[77] Samuel Greene Arnold, History of the State of Rhode Island, I, New York, 1859, p. 103.
[78] Arnold, p. 124.
[79] Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Poore, I, p. 249.
[80] The entire number of immigrants in New England amounted in 1640 to 22,000 at the highest. Of these New Plymouth had 3000, Connecticut less than 2000 souls. Masson, loc. cit., pp. 548-550.
[81] The wide separation of the colonies from the mother-country did not make this liberty appear dangerous though it was in such contradiction to the conditions in England. Charles II. sought further, in his aversion to the Puritans, to favor as much as possible the colonies that had separated from Massachusetts.
[82] "Our royall will and pleasure is, that noe person within the sayd colonye, at any tyme hereafter, shall bee any wise molested, punished, disquieted, or called in question, for any differences in opinione in matters of religion, and doe not actually disturb the civill peace of our sayd colony; but that all and everye person and persons may, from tyme to tyme, and at all tymes hereafter, freelye and fullye have and enjoye his and their owne judgments and consciences, in matters of religious concernments, throughout the tract of lande hereafter mentioned; they behaving themselves peaceablie and quietlie, and not useing this libertie to lycentiousnesse and profanenesse, nor to the civill injurye or outward disturbeance of others; any lawe, statute or clause, therein contayned, or to bee contayned, usage or custome of this realme, to the contrary hereof, in any wise, notwithstanding." Poore, II, pp. 1596, 1597.
[83] Bancroft, I, p. 193, E. Lloyd Harris, Church and Slate in the Maryland Colony. Inaugural-Dissertation. Heidelberg, 1894, p. 26 et seq.
[84] Carolina had already had religious toleration in the Charter of 1665. Poore, II, p. 1397. Locke himself wished to grant full religious liberty. Cf. Laboulaye, I, p. 397.
[85] Art. 97. Poore, II, pp. 1406, 1407.
[86] Art. 101. Ibid.