Obviously because the Roundheads were correct when they called Archbishop Laud a Papist. John Gorsuch (Doctor of Divinity) was among the First Century of Scandalous Malignant Priests that John White wrote of in 1643,

"that he is a common haunter of Ale-houses and Taverns, and often drunke; and oft sitteth gaming whole nights together, and is seldom in the Pulpit, preaching scarce once a quarter; and hath often denied many of his Parishioners the Sacraments of the Lord's Supper, without any cause shown, and refused to administer it to such as would not come up to the rails ..."

Else where he was charged to have "...endeavoured to hire one Jones to ride a Troop Horse for Prince Rupert... and had published a wicked libel against the Parliament that some of the Lords whom he named were Fools, Bastards and Cuckolds".

His family found little comfort among the Puritan Roundheads...strange bedfellows perhaps...but the Catholics at least welcomed them. Although by 1649 Maryland had become the refuge to more non-Puritan Protestants and Quakers than Catholics.

v/r Greg