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
"Rowdies" assault the Jesuits, 265, n. 24.
Royal Hist. MS. Comm., 88, m.
Royal Hist. MS. Com. Rept., 345, m.
Rushworth's Hist. Coll., 216, n. 2, n. 3;
petition in, 226, m.; 235, m.; 344.
Rustics, the, of Scrooby and its neighborhood, 150, 151;
influence of Brewster on, 153;
of John Robinson, 157.
Rymer's Foedera, 229, m.; 238, m.
Sabbath, the, as a holy day objected to by Luther and Calvin, 124;
rise of the Puritan, 124;
Sunday first so called in literature, 126;
passion for a stricter, 130;
doctrine of a Christian, resented, 131, 139, n. 11;
in Scotland, 132, 139, n. 12;
of deepest hue in New England, 132, 140, n. 13.
Sabbath-breakers, punishments threatened against, 138, n. 8.
Sabbath-keeping, early Puritan ideal of, 127;
pushed to its extreme, 130;
new zeal for, promoted morals, 131;
rigid, a mark of the faithful, 132.
Sadleir, Mrs., indorsement of, on Williams's letter to, 268, m.
Sainsbury's Calendar, 67, n. 9; 207, m.; 262, n. 9; 344, m.; 345, m.
Salem, north pole of Puritanism, 271;
protest of the General Court against Williams as minister at, 271;
attached to Williams and refractory toward the authorities at
Boston, 280;
made Williams teacher, 284;
deputies turned out of court in punishment, 291;
indignation at Williams's banishment, 293.
Salem church, organization of the, 200.
Salisbury, the Dean of, attacked by Mar-Prelate, 115.
Salvetti, correspondence on Calvert's resignation, 260, n. 6.
Sampson, Thomas, letter to Calvin, 135, n. 3.
Sandy Beach, no trace of, 59.
Sandys, Edwin, Archbishop of York, letter of, 137, n. 7;
transferred manor place at Scrooby to his son Samuel, 153, 170.
Sandys, Sir Edwin, interested in the Virginia Company, 54;
approved Dale's course, 67, n. 9;
arrested, 69, n. 13; 89;
chosen governor of Virginia Company, 71, n. 17; 88, 170;
proposed sending maids to Virginia, 71, n. 18;
leader of the company, 87, 89, 170;
established representative government in Virginia, 88;
plans for foundation of New Plymouth, 88;
sketch of life of, in Brown's Genesis of the United States, 97, n. 10;
tried to secure toleration for the Leyden people, 170;
one of the fathers of representative government in America, 173;
charges against, 174, 184, n. 5;
parliamentary antagonist of Calvert, 221;
in disfavor at court, 222;
Virginians friendly to, 230.
Sandys, George, would seek the South Sea overland, 10, 11;
name appended to The Tragicall Relation, 66, n. 9;
in charge of manufacturing schemes, 83.
Sandys, Sir Samuel, owned manor place at Scrooby, 153, 170.
Sassafras root exported, 45, 68, n. 10; 68, n. 11.
Savage life eagerly observed by the English, 29.
Sawmills built in Virginia, 82.
Scharf's History of Maryland, 23, n. 7.
Schism esteemed the deadliest of sins, 142, 197.
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