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Clap's, Roger, Memoirs, 213, m.

Clarendon Papers, 67, n. 9.

Clarke's Gladstone and Maryland Toleration, 245, m.

Clergymen most active writers in favor of colonization, 91; some preach sermons but stay away from public prayer, 143; supported by magistrates in Ma.s.sachusetts if church order was disturbed, 266; men of unusual prudence in ranks of, 266.

Climate of Great Britain not favorable to raising products of the Mediterranean, 75.

Coddington's Letter, 308, n. 9.

Code of Lawes, Divine, Morall, and Martiall, by Sir Thomas Smyth, 70, n. 16; 132.

Codfish, mult.i.tude of, on coast of Newfoundland, 18.

c.o.xe, Sir Edward, defended legacy which founded Charter-House School, 268; appointed Roger Williams to a scholarship, 268; schism detested by, 270.

College proposed and endowed, 91.

Collier's Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, 263, n. 12.

Colonial Const.i.tution of Virginia modified for the worse, 249.

Colonial Papers, 68, n. 11; 71, n. 18; 262, n. 11; 264, n. 21; 265, n. 25; 346, n. 1.

Colonial proprietors, 70, n. 15.

Colonial Records of Virginia, 70, n. 15.

Colonies, secondary, 220.

Colonists, efforts of friends to succor, thwarted, 47; loss of life among, in Virginia, 58.

Colonization, English, the fate of, settled by the experiments on the James River, 58; promoted, to get rid of excess of population, 136, n. 5; unwise management ruined many projects for, 178.

Colony, English, rise of the first, 1; motives for founding, 73.

Colony government, primary and secondary forms of, 218, n. 7.

Colony of St. Maries, 245.

Colony-planters drawn from the ranks of the uneasy, 171, 220.

Colony-planting, Hakluyt's tireless advocacy of, 5; John Smith on, 37; spurred by three motives, 74; kept alive by delusions, 74; first principles of, not understood, 76; an economic problem, 84; the religious motive most successful in, 189, 220; centrifugal forces in, 220, 266.

Commandment, the fourth, held to be partly moral, partly ceremonial, 138, n. 8; 140, n. 13; Shepard holds it to be wholly moral, 140, n. 13.

Commerce with the Orient, the hope of, r.e.t.a.r.ded settlement, 4.

Commissions, forged, to "press" maidens, 72, n. 19.

Commodities, sixteen staple, exhibited from Virginia, 49; production of, the main hope of wealth for Virginia, 75, 97, n. 9.

Commons inclosed, 111, 135, n. 5.

Commons Journal, 71, n. 18.

Communion, withdrawal of, a fundamental principle of Separatism, 271.

Communism at Jamestown, 26, 42; abolished, 56; attempted at Plymouth, 169, 185, n. 4; abolished by Bradford, 180; evils of, 186, n. 9.

Compact, the, of the Pilgrims, 173, 183, n. 4; 185, n. 5.

Company's Chief Root of Differences, the, 52, m.; authors of, 69, n. 13.

Congregationalism, rise of, in New England, 214.

Connecticut, a secondary colony, 220; the migration to, has an epic interest, 316; independent const.i.tution adopted by, 325; accounts adverse to, circulated in England, 326.

Connecticut Historical Society Collections, 326, m.; 347, n. 2.

Connecticut River, stories of the fertility of the intervale land on the, 322; dangerous Pequots on the, 323; soil did not need to be "fished," 324.

Consciences, oppressed, places of refuge for, in the Low Countries, 163.

Conservative and radical, difference between const.i.tutional, 109; churchman limited his Protestantism, 109.

Const.i.tutional government, starting point of, in the New World, 55.

Continent, an arctic and antarctic, 2; crossed by Ingram in a year, 14.

Controversie concerning Liberty of Conscience, 300, m.

Conversion of the Indians, desired for the sake of trade, 16, 90, 216, n. 4; orders for the, 42; interest in, becomes secondary, 204, 209; authorities on the, 216, n. 4; by the Catholics, 247.

Convicts asked for by Dale, 47.

Cook's Historical View of Christianity, 138, n. 8.

Cooper, Dr., Bishop of Winchester, answered first Mar-Prelate tract, 116.

Copley, business administrator of Jesuits, 251, 264, n. 17.

Corn not planted at proper season, 44, 60, n. 2; ground for, cleared, 48; more raised by private than by public labor, 49.

Cotton, John, apparent sanction of Antinomianism by, 267; one of the greatest luminaries of the Puritans and one of the lights of New England, 269; apostle of theocracy, shaped ecclesiastical affairs in New England, 279, 308, n. 8; his rivals left Ma.s.sachusetts, 280; virtually attained a bishop's authority, 280; on Williams's book, 282; complete system of church-state organization, 287; verbal legerdemain on Williams's banishment, 297; casuistry of, 299, 313, n. 20; 321; att.i.tude toward Williams's banishment, 299, 300, 313, n. 21; source of his intolerance, 300; belongs among the diplomatic builders of churches, 306; uncandid and halting accounts of Williams's trial, 309, 310, n. 12; 311, n. 17; curious sinuosity of conscience, 313, n. 21; secured by Boston to balance Newtown's Hooker, 319; rivalry with Hooker, 320; Puritanism of, grew in a garden of spices, 321; of a sanguine temperament, 328; his advent followed by widespread religious excitement, 329; theological differences between his teachings and those of Hooker, 346, n. 1; Model of Moses his Judicials, 326; opinions recanted and modified by, 336; defends Mrs. Hutchinson, 337; persuades her to recant, 339; disfranchises her sons, 339; belated zeal of, against the sectaries, 341; wallows in superst.i.tion, 341.

Cotton planted, 29.