The tone is brief and businesslike, dealing with a matter that had already caused great trouble to the other United Colonies, and which might become a menace to Connecticut. There are almost no recorded cases of sentence being imposed. See Conn. Col. Kec., i, 283,303,308, 324.
70, J. Bowden, History of the Society of Friends, i, 104, quoting Norton's Ensign, p. 52.
71, Ibid., i, 106.
72, Ibid., i, 440.
73, R. P. Hallowell, The Pioneer Quakers, p. 47.
74, R. R. Hinman, Antiquities of the Charter Government of Connecticut, p. 229.
75, E. E. Beardsley, History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, i, 19.
76, A. L. Cross, Anglican Episcopate in the American Colonies, pp. 33 et seq.
77, Ibid., p. 95, note.
78, C. F. Hawkins, Missions of the Church of England, 377, 378.