The accession of a catholic monarch in England might be considered as a favourable auspice for a catholic proprietary. But no! William Penn, the Quaker, found favour with James, when Lord Baltimore found none. The Catholic was even obliged to relinquish to the Dissenter half the peninsula between the Chesapeake and Delaware, besides “a wide strip along the northern limit of his province.” Nor was that all. The charter of Maryland was threatened. A writ of _quo warranto_ was issued against it, and Lord Baltimore hastened to England to maintain his rights. But before the legal process by which they were invaded was ended King James himself was dethroned. CHAPTER XX. SETTLEMENT OF NEW JERSEY.—THE QUAKERS. Two months before the surrender of New Netherlands to the English, the Duke of York made over the land embraced by his patent, lying between the Hudson and the Delaware, to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, both proprietaries of Carolina. In compliment to Sir George Carteret, who, as governor of the Isle of Jersey, had been the last commander to lower the royal flag in the civil wars, this territory was called New Jersey. The proprietaries immediately published terms of colonisation, or, as they called them, “concessions,” offering fifty acres of land to each settler, and the same quantity for each servant or slave, at a quit-rent of one-halfpenny per acre, and the same to all indented servants at the expiration of their term of servitude. No quit-rent, however, was to be demanded until 1670. Already in 1663, before this grant to Berkeley and Carteret was known, several puritan families from Long Island had purchased a considerable tract of country from the Indians and formed a settlement on Newark Bay. A few Swedish farmers also remained scattered here and there, besides old Dutch settlers, all considering themselves legalised possessors of their land. When, therefore, two years afterwards, Sir Philip Carteret arrived as proprietary governor, he found sturdy settlers ready and resolved to oppose his claims to their portion of the soil; hence much discord and difficulty arose.