The Catholic Refuge - Give No Offense
In November 1633, two ships slipped away from the English coast carrying the first settlers of Maryland — and three Catholic priests who had to be smuggled aboard, unsworn, after the King's officers f...
25 Jun 202113min
The Catholic Refuge - The Woeful Country
He had been one of the most powerful men in England — Secretary of State to King James, knighted, wealthy, trusted at the King's right hand. Then George Calvert became a Catholic, refused the oath, an...
24 Jun 202116min
The Catholic Refuge - A Kind of Treason
In the small hours of November 5th, 1605, a search party found a man named Guy Fawkes in a cellar beneath the House of Lords, standing among thirty-six barrels of gunpowder meant to destroy the King a...
23 Jun 202116min
The Wages of the Covenant - The Dominion
The charter was gone — annulled by a London court in 1684. But a charter is paper, and for a year and a half the loss was an abstraction. This episode is about what happened when it arrived. It arrive...
22 Jun 202114min
The Wages of the Covenant - The Charter
In the years after King Philip's War, the Massachusetts Bay Colony reformed itself with everything it had. The ministers had read the war as God's judgment on a backsliding people, and the way back to...
22 Jun 202114min
The Wages of the Covenant - The War
King Philip's War lasted fourteen months. More than half of the ninety English towns in southern New England were attacked. Twelve were destroyed. The death rate among the English, per capita, was rou...
30 Apr 202118min
The Wages of the Covenant - The Children of the Peace
The forty-year peace was a friendship. The treaty signed in 1621 between Massasoit and the Plymouth Pilgrims was a transactional document at the moment of signing — both sides had reasons that made se...
30 Apr 202115min
The Wages of the Covenant - The Praying Indians
Most native people in colonial New England did not die in the wars. They became colonists. The standard story runs: encounter, conflict, destruction. The colonists arrived, the natives helped them, th...
30 Apr 202118min
