CHAPTER VI _Religious Persecutions in New England_ PROLOGUE, from "John Endicott," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 71 ROGER WILLIAMS, Hezekiah Butterworth 72 GOD MAKES A PATH, Roger Williams 72 CANONICUS AND ROGER WILLIAMS, Unknown 73 ANNE HUTCHINSON'S EXILE, Edward Everett Hale 73 JOHN UNDERHILL, John Greenleaf Whittier 74 THE PROCLAMATION, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 76 CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK, John Greenleaf Whittier 77 THE KING'S MISSIVE, John Greenleaf Whittier 80 CHAPTER VII _King Philip's War and the Witchcraft Delusion_ THE LAMENTABLE BALLAD OF THE BLOODY BROOK, Edward Everett Hale 82 THE GREAT SWAMP FIGHT, Caroline Hazard 83 ON A FORTIFICATION AT BOSTON BEGUN BY WOMEN, Benjamin Tompson 85 THE SUDBURY FIGHT, Wallace Rice 85 KING PHILIP'S LAST STAND, Clinton Scollard 88 PROLOGUE, from "Giles Corey of the Salem Farms," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 88 SALEM, Edmund Clarence Stedman 89 THE DEATH OF GOODY NURSE, Rose Terry Cooke 90 A SALEM WITCH, Ednah Proctor Clarke 91 THE TRIAL, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 92 GILES COREY, Unknown 96 MISTRESS HALE OF BEVERLY, Lucy Larcom 97 CHAPTER VIII _The Struggle for the Continent_