English, character of the, at the period of Elizabeth and James, 20; sober living of, 342; superior aptitude of, for planting agricultural communities, 346; compactness of settlement and increase of, decided the fate of North America, 346. English knowledge and notions of America, 1; first protest against oppression, 56; jealousy of Spain, 74, 94, n. 1; ecclesiastics reproached by Roman Catholics, 90, 97, n. 11; Church leaders not content while Spanish priests converted infidels, 90; eminent clergy among the exiled, 104; churches organized in cities of refuge, 104; beginning of two parties in the Church, 107; heads of the Church attacked by Mar-Prelate, 115; laws against Catholics embarrass the foreign policy, 238; rise of the first of the colonies, 1; prospective ascendency of the colonies, 345. English Protestantism. See PROTESTANTISM, ENGLISH. Ephod of Jewish high priest, discussion of material of, 108. Epworth, the nest of Methodism, 150. Esquimaux kidnapped by Frobisher, 17. Eustachius and his document dropped from heaven, 138, n. 8. Evans, Owen, accused of "pressing" maidens, 72, n. 19. Evelyn's Diary, 18, m.; 134, n. 1. Excerpta de Diversis Literis, 246, m. Excommunication dreaded by the Puritans, 339. Exiles, the English, 104; return of, 107; results of their squabbles, 107. Exploration, American, the history of, a story of delusion and mistake, 3; retarded settlement, 4. Extravagance of Indian tales, 8. Factions at Jamestown, 36, 64, n. 4. Fairs and markets on Sundays, 138, n. 8. Faith, devotion to, 245. Families, the colony a camp of men without, 42; a plantation can never flourish without, 57; some, sent to Virginia with De la Warr, 65, n. 8. Family of Love, Anne Hutchinson accused of accepting the doctrines of the, 335. Famine at Jamestown, 38, 65, n. 5. Fast day, a, appointed in Massachusetts, 286. Ferrar, John, election of, 71, n. 17; deputy governor, 91. Ferrar, Nicholas, Jr., deputy governor of Virginia Company, 91; established a religious community at Little Gidding, 92; austere discipline of, 93; mediæval enthusiasm of, 194. Ferrar, Nicholas, Sr., courts of Virginia Company held at house of, 91; gave money for educating infidels in Virginia, 91. Ferrars, the, among the founders of liberal institutions in America, 173. Firearms, sale of, to the savages, 191, 216, n. 1. Firmin's, Giles, Review of Davis's Vindication, 348, n. 5. Fisheries, American, importance of, foreseen, by Capt. John Smith, 37; of Newfoundland, 261, n. 7. Fishing on Sunday, ordinances against, 127. Fishing seasons in the James River learned, 49. Fleet, Henry, only survivor of Spelman's party, 22, n. 7. Fleet's Journal, 23, n. 7. Flemish Protestants favored independency, 158, n. 2. Font, the stone, at which Bradford was baptized, 151.