[82] The Watertown church had strong Separatist tendencies (cf. No. 64). Hence, in part, its democratic inclination.
[83] The Civil War in England between King and Parliament.
[84] The Church of England at this time was Presbyterian.
[85] In the reply of the General Court, Dr. Child is referred to as "a Paduan Doctor (as he is reputed), lately come into the country, who hath not so much as tasted of their grievances, nor like to doe, being a bachelor and only a sojourner, who never payd a penny to any publick charge, though (of his owne good will) he hath done something for publick use."
[86] This document belongs chronologically in the next general division (C), below; but it is most conveniently presented here.
[XV. RHODE ISLAND TO 1660]
89. A Compact in Civil Things Only, 1336(?)
Early Records of the Town of Providence (1892), 1.
These Records were printed from the original manuscript records. In 1800, a manuscript "transcript" had been made of those records (without attempt to preserve the original spelling, and with various errors); and this transcript was followed in the first printed copy of this compact in the Rhode Island Colony Records (1878), I, 14.
The following entry was not dated. Apparently it was a paper presented by Williams and the first settlers to a second body of comers, probably in 1636.