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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
ed by civil magistrates, and of the system of colonial church discipline—proceedings which were wholly at variance with the laws of England. The departure of so many of the best, such numbers of faithful and free-born Englishmen and good Christians,—a more ill-boding sign to the nation than the portentous blaze of comets and the impressions in the air, at which astrologers are dismayed, Milton pleads for the Puritans—Of Reformation, Book II.—began to be regarded by the archbishops 1634 Feb. 21. as an affair of state; and ships bound with passengers for New England were detained in the Thames by an order of the council. Burdett also in 1637 wrote from New England to Laud, that the colonists aimed not at new discipline, but at sovereignty; that it was accounted treason in their general court to speak of appeals to the king; Hutchinson, i. 85. Hubbard, 354. and the greatest apprehensions were raised by a requisition which commanded the letters patent of the company to be produ