CHAPTER VII.

MORE FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC TROUBLES.--CIVIL AND CRIMINAL REGULATIONS OF THE COLONY.--ARRIVAL OF QUAKERS.

Conscience claimed as the rule of action in civil as well as religious matters, 33

Contentions between the Island and the main-land towns, 34

1654. Court of Commissioners met and effected a reunion in the Colony, 34

Attempts of the United Colonies to make war on the Narragansetts, but they failed, as Williams had influenced Massasoit not to sanction it, 35

Qualification of citizenship, 36

Duties of citizenship ascendant over dignity of office, 37

Protection of marriage, 38

The Pawtuxet controversy settled by acknowledgement of the claims of Rhode Island, 38

Fort built for protection against Indians, 39

Quakers arrived. Difference of treatment of them between Rhode Island and Massachusetts, 39

1663. A new charter granted by Charles II. and accepted by the colonists, 40