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W
HO WAS
J
OHN
C
OODE
?
Born to wealth in Cornwall, England in 1648,
Coode attended Oxford until 1668. In 1669 he was
ordained as an Anglican priest. He was dismissed from
his parish (reason unknown) and removed to Maryland
about 1673. In 1674 he gave up the priesthood to
marry the wealthy widow, Susanna Slye.
Coode was involved in many revolutionary or
treasonous activities, but he earned his place in history
leading the "Glorious Revolution of Maryland."
The "trouble" started in late March with
apparently false reports of thousands of
bloodthirsty Indian savages (led by Papist
Priests, of course) on their way to Maryland
to with murder and mayhem on their minds.
Whether false or not, the reports frightened
white settlers sufficiently that many who were
Protestant, and would otherwise undoubtedly
have ignored the changing of the guard,
instead became fearful that there might be
truth to the rumors... and supportive of Mr.
COODE. But the rumors of Indian uprisings in
March came to nothing, and all was relatively