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
Spirit of the age, escape from the, difficult, 133.
Squirrels, flying, 18.
Standish, Captain Miles, escorts the governor to church on Sundays, 103.
Star-Chamber censures, 203, 216, n. 3;
Roger Williams as a lad employed by the, 268;
harsh penalties for Separatists, 270.
State church, notion of, not easily got rid of, 112.
St. Christopher's Island sought by Catholic refugees, 231.
Stephen, Sir, denounced May-poles as idols, 118;
wanted names of days of the week changed, 118.
Stith's History of Virginia, 51, m.; 182, n. 2.
Stoughton retracted, 290, 291;
pressure put on, 297.
Strachey's Historie of Travaile into Virginia, 24, n. 10; 36, m.;
59, n. 1; 64, n. 4; 65, n. 7; 95, n. 5; 97, n. 9; 102, m.;
True Reportory, 65, n. 6.
Strafford, friend of George Calvert and his son, 249.
Strafford Papers, 241, m.; 263, n. 13.
Strait, a, sought to the South Sea, 4, 6, 8, 9.
Strasburg and Zurich, cities of refuge for conservatives, 104.
Strasburg reformers attempt to reform church at Frankfort, 105.
Straus's Life of Roger Williams, 308, n. 6; 311, n. 17.
Stubbes's Philip, Anatomie of Abuses, 100, m.; 119, 127, 134, n. 2;
135, n. 5.
Succession, apostolic, of churchly order and ordinance the mainspring
of high-churchism, 302.
Svmme and Svbstance. See BARLOW.
Sumner, George, on John Robinson, 158, n. 3.
Sumptuary laws, 75.
Sunday had sanctity of a church feast before the Reformation, 125;
English reformers retained the Catholic, 125;
first called Sabbath in literature, 126;
scruples regarding recreations on, 127;
brutally cruel sports on the old English, 129;
strict observance of, carried to New England, 132;
in the middle ages, 138, n. 8;
legislation on, rare before the Reformation, 138, n. 8;
in time of Edward VI, 138, n. 9;
sabbatical character of, denied, 140, n. 13.
See also SABBATH.
Sunday fishing, juries inquire into, 125.
Sunday morning ceremony at Plymouth, 103.
Sunday-Sabbath, theory of a, not confined to the Puritans, 132;
Augustine on, in the fifth century, 137, n. 8; 140, n. 13.
Surplices begin to be used in Virginia, 183, n. 3.
Susan Constant, the ship, 25.
Sutton's Hospital founded by legacy, which Coke defended, later known as
Charter-House School, 268.
Swift, Lindsay, on the early election sermons, 313, n. 22.
Symonds, Dr. William, editor of second part of Smith's Oxford Tract,
61, n. 3.
Synod, the, of 1637, 336, 346, n. 1.
Tales, extravagant, of the Indians, 7, 8;
Ralegh distrusts, 21, n. 3.
Taylor's Observations and Travel from London to Hamburg, 46, m.
Tempest, Shakespeare's, 17;
suggested by the wreck of Gates and Somers, 65, n. 6.
Tenant, the copy-hold, driven to distress, 111.
Tenantry, the suffering, Puritans make common cause with, 111, 135, n. 5.
Theater, passionate love of the, 99.
Theocracy, instability of a, 326.
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