[Footnote 1: Clarke, _Ill Newes from New England_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 4th series, II., 1-113).] [Footnote 2: _R.I. Col. Records_, I., 52.] [Footnote 3: _R.I. Col. Records_, I., 87, 100, 108.] [Footnote 4: Ibid., 127. In 1614 the Dutch navigator Adrian Block gave to the country of Narragansett Bay the name of Rhode Island--the Red Island--because of the red clay in some portions of its shores.] [Footnote 5: _R.I. Col. Records_, I., 27.] [Footnote 6: Winthrop, _New England_, II., 24; _Mass. Col. Records_, I., 305.] [Footnote 7: _Plymouth Col. Records_, IX., 23, 110.] [Footnote 8: Sparks, _American Biographies_, VI., 333, 352; Arnold, _Rhode Island_, I., 66, n.] [Footnote 9: Sparks, _American Biographies_, V., 326-340.] [Footnote 10: Winthrop, _New England_, II., 71.] [Footnote 11: Ibid., 102; _Mass. Col. Records_, II., 22.] [Footnote 12: _Simplicities Defence Against Seven-Headed Policy_ (Force, Tracts, IV., No. vi.), 24.] [Footnote 13: _Mass. Col. Records_, II., 40, 41.] [Footnote 14: _Simplicities Defence_.] [Footnote 15: Winthrop, _New England_, II., 157-162; _Acts of the Federal Commissioners_, I., 10-12.] [Footnote 16: Fiske, _Beginnings of New England_, 171.] [Footnote 17: _Simplicities Defence_ (Force, _Tracts_, IV., No. vi.), 86; Winthrop, _New England_, II., 165, 188.] [Footnote 18: Winthrop, _New England_, II., 387-390.] [Footnote 19: _R.I. Col. Records_, I., 241.] [Footnote 20: _Cal. of State Pap., Col._, 1574-1660, p. 325.] [Footnote 21: Winthrop, _New England_, II., 236.] [Footnote 22: Richard Scott's letter, in Fox, _New England Fire Brand Quenched_, App.] [Footnote 23: _Cal. of State Pap., Col._, 1574-1660, p. 354.] [Footnote 24: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 352.] [Footnote 25: Palfrey, _New England_, II., 346.] [Footnote 26: _Mass. Col. Records_, II., 85.] [Footnote 27: Clarke, _Ill Newes from New England_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 4th series, II., 1-113).] [Footnote 28: Backus, _New England_, I., 277.] [Footnote 29: _R.I. Col. Records_, I., 328.] [Footnote 30: _Mass. Col. Records_, IV., pt. i., 333.] [Footnote 31: _R.I. Col. Records_, I., 364.] [Footnote 32: Doyle, _English Colonies_, II., 319.] [Footnote 33: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 370, 371.] [Footnote 34: Trumbull, _Connecticut_, I., 41.] [Footnote 35: Ibid., 31; Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 371.] [Footnote 36: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 62.] [Footnote 37: Ibid., 132, 162.] [Footnote 38: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 373; Brodhead, _New York_, I., 241.] [Footnote 39: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 133.] [Footnote 40: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 373; Brodhead, _New York_, I., 242.] [Footnote 41: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 388, 402.] [Footnote 42: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 129.] [Footnote 43: _Mass. Col. Records_, I., 119.] [Footnote 44: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 159.] [Footnote 45: Ibid., 167.] [Footnote 46: Trumbull, _Connecticut_, I., 59.]