After four decades of peace between Protestants and Catholics, new religious conflict erupted and the Catholic colony leadership was overthrown."Vanished Colonial Town Yields Baroque Surprise", New York Times, online Archives, By JOHN HARTSOCK, Special to the New York Times Published: February 5, 1989 https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/us/vanished-colonial-town-yields-baroque-surprise.html Catholics lost the right to vote"The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, Volume I: To 1877", By Paul Boyer, Clifford Clark, Karen Halttunen, Sandra Hawley, Joseph Kett, "Chapter: 4 The Bonds of Empire: 1660-1740" page 70, Cengage Learning, publisher, January 1, 2012 and were prevented from worshipping in publicFrancis Graham Lee, "All Imaginable Liberty: The Religious Liberty Clauses of the First Amendment", page 22, University Press of America (June 6, 1995) (prohibitions that lasted in Maryland for nearly a century, until the late 1700s)"Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, America as a Religious Refuge: The Seventeenth Century, Part 2" section entitled "Roman Catholics in Maryland" Library of Congress,https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01-2.html and the new Protestant leadership moved the capitol to Annapolis.
