Henry Vane. Puritanism loses power. Monarchy and prelacy CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND, AND CHARLES II. Council for colonies. Massachusetts. Connecticut and its friends The commissioners in Connecticut and in Rhode Island Commissioners in Plymouth. They are worsted in Massachusetts Complaint of Massachusetts to the king. The overturn in Maine. Great debate in the general court of Massachusetts The war reaches Brookfield, Deerfield, and Northfield Meeting of the united colonies. Destruction of the Narragansetts Schemes against the charter of Massachusetts. Edward Randolph in Boston 395 The colony sends envoys to England with limited powers Massachusetts purchases Maine. A novel form of government New Hampshire a royal province. Its general assembly The conflict with Cranfield, its governor Cranfield with his council assume power to tax. The people resist The British monopoly, and the compromise suggested by Massachusetts The quo warranto in England. The synod and general court in Boston Proposal of the committee of plantations, and counteraction. Weakness of the magistrates. Solemn debates of the deputies The deputies consent not to the required surrender Judgment of forfeiture of the charter. Halifax on colonial government He enforces the navigation acts. Culpepper's insurrection Seth Sothel's government. His deposition Self-government. More emigrants. Dissenters. Scotch-Irish Contest between the people and the proprietaries . The people depose Colleton. William and Mary proclaimed George Fox in Maryland. Taxation. Death of Cecilius Lord Baltimore 438 Importation of convicts prohibited. "Baconists." Restrictions on suffrage. 439 Parties in Virginia at the restoration. Sir William Berkeley The royalist assembly. The navigation act. Berkeley as agent of Virginia. 446 Persecution of Quakers and Baptists the governor's salary; the judiciary; county taxation The usurping assembly votes itself extravagant wages. False returns Taxation; suffrage; means of education Berkeley refuses to protect the frontier. The consequences. The people commanded by Nathaniel Bacon defend themselves Bacon demands a commission Bacon and his followers proclaimed rebels. A new assembly. Its acts Berkeley is censured and removed. His death English troops in America. The results of Bacon's rebellion Illiberality and dishonesty of his administration His reappearance. His patent cancelled. Howard of Effingham succeeds him Despotism attempted and resisted in Virginia Tendencies to liberty and union Henry Hudson in the service of the Dutch East India company The Dutch traffic in the North river. Christiaensen and Block New Netherland; New England; Albany. The United Provinces Strife of parties. Grotius opposes colonization in America The directorship of May; of Verhulst. Peter Minuit buys Manhattan island 495 New Netherland and New Plymouth. Population of Manhattan in 1628 His second expedition. Lord Baltimore. A Dutch fort at Hartford PAGE Stuyvesant governor of New Netherland. A prophecy. Municipal liberties. 507 A general assembly. Baxter's petition adopted Stuyvesant dissolves the assembly. The West India company supports him. 515 The New Netherland assembly demands public protection James Carteret. Invasion of Lewistown. New York city incorporated The demand by New York of annual assemblies denied. Victory of the Dutch. Rights of neutral flags. Fate of New Netherland CHAPTER XV. THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS IN THE UNITED STATES. Unity of the human race. Progress of emancipation Power of the people in England. Progress of intellectual freedom He preaches freedom to the people; and meets resistance The Inner Light. Its reality. Freedom of conscience and of mind asserted. 535 Fox repels superstition. He accepts universal and necessary truths. The Bible. Christianity Quaker morality. Vows. Power. Riches |