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d; and men were enforced by heaps to desert their native country. Nothing but the wide ocean, and the savage deserts of America, could hide and shelter them from the fury of the bishops. Rushworth, II. 410. Hazard, i. 420. Neal's Puritans. Nugent's Hampden. The words are from Milton, the Puritan poet; the greatest poet of our language. The pillory had become the bloody scene of human agony and mutilation, as an ordinary punishment; and Chap. X.} the friends of Laud jested on the suffer. X.} 1638 whose resolution was as fixed as it was calm, possessed energy enough to have accomplished his purpose. He undoubtedly had watched with deep interest the progress of Massachusetts; the Conclusions had early attracted his attention; Nugent, i. 173, 174. and in 1631 he had taken part in a purchase of territory on the Narragansett. Potter's Narragansett, 14.—Comp. Trumbull. It has been conjectured, Belknap's Biog. II. 229. asserted, N. Amer. Review, VI. 28. and even circum