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Dec (search for this): chapter 7
on with the highest powers of magistracy over the country from Narragansett to Nova Scotia. The general court, in session at his arrival, and unprepared for open resist- 1686 May 15. ance, dissolved their assembly, and returned in sadness to their homes. The charter government was publicly May 25. displaced by the arbitrary commission, popular representation abolished, and the press subjected to the Nov 29. censorship of Randolph. At last, Sir Edmund Andros, glittering in scarlet and Dec 20. lace, landed at Boston, as governor of all New England. How unlike Penn at Newcastle! He was authorized to remove and appoint members of his council, and, with their consent, to make laws, lay taxes, and control the militia of the country. He was instructed to tolerate no printing-press, to encourage Episcopacy, and to sustain authority by force. From New York came West as secretary; and in the council, four subservient members, of whom but one was a New England man, alone commanded h
Henry Vane (search for this): chapter 7
ehend. Spiritual religion is an enfranchising power, expanding and elevating the soul, a service of forms was analogous to the understanding of James; to attend mass, to build chapels, to risk the kingdom for a rosary,—this was within his grasp; he had no clear perception of religious truth. Freedom of conscience, always an ennobling conception, was, in that age, an idea yet standing on the threshold of the world, waiting to be ushered in; and none but exalted minds—Roger Williams and Penn, Vane, Fox, and Bun- 1677 yan—went forth to welcome it; no glimpse of it reached James, whose selfish policy, unable to gain immediate dominion for his persecuted priests and his confessor, begged at least for toleration. Debauching a woman on promise of marriage, he next allowed her to be traduced as having yielded to frequent prostitution, and then married her; he was conscientious, but his moral sense was as slow as his understanding. He was not bloodthirsty; but to a narrow mind fear seems t<
Bullivant (search for this): chapter 7
of the Rose frigate, stepped on shore, Green and the Boston ship-carpenters gathered about him, and made him a prisoner. The town took the alarm. The royalist sheriff endeavored to quiet the Chap XVII.} 1689 multitude; and at once the multitude arrested him. They next hastened to the major of the regiment, and demanded colors and drums. He resisted; they threatened. The crowd increased; companies form under Nelson, Foster, Waterhouse, their old officers; and already at ten they seize Bullivant, Foxcroft, and Ra- Lambeth Mss 1025 venscraft. Boys ran along the streets with clubs; the drums beat: the governor, with his creatures, resisted in council, withdrew to the fort to desire a conference with the ministers and two or three more. The conference was declined. All the companies soon rallied at the town-house. Just then, the last governor of the colony, in office when the charter was abrogated, Simon Bradstreet, glorious with the dignity of fourscore years and seven, one of
Philip Carteret (search for this): chapter 7
h and west of the Delaware, till they were granted to Penn; over the Jerseys Andros claimed a paramount authority. We Chap. XVII.} 1675. have seen the Quakers refer the contest for decision to an English commission. In East New Jersey, Philip Carteret had, as the deputy of Sir George, resumed the government, and, gaining popularity by postponing the payment of quitrents, confirmed liberty of conscience with representative government. A direct trade with England, unencumbered by customs, erce of New York was endangered by the competition; and, disregarding a second patent from the duke of York, Andros claimed that the ships of New 1678. Oct. 10. Jersey should pay tribute at Manhattan. After long altercations, and the arrest of Carteret, terminated only by the honest verdict of a New York jury, Andros again entered New Jersey, to intimidate its assembly by the 1680. June 2 royal patent to the duke. The people of New Jersey could not, as in the happier Connecticut, plead an ea
John Locke (search for this): chapter 7
ommerce and Protestant toleration were the elements of his power over the public mind. He did not so much divide dominion with the merchants and the Presbyterians, as act as their patron; having himself for his main object to keep the bucket of Locke. the aristocracy from sinking. The declaration of in 1672 dulgence, an act of high prerogative, yet directed Chap XVII.} Penn, III. 212, 213. against the friends of prerogative, was his measure. Immediately freedom of conscience awakened in se of the dissenters whose dissent was the least glaring; in an age of speculative inquiry, they favored freedom of the press. How vast was the party, is evident, since it cherished among its numbers men so opposite as Shaftesbury and Sidney, as Locke and Baxter. These two parties embraced almost all the wealth and learning of England. But there was a third party Chap. XVII.} of those who were pledged to seek, and love, and chuse the best things. They insisted that all penal statutes an
Treasurer Danby (search for this): chapter 7
sts, and advocating with power a bill for the ease of Protestant dissenters. Shaftesbury 1673 fell. Under the Lord Treasurer Danby, the old Cavaliers 1673 to 1679 recovered power. It was the day for statues to Charles I., and new cathedrals. To win strength for his party from the favor of Protestant opinion, Danby avowed his willingness to aid in crushing Popery, and he gave his influence to the Popish plot. But Shaftesbury was already sure of the merchants and dissenters. Let the tres, there were many corrupt members who would never have been elected but in the first fit of loyalty at the restoration. Danby preferred the unfitness of a perpetual parliament to the hazard of a new election, and, by pensions and rewards, purchaseaxim, never to grant Chap. XVII.} so much at once that they should cease to be wanted; and, discovering the intrigues of Danby for a permanent revenue from France, they were honorably true to nationality, and true also to the base instinct of selfi
Algernon Sidney (search for this): chapter 7
ded Russel to the scaffold; and on the day on which the purest martyr to aristocratic liberty laid his head on the block, the university of Oxford decreed absolute obedience to be the character of the Church of England, while parts of the writings of Knox, Milton, and Baxter, were pronounced false, seditious and impious, heretical and blasphe- Chap. XVII.} 1683. Dec. 7 mous, infamous to the Christian religion, and destructive of all government, and were therefore ordered to be burnt. Algernon Sidney followed to the scaffold. Thus liberty, which excited loyalty, at the restoration, banished from among the people, made its way through rakes and the king's mistress into the royal councils. Driven from the palace, it appealed to parliament and the people, and won power through the frenzied antipathy to Roman Catholics. Exiled from parliament by their dissolution, from the people by the ebb of excitement, it concealed itself in an aristocratic association and a secret aristocratic
Adam (search for this): chapter 7
The town of Lynn produced its records; they were slighted as not worth a rush. Others pleaded possession and use of the land. You take possession, it was answered, for the king.—The men of Massachusetts did much quote Lord Coke; but, defeated in argument by An- Lambeth Mss. 841. dros, who was a good lawyer, John Higginson, minister of Salem, went back from the common law of England to the book of Genesis, and, remembering that God Revolu uon in N E. 18, 19. gave the earth to the sons of Adam to be subdued and replenished, declared, that the people of New England Chap XVII.} held their lands by the grand charter from God. And Andros, incensed, bade him approve himself a subject or a rebel. The lands reserved for the poor, generally all common lands, were appropriated by favorites; writs of intrusion were multiplied; and fees, amounting, in some cases, to one fourth the value of an estate, were exacted for granting a patent to its owner. A selected jury offered no relief. Our
William Penn (search for this): chapter 7
; and none but exalted minds—Roger Williams and Penn, Vane, Fox, and Bun- 1677 yan—went forth to wewest of the Delaware, till they were granted to Penn; over the Jerseys Andros claimed a paramount aon of twelve Quakers, under the auspices of William Penn. A brief account of the 1682 province wasmackinac. The gentle spirit which swayed William Penn at Shackamaxon did not find its way into thon, as governor of all New England. How unlike Penn at Newcastle! He was authorized to remove and dros, after a short deference to the example of Penn, made a vain pursuit of a retreating enemy, who councils of the Stuarts inclined Chap. XVII.} Penn, III. 181 1679 Oct. 5 to absolutism. Immediaduke of York was passed by triumphant votes in Penn the house of commons, and defeated only by the hese were the views which were advocated by William Penn against what he calls the prejudices of hisnderland might have done from indifference, and Penn from love of justice—equal franchises to every [2 more...
Treat (search for this): chapter 7
ited the people of Connecticut to submit to his jurisdiction; yet they desired, least of all, to hazard the continuance of liberty on the decision of the dependent English courts. On the third writ of quo warrant, the colony, in a petition to the king, asserted its chartered rights, yet desired, in any event, rather to share the fortunes of Massachusetts than to be annexed to New York. Andros found the assembly in session, and demanded Oct. 31. the surrender of its charter. The brave Governor Treat pleaded earnestly for the cherished patent, which Trum bull had been purchased by sacrifices and martyrdoms, and was endeared by halcyon days. The shades of evening descended during the prolonged discussion; an anxious crowd of farmers had gathered to witness the debate. The charter lay on the table. Of a sudden, the lights are extinguished; and, as they are rekindled, the charter has disappeared. Joseph Wadsworth, of Hartford, stealing noiselessly through the opening crowd, conceal
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