[478] See Articles Subscribed by the Colonists.—Ibid., i. 301.
[479] Anderson, i. 308. This was a French translation of Edward the Sixth's Prayer Book. Edward the Sixth's first Prayer Book (1549) was translated into French for the use of the King's subjects in Calais and the Channel Islands, by command of Sir Hugh Paulet, Governor of Calais. This book was corrected, according to the revision of the second Prayer Book, in 1532.—Procter on the Book of Common Prayer, 37.
[480] Anderson, i. 488.
[481] Bancroft, i. 248. Afterwards it was declared that "Holy Church" should enjoy all her liberties and rights.—Bacon's Laws of Maryland.
[482] Ibid., i. 272.
[483] Holme's American Annals, i. 163. Bancroft, i. 305.
[484] Anderson, i. 359.
[485] A copy of the Charter may be found in the State Paper Office, Col. Series, under date 1629, March 4th. An account of it is given in Bancroft, i. 342.
[486] Cotton Mather's Magnalia, i. 66. The distinct origin of the Massachusetts colony has been overlooked by some historians. The Pilgrim Fathers of New England have been confounded with the planters of the neighbouring state.
[487] Baird's Religion of the United States, 107, 108.—Anderson, ii. 156, 157.