Chapter 17

Waddington's Congregational History,167, m.Walker's First Church in Hartford,317, m.;321, m.Ward's Simple Cobbler,285, m.;299, m.Warwick, second Earl, intrigues to wreck the Virginia Company,51,68, n. 13;protects Argall in his plundering,52;has Cavendish and others arrested,69, n. 13;loses influence in the company,87;made Governor in Chief and Lord High Admiral of all plantations in America,252.Waterhouse's Declaration of Virginia,22, n. 6.Watertown church, part of, ready to follow Hooker,323;one of the centres of discontent,324.Welde's Short Story of the Rise, Reign, and Ruine of Antinomianism,330, m.;336, m.;339, m.;340, m.;347, n. 4.Wentworth, friend of Calvert,222.West, insubordinate settlers under,37,60, n. 2;Indians hostile to,60, n. 2;treacherous and cruel,64, n. 4.West India plants tried in Virginia,82.Weston Documents,11, m.Wethersfield, John Oldham and his company settled at,324.Weymouth kidnapped Maine Indians,17.Whale-fishing in Lake Ontario,11.Whelewright, brother-in-law of Mrs. Hutchinson,336;banished at November court following the synod,337;testimony regarding his sister-in-law,348, n. 6.Whelewright's sermon,331, m.Whincop charter not used,184, n. 4;186, n. 8.Whiston, a place of Puritan assemblage,142.Whitaker, Alexander, praises Dale,66, n. 9;minister at Henrico,168;letters,183, n. 3.Whitaker's Good Newes from Virginia,66, n. 9;168.Whitbourne, Captain, pamphlet on Newfoundland,224,258, n. 3;letters of Wynne and others in,229, m.White, Father, Relatio Itineris,243, m.;244, m.;263, n. 16;on settlement of Montserrat,261, n. 9;263, n. 14, n. 16.White, John, of Dorchester, an active colonizer,189,199,203.White, John, map of Virginia by, 1586,8;in Grenville Collection,21, n. 4;reproduced in the Century Magazine,22, n. 4;copy in Kohl Collection,22, n. 4White's, John, The Planter's Plea,190, m.;199, m.Whitgift, Archbishop, efforts of, to suppress nonconformity,122;ordered Bownd's book called in,132;persecuted the Puritans at Scrooby,153;declared King James inspired,161.Whittingham, Dean of Durham, author of A Brieff Discourse,135, n. 3;on the Puritan side in Frankfort,143.Williams, Roger, in advance of his age,256;opposed the authorities in Massachusetts,267;early career of,268;refused preferments,269,307, n. 2;flight of, to New England,270;refuses communion with the Boston church,270,307, n. 3;opposed to compromise,271,307, n. 4;his selection as minister at Salem opposed by the General Court,271,272;removed to Plymouth,272;wrote a treatise on the dialect of the New England Indians,273;rebuked Bradford and wrote against the royal patents,274,281,308, n. 9;returned to Salem with some followers,275;his ideal too high for that age,281;preached without holding office,281;"convented at court,"281;charges against, based on his book, "not so evil as at first they seemed,"282;the broad principle laid down by,283;made teacher at Salem,284;fast-day sermon on eleven "public sins,"286;dealt with ecclesiastically,287;scruples against enforced oaths,289;new charges against,289;champion of soul liberty,290;incorrigible,290,291;trial and banishment,292,309, n. 12;310, n. 13, 14, 16;authorities,310, n. 17;on account of illness permitted to remain during the winter,293;a few friends faithful to,293,294;escape to the Indians,295;abandons settlement at Seekonk River and founds Providence,296;banishment of, an act of persecution,297;character of,301,307, n. 1;a collector of scruples,301,302,314, n. 23;tenderness and friendship for Winthrop,302;became a Baptist and renounced his baptism,303;a Seeker,303,304;his moral elevation of spirit,304;ascendency over the Indians,305;an individualist,291,305;superior to his age and ours,305;his prophetic character,306a John Baptist of the distant future,306;enthusiastic nature of,307, n. 2;needed no practical consideration to stir him to action,308, n. 11;magnanimity without a parallel,310, n. 15;removal of Williams and his friends the beginning of dispersions from the colony,315;prepared a harbor for all of uneasy conscience,315.Williams's letter to Mrs. Sadleir,268, m.;270, m.;letters to Winthrop,273, m.;302, m.;307, n. 5;Reply to Cotton,283, m.;letters to Lady Barrington,307, n. 1;letter to John Cotton, the younger,307, n. 2, 3, 4;letter to Major Mason,310, n. 15;Bloudy Tenent,311, n. 18.Wilson, John, interprets battle of mouse and snake,277;on Williams's book,282;condemned by the Hutchinsonians,333;given to rhyming prophecies,338.Windebank, schemes of Cecilius Calvert with,250.Wine, efforts to produce, in Great Britain,76;in Virginia,81.Wingandacon, Indian name of the coast of North Carolina,21, n. 3.Wingfield deposed from leadership,31;recognizes Smith's services,36;plot against the life of,61, n. 2;warned Newport against Archer,64, n. 3.Wingfield's Discourse,64, n. 3.Winslow, of Plymouth, warns Williams from Seekonk River,296.Winslow's Briefe Narration,172, m.;175, m.;185, n. 6.Winsor's, Justin, Elder Brewster,155, m.;169, m.Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America,21, n. 1.Winthrop, John, principal figure in the Puritan migration,202;character and influence of,204;made a justice of the peace,204,217, n. 5;elected governor,210,217, n. 6;objected to a government directed from England,208;superseded by Dudley,287;recommended Narragansett Bay to Williams,293,294;lenity toward Williams rebuked,301;moved house, begun at Newtown, to Boston,318;antipathy to Mrs. Hutchinson,330;ministers rally around,332;again made governor,336;chief inquisitor at the trial of Mrs. Hutchinson,338;evidence to prove Mrs. Hutchinson a witch,340,341;wallows in superstition,341.Winthrop's Journal (Savage's),252, m.;272, m.;290, m.;291, m.;294, m.;301, m.;307, n. 3;309, n. 12;310, n. 17;318, m.;323, m.;329, m.;336, m.;339, m.;340, m.;341, m.;344, m.;348, n. 8;349, n. 9.Winthrop's Life and Letters,198, m.;217, n. 4, 5, 6;218, n. 8.Winthrop's Reasons for New England,198,204,217, n. 4.Wives for the Virginia colonists,57,71, n. 18;supplied to Louisiana and Canada,72, n. 18.Women, proposal to send, to Virginia,71, n. 18;in Gates's party,71, n. 18;first two in the colony,71, n. 18.Wood, beauty of the, of certain American trees,65, n. 7.Woodnoth's Short Collection,70, n. 16;87, m.;account of,97, n. 10.Wood's New England's Prospect,18, m.;318, m.;319, m.Words had the force of blows,110.Wright's Elizabeth and her Times,142, m.Wyatt, Sir Francis, name appended to The Tragicall Relation,66, n. 9;opinion of, on a divided government,207.Wyckoff, on Silk Manufacture,95, n. 3.Yeardley, Sir George, arrival in Virginia,71, n. 17;knighted,134, n. 1;instructed to administer oath of supremacy,232.Yong, Thomas, in the Delaware,10;seeks a Mediterranean in America,11.Young's Chronicles of Massachusetts,217, n. 4;317, m.Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims,158, n. 3;167, m.;184, n. 4.Yucatan, meaning of,21, n. 3.Yucca, clothing made from the fiber of the,79,80;a "commoditie of speciall hope and much use,"80.Zeal, passionate, often stupefies reason,171.Zurich and Strasburg cities of refuge for conservatives,104;differences between exiles at, and those of Geneva,106,107.Zurich Letters,135, n. 3.Zwisck, Peter John, The Liberty of Religion,312, n. 19.

Waddington's Congregational History,167, m.Walker's First Church in Hartford,317, m.;321, m.Ward's Simple Cobbler,285, m.;299, m.Warwick, second Earl, intrigues to wreck the Virginia Company,51,68, n. 13;protects Argall in his plundering,52;has Cavendish and others arrested,69, n. 13;loses influence in the company,87;made Governor in Chief and Lord High Admiral of all plantations in America,252.Waterhouse's Declaration of Virginia,22, n. 6.Watertown church, part of, ready to follow Hooker,323;one of the centres of discontent,324.Welde's Short Story of the Rise, Reign, and Ruine of Antinomianism,330, m.;336, m.;339, m.;340, m.;347, n. 4.Wentworth, friend of Calvert,222.West, insubordinate settlers under,37,60, n. 2;Indians hostile to,60, n. 2;treacherous and cruel,64, n. 4.West India plants tried in Virginia,82.Weston Documents,11, m.Wethersfield, John Oldham and his company settled at,324.Weymouth kidnapped Maine Indians,17.Whale-fishing in Lake Ontario,11.Whelewright, brother-in-law of Mrs. Hutchinson,336;banished at November court following the synod,337;testimony regarding his sister-in-law,348, n. 6.Whelewright's sermon,331, m.Whincop charter not used,184, n. 4;186, n. 8.Whiston, a place of Puritan assemblage,142.Whitaker, Alexander, praises Dale,66, n. 9;minister at Henrico,168;letters,183, n. 3.Whitaker's Good Newes from Virginia,66, n. 9;168.Whitbourne, Captain, pamphlet on Newfoundland,224,258, n. 3;letters of Wynne and others in,229, m.White, Father, Relatio Itineris,243, m.;244, m.;263, n. 16;on settlement of Montserrat,261, n. 9;263, n. 14, n. 16.White, John, of Dorchester, an active colonizer,189,199,203.White, John, map of Virginia by, 1586,8;in Grenville Collection,21, n. 4;reproduced in the Century Magazine,22, n. 4;copy in Kohl Collection,22, n. 4White's, John, The Planter's Plea,190, m.;199, m.Whitgift, Archbishop, efforts of, to suppress nonconformity,122;ordered Bownd's book called in,132;persecuted the Puritans at Scrooby,153;declared King James inspired,161.Whittingham, Dean of Durham, author of A Brieff Discourse,135, n. 3;on the Puritan side in Frankfort,143.Williams, Roger, in advance of his age,256;opposed the authorities in Massachusetts,267;early career of,268;refused preferments,269,307, n. 2;flight of, to New England,270;refuses communion with the Boston church,270,307, n. 3;opposed to compromise,271,307, n. 4;his selection as minister at Salem opposed by the General Court,271,272;removed to Plymouth,272;wrote a treatise on the dialect of the New England Indians,273;rebuked Bradford and wrote against the royal patents,274,281,308, n. 9;returned to Salem with some followers,275;his ideal too high for that age,281;preached without holding office,281;"convented at court,"281;charges against, based on his book, "not so evil as at first they seemed,"282;the broad principle laid down by,283;made teacher at Salem,284;fast-day sermon on eleven "public sins,"286;dealt with ecclesiastically,287;scruples against enforced oaths,289;new charges against,289;champion of soul liberty,290;incorrigible,290,291;trial and banishment,292,309, n. 12;310, n. 13, 14, 16;authorities,310, n. 17;on account of illness permitted to remain during the winter,293;a few friends faithful to,293,294;escape to the Indians,295;abandons settlement at Seekonk River and founds Providence,296;banishment of, an act of persecution,297;character of,301,307, n. 1;a collector of scruples,301,302,314, n. 23;tenderness and friendship for Winthrop,302;became a Baptist and renounced his baptism,303;a Seeker,303,304;his moral elevation of spirit,304;ascendency over the Indians,305;an individualist,291,305;superior to his age and ours,305;his prophetic character,306a John Baptist of the distant future,306;enthusiastic nature of,307, n. 2;needed no practical consideration to stir him to action,308, n. 11;magnanimity without a parallel,310, n. 15;removal of Williams and his friends the beginning of dispersions from the colony,315;prepared a harbor for all of uneasy conscience,315.Williams's letter to Mrs. Sadleir,268, m.;270, m.;letters to Winthrop,273, m.;302, m.;307, n. 5;Reply to Cotton,283, m.;letters to Lady Barrington,307, n. 1;letter to John Cotton, the younger,307, n. 2, 3, 4;letter to Major Mason,310, n. 15;Bloudy Tenent,311, n. 18.Wilson, John, interprets battle of mouse and snake,277;on Williams's book,282;condemned by the Hutchinsonians,333;given to rhyming prophecies,338.Windebank, schemes of Cecilius Calvert with,250.Wine, efforts to produce, in Great Britain,76;in Virginia,81.Wingandacon, Indian name of the coast of North Carolina,21, n. 3.Wingfield deposed from leadership,31;recognizes Smith's services,36;plot against the life of,61, n. 2;warned Newport against Archer,64, n. 3.Wingfield's Discourse,64, n. 3.Winslow, of Plymouth, warns Williams from Seekonk River,296.Winslow's Briefe Narration,172, m.;175, m.;185, n. 6.Winsor's, Justin, Elder Brewster,155, m.;169, m.Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America,21, n. 1.Winthrop, John, principal figure in the Puritan migration,202;character and influence of,204;made a justice of the peace,204,217, n. 5;elected governor,210,217, n. 6;objected to a government directed from England,208;superseded by Dudley,287;recommended Narragansett Bay to Williams,293,294;lenity toward Williams rebuked,301;moved house, begun at Newtown, to Boston,318;antipathy to Mrs. Hutchinson,330;ministers rally around,332;again made governor,336;chief inquisitor at the trial of Mrs. Hutchinson,338;evidence to prove Mrs. Hutchinson a witch,340,341;wallows in superstition,341.Winthrop's Journal (Savage's),252, m.;272, m.;290, m.;291, m.;294, m.;301, m.;307, n. 3;309, n. 12;310, n. 17;318, m.;323, m.;329, m.;336, m.;339, m.;340, m.;341, m.;344, m.;348, n. 8;349, n. 9.Winthrop's Life and Letters,198, m.;217, n. 4, 5, 6;218, n. 8.Winthrop's Reasons for New England,198,204,217, n. 4.Wives for the Virginia colonists,57,71, n. 18;supplied to Louisiana and Canada,72, n. 18.Women, proposal to send, to Virginia,71, n. 18;in Gates's party,71, n. 18;first two in the colony,71, n. 18.Wood, beauty of the, of certain American trees,65, n. 7.Woodnoth's Short Collection,70, n. 16;87, m.;account of,97, n. 10.Wood's New England's Prospect,18, m.;318, m.;319, m.Words had the force of blows,110.Wright's Elizabeth and her Times,142, m.Wyatt, Sir Francis, name appended to The Tragicall Relation,66, n. 9;opinion of, on a divided government,207.Wyckoff, on Silk Manufacture,95, n. 3.

Yeardley, Sir George, arrival in Virginia,71, n. 17;knighted,134, n. 1;instructed to administer oath of supremacy,232.Yong, Thomas, in the Delaware,10;seeks a Mediterranean in America,11.Young's Chronicles of Massachusetts,217, n. 4;317, m.Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims,158, n. 3;167, m.;184, n. 4.Yucatan, meaning of,21, n. 3.Yucca, clothing made from the fiber of the,79,80;a "commoditie of speciall hope and much use,"80.

Zeal, passionate, often stupefies reason,171.Zurich and Strasburg cities of refuge for conservatives,104;differences between exiles at, and those of Geneva,106,107.Zurich Letters,135, n. 3.Zwisck, Peter John, The Liberty of Religion,312, n. 19.


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