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
Rain, results of Puritan and Indian prayers for, 16.
Ralegh, Sir Walter, sends explorers and colonists, 7;
History of the World, 21, n. 3;
distrusts Indian tales, 21, n. 3;
a lifelong opponent of Spain, 73.
Rapin, 239, m.
Rappahannocks, dress of the chief of the, 28.
Ratcliffe, enemy of Capt. John Smith, 37;
ambuscaded and tortured to death, 38, 64, n. 4;
follower of Archer, 64, n. 3;
cruel to the savages, 64, n. 4.
Ration, a day's, pitiful allowance for, 30, 46.
Records of Virginia Company destroyed, 54, 71, n. 17.
Recreations on Sunday, scruples regarding, 127;
forbidden by Dr. Bownd, 129.
Reformers, the, of the sixteenth century declared against a
priesthood, 123;
and a Sabbath, 124.
Relatyon of the Discovery of our River, 29, m.
Religion, motive to colonization, 220.
Religious enthusiasts and the Anglican church, 144.
Religious ferments, leavening effects of, 121.
Religious freedom a cherished principle of Roger Williams, 286;
established at Providence, 296.
Religious liberty befriended by few, detested by Catholic and
Protestant, 298.
Religious service, attendance at, should be compulsory, 299.
Report of Record Com., 329, m.
Residents, new oath of fidelity for, 289;
successfully opposed by Williams, 289, 309, n. 12;
mercenary inducement offered to, to take the freeman's
oath, 308, n. 11.
Retainers, brilliant trains of, 99.
Rhode Island, a secondary colony, 220;
importance of the, 315.
Rich, Lord. See WARWICK, second Earl.
Rich's, Barnabee, Honestie of this Age, 96, n. 8.
Rites, resistance to, an article of faith, 103.
Ritual, a purified, preferred by the extreme Protestants, 106, 135, n. 3.
Ritual, the antique, desire to change as little as possible, 106,
135, n. 3.
Rivalry with Spain, 73.
Roanoke Island, first colony on, 7;
Lane's hopes for, 74.
Roanoke River, story of source of, 7.
Robert's Social History of the Southern Counties, 125, m.; 127, m.;
129, m.
Robinson hanged and quartered for extorting money from "pressed"
maidens, 72, n. 19.
Robinson, John, joins the Separatists at Scrooby, 155;
character and influence of, 156, 158, n. 3;
leads the Scrooby church to Amsterdam, 164;
to Leyden, 165;
idea of forming a new state, 167;
prayer and last words at departure of the Pilgrims, 175, 185, n. 6;
advised union rather than division, 176;
farewell letter of, 185, n. 5;
liberality and breadth of view, 176, 185, n. 6;
held to "toleration of tolerable opinions," 298.
Robinson's, John, Justification, 157, n. 1, n. 2; 219, n. 9.
Rogers, Thomas, opponent of Greenham and Bownd, 139, n. 11.
Rogers's Preface to Thirty-nine Articles, 122, m.; 139, n. 11; 143, m.
Rolfe, John, married Pocahontas, 68, n. 10;
planted first tobacco at Jamestown, 84.
Rolfe's Relation, 70, n. 16; 71, n. 17, n. 18.
Rosier's True Relation, 17, m.
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