Labor, common-stock system of, at Jamestown, [26];
abolished by distribution of land, [56];
failure of, at Plymouth, [179];
evils of, [186], n. 9.
Labor, private, more productive than common-stock system, [49];
prohibited on Sundays, [127].
Laborers, twelve so-called, in the Virginia colony, [27].
Land, division of, in Virginia, [48], [49], [56], [68], n. 12.
Land grants, various, in Virginia, based on the Grand Charter, [56], [70], n. 15.
Lane, Ralph, governor of Ralegh's first colony, [7], [21], n. 3;
seeks gold and the South Sea, [8];
account in Hakluyt, iii, [8], m.;
hopes for his Roanoke colony, [74];
to Sydney and Walsingham, [74], m.
Latitude of [40]°, belief of a westward passage in, [9], [10].
Laud, Archbishop, obliterated by Puritanism, [133];
one great service of, to the world, [193];
character of, [193];
fearless in peril, [195];
dubbed "the father of New England," [196];
Letter to Selden, [196];
Abbott's account of Laud's rise, [216], n. 2;
fails to crush the Massachusetts Company, [211];
suppressing Puritanism, [239];
fall of, [240];
non-conforming Puritans hunted from lectureships and chaplaincies by, [270];
drove John Cotton to New England, [279];
moving to vacate the Massachusetts charter, [282];
made head of a commission to govern the colonies, [284];
drove Hooker from his pulpit at Chelmsford, [317];
preparations to control Massachusetts made by, [343];
asked to stop emigration to New England, [344];
tries to compel Scots to use prayer book, [344].
Laws, divine, moral, and martial, under which Dale oppressed Virginia, [45], [70], n. 16; [132].
Leah and Rachel, [79], m.; [265], n. 25.
Lederer, voyage of, from Virginia, [11], m.
Legislative body established by the Great Charter, [55].
Leland, John, Itinerary, [152], m.
Lenox, Duke of, territory assigned to, [259], n. 5.
Letters of complaint intercepted, [47].
Letters of Missionaries, [264], n. 17, n. 18.
Leyden, Scrooby exiles remove to, [166];
Pilgrims set out from, [174].
Liberty in religion congruous with civil peace, [315].
Lingard, [238], m.
Little Gidding, Ferrar's community at, [92];
devastated by the Puritans, [93].
Liturgy, a, purified of human tradition, [106];
omitted in many parishes, [142].
London Separatists, [147];
organize a church, [148];
miserably persecuted, some flee to Amsterdam, [148].
Long Island Sound, Dermer storm-driven into, [9].
Long Island, English settlers on, [345].
Lord's Prayer, repetition of the, thought dangerously liturgical, [117].
Lotteries of the Virginia Company, [69], n. 14;
abolished, [53], [70], n. 14.
Low Countries, toleration in the, [163];
condemned by Baylie, [164].
Luther, Martin, on the Sabbath, [124].
Machyn's Diary, [99], m.
Magellan's Strait, [2], [9].
Magistrates aided by clergy in Massachusetts, [266];
men of unusual ability, [266];
right of, to punish for a religious offense, denied by Williams, [272], [286];
or to regulate the orthodoxy of churches and the belief of individuals, [292], [309], n. 12; [310], n. 13.
Magna Charta, the, of America, [55].
Maids by the shipload sent to Jamestown, [57];
not coerced into going, [72], n. 19.
Maine, French driven out of, [50];
first English colony in, [189];
fishing villages of, [345].
Manchester, Duke of, papers, [71], n. 18; [174], m.; [184], n. 5.
Manuscript Book of Instructions, [71], n. 18; [72], n. 19; [80], m.; [96], n. 6; [97], n. 9; [232], m.
Manuscript Records, Virginia Company, [52], m.; [61], n. 3; [67], n. 9; [69], n. 13, 14; [70], n. 15; [71], n. 18; [72], n. 19; [81], m.; [82], m.; [95], n. 3; [97], n. 9, 10; [172], m.; [184], n. 4.
Mar-Prelate tracts, the, [114];
answers to the, [116];
effects of the reaction against, [121].
Marriage by a Roman priest invalidated accruing land tenures, [237].
Marsden's Early Puritans, [125].
Martial law under Dale, [45];
Smyth's code of, [70], n. 16; [132].
Martin, Sir William, on Roger Williams, [307], n. 1.
Martyr, Peter, Decade III, [24], n. 9.
Maryland, Baltimore's projected colony in, [236];
change to, from Avalon, [239];
small migration to, [240];
policy of toleration in, [242], [250], [265], n. 25;
committed to guardian angels, [243];
arrival of the Catholic pilgrims, [244];
ceremonies of the landing in, [244];
said to have been named by King Charles, [245];
called Colony of St. Maries, [245];
efforts to convert the Protestants in, [246];
openly a Catholic colony, [247], [264], n. 17;
import tax on Catholic servants and convicts, [248], [264], n. 19;
opposition to Maryland, [249];
Puritan settlers invited, [252];
civil wars of, [253], [254];
Act of Toleration passed, [255];
again a proprietary government under Calvert, [257];
disastrous results of religious differences in, [266].
Maryland Archives, [245], m.; [262], n. 10; [265], n. 21.
Maryland Assembly too cunning to be trapped by Baltimore, [255].
Maryland charter, ambiguity of the, designed, [225], [236], [251], [259], n. 4; [262], n. 11;
compared with charter of Avalon, [234];
provisions of, [235], [236];
extensive powers granted by, [236], [263], n. 12.
Mass celebrated in defiance of law, [226];
abhorred by the Puritans in Avalon, [228].
Massachusetts Bay, failure of commercial settlements on, [189];
patent to lands in, granted to the Massachusetts Company, [207].
Massachusetts charter, Laud's effort to vacate the, [282], [284].
Massachusetts colony, government under Endecott, [217], n. 7;
people homogenous in religious affairs, [266];
religious opinion, main source of disturbance in, [266], [267];
self-consciousness of the, [278];
preparations for resistance in, [284];
failure as an agricultural colony, [320];
three profound disturbances in, [326];
in commotion over the Hutchinson controversy, [335].
Massachusetts Company, rise of the, [199], [207];
first colony of, under John Endecott, [199], [207];
second company of emigrants, [203];
fear that the charter might be revoked, [208];
company and colony to be merged in one, [209];
transfers its government and charter to Massachusetts Bay, [210];
the commercial corporation becomes a colonial government, [211];
the colonists believed they were founding a new church, [212].
Massachusetts government, evolution of the, [207];
first court of, at Charlestown, [210];
later became representative, [211];
relieved from strain by the borough system, [276];
a government of congregations, [308], n. 6;
theocratical, [279];
religious intolerance of the, [297], [349], n. 9;
anomalous in character, [323];
angered by Hooker's secession, [326].
Massachusetts Historical Collections, [310], n. 15; [318], m.; [320], m.; [347], n. 1; [348], n. 7.
Massachusetts Records, [206], m.; [285], m.; [290], m.; [291], m.; [308], n. 11; [310], n. 13, 17; [317], m.; [320], m.; [337], m.
Massacre by the Indians put an end to all projects, [84], [92].
Masson's Life of Milton, [137], n. 6.
Mather's Magnalia, [152], m.; [154], m.; [217], n. 5; [328], m.;
authority to be disregarded, [311], n. 17.
Maverick, Samuel, on Noddle's Island, [190];
Description of New England, [273], m.
Maydstown laid off in Virginia, [72], n. 19.
Mayflower, conduct of the captain of the, [177].
Maynard to Laud, [344], m.
May-poles, opposition to, [118];
pole of St. Andrew Undershaft sawed up, [119];
law against May-poles, [119];
the frolics around charged with immorality, [120];
Morton's, at Merrymount, [190], [201].
Mediterranean Sea, a, looked for in the heart of America, [11].
Meeting, last all-night, in Pastor Robinson's house, [175].
Mennonites, Williams attracted to the doctrines of the, [312], n. 19;
derived his broadest principles from the, [313], n. 19.
Mercurius Americanus, [348], n. 6.
Merrymount, Morton's dangerous settlement at, [190], [201], [216], n. 1.
Metals, the precious, the only recognized riches, [75].
Mica mistaken for gold, [13], [30], [75].
Migration, the great, to New England, [196], [203].
Millinary Petition, the, [159].
Millinery sins, regulations against, [285].
Mills's British India, [67], n. 9.
Milton, John, learned Dutch from Roger Williams, [273].
Mines, Mexican, reports of wealth of, brought support to Ralegh's undertaking, [74].
Ministerial office never so reverenced as by Puritans, [338].
Ministers, two, over one church, [106];
might prophesy, but not a woman, [338].
Missionary impulse, first, in the English Church, [89], [94], n. 1.
Monatesseron, the earliest English, [93].
Montserrat, island of, settled by Catholics, [231], [232], [261], n. 9.
Months, scruples about the heathen names of the, [302].
Morals, austerity in, [119];
advance of, under Puritan influence, [121];
lack of sense of proportion is a trait of the age, [130];
regularity of, purchased at a great sacrifice, [342].
More, Father Henry, [263], n. 14.
Morton, Thomas, and his deviltry, [190], [201], [216], n. 1;
Memorial, [177], m.;
New English Canaan, [216], n. 1.
Motives for founding English colonies, [73];
commercial and sentimental, [86];
religious, [89], [189].
Mount Desert, Jesuit settlement at, plundered, [47], [50].
Mourt's Relation, [184], n. 4.
Mouse and snake, battle between, [277];
interpretation of, by Pastor John Wilson, [277].
Mouse nibbles a Book of Common Prayer, [278].
Movements, significant, usually cradled in rustic mangers, [146].
Mulberries first planted in England, [76];
law for promoting the raising of, in Virginia, [77];
repealed, [79].
Muskrat skins valued for their odor, [19].
Names, fanciful, of the Newfoundland coast, [225], [229].
Names, Indian, of places changed, [244].
Nansemond, settlement at, [37];
settlers driven from, [38].
Narragansett Bay recommended to Williams by Winthrop, [293];
proposal to remove to, alarmed the magistrates, [294];
colony on, founded on the true principle, [316].
Narragansett Club Publications, [135], n. 4; [268], m.; [307], n. 3, 4, 5; [311], n. 17.
Naval stores, Virginia expected to produce, [82];
efforts to procure, in Elizabeth's time, [95], n. 4.
Neal's History of New England, [310], n. 14;
History of the Puritans, [159], m.; [226], m.; [239], m.
Neill, E. D., on the social compact, [183], n. 4;
Founders of Maryland, [262], n. 11;
Virginia Company, [67], n. 9; [183], n. 2.
Netherlands, indirect interest of the, in the Virginia colony, [44].
New England, coast of, explored by Capt. John Smith, [37];
shaped in Old England by Puritanism, [133];
pioneers of, came from the Separatists, [141], [146];
existence of, hung on a chain of accidents, [176];
elements of, [177];
early attempts to colonize, [178];
early settlements in, [189];
great migration to, [196], [203];
capital laws of, condemned by Williams, [304].
New England charter of 1620, [173].
New England colonists deemed themselves a chosen people, [278];
accounted other colonists the Egyptians of the New World, [278], [308], n. 7;
held to an intolerant theocracy, [279];
dispersions of the, [315];
relief at disappearance of the last of the leaders, [342].
New England Firebrand Quenched, [301], m.
New England Historical Gen. Reg., [267], [307], n. 1.
New England Puritanism more ultra than Bownd, [132], [140], n. 3.
New England traits due to special causes, [178].
Newfoundland, failure of colony at, [223], [224];
Capt. Whitbourne's pamphlet on, [224];
fanciful names in, [225];
not a paradise in winter, [229], [260], n. 7;
value of the fisheries, [261], n. 7.
New France bubble ready to collapse, [346].
New Haven, Davenport and his company planted colony at, [343];
colony united with Connecticut by royal charter at the Restoration, [343];
stretching westward, [345].
New Life of Virginea, [63], n. 3.
New Plymouth, Sandys's plans for the foundation of, [88].
Newport, Vice-Admiral, reporter of Virginia affairs, [44];
threatened with the gallows by Dale, [44];
warned against Archer, [64].
Newtown, Hooker's company settled at, [317];
intended for capital and palisaded, [318];
superior to Boston in one regard, [318];
discontent at, [318], [319], [320];
questions regarding boundary, [319];
cattle-raising at, [320];
the church at, emigrated bodily to Connecticut, [325];
court of elections held at, [335].
New World, mirages of the, [2];
discovered because it lay between Europe and the East Indies, [3];
grotesque and misleading glimpses of the, [20].
New York Colonial Documents, [6], m., [43], m.
New York Hist. Soc. Coll., [23], n. 7;
second series, [70], n. 15; [80], m.
Nichols's, Josias, Plea for the Innocent, [146], m.
Nonconformists, severe measures against, [122];
in the Church, [142].
North Carolina, coast of, called Wingandacon, [21], n. 3.
Northey, Sir Edward, decision on the Maryland charter, [262], n. 11.
Northwest passage, search for a, [4], [5], [9], [10].
Nova Albion, [259], n. 5.
Nova Brittania, [82], m.
Oath of allegiance, [241];
emigration oath refused by Williams, [270];
new oath for residents opposed by Williams, [289];
magistrates unable to enforce, [289].
Ogle's Account of Maryland, [264], n. 19.
Oil to be distilled from walnuts, [83].
Oldham, John, an adventurous man of lawless temper expelled from Plymouth, [324];
led a small company from Watertown, [324].
Opossum, the, described by Purchas, [18].
Opposition, Puritanism the party of, [110].
Original Records of Colony of Virginia, [78], m.
Overston, sermons preached in, by unlicensed men, [142].
Pacific Ocean, discovery of the, [3];
belief in a passage to the, [4], [6];
nearness to Florida, [6];
sought via the James River, [8];
in latitude 40°, [9], [10];
via the Delaware, [10];
proximity of, to Virginia, [10], [22], n. 6;
to North Carolina, [11].
Pagitt's Heresiography, [143], m.; [144], m.; [157], n. 1.
Palfrey's History of New England, [211], m.; [218], n. 8.
Palisades burned for firewood, [40].
Paradox, the, of colonial religious organization, [280].
Parkinson, Marmaduke, explorer, [10].
Parliamentary freedom, struggle for, [87].
Parties, the two great, of Protestantism, rise of, [106];
results, [107];
lines between, not sharply drawn at once, [110];
controversy between, grew more bitter, [114].
Party, a moderate, lamented the excesses of the extremists, [117].
Passage to the Pacific Ocean sought, [3], [4], [9], [10], [22], n. 5; [73], [74].
See also [Northwest Passage] and [Pacific Ocean].
Patent, royal, validity of, questioned by Williams, [274], [281], [289], [308], n. 9; [309], n. 12.
Patience, the, pinnace, built wholly of wood, [41].
Paulus, Pieter, Verklaring der Unie van Utrecht, [312], n. 18.
Pearce, Mistress, "near twenty years" in Virginia, [71], n. 18.
Pearl fisheries in Virginia waters, [95], n. 3.
Peckard's Life of Ferrar, [65], n. 5; [87], m.; [93], m.;
account of, [97], n. 10; [100], m.
Peirce, John, received a grant from the Virginia Company, [184], n. 4.
Pequot war, Williams denounced slaughter of women and children in, [305];
plan of campaign changed through a revelation, [338].
Pequots dangerous on Connecticut River, [323].
Percy, George, on the arrival at Virginia, [28];
on the sufferings at Jamestown, [30];
increased the hostility of the Indians, [38], [64], n. 4;
inefficiency as governor, [44], [60], n. 2;
succeeded by Gates, [101].
Percy to Northumberland, [46], m.;
Trewe Relacyon, [40], m.; [60], n. 2; [64], n. 4; [65], n. 5.
Perfect Description of Virginia, [11], m.
Perfume to be extracted from the muskrat, [95], n. 3.
Persecution in Queen Mary's time, [103];
spirit of, pervaded every party, [113];
of the Separatists, [141];
begot Separatism, [154], [155];
new storm of, [163], [182], n. 1;
starts agitation for emigration to Virginia, [168], [183], n. 2.
Peter, Hugh, rebuked Cotton for defending Mrs. Hutchinson, [337];
browbeat Mrs. Hutchinson's witnesses, [338];
returned to England and favored toleration, [348], n. 7.
Petition to House of Lords, [345], m.
Pharisaism of the rigid Sabbath, [132].
Philosophical Transactions, [78], m.; [79], m.
Pilgrims brought Barrowism to New England, [148];
Scrooby and Austerfeld cradles of the, [149];
no tradition of, lingers at Scrooby, [150];
common country folk, [151];
flee to Amsterdam, [164];
theological agitations drive them to Leyden, [165];
danger of extinction, [166];
intermarriages with the Dutch, [167];
emigration to Virginia under consideration, [168], [182], n. 2;
questioned whether to be Dutch or English colonists, [169];
ask aid of Edwin Sandys, in securing religious liberty, [169];
receive two charters, a general order, and a liberal patent from the Virginia Company, [172];
their Compact under the general order, [173];
departure from Leyden, [174];
forced to land, select Plymouth, [177];
suffered for their ignorance of colony-planting, [178];
honor due, [186], n. 8;
"stepping stones to others," [188];
slender success of, stimulated commercial settlements, [189];
the "large patent" granted to the, through influence of Sandys, [206];
influence on the Massachusetts colony, [212].
Piscataqua, settlement on the, [189].
Plaine Declaration of Barmudas, [65], n. 6.
Planting, the first, at Jamestown, [29].
Plants of every clime believed to grow in Virginia, [82].
Plays, performance of, on Sundays prohibited, [127].
Pledge signed at Cambridge by Winthrop's party, [209].
Plymouth, ceremony observed at, [103];
the landing at, [177];
horrors of Jamestown repeated at, [179];
the second step in the founding of a great nation, [181];
Roger Williams "prophesied" at, [272];
people styled "mungrell Dutch," [273];
disturbed by Williams, [274];
gives him a letter of dismissal to Salem, [275].
Pocahontas, [33], [35], [37];
converted and wedded to Rolfe, [49];
taken to England, [49], [68], n. 10;
captured by Argall, [50];
dies leaving an infant son, [52].
Pocahontas story, the, [63], n. 3.
Pomp and display at the court of Elizabeth, [98];
imitation of, objected to by the Puritans, [100], [134], n. 2.
Popham, Captain George, attempt of, to colonize in Maine, [178].
Port Royal, map showing strait near, [8], [21], n. 4.
Pory's Report, [70], n. 15; [77], m.
Pots and Phettiplace, narrative, [35], [61], n. 2.
Powhatan releases Captain Smith, [33], [34], [35].
Precinct in Virginia asked for by Calvert, [229].
Presbyterianism developed under Cartwright, [112], [136], n. 6;
swept out by Whitgift, [122];
hoped for in New England, [213].
Price of commodities, rise of, promoted voyages, [22], n. 5.
Private interest, even a slave's patch of, put life into Virginia, [48].
Proceedings Mass. Hist. Soc., Wheelwright's sermon in, [331], m.
Proceedings of Virginia Assembly, [80], m.
Property, community of. See [Communism]; [Labour].
Prophet, the, and the reformer, [306].
Proportion, lack of sense of, peculiar to zealots and polemics, [130].
Protestant colonists at St. Christopher's oppose Catholic fellow-colonists, [231];
no Protestant minister or worship on ships coming to Maryland, [242].
Protestant Nunnery, Ferrar's community at Little Gidding called the, [93].
Protestantism, English, rise of the two great parties of, [106], [107];
controversy grew more bitter, [114];
incorruptible in Virginia, [231].
Protestantism on the Continent nearly wrecked, [198].
Protestants, English, find refuge on the Continent, [104];
compromises at home, dissensions in exile, [104];
the ultra wing tended to democratic church government, [106];
return after death of Mary, [107];
their petty squabbles develop into bitter feuds and struggles, [107];
widespread results, [107];
Baltimore orders no scandal nor offense to be given to, [250];
his policy of conciliation toward, in Maryland, [251].
Protestants on the Continent become Roman Catholics, [198].
Providence Plantation founded by Williams, [296];
fell into inevitable disorders, [315];
an example of the largest liberty in religion congruous with civil peace, [315].
Provincetown Harbor, the Mayflower in, [177].
Public Records Office Colonial Papers, [54], m.
Pullein's Culture of Silk, [95], n. 2.
Punishments, various, inflicted by Dale, [46].
Purchas his Pilgrimes, [2], [12], m.; [18], [22], n. 6; [24], n. 9, n. 10; [28], m.; [29], m.; [30], m.; [64], n. 3; [65], n. 6; [69], n. 14; [80], m.; [95], n. 3; [96], n. 6; [97], n. 9; [102], m.
Purchas's stories of silver and gold, [12].
Puritan, the, never easy unless he was uneasy, [253].
Puritan community, cost of the good results attained in a, [342].
Puritan conscience, the, let loose against old superstitions, [119].
Puritan divines in high church positions, [143].
Puritan exodus, the great, [188], [239].
Puritan opinions condemned, [103].
Puritan pietists, a new school of, [327].
Puritanism, rise and development of, [98];
an outgrowth of the time, [103];
an effort to escape from formalism, [109];
gathered strength as the leading opposition, [111];
becomes dogmatic, [112];
evolutionary, [117];
importance of secondary development of, [120];
apparent decline of, [121];
begun with Elizabeth, seemed doomed to die with her, [122];
evolves new issues, [123], [137], n. 7;
opposed to Arminianism, [133];
set up the Commonwealth, [133];
threatened destruction of, at Leyden, [167];
under James I the party of opposition, [191];
conservative under Charles I, [192];
unamiable traits of, manifested in Endecott, [202];
course of events in England adverse to, [203];
suppression of, by Laud, [239];
divergencies from, in Massachusetts, [267];
existed and grew through prudent compromises, [268], [269];
Salem, north pole of, [271];
condemned by its false and harsh ideals, [300];
character of, [300], [301], [342];
an ascetic system of external duties and abstentions, [327].
Puritans, why so called, [106], [135], n. 4.
Puritans, English, contempt of the, for æsthetic considerations, [94];
reverence for Bible precepts, [109];
would have no surplices, no liturgy, [109];
banished the symbol with the dogma, [111];
importance of efforts toward the regulation of conduct, [120];
dubbed Martinists, [121];
differences forgotten in the conflict with the Episcopal party, [137], n. 6;
omitted the liturgy, [142];
present Millinary Petition to James I, [159];
at the Hampton Court conference, [160], [181], n. 1;
not eager to join Separatist settlers, [188];
a powerful party, [192];
motives for emigration, [197];
fear of divine judgments, [198];
barred from all public action, [203];
plan for a Puritan church in America, [204];
carried out through the Massachusetts Company, [212];
differences among the, [213];
exhilarating effect of freedom from constraints, [213];
raging against indulgence to Romanists, [235], [238];
believed the church under Laud would become Roman Catholic, [239];
dropped "saint" from geographical names, [244];
rise of, to power, [240];
dominant in Parliament, [252];
could not be induced to leave New England for Maryland, [252];
persecuted in Virginia, leave there for Maryland, [253];
at peace with Catholics in Maryland, [254];
their ideas rampant in Maryland, [257];
send munitions of war to New England, [284];
conceived of religion as difficult of attainment, [328].
Puritans of the Massachusetts colony not Separatists, [212];
pathetic farewell to the Church of England, [213];
persuaded to the Plymouth view of church government, [215];
leaving England, [239];
emigration to New England, [240].
Quakers put to death by Endecott, [202];
protected in Maryland, [257].
Raccoon, the, called a monkey, [19], [24], n. 10.
Radical and conservative, difference between, constitutional, [109].
Rain, results of Puritan and Indian prayers for, [16].
Ralegh, Sir Walter, sends explorers and colonists, [7];
History of the World, [21], n. 3;
distrusts Indian tales, [21], n. 3;
a lifelong opponent of Spain, [73].
Rapin, [239], m.
Rappahannocks, dress of the chief of the, [28].
Ratcliffe, enemy of Capt. John Smith, [37];
ambuscaded and tortured to death, [38], [64], n. 4;
follower of Archer, [64], n. 3;
cruel to the savages, [64], n. 4.
Ration, a day's, pitiful allowance for, [30], [46].
Records of Virginia Company destroyed, [54], [71], n. 17.
Recreations on Sunday, scruples regarding, [127];
forbidden by Dr. Bownd, [129].
Reformers, the, of the sixteenth century declared against a priesthood, [123];
and a Sabbath, [124].
Relatyon of the Discovery of our River, [29], m.
Religion, motive to colonization, [220].
Religious enthusiasts and the Anglican church, [144].
Religious ferments, leavening effects of, [121].
Religious freedom a cherished principle of Roger Williams, [286];
established at Providence, [296].
Religious liberty befriended by few, detested by Catholic and Protestant, [298].
Religious service, attendance at, should be compulsory, [299].
Report of Record Com., [329], m.
Residents, new oath of fidelity for, [289];
successfully opposed by Williams, [289], [309], n. 12;
mercenary inducement offered to, to take the freeman's oath, [308], n. 11.
Retainers, brilliant trains of, [99].
Rhode Island, a secondary colony, [220];
importance of the, [315].
Rich, Lord. See [Warwick], second Earl.
Rich's, Barnabee, Honestie of this Age, [96], n. 8.
Rites, resistance to, an article of faith, [103].
Ritual, a purified, preferred by the extreme Protestants, [106], [135], n. 3.
Ritual, the antique, desire to change as little as possible, [106], [135], n. 3.
Rivalry with Spain, [73].
Roanoke Island, first colony on, [7];
Lane's hopes for, [74].
Roanoke River, story of source of, [7].
Robert's Social History of the Southern Counties, [125], m.; [127], m.; [129], m.
Robinson hanged and quartered for extorting money from "pressed" maidens, [72], n. 19.
Robinson, John, joins the Separatists at Scrooby, [155];
character and influence of, [156], [158], n. 3;
leads the Scrooby church to Amsterdam, [164];
to Leyden, [165];
idea of forming a new state, [167];
prayer and last words at departure of the Pilgrims, [175], [185], n. 6;
advised union rather than division, [176];
farewell letter of, [185], n. 5;
liberality and breadth of view, [176], [185], n. 6;
held to "toleration of tolerable opinions," [298].
Robinson's, John, Justification, [157], n. 1, n. 2; [219], n. 9.
Rogers, Thomas, opponent of Greenham and Bownd, [139], n. 11.
Rogers's Preface to Thirty-nine Articles, [122], m.; [139], n. 11; [143], m.
Rolfe, John, married Pocahontas, [68], n. 10;
planted first tobacco at Jamestown, [84].
Rolfe's Relation, [70], n. 16; [71], n. 17, n. 18.
Rosier's True Relation, [17], m.
"Rowdies" assault the Jesuits, [265], n. 24.
Royal Hist. MS. Comm., [88], m.
Royal Hist. MS. Com. Rept., [345], m.
Rushworth's Hist. Coll., [216], n. 2, n. 3;
petition in, [226], m.; [235], m.; [344].
Rustics, the, of Scrooby and its neighborhood, [150], [151];
influence of Brewster on, [153];
of John Robinson, [157].
Rymer's Fœdera, [229], m.; [238], m.
Sabbath, the, as a holy day objected to by Luther and Calvin, [124];
rise of the Puritan, [124];
Sunday first so called in literature, [126];
passion for a stricter, [130];
doctrine of a Christian, resented, [131], [139], n. 11;
in Scotland, [132], [139], n. 12;
of deepest hue in New England, [132], [140], n. 13.
Sabbath-breakers, punishments threatened against, [138], n. 8.
Sabbath-keeping, early Puritan ideal of, [127];
pushed to its extreme, [130];
new zeal for, promoted morals, [131];
rigid, a mark of the faithful, [132].
Sadleir, Mrs., indorsement of, on Williams's letter to, [268], m.
Sainsbury's Calendar, [67], n. 9; [207], m.; [262], n. 9; [344], m.; [345], m.
Salem, north pole of Puritanism, [271];
protest of the General Court against Williams as minister at, [271];
attached to Williams and refractory toward the authorities at Boston, [280];
made Williams teacher, [284];
deputies turned out of court in punishment, [291];
indignation at Williams's banishment, [293].
Salem church, organization of the, [200].
Salisbury, the Dean of, attacked by Mar-Prelate, [115].
Salvetti, correspondence on Calvert's resignation, [260], n. 6.
Sampson, Thomas, letter to Calvin, [135], n. 3.
Sandy Beach, no trace of, [59].
Sandys, Edwin, Archbishop of York, letter of, [137], n. 7;
transferred manor place at Scrooby to his son Samuel, [153], [170].
Sandys, Sir Edwin, interested in the Virginia Company, [54];
approved Dale's course, [67], n. 9;
arrested, [69], n. 13; [89];
chosen governor of Virginia Company, [71], n. 17; [88], [170];
proposed sending maids to Virginia, [71], n. 18;
leader of the company, [87], [89], [170];
established representative government in Virginia, [88];
plans for foundation of New Plymouth, [88];
sketch of life of, in Brown's Genesis of the United States, [97], n. 10;
tried to secure toleration for the Leyden people, [170];
one of the fathers of representative government in America, [173];
charges against, [174], [184], n. 5;
parliamentary antagonist of Calvert, [221];
in disfavor at court, [222];
Virginians friendly to, [230].
Sandys, George, would seek the South Sea overland, [10], [11];
name appended to The Tragicall Relation, [66], n. 9;
in charge of manufacturing schemes, [83].
Sandys, Sir Samuel, owned manor place at Scrooby, [153], [170].
Sassafras root exported, [45], [68], n. 10; [68], n. 11.
Savage life eagerly observed by the English, [29].
Sawmills built in Virginia, [82].
Scharf's History of Maryland, [23], n. 7.
Schism esteemed the deadliest of sins, [142], [197].
Scotch settlement in Newfoundland, [224], [258], n. 3.
Scot's Magazine, [11], m.
Scrambler, Bishop of Peterborough, to Burghley, [142], m.
Scriptures, reverence for the letter of the, [144].
Scrooby, the cradle of the Pilgrims, [149];
a region noted for religious zeal, [150];
no tradition of the Pilgrims at, [150];
called "the meane townlet" by John Leland, [152];
owners of manor place at, [153];
the church at, [154], [155].
Seamen, threats of brutal, [177].
Seekers, the, a sect, the last reduction of Separatism, [303];
in New England, probably through influence from Holland, [303];
in England as early as 1617, [304];
"a Seeker of the best Sect next to a finder," [314], n. 24.
Seekonk River, Williams removes from, to Providence, [296].
Semi-Separatists, the, [143].
Separatism and the Scrooby church, [141];
promoted by persecution, [144];
rise of, [146];
divergencies in direction of, [267];
protest by withdrawal of communion a fundamental principle of, [271].
Separatist, Roger Williams conscientiously a, [270].
Separatist tendencies of Skelton, [271].
Separatist tone of Pioneer church of Massachusetts at Salem, [271].
Separatists, number of the, [136], n. 6;
importance of the, [141];
the advance guard of Puritanism, [141];
regarded as criminals by the Puritans, [142];
causes of growth of the, [144];
idealists, [144];
rise of the, [146];
meetings of, in London, [147];
in Amsterdam, [148];
one vigorous society of, in the north, [149];
the Scrooby church of, organized, [154];
all-day meetings at Brewster's manor house, [155];
new persecution of the, [163];
the Scrooby church resolve to flee to Holland, [163], [164];
petition for leave to settle in Canada, [167];
classed with criminals by Bacon, [171];
held their opinions in a state of flux, [186], n. 6.
Servingman, the, not a menial, [134], n. 1.
Servingmen in livery, [99], [134], n. 1.
Settlements, sixteen, in Massachusetts, [275];
life in the settlements, [276].
Settlers emulate the treachery of the Indians, [92];
individual, [190].
Shakespeare's good fortune to live in a dramatic age, [99].
Shepard, Thomas, a new congregation led by, [325];
letter of, quoted, [348], n. 5;
Theses Sabbaticæ, [140], n. 13;
Memoirs in Young, [328], m.
Sheriffs had many liveried servants, [99], [134], n. 1.
Ship carpenters sent to the James River, [83].
Silk, craze for, in England, [76], [77], [169];
wearing of, prohibited in the colony, [78].
Silk culture attempted in England, [76];
in Virginia, [76], [77];
causes of failure, [77], [78];
renewed efforts for, [78], [79], [83];
authorities on these efforts, [95], n. 3.
Silk-grass craze, the, [79].
Silk manufacturing established in England, [77].
Silkworms' eggs, hatching, in one's pocket or bosom, [78], [95], n. 2.
Skelton, minister at Salem, [271];
extreme Congregationalism and Separatist tendencies of, [271];
death of, [283].
Sloane manuscripts, British Museum, [22], n. 4.
Smith, Captain John, a trustworthy topographer, [9], [34];
captured by Indians, [9];
views of geography of the continent, [22], n. 6;
becomes leader at Jamestown, [31], [36];
his character, [31], [32], [33];
story of his own life, [32], [33];
the Jonah and Ulysses of his time, [33];
explorations and narrative, [34], [35], [36];
overthrown, [36];
accused of design to wed Pocahontas, [37], [51];
later years, [37];
foresight of America's future, [37];
disabled by an accident, [37], [60], n. 2;
sent home under charges, [37], [60], n. 2;
accused of advising Indians to attack settlers at the Falls, [37], [60], n. 2;
a typical American pioneer, [38];
account of his writings, [61], n. 3;
commended by the Virginia Company, [61], n. 3;
given to romance in narration, [62], n. 3;
his practical writings and wise speeches, [62], n. 3;
examples of his exaggeration, [63], n. 3;
Thomas Fuller's judgment of, [63], n. 3;
authorities in the debates about, [63], n. 3;
refusal to share his power, [64], n. 4;
captured by the French, [178].
——, Generall Historie, [22], n. 6; [27], m.; [34], m.; [35], [36], m.; [61], n. 3; [66], n. 9; [95], n. 3.
——, New Life of Virginia, [27], m.
——, Oxford Tract, [34], m.; [35], [36], m.; [42], m.; [61], n. 3; [64], n. 3.
——, True Relation, [61], n. 3.
Smyth, John, the Separatist, migrated from Gainsborough, [150];
continually searching for truth, [186], n. 6.
Smyth, Sir Thomas, governor of Virginia Company, [70], n. 16;
resignation, [71], n. 17;
aroused the king's opposition to Sandys, [87];
resigned, [88];
sorrows of the colony under, [206];
faction of, [230];
defense, [67], n. 9.
Somers, Sir George, wrecked on the Bermudas, [40];
builds two vessels and takes provisions to Virginia, [41];
returns to the Bermudas, [41];
death of, [42];
Somers or Summer Islands named from, [65], n. 6.
South Sea delusion, the, [6], [7], [8];
an overland route to, [10];
behind the mountains, [75].
See also [Pacific Ocean].
Southampton, Earl of, interested in the Virginia Company, [54];
threatened by the Warwick party, [69], n. 13;
really in power, [71], n. 17;
procures silkworm "seed," [77];
elected governor of the company, [89];
imprisoned, [89];
one of the fathers of representative government in America, [173];
Virginians friendly to, [230].
Southwest passage, conjectures of a, [22], n. 5.
Spain, rivalry with, the motive for planting English colonies, [73];
England's jealousy toward, [74], [94], n. 1;
lavish of gifts to English courtiers, [223];
made England relax penal laws against English recusants, [238].
Spanish example, the influence of, on English projects, [73];
fishing-boats to be seized at Newfounde lande, [94], n. 1;
jealousy of Virginia, [94], n. 1.
Spanish match, the, favored by Calvert, [226], [227], [258], n. 2.
Speed's Prospect, [24], n. 10.
Spelman's Relation, [60], n. 2.
Spices, passion for, in Europe, [22], n. 5.
Spirit of the age, escape from the, difficult, [133].
Squirrels, flying, [18].
Standish, Captain Miles, escorts the governor to church on Sundays, [103].
Star-Chamber censures, [203], [216], n. 3;
Roger Williams as a lad employed by the, [268];
harsh penalties for Separatists, [270].
State church, notion of, not easily got rid of, [112].
St. Christopher's Island sought by Catholic refugees, [231].
Stephen, Sir, denounced May-poles as idols, [118];
wanted names of days of the week changed, [118].
Stith's History of Virginia, [51], m.; [182], n. 2.
Stoughton retracted, [290], [291];
pressure put on, [297].
Strachey's Historie of Travaile into Virginia, [24], n. 10; [36], m.; [59], n. 1; [64], n. 4; [65], n. 7; [95], n. 5; [97], n. 9; [102], m.;
True Reportory, [65], n. 6.
Strafford, friend of George Calvert and his son, [249].
Strafford Papers, [241], m.; [263], n. 13.
Strait, a, sought to the South Sea, [4], [6], [8], [9].
Strasburg and Zurich, cities of refuge for conservatives, [104].
Strasburg reformers attempt to reform church at Frankfort, [105].
Straus's Life of Roger Williams, [308], n. 6; [311], n. 17.
Stubbes's Philip, Anatomie of Abuses, [100], m.; [119], [127], [134], n. 2; [135], n. 5.
Succession, apostolic, of churchly order and ordinance the mainspring of high-churchism, [302].
Svmme and Svbstance. See [Barlow].
Sumner, George, on John Robinson, [158], n. 3.
Sumptuary laws, [75].
Sunday had sanctity of a church feast before the Reformation, [125];
English reformers retained the Catholic, [125];
first called Sabbath in literature, [126];
scruples regarding recreations on, [127];
brutally cruel sports on the old English, [129];
strict observance of, carried to New England, [132];
in the middle ages, [138], n. 8;
legislation on, rare before the Reformation, [138], n. 8;
in time of Edward VI, [138], n. 9;
sabbatical character of, denied, [140], n. 13.
See also [Sabbath].
Sunday fishing, juries inquire into, [125].
Sunday morning ceremony at Plymouth, [103].
Sunday-Sabbath, theory of a, not confined to the Puritans, [132];
Augustine on, in the fifth century, [137], n. 8; [140], n. 13.
Surplices begin to be used in Virginia, [183], n. 3.
Susan Constant, the ship, [25].
Sutton's Hospital founded by legacy, which Coke defended, later known as Charter-House School, [268].
Swift, Lindsay, on the early election sermons, [313], n. 22.
Symonds, Dr. William, editor of second part of Smith's Oxford Tract, [61], n. 3.
Synod, the, of 1637, [336], [346], n. 1.
Tales, extravagant, of the Indians, [7], [8];
Ralegh distrusts, [21], n. 3.
Taylor's Observations and Travel from London to Hamburg, [46], m.
Tempest, Shakespeare's, [17];
suggested by the wreck of Gates and Somers, [65], n. 6.
Tenant, the copy-hold, driven to distress, [111].
Tenantry, the suffering, Puritans make common cause with, [111], [135], n. 5.
Theater, passionate love of the, [99].
Theocracy, instability of a, [326].
Thomas Aquinas, St., on the fourth commandment, [138], n. 8.
Thurloe, [263], n. 13.
Timber sought in Virginia, [82].
Tobacco, profitable cultivation of, in Virginia, [49], [84];
exported, [68], n. 10, n. 11; [96], n. 7;
more profitable than silk-raising, [78];
culture of, forbidden, [81];
King James's Covnter-Blaste to, [84];
John Rolfe planted the first, at Jamestown, [84];
heavy duties on, [85], [96], n. 8;
seven thousand shops in London, [97], n. 8;
inferiority of Indian, [97], n. 9;
large profits from, [231];
public use of, forbidden in Massachusetts, [285].
Toleration, the Baltimore policy, [242], [263], n. 15;
principle of, formulated, [254];
Act of, passed in 1649, [255], [256], [257];
intolerable to the rulers of "the Bay," [297];
limited and qualified at Amsterdam, [298];
decried as a great crime by all the world, [298];
a beneficent result of commerce, [298], [312], n. 18.
Tortures, legal, examples of, [46], [67], n. 9.
Town government, the principal feature of civil organization, [325].
Town system, the, [275].
Trade with the Indians by Captain John Smith, [34];
suspended after Smith's departure, [38];
renewed by Capt. Argall, [50].
Tragicall Relation, [40], m.; [56], m.; [66], n. 9; [68], n. 12.
Trainbands drilled, [284].
Travel, taste for books of, [2].
Treasure received by Spain from America influenced English colonial projects, [73];
wrought mischief to England, [94], n. 1.
True Declaration of the Estate of the Colony of Virginia, [40], m.; [56], m.; [65], n. 5, n. 8.
Trumbull's Blue Laws, [347], n. 2.
Tucker, Daniel, builds boat at Jamestown, [39].
Underhill, Captain, sent after Williams, [295].
Unicorn, reported find of the, [19], [24], n. 10.
Uniformity not possible, [109].
Upper House, dissension concerning power of the, in Massachusetts, [286].
Utopia, the religious, attempted in New England, [342].