[789] Sabin, no. 18,298. “Dalcho is very useful for the early history of South Carolina, and is more scrupulous than Ramsay.” (Bancroft, orig. ed., ii. 167.) The movement in South Carolina is necessarily treated more scantily in Hawkins’ Missions of the Church of England; Wilberforce’s Hist. of the Prot. Episc. Church in America; Bishop White’s Memoirs of the Prot. Episc. Church in the United States; and Dr. W. B. Sprague’s American Pulpit, vol. v. The publications directly bearing at the time on this controversy are:—
An act for the more effectual preservation of the government of the Province of Carolina, by requiring all persons that shall be hereafter chosen members of the Commons House of Assembly to take oaths ... and to conform to the Religious Worship according to the Church of England. Ratified 6th of May, 1704. (Sabin, iii. no. 10,956.)
Another act for the establishment of religious worship in the Province of Carolina according to the Church of England. Ratified Nov. 4, 1704. (Sabin, iii. no. 10,958.)
The case of the Church of England in Carolina ... with resolves of the House of Lords. (Sabin, iii. no. 10,967.)
The copy of an act pass’d in Carolina and sent over to be confirmed by the Lord Granville, Palatine, etc. (Sabin, iii. no. 10,968.)
The representation and address of several members of this present assemble, returned for Colleton County ... to the Right honourable John Grenville, Esq., etc. 26 June, 1705. (Sabin, iii. no. 10,978.)
The humble address of ... Parliament presented to her majesty, 13 March, 1705, relating to Carolina, and the petition therein mentioned, with her majesty’s most gracious answer thereunto. London, 1705. (Sabin, iii. no. 10,972.)
Party-Tyranny, or an occasional bill in miniature as now practised in Carolina. Humbly offered to the consideration of Parliament. London, 1705 (30 pp.). (Carter-Brown, iii. no. 64; Sabin, v. no. 19,288; Harvard College Lib. Catalogue, no. 12352.17; Brinley, ii. no. 3,882. It is ascribed to Daniel De Foe, and the exclusive act of 1704 is severely denounced in it. Stevens, Bibl. Amer., 1885, no. 72, prices it at £6 6s., and gives a second title-edition of the same year, no. 74, £5 5s.)
The case of the protestant dissenters in Carolina, shewing how a law to prevent occasional conformity there, has ended in the total subversion of the Constitution in Church and State. London, 1706. (Carter-Brown, iii. no. 76; Sabin, iii. no. 10,966. The copy of this tract in Harvard College Library has an appendix of documents paged separately. It is also sometimes attributed to De Foe.)
Rivers (Sketches, etc., p. 220) thinks it is an error to represent the body of the Dissenters as favoring the Fundamental Constitutions. Dalcho’s Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina (p. 58, etc.) examines the legislation on this movement to an enforced religion.