Ingle, with one ship and his men, completely took over the government of the Palatinate Of Maryland for over a year. He confiscated property and assets from numerous wealthy Royalist Catholic settlers in order to pay for the loss of his ship and its cargo. He captured two Jesuit priests and took them in chains back to London.
Just a little semi-obscure Maryland history for you. My paternal line came to Maryland in the mid-1600's. I know the history quite well. Mr. ingle's attack was not the only one, there was also something of an inter-colonial war with Rhode Island, again going back to Royalist and Parliamentarian strife. In many ways, the English Civil War was played out upon these shores as well.
To paint the conflicts of the era as strictly religious in nature may play well to modern ears, but it is not entirely accurate. It was political through and through. That the two sides were Catholic and Protestant was secondary.
Furthermore, there would never have even been a Palatinate of Maryland without the sympathies of a Protestant. Perhaps he merely wanted them out of England as some cynics have claimed, or perhaps this was a budding sign of the religious tolerance and freedom of religion to come, upon which this nation was founded.
It's also entirely possible that both were true.
In Brittany the Protestant Reformation of the 1500s took an entirely different course than that anywhere else ~ the people stayed Catholic, the nobility in the towns stayed Catholic, the rural nobles became Protestant.
In nearby France , the nobility in the towns became Protestant and the rural nobles stayed Catholic for the most part. The people split depending on social function with a Catholic peasantry and a Protestant mercantile class.
The quite large royal family at the top also split with d'Guise on one side and the Huguenots on the other ~ although even the wealthiest d'Guise had home chapels just like the wealthiest Huguenots.
When it came to foreign relations, the French relatives of the Spanish king (after 1598) fared well whether they were Catholic or Protestant.
Most amazingly in the last quarter of King Philippe I/II"S reign (1555 to 1598) the rural nobles in Brittany, then arguably the wealthiest nobility in Europe outside of the Spanish royal family, and totally Protestant, raised a sort of rebellion with a demand that their country (Brittany) be transferred from the French claimants to the Spanish claimants!
I"m working on that part right now because I find Breton nobles among the Spanish then living and working in the New World.
Their own families at the time were living in Sweden!