The Beginners of a Nation - Part 39
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Biard on Dale's severity to French prisoners, 66, n. 9.

Bible, reading the, as part of the service, reprehended by the extremists, 117.

Birch's Court of James I, 68, n. 10; 69, n. 14; 72, n. 19; 258, n. 1.

Bishoprics filled by Elizabeth, 143.

Bishops, effect of the hostility of the, to the Puritans, 112; attacked by the Mar-Prelate tracts, 115; reaction in favor of, 121; had become Protestant to most people, 123.

Bison found near the Potomac, 50.

Blackstone, William, first settler at Boston, 190.

Blake's Annals of Dorchester, 219, n. 9.

Boston chosen as fittest place for public meetings, 319; secured Cotton to balance Newton's Hooker, 319.

Boston church, Roger Williams refused to become a minister of, 270.

Boston Town Records, 329, m.

Boulton, a Separatist, recanted and hung himself, 157, n. 2.

Bowling in the streets the daily work at Jamestown, 44.

Bowls, Calvin playing at, on Sunday, 124; Mar-Prelate berates the Bishop of London for playing, 128.

Bownd's, Dr., Sabbath of the Old and the New Testament, 124, 128; views rapidly accepted, 129; ultra-propositions exceeded, 130; captivated the religious public, 130; opposition to, 131; new edition published, 132, 139, n. 10.

Bozman, 265, n. 22.

Bradford, William, a silk-weaver in Leyden, 169; chosen governor at Plymouth, 179; abolishes communism, 180; of high aspiration restrained by practical wisdom, 306.

Bradford's Dialogue of 1593, 146, m.; Plimoth Plantation, 145, m.; 153, m.; 154, m.; 155, m.; 158, n. 3; 165, m.; 166, m.; 175, m.; 184, n. 4; 186, n. 9; 274, m.

Brewster, William, at court, 152; master of the post at Scrooby, 153; secured ministers for neighboring parishes who were silenced, 153; the host and ruling elder of the Scrooby church, 154; useful career of, 155; project of forming a new state, 167; books owned by, 168.

Briefe Declaration, MS., 27, m.; 40, m.; 43, m.; 44, m.; 45, m.; 46, m.; 47, m.; 66, n. 9.

Brieff Discourse of the Troubles begun at Frankfort, 135, n. 3.

Briggs, Henry, on the nearness of the Pacific, 10, 22, n. 6.

Bristol colony in Newfoundland, 258, n. 3.

British Museum, MS., 42, m.; 44, m.

Broughton wrote a tractate on the Jewish ephod, 108.

Brown, Richard, submitted to remonstrance, 290.

Browne, John and Samuel, sent back to England by Endecott, 200.

Browne, Robert, leader of the Separatists, 145; despised for recanting, died in prison, 146; career lasted only four or five years, 147; John Robinson's justification of, 157, n. 1; authorities on, 157, n. 1; 158, n. 2.

Brownists. See SEPARATISTS.

Brown's Genesis of the United States, 94, n. 1; 183, n. 3.

Bruce's Economic History of Virginia, 95, n. 3.

Buckingham dominant at court, 193; consents to sale of Calvert's secretaryship, 227.

Bull and bear baiting on Sunday, 129.

Bullein's Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence, 23, n. 8; 126.

Burgesses, House of, in Virginia, 55.

Burk's History of Virginia, 69, n. 13.

Burleigh, Lord Treasurer, treatise on Execution of Justice in England published by, 238.

Burns's Prel. Diss. to Woodrow, 159, m.; 160, m.

Busher, Leonard, pet.i.tioned James I for liberty of conscience, 312, n. 19.

Cabins at Jamestown, 29.

Cabot, John, discovers America, 3; his ships r.e.t.a.r.ded by codfish, 18; Deane's voyages of, 21, n. 1; Harrisse on, 21, n. 1.

Cabot, Sebastian, not a discoverer, 21, n. 1; a doubtful authority, 24, n. 9.

Calendar of Colonial Doc.u.ments, 70, n. 15; 96, n. 5; 259, n. 5.

Calendar of Domestic Papers, 259, n. 6.

Calendar of Domestic State Papers James I, 77, m.

Calendar of State Papers America, 224, m.

Caliban suggested by popular interest in savages, 17.

Calvert, Cecilius, second Lord Baltimore, son of George Calvert, 234; expected large Catholic migration, 240; religious aim of, 240; partners in financial risks, 240, 263, n. 13; policy of toleration, 242; orders the Catholic service to be conducted privately on shipboard, 242; a conservative opportunist, 243; supported at court by Strafford, 249; schemes against Virginia, 249, 264, n. 21; seeks to be governor, 250; offer to New England people, 252; had Maryland oath of fidelity modified for Puritans, 253; yielded office of governor to Protestant, 254; again master of Maryland, 257.

Calvert, George, character of, 221; his rise in power, 223; denied being bribed by Spain, 223, 258, n. 1; member of Virginia Company, 1609, 224, 229; councilor for New England, 224; establishes colony in Newfoundland, 224, 239; his conversion to Catholicism, 226; intractable, 225; resigned secretaryship and made Baron Baltimore, 228, 259, n. 6; in Newfoundland, 228, 229; sails to Virginia, 229; not received hospitably, 230; refuses to take oath of supremacy, and leaves Virginia, 232; religious enthusiasm, 233, 258, n. 3; pa.s.sion for planting colonies, 233; death of, 233.

Calvert Papers, 250, m.; 264, n. 17.