A Source Book in American History to 1787

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82. Colonial school laws (1642 and 1647); from the _Colonial
  Records_                                                           233

  83. Representative town records (_Watertown Records_, 1634-1678)   236


  XIV. Massachusetts and Religious Persecution

  84. Puritan arguments for and against persecution:

  _a._ From Nathaniel Ward's _Simple Cobbler of Aggawamm_
  (1647)                                                             246

  _b._ From Captain Edward Johnson's _Wonder-working
  Providence of Sions Saviour in New England_
  (1654)                                                             248

  _c._ The discussion between Saltonstall and Cotton (about
  1650); from Hutchinson's _Original Papers_                         249

  85. Criticism of the Massachusetts way, by a moderate Episcopalian
  and royalist (Lechford's _Plaine Dealing_; 1641)                   252

  86. A Presbyterian demand for the franchise in 1646 (the letter of
  Dr. Robert Child and others to the Governor and
  General Court); from Hutchinson's _Original Papers_                255

  87. Trial and punishment of nonconformists for not attending approved
  churches; from the _Colonial Records_                              259

  88. Quaker Persecutions:

  _a._ Edward Burrough's appeal to King Charles (1660);
  from Burrough's _Sad and Great Persecution and
  Martyrdom of Quakers in New England_                               260

  _b._ Trial of the Quaker, Wenlock Christison (1661);
  from Besse's _Collection of the Sufferings of the
  People called Quakers_                                             263


  XV. Rhode Island to 1660

  89. The first covenant at Providence (1636): a compact in "_civil_
  things only"; from the _Early Records of the Town of
  Providence_                                                        267

  90. Roger Williams' argument that religious freedom is consonant
  with civil order (the ship illustration); from Arnold's _History
  of Rhode Island_                                                   268

  91. The Patent for Providence Plantation from the Council of the
  Long Parliament (1644), restricting the government to _civil_
  matters; from the _Rhode Island Colonial Records_                  269

  92. Rhode Island's answer to the demand of Massachusetts (a refusal
  to exclude Quakers); from the Appendix to Hutchinson's
  _Massachusetts Bay_                                                270


  XVI. Connecticut before 1660

  93. The Fundamental Orders of 1639; from the _Connecticut Colonial
  Records_                                                           273


  XVII. The New England Confederation

  94. The constitution (Articles of Confederation); from the _New
  Haven Colonial Records_                                            280

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