hazard the shedding of blood.  
But how comes it that their little Agent Strong, nor the impudent Author of Virginia and Maryland, in either of their whisking Treatises mention these so specious propositions inserted in Heamans his works? Heamans you do it scurvily, and we shall yet further discover you. The joining with Heathens, the plundering of houses, the intent to fire your Ship, the hiring of Abraham Hely, and the horrid treacheries you load us with, will more particularly be questioned and answered in another place than here; we have your Book for evidence of your charge, we only fear you will turn Jack Lilborn, and put us to prove it to be yours, which if you do, we have other reckonings to put on your score.  
You can in nothing deal truly, the Letter you pretend you received, myself writ, I procured another, now happily arrived, to transcribe it, which the governor signed, the contents whereof were, That he had been informed upon sight of a Letter pretended to come from you, that you intended some disturbance in the Province, and had promised Mr. Preston the assistance of your Ship, Ammunition and Men, he rather conceived it was a forgery, and you abused, than that any such things really were, and hoped you came for a peaceable Trade, and to follow your employers business, and not to meddle with the differences of the Country, promising you all encouragement and justice that could possibly be expected, and earnestly entreating, that if you had any such resolution you would declare it, which had you done, and not treacherously coloured it over with promises to wait on the governor, he had retired, no blood had been spilled.  
The Warrants you so crowd in your Book, in the name of the Lord Protector, you imagine peradventure will bear you out, had you not been hired the juggling had been handsome, but now 'tis foolish, nor can any Rebellion ever bear bulk, unless it pass on in the name of Supreme Authority. For the Letter you pretend you writ, you confess you did it by advice of your Severn employers; yet in that you affirm a monstrous untruth in saying the Government settled in Captain Fuller was since established by the Lord Protector, you shall by and by see how all such pretended powers are by His highness's absolute Commands null, but never be able nor no stickler of you all to prove any confirmation, had you had any such thing, although you talk much of it, you would have posted it and published it to the World in capital Letters.  
You great Merchant Richard Owen, and his best penned-letter, if it be his, that ever came from him, was not a matter material for the press, we knew him a year or two since a Planter of little credit, and now a very sorry Merchant, yet any stuff will serve such as ye are.  
Concerning the firing of your Ship (I speak to the abused World, not to Heamans) he knows already what I writ is true, that at trial of the governor and council, one Captain Findall upon examination did acknowledge, that after Heaman's Treachery to shoot at them having discovered himself an enemy, he undauntedly told them that himself, could he have compassed it, would have fired his Ship.  
But how prettily do they forge? Fuller he says informed him that Captain Stone intended to fire his Ship, and this dispute between the Hireling and the Master must be taken as a truth, and come likewise to the press, and yet Heamans and they bargained before: Here, if it had been truth, you again show yourself a fool, to engage because Fuller affrighted you.  
And why should Captain Stone think of firing your Ship, had you not been a declared enemy? or if he had such an intent, why did he by Letter address himself to you to stand Newter? before this address Fuller and ye fomented these jealousies amongst the people, which by that after address, was clearly manifest it was never intended, therefore being in its own reason only a fiction, wherefore did you print it? The cause of your Seaman Helies running away, I know not, but have been informed the Fellow was of an honest temper, and that your fantastic domineerings was the cause he rather chose to lose his Voyage, than longer to continue under you. In your whole relation of commands and arguments between you and your employers, you so impudently juggle, that you raise both laughter and anger in me; I shall not swell this to descant on each frivolous passage.  
The delivery of your Benefactors of Ann Arundel Country, is indeed a demi-miracle as you deliver it, but let a true information be received, it will appear otherwise; first, to be treacherously dispersed and hurried a shore, as our men were by Heaman's firing at them.  
Next, to be pursued by an other vessel, commanding at a distance, and so seizing on our Boats and Ammunition; what a great matter did ye? it is and hath been ordinary for a hundred men to surprise and take prisoners two hundred, but ye had more, ours not so many as I mention, and the difference was, ours came with a resolution rather to treat than fight, yours resolved to have the Government or nothing, and therefore would not suffer any Declaration to be published, but surprised the Messenger, and what was most monstrous, after freequarter giver, to adjudge, condemn, and execute, as ye did, yourself Heamans sitting in consultation, and being of their counsel of War, and most active to have all executed, none reprieved, no not the governor himself; It was the first time that ever Heamans had power of condemnation, and therefore thought to grow glorious by his unsampled severity. Take a little view of these oaths, and then judge of this, and these fellows.  
HEnry curtsy, Nicholas Guyther, and Richard Willan, of the Province of Maryland in America, Gent. maked oath, That in or about the latter end of May, in the year 1654. His highness the Lord Protector of the commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging, was by Captain William Stone, the Lord Baltimore's governor of that Province, caused to be proclaimed in the head of the people there, they being then summoned in by Capt. Stone for that purpose; and the said Governor took order with Captain Tilman, and Mr. Bosworth, two commanders of Ships, then trading in that Province, to shoot off several pieces of Ordnance from their respective Ships, in honour of that Solemnity. And they further depose, that in the month of July than next following, Mr. Richard Bennet (the then governor of Virginia) and Colonel William Claiborn, the than Secretary thereof, came from Virginia to Patuxent River in the said Province of Maryland, and there entertained as soldiers the Inhabitants of the said River, with those of Ann Arundel, otherwise by them called Providence, as also the Inhabitants of the Isle of Kent within the said Province, and so forced the said Captain Stone to resign his Government. And the said Deponent Henry curtsy further saith, that the said Bennet and Claiborn, afterwards forced the said governor to set his hand to a Writing, the Contents whereof as this Deponent doth remember was, That he should not meddle with the resuming of the Government again in the Lord Baltimore's behalf. And all the said Deponents further say, that the said Bennet & Claiborn then seized upon the records of the said Province, & put them into the possession of one Captain William Fuller, Mr. Richard Preston, and William Durand; and the Deponent Hen. curtsy saith, That in March last, the said Captain Stone sent up to the said Inhabitants of Ann Arundel, one Mr. Luke Barber, and the said Deponent Henry curtsy, with a Proclamation to require the Inhabitants there to yield obedience to the Lord Baltimore's Officers, under His highness the Lord Protector; and that when the said Mr. Barber and this Deponent Henry curtsy came thither they found the people there all in arms, and the said Fuller would not suffer this Deponent to read the said Proclamation, and so refusing to give any obedience thereunto, the said Mr. Barber and this Deponent were dismissed, but suddenly after (before conveniently they could get away) were taken prisoners by that party, whereby the said governor Captain Stone was prevented of any answer, whereupon he proceeded to come up with what force he had into the River, called by some Severn, where these people lived: And all these Deponents say, That when the said Captain Stone came into the said River, there was one Captain Roger Heamans, with a great Ship called the Golden Lion, whereof he was Commander, who presently shot at Captain Stone's Boats as they passed by him; And the said Guyther and Willan do further depose, That the said Captain Stone (to avoid the said shot) went into a Creek in the said River, where one Mr. Cuts with another Ship (whereof he was Master, blocked up the mouth thereof and upon any discovery forced there Ordnance at the said Captain Stone and his party, until such time as the said Inhabitants of Ann Arundel had transported themselves over the River, unto the said Captain Stone and his party; where after some dispute, the governor (finding himself overpowered) yielded upon quarter, whereupon he and most of his party were transported over the River to a Fort at Ann Arundel, where they were all kept prisoners, and about three days after, the said Captain Fuller, William Burgees, Richard Evans, Leo: Strong, William Durand, the said Roger Heamans, John Brown, John Cuts, Richard Smith, one Thomas, and one Bestone, Samson Warren, Thomas Meres, and one Crouch, sat as in a council of War, and there condemned the said governor Captain Stone, Colonel John Price, Mr. Job Chandler, Mr. William Eltonhead, Mr. Robert Clerk, the said Deponent Nicholas Guyther, Captain William Evans, Captain William Lewis, Mr. John Legat, and John Pedro to die, whereof they executed Mr. William Eltonhead, Captain William Lewis, Mr. John Legat, and John Pedro, the rest being preserved at the request of the soldiers and Women belonging to the said party at Ann Arundel; after which execution, the common soldiers that did belong to the said Captain Stone, were sent away to their several homes, but the Officers and the said Messengers were detained longer, and at the discharging of the said Deponents Henry curtsy and Nicholas Guyther, the pretended council of War imposed an Oath upon them, That they should not write into England to give the Lord Baltamore any information of their proceedings; and not long after they sequestered all the Estates of those of the Lord Baltimore's council and Officers there; And the said Henry curtsy further deposeth, That he was present when Mr. William Eltonhead desired to be allowed an appeal to His highness the Lord Protector in England, but it was refused him by the said pretended council of War at Ann Arundel; And the said Deponents Henry curtsy and Nicholas Guyther do further depose, That a little before the sending of the Proclamation before mentioned, to the people at Ann Arundel, they heard the said Captain Stone declare unto certain Messengers whom these people had sent unto him, That if the said people, who he understood were in arms, would repair unto their several homes, and submit themselves unto the former established Government under the Lord Baltamore, which did acknowledge His highness the Lord Protector as sovereign Lord, he would not offer any violence to them, or do them any prejudice, either in their persons or estates, or words to the very same effect; And the Deponent Richard Willan doth also further depose, That about the time when the said Luke Barber and Henry curtsy went with the said Proclamation above mentioned, he heard the said Captain Stone command that none of his party should rob or plunder any upon pain of death.  


Henry curtsy.  
Nicholas Guyther.  
Richard Willan.   Sworn all three the second day of July 1655. before me Na. Hobart, a Master of the Chancery in Ordinary.  
Now may the Reader throughly understand their Religion, their humanity, their usage of His highness's name, and to what purpose, not to act further by it than shall conduce to their own ends; they will, they say, be subordinate to no power but to the Lord Protector, and yet deny appeals to His highness, rejecting His highness's Commands, breath out vaunts, that if His highness will not own their actings, they will not take notice of what comes from him. They imprisoned, fined, and hardly forbore to have executed Doctor Luke Barber, notwithstanding he brought in a Letter from His highness, directed to Captain William Stone, governor for the Lord Baltamore of his Province of Maryland, intimating thus, That the Bearer hereof Luke Gardner, having been one of his domestic Servants, was intended to remove himself and family into Maryland, and therefore he entreated him to show him for his sake, what lawful favour and assistance he could, signing it.  
Oliver P. And under His highness's Signet.  
This was pretended a forgery, and Mr. Barber put to prove it to be the Lord Protectors, but he must prove it in that place, no appeal could lie good, and the Gentleman as I have often heard him protest, was so overawed, that at last he durst not affirmatively maintain it came from His highness, but answered doubtfully and distractedly. A strange impudence when a Mandate so sacred as under His highness's Hand and Seal, must not only be disputed, but to require a further evidence than himself, witnessing what shall issue out from himself, this is the greatest spurning against, and overthrowing Authority, that ever was heard of or suffered.  
His highness having notice of the proceedings of Bennet, Claiborn, and these people, notwithstanding the sweet Letter 〈…〉 to Bennet, requiring him to cherish peace in the Plantation, now further declares himself as followeth.  
SIR,  
WHereas the difference betwixt the Lord Baltamore and the Inhabitants of Virginia, concerning the bounds by them respectively claimed, are depending before us and our council, and yet undetermined, and that as we are credibly informed, you have notwithstanding gone into his Plantation in Maryland, and countenanced some people there, in opposing the Lord Baltimore's Officers; therefore for preventing of disturbances or tumults, we do will and require you, and all others deriving Authority from you, to forbear disturbing the Lord Baltamore or his Officers and people in Maryland, and to permit all things to remain as they were there, before any disturbance or alteration made by you or any other, upon pretence of authority from you, till the said difference abovementioned be determined by where, and that we give you further order therein: we rest,  
To Richard Bennet Esq governor of Virginia, These. Your Loving Friend, Signed Oliver P. White-Hall, Jan. ●2. 1654. Copia vera Examinatur per Will. Malin.  
By this it appears how great care hath been by His highness used to prevent bloodshed, yet nothing will prevail, and although by this in appears that Bennet's pretended power ceased, and any derived from him, yet will not Leo▪ Strong, the Munkle-Agent of Providence (as he calls himself) cease to be an Agent, but will justle this high command and revocation; he peradventure at last will pretend his deafness, that he never heard it, but cannot allege blindness, for he had and shall again see what it is.  
Were not their actions very justifiable when they should keep men in prison until they should submit to an Oath imposed on them, never to write for England, or to the Lord Baltamore, what had been done? and suffer none to depart for England but what got away by stealth? myself being proscribed by Proclamation, and a great reward for him that should bring in my head, yet was I never in arms, nor never was an Instigator against any of them in all these hurliburlies. We have many authentic testimonies discovering all their actions and proceedings, which are too voluminous to be inserted into an Answer to such an idiot as the Commander of the Golden Lion; we hereby endeavour to give you only a hint that Heamans hath abused the World with his Pamphlet, not a syllable whereof is truth; how he hath deluded his owners with pretence of his care; how he hath spurned at and belied the Supreme Authority; how he hath intruded himself without any lawful call, into the Seat of Justice, and there acted the part of a bloody and aggravating murderer, condemning Innocents and trampling on the souls of them he hath betrayed to death, for without his combination nothing of this had happened, and ourselves had without rigor, without bloodshed, compelled Obedience to the Supreme Command of His highness under the Lord Baltamore, whom we with all solemnity proclaimed, and under whose protection we rejoiced, as our sovereign Lord; issuing out general Pardons in commemoration of that great and happy Solemnity.  
And therefore we do and shall justly charge this Heamans with all the blood spilled in our Province, as the immediate Author, with all the ruins, the banishments, the sequestrations of Estates, and the heart-breaking griefs he hath yielded our wives and Children, to whom if ever we return again, it is through many dangers and hazards.  
For the cry of hay for St. Mary's, hay for two Wives, if any rude soldier in those of any other terms were abusive, it must not colour your matchination, it proceeded by no order of the governors, nor from the mouths of any of quality, themselves were civil and attractive, nor was ever any party afoot without some absurd expression, or disordered language; but these are weak flourishes, and will only bear you out in weak esteems.  
Your observation of Captain Stone's dejection, and his renunciation of the Lord Baltamore, the dead-heartedness of the Prisoners, being only affirmed by yourself, is of as little credit as any thing else you have related; nor are you and your compacted thievish Ships company, to be evidences one for another, and no better than thieves and murderers, to justify you you have none; the religious rejoicing you mention, is no otherwise than such prayers and rejoicings as thieves and gamesters at or after their enterprises use, and as acceptable to God; but seeing Heamans was a Judge to condemn, and now is become a Writer, I shall no longer dwell on Heaman's papers, I shall conclude with that fearful woe denounced by the Prophet Isaiah, against such as you are, Isa. ●0. v. 1. 
Woe unto them that decree wicked decrees, and write grievous things,  Verse 2. 
To keep back the poor from judgement, and to take away the judgement of the poor of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may spoil the fatherless.   
FINIS.