Williams, Roger, in advance of his age, 256; opposed the authorities in Massachusetts, 267; early career of, 268; refused preferments, 269, 307, n. 2; flight of, to New England, 270; refuses communion with the Boston church, 270, 307, n. 3; opposed to compromise, 271, 307, n. 4; his selection as minister at Salem opposed by the General Court, 271, 272; removed to Plymouth, 272; wrote a treatise on the dialect of the New England Indians, 273; rebuked Bradford and wrote against the royal patents, 274, 281, 308, n. 9; returned to Salem with some followers, 275; his ideal too high for that age, 281; preached without holding office, 281; "convented at court," 281; charges against, based on his book, "not so evil as at first they seemed," 282; the broad principle laid down by, 283; made teacher at Salem, 284; fast-day sermon on eleven "public sins," 286; dealt with ecclesiastically, 287; scruples against enforced oaths, 289; new charges against, 289; champion of soul liberty, 290; incorrigible, 290, 291; trial and banishment, 292, 309, n. 12; 310, n. 13, 14, 16; authorities, 310, n. 17; on account of illness permitted to remain during the winter, 293; a few friends faithful to, 293, 294; escape to the Indians, 295; abandons settlement at Seekonk River and founds Providence, 296; banishment of, an act of persecution, 297; character of, 301, 307, n. 1; a collector of scruples, 301, 302, 314, n. 23; tenderness and friendship for Winthrop, 302; became a Baptist and renounced his baptism, 303; a Seeker, 303, 304; his moral elevation of spirit, 304; ascendency over the Indians, 305; an individualist, 291, 305; superior to his age and ours, 305; his prophetic character, 306 a John Baptist of the distant future, 306; enthusiastic nature of, 307, n. 2; needed no practical consideration to stir him to action, 308, n. 11; magnanimity without a parallel, 310, n. 15; removal of Williams and his friends the beginning of dispersions from the colony, 315; prepared a harbor for all of uneasy conscience, 315. Williams's letter to Mrs. Sadleir, 268, m.; 270, m.; letters to Winthrop, 273, m.; 302, m.; 307, n. 5; Reply to Cotton, 283, m.; letters to Lady Barrington, 307, n. 1; letter to John Cotton, the younger, 307, n. 2, 3, 4; letter to Major Mason, 310, n. 15; Bloudy Tenent, 311, n. 18. Wilson, John, interprets battle of mouse and snake, 277; on Williams's book, 282; condemned by the Hutchinsonians, 333; given to rhyming prophecies, 338. Windebank, schemes of Cecilius Calvert with, 250. Wine, efforts to produce, in Great Britain, 76; in Virginia, 81. Wingandacon, Indian name of the coast of North Carolina, 21, n. 3.