The founding of New England

by James Truslow Adams

[162]. Cf. F. W. Maitland's chapter on “The Anglican Settlement and the Scottish Reformation,” in Cambridge Modern History (New York, 1918), vol. V, pp. 550-99.

[163]. Usher, Reconstruction, vol. II, pp. 3-14.

[164]. Tatham, in Puritans in Power, pp. 91 f., gives from 3,000 to 3,500. In his monograph on Dr. John Walker and the Sufferings of the Clergy (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1911, p. 132), he states 3,500 as the probable number.

[165]. R. G. Usher, The Rise and Fall of the High Commission (Oxford, 1913), pp. 72, 105, 329.

[166]. Usher, Reconstruction, vol. I, pp. 249-51.

[167]. Ibid., p. 270.

[168]. Usher, Reconstruction, vol. I, p. 251.

[169]. Usher, Reconstruction, vol. I, pp. 45, 291, 294, 412. On the unreliability of Puritan petitions in other cases also, cf. Tatham, Puritans in Power, pp. 59 ff.

[170]. J. Strype, Life and Acts of Archbishop Whitgift (Oxford, 1822), vol. I, p. 371.

[171]. Usher, Reconstruction, vol. I, p. 219.