Anne Hutchinson’s opinions were Antinomian; among other heretical opinions which are charged upon her by Winthrop, are these—_that the Sabbath is but as other days, and that there is no resurrection of the body_: and as an instance of her hardened state, he records, that “after she was excommunicated, her spirit, which seemed before to be somewhat dejected, revived, and she gloried in her sufferings, saying, ‘that they were the greatest happiness next to Christ that ever befell her.’” Noble spirit this of the true martyr, which the persecutor never understands. As in Roger Williams’s case, the sentence of banishment was pronounced on her at the commencement of winter, and with a faint sentiment of mercy, she was allowed to remain close prisoner in a private house till the inclement season should be over. In the meantime, her husband and others of her party left Boston to seek for a new place of settlement, and finding one to their mind on the remote borders of the Plymouth grant, applied for it; but, says Winthrop, “the magistrates knowing their spirit, gave them a denial.” Before the month of January was over, a warrant was sent to Anne Hutchinson, to order her departure. In the meantime, those of her family and friends who had set out to the south, intending to plant themselves in Delaware Bay, had been welcomed on their journey by Roger Williams, who induced them to remain in his neighbourhood; and by his influence, Miantonomoh conferred on them the beautiful island of Aquetneck, called by them, from an imagined resemblance to Rhodes, Rhode Island, in Narragansett Bay, and in the immediate neighbourhood of the Providence settlement. Here, says Winthrop, “Anne Hutchinson broached new heresies every year.”