The Beginners of a Nation - Part 47
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Part 47

Jones, captain of The Mayflower, conduct of, 177; identified with Jones of The Discovery, 186, n. 7.

Jones's, Rev. Hugh, Present State of Virginia, 183, n. 3.

Josselyn's Rarities, 344, m.

Judgment, present, not a binding law, 185, n. 6.

Judgments, divine, fear of, 198.

Kent Island, Claiborne's claim to, 254.

Knowles's Life of Williams, 274, m.; 308, n. 9; the best of the older biographies, 311, n. 17.

Knox, John, followers of, dispute with the c.o.xans at Frankfort, 105; not more a sabbatarian than Calvin, 124.

Labor, common-stock system of, at Jamestown, 26; abolished by distribution of land, 56; failure of, at Plymouth, 179; evils of, 186, n. 9.

Labor, private, more productive than common-stock system, 49; prohibited on Sundays, 127.

Laborers, twelve so-called, in the Virginia colony, 27.

Land, division of, in Virginia, 48, 49, 56, 68, n. 12.

Land grants, various, in Virginia, based on the Grand Charter, 56, 70, n. 15.

Lane, Ralph, governor of Ralegh's first colony, 7, 21, n. 3; seeks gold and the South Sea, 8; account in Hakluyt, iii, 8, m.; hopes for his Roanoke colony, 74; to Sydney and Walsingham, 74, m.

Lat.i.tude of 40, belief of a westward pa.s.sage in, 9, 10.

Laud, Archbishop, obliterated by Puritanism, 133; one great service of, to the world, 193; character of, 193; fearless in peril, 195; dubbed "the father of New England," 196; Letter to Selden, 196; Abbott's account of Laud's rise, 216, n. 2; fails to crush the Ma.s.sachusetts Company, 211; suppressing Puritanism, 239; fall of, 240; non-conforming Puritans hunted from lectureships and chaplaincies by, 270; drove John Cotton to New England, 279; moving to vacate the Ma.s.sachusetts charter, 282; made head of a commission to govern the colonies, 284; drove Hooker from his pulpit at Chelmsford, 317; preparations to control Ma.s.sachusetts made by, 343; asked to stop emigration to New England, 344; tries to compel Scots to use prayer book, 344.

Laws, divine, moral, and martial, under which Dale oppressed Virginia, 45, 70, n. 16; 132.

Leah and Rachel, 79, m.; 265, n. 25.

Lederer, voyage of, from Virginia, 11, m.

Legislative body established by the Great Charter, 55.

Leland, John, Itinerary, 152, m.

Lenox, Duke of, territory a.s.signed to, 259, n. 5.

Letters of complaint intercepted, 47.

Letters of Missionaries, 264, n. 17, n. 18.

Leyden, Scrooby exiles remove to, 166; Pilgrims set out from, 174.

Liberty in religion congruous with civil peace, 315.

Lingard, 238, m.

Little Gidding, Ferrar's community at, 92; devastated by the Puritans, 93.

Liturgy, a, purified of human tradition, 106; omitted in many parishes, 142.

London Separatists, 147; organize a church, 148; miserably persecuted, some flee to Amsterdam, 148.

Long Island Sound, Dermer storm-driven into, 9.

Long Island, English settlers on, 345.

Lord's Prayer, repet.i.tion of the, thought dangerously liturgical, 117.

Lotteries of the Virginia Company, 69, n. 14; abolished, 53, 70, n. 14.

Low Countries, toleration in the, 163; condemned by Baylie, 164.

Luther, Martin, on the Sabbath, 124.

Machyn's Diary, 99, m.

Magellan's Strait, 2, 9.

Magistrates aided by clergy in Ma.s.sachusetts, 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.

Ma.n.u.script Book of Instructions, 71, n. 18; 72, n. 19; 80, m.; 96, n. 6; 97, n. 9; 232, m.

Ma.n.u.script 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.