In 1656, the Connecticut Court, in conformity to a suggestion from the commissioners of the United Colonies, ordered that "no towne within this jurisdiction shall entertaine any Quakers, Kanters, Adamites, or such notorious heretiques, or suffer them to continue with them above the space of fourteen days,... and shall give notice to the two next towns to send them on their way under penalty of £5 per week for any town entertaining any such person, nor shall any master of a ship land such or any." In August, 1657, the above fine was imposed on the individual who entertained the Quaker, etc., as well as on the town, and an officer was appointed to examine suspects. A little later, a penalty of 10s. was imposed for Quaker books and MSS. found in the possession of any but a teaching elder. Twice the Court saw fit to leave, notwithstanding all former orders, all such cases to the jurisdiction of the separate towns, to order fines, banishment, or corporal punishment, provided the fines "exceed not ten pounds." The tone is brief and businesslike, dealing with a matter that had already caused great trouble to the other United Colonies, and which might become a menace to Connecticut. There are almost no recorded cases of sentence being imposed. See Conn. Col. Kec., i, 283,303,308, 324. 70, J. Bowden, History of the Society of Friends, i, 104, quoting Norton's Ensign, p. 52. 71, Ibid., i, 106. 72, Ibid., i, 440. 73, R. P. Hallowell, The Pioneer Quakers, p. 47. 74, R. R. Hinman, Antiquities of the Charter Government of Connecticut, p. 229. 75, E. E. Beardsley, History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, i, 19. 76, A. L. Cross, Anglican Episcopate in the American Colonies, pp. 33 et seq. 77, Ibid., p. 95, note. 78, C. F. Hawkins, Missions of the Church of England, 377, 378. 79, Church Documents, Conn., i, 14. 80, Ibid., i, 59. 81, Ibid., i, 136. CHAPTER VIII. THE FIRST VICTORY FOR DISSENT. 82, Church Documents, Conn., i, 153. 83, Ibid., i, 56. 84, S. D. McConnell, History of the American Episcopal Church, p. 132. 85, Conn. Col. Rec., viii, 106; and Church Documents, Conn., i, 280, 283. 86, Conn. Col. Rec., vii, 459, and viii, 123, 334. 87, Rogerine Laws. See Conn. Col. Rec., v. 248, 249. 88, C. W. Bowen, The Boundary Disputes of Connecticut, especially pp. 48, 58, and 74. 89, The Talcott Papers, published in vols. iv and v of the Conn. Hist. Soc. Collections. 90, Conn. Col. Rec., iv, 307. 91, Talcott Papers, i, 147, 189, and ii, 245, 246, in Conn. Hist. Soc. Collections, vols. iv and v. 92, C. M. Andrews, The Connecticut Intestacy Law, in Yale Review, iii, 261 et seq. 93, Conn. Col. Rec., vii, 237. 94, Ibid., vii, 257. CHAPTER IX. THE GREAT AWAKENING. 95, Jonathan Edwards' Works, iv, 306-324. 96, Ibid., iv, 81. 97, Lauer, Church and State, p. 77; also Conn. Col. Rec., vi, 33.