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
The Anatomie of Abuses, by Philip Stubbes, 1583, Pickering's reprint,
pages 16, 17: "It is lawfull for the nobilitie, the gentrie and
magisterie to weare riche attire, euery one in their callyng. The
nobility and gentrie to innoble, garnish, and set forth birthes,
dignities, and estates. The magisterie to dignifie their callynges....
But now there is suche a confuse mingle mangle of apparell, and suche
preposterous excesse thereof, as euery one is permitted to flaunt it
out in what apparell he lusteth himself, or can get by any kinde of
meanes. So that it is very hard to know who is noble, who is
worshipfull, who is a gentleman, who is not; for you shal haue those
which are neither of the nobilitie, gentilitie nor yeomanrie ... go
daiely in silkes, veluettes, satens, damaskes, taffaties and suche
like; notwithstanding that they be bothe base by birthe, meane by
estate, and seruile by callyng. And this I compte a greate confusion,
and a generall disorder in a Christian common wealth."
[Sidenote: Note 3, page 106.]
A Brieff Discourse of the Troubles begun at Frankfort, 1564, is the
primary authority. It is almost beyond doubt that Whittingham, Dean of
Durham, a participant in the troubles, wrote the book. The Frankfort
struggles have been discussed recently in Mr. Hinds's The Making of
the England of Elizabeth, but, like all writers on the subject, Hinds
is obliged to depend almost solely on Whittingham's account. The
several volumes of letters from the archives of Zurich, published by
the Parker Society, give a good insight into the forces at work in the
English Reformation. See, for example, in the volume entitled Original
Letters, 1537-1558, that of Thomas Sampson to Calvin, dated
Strasburgh, February 23, 1555, which shows the Puritan movement half
fledged at this early date when Calvin's authoritative advice is
invoked. "The flame is lighted up with increased vehemence amongst us
English. For a strong controversy has arisen, while some desire the
book of reformation of the Church of England to be set aside
altogether, others only deem some things in it objectionable, such as
kneeling at the Lord's Supper, the linen surplice, and other matters
of this kind; but the rest of it, namely, the prayers, scripture
lessons and the form of the administration of baptism and the Lord's
Supper they wish to be retained."
[Sidenote: Note 4, page 106.]
There are many and conflicting accounts of the origin of the name. In
the Narragansett Club Publications, ii, 197-199, there is an
interesting statement of some of these by the editor of Cotton's
Answer to Roger Williams, in a note.
[Sidenote: Note 5, page 111.]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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