Newgate, Ludgate and Bridewell are the well known London prisons.
Note 30, page [50].
Our author evidently failed from this cause. {115}
Note 31, page [50].
A fling at the various Puritan schools, then active at home and abroad.
Note 32, page [50].
The first Quakers in Maryland were Elizabeth Harris, Josiah Cole, and Thomas Thurston, who visited it in 1657, but as early as July 23, 1659, the governor and council issued an order to seize any Quakers and whip them from constable to constable out of the province. Yet in spite of this they had settled meetings as early as 1661, and Peter Sharpe, the Quaker physician, appears as a landholder in 1665, the very year of Alsop’s publication.—Norris, Early Friends or Quakers in Maryland (Maryland Hist. Soc., March, 1862).
Note 33, page [50].
The Baptists centering in Rhode Island, extended across Long Island to New Jersey, and thence to New York city; but at this time had not reached the south.