[683] [A second edition was published in 1874; cf. C. K. Adams’s Manual of Historical Literature, p. 552.—Ed.]
[684] John Pitman’s Discourse was delivered in August, 1836; Job Durfee’s in January, 1847; and Zachariah Allen’s in April, 1876; and another, by Mr. Allen, on “The Founding of Rhode Island,” in 1881.
[685] The original edition of the Key was issued in London in 1643. Brinley Catalogue, no. 2,380. It is also reprinted in the R. I. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. i. See an earlier page under “Massachusetts.”
[686] It was at first intended to republish also such of the writings of John Cotton, George Fox, and John Clarke as were connected with Roger Williams, to be followed by the writings of Samuel Gorton and Governor Coddington; but with the exception of two pieces by Cotton, edited by R. A. Guild, the publications of the Club have been limited to the writings of Williams.
[687] He published an abridgment in 1804, which was reprinted in Philadelphia, in 1844, with a memoir of the author, under the title of Church History of New England, from 1620 to 1804. Backus was born in 1724, and died in 1806.
[688] [Dr. Turner also read a paper—Settlers of Aquedneck and Liberty of Conscience—before the Historical Society, in February, 1880, which was published at Newport the same year.—Ed.]
[689] [Dr. Dexter a few years since recovered a lost tract by Williams, Christenings make not Christians, 1645, which he found in the British Museum, and edited for Rider’s Historical Tracts, no. 14, in 1881, adding certain of Williams’s letters. Williams’s letter to George Fox, 1672, in his controversy with the Quakers, is printed in the Historical Magazine, ii. 56.—Ed.]
[690] [Sabin’s Dictionary, iv. 106; Menzies Catalogue, no. 392; Carter-Brown Catalogue, vol. ii. no. 729. It was reprinted in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll., ii. pp. 1-113. Thomas Cobbett’s Civil Magistrates’ Power in Matters of Religion modestly debated, London, 1653, was in part an answer to this “slanderous pamphlet” (Prince Catalogue, no. 97-154). The character of Clarke and the influence of his mission to England, wherein he procured the revocation of William Coddington’s commission as governor, gave rise to a controversy between George Bancroft and Josiah Quincy in relation to the misapprehension of Grahame on the subject in his History of the United States; cf. Historical Magazine, August, 1865 (ix. 233), and the references noted in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., ii. 339. Coddington (of whom there is an alleged portrait in the Council Chamber at Newport,—N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1873, p. 241) also had his controversy with the Massachusetts authorities, and his side of the question is given in his Demonstration of True Love unto ... the rulers of the Massachusetts, ... by one who was once in authority with them, but always testified against their persecuting spirit, which was printed in 1674. Menzies Catalogue, no. 422 ($36); Carter-Brown Catalogue, vol. ii. no. 1,101. See Magazine of American History, iii. 642; N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1882, p. 138.—Ed.]
[691] [A copy of the charter is in the Massachusetts Archives (Miscellaneous, i. 135), and it is printed in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1857, p. 41. The discussion in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. was by Mr. Deane and Colonel Thomas Aspinwall. The latter’s contribution was also issued in Providence (2d ed.) in 1865, as Remarks on the Narragansett Patent.—Ed.]
[692] Other digests followed in 1730, 1745, 1752, and 1767.