On the death of Lord Baltimore, in 1676, his son and successor to his title, who had now successfully administered the government of the colony for fourteen years, returned to England, leaving Thomas Notley as his deputy. During his administration the whole code of laws had been revised, and the act of toleration, which from the first had made Maryland so honourable, was confirmed. But spite of this careful provision for the exercise of the broad spirit of religion, scarcely had Lord Baltimore arrived in England when he was called to account by the Bishop of London, in whose diocese the colonies were supposed to lie, for the neglect of religion in his province. The bishop was seconded by the king and his ministers, who were determined that the English episcopal church should be dominant in Maryland as it was in Virginia. This party at home strengthened the party of the ultra-Protestants in the colony, who had long been dissatisfied with their non-privileged position. Besides this, the recent insurrectionary movements in Virginia were not without their influence on the neighbour state; and Fendall, the former governor, “a man well-experienced in commotions,” headed the disaffected Episcopalians, and the authority of Lord Baltimore, a “papist proprietary,” was called in question. Lord Baltimore hastened back, and order was soon re-established. Fendall was tried, found guilty of sedition, and banished. But Baltimore now was not at liberty to govern his province in his own way. Having been accused, though apparently without cause, of favour towards Papists, the English ministry soon interfered, and an order was issued, that “all offices of government should be intrusted exclusively to Protestants.” Catholics were excluded from office in the very colony which they had planted. Lord Baltimore’s hold on Maryland was being loosened now on all hands. The colonists, among whom the doctrine of civil equality was deep-rooted, called in question the authority of an hereditary proprietary; and the partisans of the English church, whose monarchical principles might otherwise have found no stumbling-block in that circumstance, became his violent opponents as a Papist. Another cause too existed, which affected Lord Baltimore unfortunately in his relationship with England. In attempting “to modify the unhappy effects of the Navigation Laws on colonial industry, he had become involved in opposition to the commercial policy of England. A formidable adversary was thus raised; the Governor of Virginia was made superintendent of the custom-house officers of Maryland. This led to great dissatisfaction; quarrels and bloodshed ensued;” and the blame of all, one way or another, was laid on Lord Baltimore.