The Beginners of a Nation Part 51

Protestantism, English, rise of the two great parties of, 106, 107; controversy grew more bitter, 114; incorruptible in Virginia, 231.

Protestantism on the Continent nearly wrecked, 198.

Protestants, English, find refuge on the Continent, 104; compromises at home, dissensions in exile, 104; the ultra wing tended to democratic church government, 106; return after death of Mary, 107; their petty squabbles develop into bitter feuds and struggles, 107; widespread results, 107; Baltimore orders no scandal nor offense to be given to, 250; his policy of conciliation toward, in Maryland, 251.

Protestants on the Continent become Roman Catholics, 198.

Providence Plantation founded by Williams, 296; fell into inevitable disorders, 315; an example of the largest liberty in religion congruous with civil peace, 315.

Provincetown Harbor, the Mayflower in, 177.

Public Records Office Colonial Papers, 54, m.

Pullein's Culture of Silk, 95, n. 2.

Punishments, various, inflicted by Dale, 46.

Purchas his Pilgrimes, 2, 12, m.; 18, 22, n. 6; 24, n. 9, n. 10; 28, m.; 29, m.; 30, m.; 64, n. 3; 65, n. 6; 69, n. 14; 80, m.; 95, n. 3; 96, n. 6; 97, n. 9; 102, m.

Purchas's stories of silver and gold, 12.

Puritan, the, never easy unless he was uneasy, 253.

Puritan community, cost of the good results attained in a, 342.

Puritan conscience, the, let loose against old superst.i.tions, 119.

Puritan divines in high church positions, 143.

Puritan exodus, the great, 188, 239.

Puritan opinions condemned, 103.

Puritan pietists, a new school of, 327.

Puritanism, rise and development of, 98; an outgrowth of the time, 103; an effort to escape from formalism, 109; gathered strength as the leading opposition, 111; becomes dogmatic, 112; evolutionary, 117; importance of secondary development of, 120; apparent decline of, 121; begun with Elizabeth, seemed doomed to die with her, 122; evolves new issues, 123, 137, n. 7; opposed to Arminianism, 133; set up the Commonwealth, 133; threatened destruction of, at Leyden, 167; under James I the party of opposition, 191; conservative under Charles I, 192; unamiable traits of, manifested in Endecott, 202; course of events in England adverse to, 203; suppression of, by Laud, 239; divergencies from, in Ma.s.sachusetts, 267; existed and grew through prudent compromises, 268, 269; Salem, north pole of, 271; condemned by its false and harsh ideals, 300; character of, 300, 301, 342; an ascetic system of external duties and abstentions, 327.

Puritans, why so called, 106, 135, n. 4.

Puritans, English, contempt of the, for aesthetic considerations, 94; reverence for Bible precepts, 109; would have no surplices, no liturgy, 109; banished the symbol with the dogma, 111; importance of efforts toward the regulation of conduct, 120; dubbed Martinists, 121; differences forgotten in the conflict with the Episcopal party, 137, n. 6; omitted the liturgy, 142; present Millinary Pet.i.tion to James I, 159; at the Hampton Court conference, 160, 181, n. 1; not eager to join Separatist settlers, 188; a powerful party, 192; motives for emigration, 197; fear of divine judgments, 198; barred from all public action, 203; plan for a Puritan church in America, 204; carried out through the Ma.s.sachusetts Company, 212; differences among the, 213; exhilarating effect of freedom from constraints, 213; raging against indulgence to Romanists, 235, 238; believed the church under Laud would become Roman Catholic, 239; dropped "saint" from geographical names, 244; rise of, to power, 240; dominant in Parliament, 252; could not be induced to leave New England for Maryland, 252; persecuted in Virginia, leave there for Maryland, 253; at peace with Catholics in Maryland, 254; their ideas rampant in Maryland, 257; send munitions of war to New England, 284; conceived of religion as difficult of attainment, 328.

Puritans of the Ma.s.sachusetts colony not Separatists, 212; pathetic farewell to the Church of England, 213; persuaded to the Plymouth view of church government, 215; leaving England, 239; emigration to New England, 240.

Quakers put to death by Endecott, 202; protected in Maryland, 257.

Racc.o.o.n, the, called a monkey, 19, 24, n. 10.

Radical and conservative, difference between, const.i.tutional, 109.

Rain, results of Puritan and Indian prayers for, 16.

Ralegh, Sir Walter, sends explorers and colonists, 7; History of the World, 21, n. 3; distrusts Indian tales, 21, n. 3; a lifelong opponent of Spain, 73.

Rapin, 239, m.

Rappahannocks, dress of the chief of the, 28.

Ratcliffe, enemy of Capt. John Smith, 37; ambuscaded and tortured to death, 38, 64, n. 4; follower of Archer, 64, n. 3; cruel to the savages, 64, n. 4.

Ration, a day's, pitiful allowance for, 30, 46.

Records of Virginia Company destroyed, 54, 71, n. 17.

Recreations on Sunday, scruples regarding, 127; forbidden by Dr. Bownd, 129.

Reformers, the, of the sixteenth century declared against a priesthood, 123; and a Sabbath, 124.

Relatyon of the Discovery of our River, 29, m.

Religion, motive to colonization, 220.

Religious enthusiasts and the Anglican church, 144.

Religious ferments, leavening effects of, 121.

Religious freedom a cherished principle of Roger Williams, 286; established at Providence, 296.

Religious liberty befriended by few, detested by Catholic and Protestant, 298.

Religious service, attendance at, should be compulsory, 299.

Report of Record Com., 329, m.

Residents, new oath of fidelity for, 289; successfully opposed by Williams, 289, 309, n. 12; mercenary inducement offered to, to take the freeman's oath, 308, n. 11.

Retainers, brilliant trains of, 99.

Rhode Island, a secondary colony, 220; importance of the, 315.

Rich, Lord. See WARWICK, second Earl.

Rich's, Barnabee, Honestie of this Age, 96, n. 8.

Rites, resistance to, an article of faith, 103.

Ritual, a purified, preferred by the extreme Protestants, 106, 135, n. 3.