The Beginners of a Nation Part 53

Separatist, Roger Williams conscientiously a, 270.

Separatist tendencies of Skelton, 271.

Separatist tone of Pioneer church of Ma.s.sachusetts at Salem, 271.

Separatists, number of the, 136, n. 6; importance of the, 141; the advance guard of Puritanism, 141; regarded as criminals by the Puritans, 142; causes of growth of the, 144; idealists, 144; rise of the, 146; meetings of, in London, 147; in Amsterdam, 148; one vigorous society of, in the north, 149; the Scrooby church of, organized, 154; all-day meetings at Brewster's manor house, 155; new persecution of the, 163; the Scrooby church resolve to flee to Holland, 163, 164; pet.i.tion for leave to settle in Canada, 167; cla.s.sed with criminals by Bacon, 171; held their opinions in a state of flux, 186, n. 6.

Servingman, the, not a menial, 134, n. 1.

Servingmen in livery, 99, 134, n. 1.

Settlements, sixteen, in Ma.s.sachusetts, 275; life in the settlements, 276.

Settlers emulate the treachery of the Indians, 92; individual, 190.

Shakespeare's good fortune to live in a dramatic age, 99.

Shepard, Thomas, a new congregation led by, 325; letter of, quoted, 348, n. 5; Theses Sabbaticae, 140, n. 13; Memoirs in Young, 328, m.

Sheriffs had many liveried servants, 99, 134, n. 1.

s.h.i.+p carpenters sent to the James River, 83.

Silk, craze for, in England, 76, 77, 169; wearing of, prohibited in the colony, 78.

Silk culture attempted in England, 76; in Virginia, 76, 77; causes of failure, 77, 78; renewed efforts for, 78, 79, 83; authorities on these efforts, 95, n. 3.

Silk-gra.s.s craze, the, 79.

Silk manufacturing established in England, 77.

Silkworms' eggs, hatching, in one's pocket or bosom, 78, 95, n. 2.

Skelton, minister at Salem, 271; extreme Congregationalism and Separatist tendencies of, 271; death of, 283.

Sloane ma.n.u.scripts, British Museum, 22, n. 4.

Smith, Captain John, a trustworthy topographer, 9, 34; captured by Indians, 9; views of geography of the continent, 22, n. 6; becomes leader at Jamestown, 31, 36; his character, 31, 32, 33; story of his own life, 32, 33; the Jonah and Ulysses of his time, 33; explorations and narrative, 34, 35, 36; overthrown, 36; accused of design to wed Pocahontas, 37, 51; later years, 37; foresight of America's future, 37; disabled by an accident, 37, 60, n. 2; sent home under charges, 37, 60, n. 2; accused of advising Indians to attack settlers at the Falls, 37, 60, n. 2; a typical American pioneer, 38; account of his writings, 61, n. 3; commended by the Virginia Company, 61, n. 3; given to romance in narration, 62, n. 3; his practical writings and wise speeches, 62, n. 3; examples of his exaggeration, 63, n. 3; Thomas Fuller's judgment of, 63, n. 3; authorities in the debates about, 63, n. 3; refusal to share his power, 64, n. 4; captured by the French, 178.

----, Generall Historie, 22, n. 6; 27, m.; 34, m.; 35, 36, m.; 61, n. 3; 66, n. 9; 95, n. 3.

----, New Life of Virginia, 27, m.

----, Oxford Tract, 34, m.; 35, 36, m.; 42, m.; 61, n. 3; 64, n. 3.

----, True Relation, 61, n. 3.

Smyth, John, the Separatist, migrated from Gainsborough, 150; continually searching for truth, 186, n. 6.

Smyth, Sir Thomas, governor of Virginia Company, 70, n. 16; resignation, 71, n. 17; aroused the king's opposition to Sandys, 87; resigned, 88; sorrows of the colony under, 206; faction of, 230; defense, 67, n. 9.

Somers, Sir George, wrecked on the Bermudas, 40; builds two vessels and takes provisions to Virginia, 41; returns to the Bermudas, 41; death of, 42; Somers or Summer Islands named from, 65, n. 6.

South Sea delusion, the, 6, 7, 8; an overland route to, 10; behind the mountains, 75.

See also PACIFIC OCEAN.

Southampton, Earl of, interested in the Virginia Company, 54; threatened by the Warwick party, 69, n. 13; really in power, 71, n. 17; procures silkworm "seed," 77; elected governor of the company, 89; imprisoned, 89; one of the fathers of representative government in America, 173; Virginians friendly to, 230.

Southwest pa.s.sage, conjectures of a, 22, n. 5.

Spain, rivalry with, the motive for planting English colonies, 73; England's jealousy toward, 74, 94, n. 1; lavish of gifts to English courtiers, 223; made England relax penal laws against English recusants, 238.

Spanish example, the influence of, on English projects, 73; fis.h.i.+ng-boats to be seized at Newfounde lande, 94, n. 1; jealousy of Virginia, 94, n. 1.

Spanish match, the, favored by Calvert, 226, 227, 258, n. 2.

Speed's Prospect, 24, n. 10.

Spelman's Relation, 60, n. 2.

Spices, pa.s.sion for, in Europe, 22, n. 5.

Spirit of the age, escape from the, difficult, 133.

Squirrels, flying, 18.

Standish, Captain Miles, escorts the governor to church on Sundays, 103.

Star-Chamber censures, 203, 216, n. 3; Roger Williams as a lad employed by the, 268; harsh penalties for Separatists, 270.

State church, notion of, not easily got rid of, 112.

St. Christopher's Island sought by Catholic refugees, 231.

Stephen, Sir, denounced May-poles as idols, 118; wanted names of days of the week changed, 118.

St.i.th's History of Virginia, 51, m.; 182, n. 2.

Stoughton retracted, 290, 291; pressure put on, 297.

Strachey's Historie of Travaile into Virginia, 24, n. 10; 36, m.; 59, n. 1; 64, n. 4; 65, n. 7; 95, n. 5; 97, n. 9; 102, m.; True Reportory, 65, n. 6.

Strafford, friend of George Calvert and his son, 249.

Strafford Papers, 241, m.; 263, n. 13.

Strait, a, sought to the South Sea, 4, 6, 8, 9.