The founding of New England

by James Truslow Adams

[157]. D. Neal, The History of the Puritans (New York, 1843), vol. I, p. 34.

[158]. Hinds, The England of Elizabeth, pp. 6-68.

[159]. H. Gee, The Elizabethan Clergy and the Settlement of Religion, 1558-1564 (Oxford 1898), pp. 1 ff.

[160]. J. Brown, The Pilgrim Fathers of New England and their Puritan Successors (London, 1906), p. 26; Gee, in Elizabethan Clergy, p. 247, estimates that not many more than 200 were deprived between Nov. 17, 1558, and Nov. 17, 1564, for refusal to acknowledge the Elizabethan settlement. These were mainly Roman Catholics.

[161]. One is reminded of the satirical verses on Richard Lee of Hatfield, on his conforming again in 1662:—

Three times already I have turned my coat,

Three times already I have changed my note,

I'll make it four, and four-and-twenty more,

And turn the compass round, ere I'll give o'er.

Cited by F. Bate, The Declaration of Indulgence, 1672 (London, 1908), p. 30.