The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the PeopleEggleston, Edward
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The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People
Eggleston, Edward
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Gosnold, agitating for a new colony, 33;
failure of colony in Buzzard's Bay established by, 178.
Government, democratic, established by the Pilgrims before sailing,
185, n. 5;
three primary steps for, in America, due to Englishmen who did
not cross the sea, 205.
Government, representative form of, established, 55, 89;
faint promise of, in Maryland charter, 234.
Governmental functions exercised by commercial corporations, 218, n. 8.
Grace after meat opposed by Williams, 289, 290, 292, 309, n. 12.
Greenham's, Richard, MS. on the Sabbath, 128.
Greenwood, leader of the Separatists, hanged at Tyburn, 148.
Grenville, Sir Richard, sent to Virginia by Ralegh, 21, n. 3.
Guiana or North America, Pilgrims choose between, 169.
Guicciardini on use of spices, 22, n. 5.
Guilds, dissolution of the, 111.
Haies in Hakluyt's Voyages, 5, m.
Hakluyt, Richard, a forerunner of colonization, 5;
belief of, in a passage to the Pacific, 6;
stories of gold, 12;
of mulberry trees, 76.
Hakluyt's Discourse on Western Planting, 6, m.; 94, n. 1; 97, n. 11;
Voyages, 2, 5, m.; 8, m.; 12, m.; 23, n. 8.
Hamor, Raphe, secretary under Dale, a signer of the Tragicall
Relation, 66, n. 9;
True Discourse, 66, n. 9; 68, n. 12; 70, n. 16; 95, n. 3.
Hampton Court conference, 159;
authorities on the, 182, n. 1.
Hanbury's Memorials, 157, n. 1, n. 2; 158, n. 3.
Hancock, Thomas, the Luther of England, 125.
Hanging clemency, 46;
preferred to transportation to Virginia, 54;
and to the old tyranny, 56.
Hardwicke Papers, 238, m.
Hariot's Briefe and True Report, 80, m.
Harleian Miscellany, 240, m.
Harrington's Nugæ Antiquæ, 116, m.; 161, m.; 162, m.; 182, n. 1.
Harrisse's, Henry, John Cabot, the Discoverer of America, 21, n. 1.
Hartlib's Reformed Virginia Silkworm, 79.
Harvey, Sir John, sends expedition for gold, 13;
Governor of Virginia, 249;
quarreled with Virginians, 249;
counter-revolution, 249.
Hawkins, Jane, Mrs. Hutchinson an associate of, 340.
Hawkins, Sir John, lands luckless seamen in Mexico, 14.
Haynes, Governor of Massachusetts, 332;
pronounced sentence against Williams, 347, n. 1;
letter to Williams while Governor of Connecticut quoted, 347, n. 1.
Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen, 134, n. 1.
Hearne's Langtoft's Chronicle, 93, m.
Hening's Statutes, 78, m.; 79, m.; 97, n. 9.
Henrietta Maria, Maryland named for, 245;
godmother to Maryland, jealous of Calvert, 249.
Henry, Prince, interested in Virginia colony, 43.
Henry, William Wirt, Address, 63, n. 3.
Hessey's Bampton Lectures, 139, n. 10.
Hind's Making of the England of Elizabeth, 135, n. 3.
Hinman's Antiquities, 347, n. 2.
Hogs, brood, of the colony eaten, 38;
wild, in the Bermudas, 41, 65, n. 6.
Holinshed's Chronicles, 22, n. 5.
Holland, the "mingle mangle of religions" in, 164.
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