A code of laws was drawn up. One, the Statute of Archery, shows the isolation of this colony. It required that every man between seventeen and seventy should keep a bow and four arrows. Fathers should furnish each of their sons, between the ages of seven and seventeen, with “a bow, two arrows, and a shaft, and to bring them up to shooting.” This was done because the colony could not get gunpowder for firearms, since the other colonies refused to sell them any, or allow it to be exported through their posts to them. [Illustration] The Fourth Paper, Presented by Maior Butler, To the Honourable Committee of Parliament, for the Propagating the Gospel of _Christ_ JESUS. VVhich Paper was humbly owned, and was, and is attended to be made good { Major _Butler_. } { Mr. _Jackson_. By { Mr. _Charles Vane_. } { Mr. _VVall_. And { Col. _Danvers_. } { Mr. _Turner_. ALSO A Letter from Mr. _Goad_, to Major BUTLER, upon occasion of the said PAPER and PROPOSALS. _Together with_ A Testimony to the said fourth Paper, By way or Explanation upon the four PROPOSALS of it. _BY_ R. W. Unto which is subjoyned the Fifteen Proposals of the MINISTERS. _London_, Printed for _Giles Calvert_, at the Black-spred-Eagle at the West-end of _Pauls_. _M DC LII._ ROGER WILLIAMS’ SECOND VISIT TO ENGLAND The ambitious designs of Coddington in seeking to divide the colony were such that Williams and Clarke were obliged to go to England in 1651. Coddington had secured a charter making him governor for life of Rhode Island, then the richest portion of the State. Williams and Clarke in 1652 secured an order-in-council nullifying Coddington’s commission. Williams remained in England until the summer of 1654 and labored there for the interests of the colony and also for the general benefit of all oppressed people, including the Jews. In his appeal to the Parliament, found as a comment in the tract entitled “Butler’s Fourth Paper,” an original copy of which is in the John Carter Brown Library, at Providence, he says: Oh, that it would please the Father of Spirits to affect the heart of Parliament with such a merciful sense of the Soul-Bars and Yokes which our fathers have laid upon the neck of this nation, and at last to proclaim a true and absolute Soul-Freedom to all the people of the land impartially, so that no person be forced to pray nor pay, otherwise than as his Soul believeth and consenteth.