[21] Knowles, p. 66.
[22] So Winthrop. Knowles, pp. 68-70. Backus, i. 67, 68. See also p. [422] of this volume. Cotton’s Answer, p. 4.
[23] See p. [372]. Cotton’s Answer, pp. 5, 9. Cotton treats his sickness as a “check from the hand of God,” p. 56.
[24] See pp. [387], [388]. Bancroft, i. 373.
[25] Knowles, pp. 71, 72. The sentence was as follows:—“Whereas Mr. Roger Williams, one of the elders of the church of Salem, hath broached and divulged divers new and dangerous opinions, against the authority of magistrates; as also writ letters of defamation, both of the magistrates and churches here, and that before any conviction, and yet maintaineth the same without any retractation; it is therefore ordered that the said Mr. Williams shall depart out of this jurisdiction within six weeks, now next ensuing, which, if he neglect to perform, it shall be lawful for the governor and two of the magistrates to send him to some place out of this jurisdiction, not to return any more without licence from the Court.” Backus, i. 69, 70.
[26] Cotton’s Answer, p. 26.
[27] Cotton’s Answer, pp. 27-30.
[28] Bloody Tenent more Bloody, p. 276.
[29] Bancroft, i. 327.
[30] See pp. [249], [257], [262]. Mr. Cotton pleads that anabaptists and others were not compelled against conscience; nor were they punished for conscience’ sake; but for sinning against conscience. Tenent Washed, pp. 165, 189; Backus, i. 98.