Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 3 (of 8) English Explorations and Settlements in North America 1497-1689

by which the “maintaining with obstinacy” of any one of a number of enumerated heresies—such as that Christ is not ascended into heaven bodily, or that the bodies of men shall n...

THE COUNCIL FOR NEW ENGLAND.—This body was incorporated in the eighteenth year of the reign of James I., on the 3d of November, 1620, under the name of the “Council established...

“WE derive our rights in America,” says Edmund Burke, in his _Account of the European Settlements in America_, “from the discovery of Sebastian Cabot, who first made the Norther...

ALTHOUGH that portion of the American Continent known as New Netherland was within the limits claimed by England by virtue of Cabot’s discovery, yet those in possession, from th...

[551] Bradford, _Plymouth Plantation_, pp. 89, 90; Brigham, _Charter and Laws of New Plymouth_, pp. 36, 49, 50, 241; 1 _Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._, iii. 56-64. For the discussion o...

THERE is no occasion to offer any elaborate plea for making this theme the subject of a chapter of American history, however extended into detail or compressed in its dealing wi...

THE founding of Pennsylvania was one of the immediate results of Penn’s connection with West Jersey; but the causes which led to the settlement of both colonies can be clearly t...

ON the petition of Hakluyt (then prebendary of Westminster), Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, and other “firm and hearty lovers of colonization,” James I., by patent dated t...

THE trading spirit is not of itself sufficient to establish successful settlement, and monopolies cannot safely be intrusted with the government of colonies. The experience of t...

THE story of Norumbega is invested with the charms of fable and romance. The name is found in the map of Hieronimus da Verrazano of 1529, as “Aranbega,” being restricted to a de...

THE preceding chapter has outlined the growth of Separatism in England, and prepared the way for the story of the fortunes of that remarkable congregation which has given a new...

the bibliographical note which Sabin added to his reprint of Stith in 1865, where he describes three varieties. There is a collation in the _Brinley Catalogue_, no. 3,796, not a...

HISTORY has recorded the lives of few men more renowned than Walter Ralegh,—the soldier, the sailor, the statesman, the courtier, the poet, the historian, and the philosopher. T...

THE English voyagers had no mind to content themselves with adventure in those more rugged regions to which the Cabots had introduced them. Whether in peace or war, their relati...

MARYLAND was the first Proprietary colony established in America; and its charter contained a more ample grant of power than was bestowed upon any other English colony. To Maryl...

=1591.= Job Hortop’s _Rare Travales of an Englishman_, published in London. Bohn’s _Lowndes_, p. 1124. There is a copy in the British Museum. Hortop was one of Ingram’s companio...

THE fresh spirit of maritime adventure which marked the last decade of the fifteenth century and the first quarter of the sixteenth century, owed its origin to mistaken theories...

“Penn and Logan Correspondence.” Edited by Edward Armstrong, in vols. ix. and x. of _Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania_. These volumes cover only the years betwe...

printed separately, and in chapter iv. of his _English Colonization in America_. He goes farther than Mr. Deane, and, following implicitly Strachey’s statement of an earlier mar...

=1588.= What is called the second original work published in England on the New World is Hariot’s _New Foundland of Virginia_, a small quarto of twenty-three leaves, imprinted a...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Dudley’s map of New England (1646), 303; Alexander’s map (1624), 306; John Wilson, 313; Dr. John Clark, 315; John Endicott, 317; Hingham meeting-house, 319; Josep...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Site of Scrooby Manor-House, 258; Map of Scrooby and Austerfield, 259; Austerfield church, 260; Record of William Bradford’s baptism, 260; Robinson’s House in Ley...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Title of Eden’s Münster, 200; Münster’s map (1532), 201, (1540), 201; Title of Stultifera Nauis (1570), 202; Gilbert’s map (1576), 203; Linschoten, 206; John G. K...

AUTOGRAPHS: King James, 421; Richard Nicoll, 421; Robert Carr, 422; John Berkeley, 422; G. Carteret, 423; Philip Carteret, 424; James Bollen, 428; Edward Byllynge, 430; Gawen La...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Title of _Some Account_, etc., 496; Title of _Frame of Government_, 497; Receipt and Seal of Free Society of Traders, 498; Gabriel Thomas’s map (1698), 501; Seal...

AUTOGRAPHS: George, first Lord Baltimore, 518; Leonard Calvert, 524; Thomas Cornwallis, 524; John Lewger, 528; Thomas Greene, 533; Margaret Brent, 533; William Stone, 534; Josia...

ILLUSTRATIONS: La Cosa map (1500), _phototype_, 8, 8; Ruysch’s map (1508), 9; Orontius Fine’s map (1531), 11; Stobnicza’s map (1512), 13; Page of Peter Martyr in fac-simile, 15;...