Machyn's Diary,99, m.Magellan's Strait,2,9.Magistrates aided by clergy in Massachusetts,266;men of unusual ability,266;right of, to punish for a religious offense, denied by Williams,272,286;or to regulate the orthodoxy of churches and the belief of individuals,292,309, n. 12;310, n. 13.Magna Charta, the, of America,55.Maids by the shipload sent to Jamestown,57;not coerced into going,72, n. 19.Maine, French driven out of,50;first English colony in,189;fishing villages of,345.Manchester, Duke of, papers,71, n. 18;174, m.;184, n. 5.Manuscript Book of Instructions,71, n. 18;72, n. 19;80, m.;96, n. 6;97, n. 9;232, m.Manuscript Records, Virginia Company,52, m.;61, n. 3;67, n. 9;69, n. 13, 14;70, n. 15;71, n. 18;72, n. 19;81, m.;82, m.;95, n. 3;97, n. 9, 10;172, m.;184, n. 4.Mar-Prelate tracts, the,114;answers to the,116;effects of the reaction against,121.Marriage by a Roman priest invalidated accruing land tenures,237.Marsden's Early Puritans,125.Martial law under Dale,45;Smyth's code of,70, n. 16;132.Martin, Sir William, on Roger Williams,307, n. 1.Martyr, Peter, Decade III,24, n. 9.Maryland, Baltimore's projected colony in,236;change to, from Avalon,239;small migration to,240;policy of toleration in,242,250,265, n. 25;committed to guardian angels,243;arrival of the Catholic pilgrims,244;ceremonies of the landing in,244;said to have been named by King Charles,245;called Colony of St. Maries,245;efforts to convert the Protestants in,246;openly a Catholic colony,247,264, n. 17;import tax on Catholic servants and convicts,248,264, n. 19;opposition to Maryland,249;Puritan settlers invited,252;civil wars of,253,254;Act of Toleration passed,255;again a proprietary government under Calvert,257;disastrous results of religious differences in,266.Maryland Archives,245, m.;262, n. 10;265, n. 21.Maryland Assembly too cunning to be trapped by Baltimore,255.Maryland charter, ambiguity of the, designed,225,236,251,259, n. 4;262, n. 11;compared with charter of Avalon,234;provisions of,235,236;extensive powers granted by,236,263, n. 12.Mass celebrated in defiance of law,226;abhorred by the Puritans in Avalon,228.Massachusetts Bay, failure of commercial settlements on,189;patent to lands in, granted to the Massachusetts Company,207.Massachusetts charter, Laud's effort to vacate the,282,284.Massachusetts colony, government under Endecott,217, n. 7;people homogenous in religious affairs,266;religious opinion, main source of disturbance in,266,267;self-consciousness of the,278;preparations for resistance in,284;failure as an agricultural colony,320;three profound disturbances in,326;in commotion over the Hutchinson controversy,335.Massachusetts Company, rise of the,199,207;first colony of, under John Endecott,199,207;second company of emigrants,203;fear that the charter might be revoked,208;company and colony to be merged in one,209;transfers its government and charter to Massachusetts Bay,210;the commercial corporation becomes a colonial government,211;the colonists believed they were founding a new church,212.Massachusetts government, evolution of the,207;first court of, at Charlestown,210;later became representative,211;relieved from strain by the borough system,276;a government of congregations,308, n. 6;theocratical,279;religious intolerance of the,297,349, n. 9;anomalous in character,323;angered by Hooker's secession,326.Massachusetts Historical Collections,310, n. 15;318, m.;320, m.;347, n. 1;348, n. 7.Massachusetts Records,206, m.;285, m.;290, m.;291, m.;308, n. 11;310, n. 13, 17;317, m.;320, m.;337, m.Massacre by the Indians put an end to all projects,84,92.Masson's Life of Milton,137, n. 6.Mather's Magnalia,152, m.;154, m.;217, n. 5;328, m.;authority to be disregarded,311, n. 17.Maverick, Samuel, on Noddle's Island,190;Description of New England,273, m.Maydstown laid off in Virginia,72, n. 19.Mayflower, conduct of the captain of the,177.Maynard to Laud,344, m.May-poles, opposition to,118;pole of St. Andrew Undershaft sawed up,119;law against May-poles,119;the frolics around charged with immorality,120;Morton's, at Merrymount,190,201.Mediterranean Sea, a, looked for in the heart of America,11.Meeting, last all-night, in Pastor Robinson's house,175.Mennonites, Williams attracted to the doctrines of the,312, n. 19;derived his broadest principles from the,313, n. 19.Mercurius Americanus,348, n. 6.Merrymount, Morton's dangerous settlement at,190,201,216, n. 1.Metals, the precious, the only recognized riches,75.Mica mistaken for gold,13,30,75.Migration, the great, to New England,196,203.Millinary Petition, the,159.Millinery sins, regulations against,285.Mills's British India,67, n. 9.Milton, John, learned Dutch from Roger Williams,273.Mines, Mexican, reports of wealth of, brought support to Ralegh's undertaking,74.Ministerial office never so reverenced as by Puritans,338.Ministers, two, over one church,106;might prophesy, but not a woman,338.Missionary impulse, first, in the English Church,89,94, n. 1.Monatesseron, the earliest English,93.Montserrat, island of, settled by Catholics,231,232,261, n. 9.Months, scruples about the heathen names of the,302.Morals, austerity in,119;advance of, under Puritan influence,121;lack of sense of proportion is a trait of the age,130;regularity of, purchased at a great sacrifice,342.More, Father Henry,263, n. 14.Morton, Thomas, and his deviltry,190,201,216, n. 1;Memorial,177, m.;New English Canaan,216, n. 1.Motives for founding English colonies,73;commercial and sentimental,86;religious,89,189.Mount Desert, Jesuit settlement at, plundered,47,50.Mourt's Relation,184, n. 4.Mouse and snake, battle between,277;interpretation of, by Pastor John Wilson,277.Mouse nibbles a Book of Common Prayer,278.Movements, significant, usually cradled in rustic mangers,146.Mulberries first planted in England,76;law for promoting the raising of, in Virginia,77;repealed,79.Muskrat skins valued for their odor,19.Names, fanciful, of the Newfoundland coast,225,229.Names, Indian, of places changed,244.Nansemond, settlement at,37;settlers driven from,38.Narragansett Bay recommended to Williams by Winthrop,293;proposal to remove to, alarmed the magistrates,294;colony on, founded on the true principle,316.Narragansett Club Publications,135, n. 4;268, m.;307, n. 3, 4, 5;311, n. 17.Naval stores, Virginia expected to produce,82;efforts to procure, in Elizabeth's time,95, n. 4.Neal's History of New England,310, n. 14;History of the Puritans,159, m.;226, m.;239, m.Neill, E. D., on the social compact,183, n. 4;Founders of Maryland,262, n. 11;Virginia Company,67, n. 9;183, n. 2.Netherlands, indirect interest of the, in the Virginia colony,44.New England, coast of, explored by Capt. John Smith,37;shaped in Old England by Puritanism,133;pioneers of, came from the Separatists,141,146;existence of, hung on a chain of accidents,176;elements of,177;early attempts to colonize,178;early settlements in,189;great migration to,196,203;capital laws of, condemned by Williams,304.New England charter of 1620,173.New England colonists deemed themselves a chosen people,278;accounted other colonists the Egyptians of the New World,278,308, n. 7;held to an intolerant theocracy,279;dispersions of the,315;relief at disappearance of the last of the leaders,342.New England Firebrand Quenched,301, m.New England Historical Gen. Reg.,267,307, n. 1.New England Puritanism more ultra than Bownd,132,140, n. 3.New England traits due to special causes,178.Newfoundland, failure of colony at,223,224;Capt. Whitbourne's pamphlet on,224;fanciful names in,225;not a paradise in winter,229,260, n. 7;value of the fisheries,261, n. 7.New France bubble ready to collapse,346.New Haven, Davenport and his company planted colony at,343;colony united with Connecticut by royal charter at the Restoration,343;stretching westward,345.New Life of Virginea,63, n. 3.New Plymouth, Sandys's plans for the foundation of,88.Newport, Vice-Admiral, reporter of Virginia affairs,44;threatened with the gallows by Dale,44;warned against Archer,64.Newtown, Hooker's company settled at,317;intended for capital and palisaded,318;superior to Boston in one regard,318;discontent at,318,319,320;questions regarding boundary,319;cattle-raising at,320;the church at, emigrated bodily to Connecticut,325;court of elections held at,335.New World, mirages of the,2;discovered because it lay between Europe and the East Indies,3;grotesque and misleading glimpses of the,20.New York Colonial Documents,6, m.,43, m.New York Hist. Soc. Coll.,23, n. 7;second series,70, n. 15;80, m.Nichols's, Josias, Plea for the Innocent,146, m.Nonconformists, severe measures against,122;in the Church,142.North Carolina, coast of, called Wingandacon,21, n. 3.Northey, Sir Edward, decision on the Maryland charter,262, n. 11.Northwest passage, search for a,4,5,9,10.Nova Albion,259, n. 5.Nova Brittania,82, m.Oath of allegiance,241;emigration oath refused by Williams,270;new oath for residents opposed by Williams,289;magistrates unable to enforce,289.Ogle's Account of Maryland,264, n. 19.Oil to be distilled from walnuts,83.Oldham, John, an adventurous man of lawless temper expelled from Plymouth,324;led a small company from Watertown,324.Opossum, the, described by Purchas,18.Opposition, Puritanism the party of,110.Original Records of Colony of Virginia,78, m.Overston, sermons preached in, by unlicensed men,142.Pacific Ocean, discovery of the,3;belief in a passage to the,4,6;nearness to Florida,6;soughtviathe James River,8;in latitude 40°,9,10;viathe Delaware,10;proximity of, to Virginia,10,22, n. 6;to North Carolina,11.Pagitt's Heresiography,143, m.;144, m.;157, n. 1.Palfrey's History of New England,211, m.;218, n. 8.Palisades burned for firewood,40.Paradox, the, of colonial religious organization,280.Parkinson, Marmaduke, explorer,10.Parliamentary freedom, struggle for,87.Parties, the two great, of Protestantism, rise of,106;results,107;lines between, not sharply drawn at once,110;controversy between, grew more bitter,114.Party, a moderate, lamented the excesses of the extremists,117.Passage to the Pacific Ocean sought,3,4,9,10,22, n. 5;73,74.See alsoNorthwest PassageandPacific Ocean.Patent, royal, validity of, questioned by Williams,274,281,289,308, n. 9;309, n. 12.Patience, the, pinnace, built wholly of wood,41.Paulus, Pieter, Verklaring der Unie van Utrecht,312, n. 18.Pearce, Mistress, "near twenty years" in Virginia,71, n. 18.Pearl fisheries in Virginia waters,95, n. 3.Peckard's Life of Ferrar,65, n. 5;87, m.;93, m.;account of,97, n. 10;100, m.Peirce, John, received a grant from the Virginia Company,184, n. 4.Pequot war, Williams denounced slaughter of women and children in,305;plan of campaign changed through a revelation,338.Pequots dangerous on Connecticut River,323.Percy, George, on the arrival at Virginia,28;on the sufferings at Jamestown,30;increased the hostility of the Indians,38,64, n. 4;inefficiency as governor,44,60, n. 2;succeeded by Gates,101.Percy to Northumberland,46, m.;Trewe Relacyon,40, m.;60, n. 2;64, n. 4;65, n. 5.Perfect Description of Virginia,11, m.Perfume to be extracted from the muskrat,95, n. 3.Persecution in Queen Mary's time,103;spirit of, pervaded every party,113;of the Separatists,141;begot Separatism,154,155;new storm of,163,182, n. 1;starts agitation for emigration to Virginia,168,183, n. 2.Peter, Hugh, rebuked Cotton for defending Mrs. Hutchinson,337;browbeat Mrs. Hutchinson's witnesses,338;returned to England and favored toleration,348, n. 7.Petition to House of Lords,345, m.Pharisaism of the rigid Sabbath,132.Philosophical Transactions,78, m.;79, m.Pilgrims brought Barrowism to New England,148;Scrooby and Austerfeld cradles of the,149;no tradition of, lingers at Scrooby,150;common country folk,151;flee to Amsterdam,164;theological agitations drive them to Leyden,165;danger of extinction,166;intermarriages with the Dutch,167;emigration to Virginia under consideration,168,182, n. 2;questioned whether to be Dutch or English colonists,169;ask aid of Edwin Sandys, in securing religious liberty,169;receive two charters, a general order, and a liberal patent from the Virginia Company,172;their Compact under the general order,173;departure from Leyden,174;forced to land, select Plymouth,177;suffered for their ignorance of colony-planting,178;honor due,186, n. 8;"stepping stones to others,"188;slender success of, stimulated commercial settlements,189;the "large patent" granted to the, through influence of Sandys,206;influence on the Massachusetts colony,212.Piscataqua, settlement on the,189.Plaine Declaration of Barmudas,65, n. 6.Planting, the first, at Jamestown,29.Plants of every clime believed to grow in Virginia,82.Plays, performance of, on Sundays prohibited,127.Pledge signed at Cambridge by Winthrop's party,209.Plymouth, ceremony observed at,103;the landing at,177;horrors of Jamestown repeated at,179;the second step in the founding of a great nation,181;Roger Williams "prophesied" at,272;people styled "mungrell Dutch,"273;disturbed by Williams,274;gives him a letter of dismissal to Salem,275.Pocahontas,33,35,37;converted and wedded to Rolfe,49;taken to England,49,68, n. 10;captured by Argall,50;dies leaving an infant son,52.Pocahontas story, the,63, n. 3.Pomp and display at the court of Elizabeth,98;imitation of, objected to by the Puritans,100,134, n. 2.Popham, Captain George, attempt of, to colonize in Maine,178.Port Royal, map showing strait near,8,21, n. 4.Pory's Report,70, n. 15;77, m.Pots and Phettiplace, narrative,35,61, n. 2.Powhatan releases Captain Smith,33,34,35.Precinct in Virginia asked for by Calvert,229.Presbyterianism developed under Cartwright,112,136, n. 6;swept out by Whitgift,122;hoped for in New England,213.Price of commodities, rise of, promoted voyages,22, n. 5.Private interest, even a slave's patch of, put life into Virginia,48.Proceedings Mass. Hist. Soc., Wheelwright's sermon in,331, m.Proceedings of Virginia Assembly,80, m.Property, community of. SeeCommunism;Labour.Prophet, the, and the reformer,306.Proportion, lack of sense of, peculiar to zealots and polemics,130.Protestant colonists at St. Christopher's oppose Catholic fellow-colonists,231;no Protestant minister or worship on ships coming to Maryland,242.Protestant Nunnery, Ferrar's community at Little Gidding called the,93.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 superstitions,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 Massachusetts,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 æsthetic 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 Petition 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 Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts 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.
Machyn's Diary,99, m.Magellan's Strait,2,9.Magistrates aided by clergy in Massachusetts,266;men of unusual ability,266;right of, to punish for a religious offense, denied by Williams,272,286;or to regulate the orthodoxy of churches and the belief of individuals,292,309, n. 12;310, n. 13.Magna Charta, the, of America,55.Maids by the shipload sent to Jamestown,57;not coerced into going,72, n. 19.Maine, French driven out of,50;first English colony in,189;fishing villages of,345.Manchester, Duke of, papers,71, n. 18;174, m.;184, n. 5.Manuscript Book of Instructions,71, n. 18;72, n. 19;80, m.;96, n. 6;97, n. 9;232, m.Manuscript Records, Virginia Company,52, m.;61, n. 3;67, n. 9;69, n. 13, 14;70, n. 15;71, n. 18;72, n. 19;81, m.;82, m.;95, n. 3;97, n. 9, 10;172, m.;184, n. 4.Mar-Prelate tracts, the,114;answers to the,116;effects of the reaction against,121.Marriage by a Roman priest invalidated accruing land tenures,237.Marsden's Early Puritans,125.Martial law under Dale,45;Smyth's code of,70, n. 16;132.Martin, Sir William, on Roger Williams,307, n. 1.Martyr, Peter, Decade III,24, n. 9.Maryland, Baltimore's projected colony in,236;change to, from Avalon,239;small migration to,240;policy of toleration in,242,250,265, n. 25;committed to guardian angels,243;arrival of the Catholic pilgrims,244;ceremonies of the landing in,244;said to have been named by King Charles,245;called Colony of St. Maries,245;efforts to convert the Protestants in,246;openly a Catholic colony,247,264, n. 17;import tax on Catholic servants and convicts,248,264, n. 19;opposition to Maryland,249;Puritan settlers invited,252;civil wars of,253,254;Act of Toleration passed,255;again a proprietary government under Calvert,257;disastrous results of religious differences in,266.Maryland Archives,245, m.;262, n. 10;265, n. 21.Maryland Assembly too cunning to be trapped by Baltimore,255.Maryland charter, ambiguity of the, designed,225,236,251,259, n. 4;262, n. 11;compared with charter of Avalon,234;provisions of,235,236;extensive powers granted by,236,263, n. 12.Mass celebrated in defiance of law,226;abhorred by the Puritans in Avalon,228.Massachusetts Bay, failure of commercial settlements on,189;patent to lands in, granted to the Massachusetts Company,207.Massachusetts charter, Laud's effort to vacate the,282,284.Massachusetts colony, government under Endecott,217, n. 7;people homogenous in religious affairs,266;religious opinion, main source of disturbance in,266,267;self-consciousness of the,278;preparations for resistance in,284;failure as an agricultural colony,320;three profound disturbances in,326;in commotion over the Hutchinson controversy,335.Massachusetts Company, rise of the,199,207;first colony of, under John Endecott,199,207;second company of emigrants,203;fear that the charter might be revoked,208;company and colony to be merged in one,209;transfers its government and charter to Massachusetts Bay,210;the commercial corporation becomes a colonial government,211;the colonists believed they were founding a new church,212.Massachusetts government, evolution of the,207;first court of, at Charlestown,210;later became representative,211;relieved from strain by the borough system,276;a government of congregations,308, n. 6;theocratical,279;religious intolerance of the,297,349, n. 9;anomalous in character,323;angered by Hooker's secession,326.Massachusetts Historical Collections,310, n. 15;318, m.;320, m.;347, n. 1;348, n. 7.Massachusetts Records,206, m.;285, m.;290, m.;291, m.;308, n. 11;310, n. 13, 17;317, m.;320, m.;337, m.Massacre by the Indians put an end to all projects,84,92.Masson's Life of Milton,137, n. 6.Mather's Magnalia,152, m.;154, m.;217, n. 5;328, m.;authority to be disregarded,311, n. 17.Maverick, Samuel, on Noddle's Island,190;Description of New England,273, m.Maydstown laid off in Virginia,72, n. 19.Mayflower, conduct of the captain of the,177.Maynard to Laud,344, m.May-poles, opposition to,118;pole of St. Andrew Undershaft sawed up,119;law against May-poles,119;the frolics around charged with immorality,120;Morton's, at Merrymount,190,201.Mediterranean Sea, a, looked for in the heart of America,11.Meeting, last all-night, in Pastor Robinson's house,175.Mennonites, Williams attracted to the doctrines of the,312, n. 19;derived his broadest principles from the,313, n. 19.Mercurius Americanus,348, n. 6.Merrymount, Morton's dangerous settlement at,190,201,216, n. 1.Metals, the precious, the only recognized riches,75.Mica mistaken for gold,13,30,75.Migration, the great, to New England,196,203.Millinary Petition, the,159.Millinery sins, regulations against,285.Mills's British India,67, n. 9.Milton, John, learned Dutch from Roger Williams,273.Mines, Mexican, reports of wealth of, brought support to Ralegh's undertaking,74.Ministerial office never so reverenced as by Puritans,338.Ministers, two, over one church,106;might prophesy, but not a woman,338.Missionary impulse, first, in the English Church,89,94, n. 1.Monatesseron, the earliest English,93.Montserrat, island of, settled by Catholics,231,232,261, n. 9.Months, scruples about the heathen names of the,302.Morals, austerity in,119;advance of, under Puritan influence,121;lack of sense of proportion is a trait of the age,130;regularity of, purchased at a great sacrifice,342.More, Father Henry,263, n. 14.Morton, Thomas, and his deviltry,190,201,216, n. 1;Memorial,177, m.;New English Canaan,216, n. 1.Motives for founding English colonies,73;commercial and sentimental,86;religious,89,189.Mount Desert, Jesuit settlement at, plundered,47,50.Mourt's Relation,184, n. 4.Mouse and snake, battle between,277;interpretation of, by Pastor John Wilson,277.Mouse nibbles a Book of Common Prayer,278.Movements, significant, usually cradled in rustic mangers,146.Mulberries first planted in England,76;law for promoting the raising of, in Virginia,77;repealed,79.Muskrat skins valued for their odor,19.
Names, fanciful, of the Newfoundland coast,225,229.Names, Indian, of places changed,244.Nansemond, settlement at,37;settlers driven from,38.Narragansett Bay recommended to Williams by Winthrop,293;proposal to remove to, alarmed the magistrates,294;colony on, founded on the true principle,316.Narragansett Club Publications,135, n. 4;268, m.;307, n. 3, 4, 5;311, n. 17.Naval stores, Virginia expected to produce,82;efforts to procure, in Elizabeth's time,95, n. 4.Neal's History of New England,310, n. 14;History of the Puritans,159, m.;226, m.;239, m.Neill, E. D., on the social compact,183, n. 4;Founders of Maryland,262, n. 11;Virginia Company,67, n. 9;183, n. 2.Netherlands, indirect interest of the, in the Virginia colony,44.New England, coast of, explored by Capt. John Smith,37;shaped in Old England by Puritanism,133;pioneers of, came from the Separatists,141,146;existence of, hung on a chain of accidents,176;elements of,177;early attempts to colonize,178;early settlements in,189;great migration to,196,203;capital laws of, condemned by Williams,304.New England charter of 1620,173.New England colonists deemed themselves a chosen people,278;accounted other colonists the Egyptians of the New World,278,308, n. 7;held to an intolerant theocracy,279;dispersions of the,315;relief at disappearance of the last of the leaders,342.New England Firebrand Quenched,301, m.New England Historical Gen. Reg.,267,307, n. 1.New England Puritanism more ultra than Bownd,132,140, n. 3.New England traits due to special causes,178.Newfoundland, failure of colony at,223,224;Capt. Whitbourne's pamphlet on,224;fanciful names in,225;not a paradise in winter,229,260, n. 7;value of the fisheries,261, n. 7.New France bubble ready to collapse,346.New Haven, Davenport and his company planted colony at,343;colony united with Connecticut by royal charter at the Restoration,343;stretching westward,345.New Life of Virginea,63, n. 3.New Plymouth, Sandys's plans for the foundation of,88.Newport, Vice-Admiral, reporter of Virginia affairs,44;threatened with the gallows by Dale,44;warned against Archer,64.Newtown, Hooker's company settled at,317;intended for capital and palisaded,318;superior to Boston in one regard,318;discontent at,318,319,320;questions regarding boundary,319;cattle-raising at,320;the church at, emigrated bodily to Connecticut,325;court of elections held at,335.New World, mirages of the,2;discovered because it lay between Europe and the East Indies,3;grotesque and misleading glimpses of the,20.New York Colonial Documents,6, m.,43, m.New York Hist. Soc. Coll.,23, n. 7;second series,70, n. 15;80, m.Nichols's, Josias, Plea for the Innocent,146, m.Nonconformists, severe measures against,122;in the Church,142.North Carolina, coast of, called Wingandacon,21, n. 3.Northey, Sir Edward, decision on the Maryland charter,262, n. 11.Northwest passage, search for a,4,5,9,10.Nova Albion,259, n. 5.Nova Brittania,82, m.
Oath of allegiance,241;emigration oath refused by Williams,270;new oath for residents opposed by Williams,289;magistrates unable to enforce,289.Ogle's Account of Maryland,264, n. 19.Oil to be distilled from walnuts,83.Oldham, John, an adventurous man of lawless temper expelled from Plymouth,324;led a small company from Watertown,324.Opossum, the, described by Purchas,18.Opposition, Puritanism the party of,110.Original Records of Colony of Virginia,78, m.Overston, sermons preached in, by unlicensed men,142.
Pacific Ocean, discovery of the,3;belief in a passage to the,4,6;nearness to Florida,6;soughtviathe James River,8;in latitude 40°,9,10;viathe Delaware,10;proximity of, to Virginia,10,22, n. 6;to North Carolina,11.Pagitt's Heresiography,143, m.;144, m.;157, n. 1.Palfrey's History of New England,211, m.;218, n. 8.Palisades burned for firewood,40.Paradox, the, of colonial religious organization,280.Parkinson, Marmaduke, explorer,10.Parliamentary freedom, struggle for,87.Parties, the two great, of Protestantism, rise of,106;results,107;lines between, not sharply drawn at once,110;controversy between, grew more bitter,114.Party, a moderate, lamented the excesses of the extremists,117.Passage to the Pacific Ocean sought,3,4,9,10,22, n. 5;73,74.See alsoNorthwest PassageandPacific Ocean.Patent, royal, validity of, questioned by Williams,274,281,289,308, n. 9;309, n. 12.Patience, the, pinnace, built wholly of wood,41.Paulus, Pieter, Verklaring der Unie van Utrecht,312, n. 18.Pearce, Mistress, "near twenty years" in Virginia,71, n. 18.Pearl fisheries in Virginia waters,95, n. 3.Peckard's Life of Ferrar,65, n. 5;87, m.;93, m.;account of,97, n. 10;100, m.Peirce, John, received a grant from the Virginia Company,184, n. 4.Pequot war, Williams denounced slaughter of women and children in,305;plan of campaign changed through a revelation,338.Pequots dangerous on Connecticut River,323.Percy, George, on the arrival at Virginia,28;on the sufferings at Jamestown,30;increased the hostility of the Indians,38,64, n. 4;inefficiency as governor,44,60, n. 2;succeeded by Gates,101.Percy to Northumberland,46, m.;Trewe Relacyon,40, m.;60, n. 2;64, n. 4;65, n. 5.Perfect Description of Virginia,11, m.Perfume to be extracted from the muskrat,95, n. 3.Persecution in Queen Mary's time,103;spirit of, pervaded every party,113;of the Separatists,141;begot Separatism,154,155;new storm of,163,182, n. 1;starts agitation for emigration to Virginia,168,183, n. 2.Peter, Hugh, rebuked Cotton for defending Mrs. Hutchinson,337;browbeat Mrs. Hutchinson's witnesses,338;returned to England and favored toleration,348, n. 7.Petition to House of Lords,345, m.Pharisaism of the rigid Sabbath,132.Philosophical Transactions,78, m.;79, m.Pilgrims brought Barrowism to New England,148;Scrooby and Austerfeld cradles of the,149;no tradition of, lingers at Scrooby,150;common country folk,151;flee to Amsterdam,164;theological agitations drive them to Leyden,165;danger of extinction,166;intermarriages with the Dutch,167;emigration to Virginia under consideration,168,182, n. 2;questioned whether to be Dutch or English colonists,169;ask aid of Edwin Sandys, in securing religious liberty,169;receive two charters, a general order, and a liberal patent from the Virginia Company,172;their Compact under the general order,173;departure from Leyden,174;forced to land, select Plymouth,177;suffered for their ignorance of colony-planting,178;honor due,186, n. 8;"stepping stones to others,"188;slender success of, stimulated commercial settlements,189;the "large patent" granted to the, through influence of Sandys,206;influence on the Massachusetts colony,212.Piscataqua, settlement on the,189.Plaine Declaration of Barmudas,65, n. 6.Planting, the first, at Jamestown,29.Plants of every clime believed to grow in Virginia,82.Plays, performance of, on Sundays prohibited,127.Pledge signed at Cambridge by Winthrop's party,209.Plymouth, ceremony observed at,103;the landing at,177;horrors of Jamestown repeated at,179;the second step in the founding of a great nation,181;Roger Williams "prophesied" at,272;people styled "mungrell Dutch,"273;disturbed by Williams,274;gives him a letter of dismissal to Salem,275.Pocahontas,33,35,37;converted and wedded to Rolfe,49;taken to England,49,68, n. 10;captured by Argall,50;dies leaving an infant son,52.Pocahontas story, the,63, n. 3.Pomp and display at the court of Elizabeth,98;imitation of, objected to by the Puritans,100,134, n. 2.Popham, Captain George, attempt of, to colonize in Maine,178.Port Royal, map showing strait near,8,21, n. 4.Pory's Report,70, n. 15;77, m.Pots and Phettiplace, narrative,35,61, n. 2.Powhatan releases Captain Smith,33,34,35.Precinct in Virginia asked for by Calvert,229.Presbyterianism developed under Cartwright,112,136, n. 6;swept out by Whitgift,122;hoped for in New England,213.Price of commodities, rise of, promoted voyages,22, n. 5.Private interest, even a slave's patch of, put life into Virginia,48.Proceedings Mass. Hist. Soc., Wheelwright's sermon in,331, m.Proceedings of Virginia Assembly,80, m.Property, community of. SeeCommunism;Labour.Prophet, the, and the reformer,306.Proportion, lack of sense of, peculiar to zealots and polemics,130.Protestant colonists at St. Christopher's oppose Catholic fellow-colonists,231;no Protestant minister or worship on ships coming to Maryland,242.Protestant Nunnery, Ferrar's community at Little Gidding called the,93.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 superstitions,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 Massachusetts,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 æsthetic 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 Petition 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 Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts 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.