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Ritual, the antique, desire to change as little as possible, 106, 135, n. 3.

Rivalry with Spain, 73.

Roanoke Island, first colony on, 7; Lane's hopes for, 74.

Roanoke River, story of source of, 7.

Robert's Social History of the Southern Counties, 125, m.; 127, m.; 129, m.

Robinson hanged and quartered for extorting money from "pressed"

maidens, 72, n. 19.

Robinson, John, joins the Separatists at Scrooby, 155; character and influence of, 156, 158, n. 3; leads the Scrooby church to Amsterdam, 164; to Leyden, 165; idea of forming a new state, 167; prayer and last words at departure of the Pilgrims, 175, 185, n. 6; advised union rather than division, 176; farewell letter of, 185, n. 5; liberality and breadth of view, 176, 185, n. 6; held to "toleration of tolerable opinions," 298.

Robinson's, John, Justification, 157, n. 1, n. 2; 219, n. 9.

Rogers, Thomas, opponent of Greenham and Bownd, 139, n. 11.

Rogers's Preface to Thirty-nine Articles, 122, m.; 139, n. 11; 143, m.

Rolfe, John, married Pocahontas, 68, n. 10; planted first tobacco at Jamestown, 84.

Rolfe's Relation, 70, n. 16; 71, n. 17, n. 18.

Rosier's True Relation, 17, m.

"Rowdies" a.s.sault the Jesuits, 265, n. 24.

Royal Hist. MS. Comm., 88, m.

Royal Hist. MS. Com. Rept., 345, m.

Rushworth's Hist. Coll., 216, n. 2, n. 3; pet.i.tion in, 226, m.; 235, m.; 344.

Rustics, the, of Scrooby and its neighborhood, 150, 151; influence of Brewster on, 153; of John Robinson, 157.

Rymer's Foedera, 229, m.; 238, m.

Sabbath, the, as a holy day objected to by Luther and Calvin, 124; rise of the Puritan, 124; Sunday first so called in literature, 126; pa.s.sion for a stricter, 130; doctrine of a Christian, resented, 131, 139, n. 11; in Scotland, 132, 139, n. 12; of deepest hue in New England, 132, 140, n. 13.

Sabbath-breakers, punishments threatened against, 138, n. 8.

Sabbath-keeping, early Puritan ideal of, 127; pushed to its extreme, 130; new zeal for, promoted morals, 131; rigid, a mark of the faithful, 132.

Sadleir, Mrs., indors.e.m.e.nt of, on Williams's letter to, 268, m.

Sainsbury's Calendar, 67, n. 9; 207, m.; 262, n. 9; 344, m.; 345, m.

Salem, north pole of Puritanism, 271; protest of the General Court against Williams as minister at, 271; attached to Williams and refractory toward the authorities at Boston, 280; made Williams teacher, 284; deputies turned out of court in punishment, 291; indignation at Williams's banishment, 293.

Salem church, organization of the, 200.

Salisbury, the Dean of, attacked by Mar-Prelate, 115.

Salvetti, correspondence on Calvert's resignation, 260, n. 6.

Sampson, Thomas, letter to Calvin, 135, n. 3.

Sandy Beach, no trace of, 59.

Sandys, Edwin, Archbishop of York, letter of, 137, n. 7; transferred manor place at Scrooby to his son Samuel, 153, 170.

Sandys, Sir Edwin, interested in the Virginia Company, 54; approved Dale's course, 67, n. 9; arrested, 69, n. 13; 89; chosen governor of Virginia Company, 71, n. 17; 88, 170; proposed sending maids to Virginia, 71, n. 18; leader of the company, 87, 89, 170; established representative government in Virginia, 88; plans for foundation of New Plymouth, 88; sketch of life of, in Brown's Genesis of the United States, 97, n. 10; tried to secure toleration for the Leyden people, 170; one of the fathers of representative government in America, 173; charges against, 174, 184, n. 5; parliamentary antagonist of Calvert, 221; in disfavor at court, 222; Virginians friendly to, 230.

Sandys, George, would seek the South Sea overland, 10, 11; name appended to The Tragicall Relation, 66, n. 9; in charge of manufacturing schemes, 83.

Sandys, Sir Samuel, owned manor place at Scrooby, 153, 170.

Sa.s.safras root exported, 45, 68, n. 10; 68, n. 11.

Savage life eagerly observed by the English, 29.

Sawmills built in Virginia, 82.

Scharf's History of Maryland, 23, n. 7.

Schism esteemed the deadliest of sins, 142, 197.

Scotch settlement in Newfoundland, 224, 258, n. 3.

Scot's Magazine, 11, m.

Scrambler, Bishop of Peterborough, to Burghley, 142, m.

Scriptures, reverence for the letter of the, 144.

Scrooby, the cradle of the Pilgrims, 149; a region noted for religious zeal, 150; no tradition of the Pilgrims at, 150; called "the meane townlet" by John Leland, 152; owners of manor place at, 153; the church at, 154, 155.

Seamen, threats of brutal, 177.

Seekers, the, a sect, the last reduction of Separatism, 303; in New England, probably through influence from Holland, 303; in England as early as 1617, 304; "a Seeker of the best Sect next to a finder," 314, n. 24.

Seekonk River, Williams removes from, to Providence, 296.

Semi-Separatists, the, 143.

Separatism and the Scrooby church, 141; promoted by persecution, 144; rise of, 146; divergencies in direction of, 267; protest by withdrawal of communion a fundamental principle of, 271.