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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A charge with Prince Rupert. (search)
igh-born in England gravitated more and more to the royal side, while the popular cause enlisted the Londoners, the yeomanry, and those country gentlemen whom Mrs. Hutchinson styled the worsted-stocking members. The Puritans gradually found themselves excluded from the manorial halls, and the Cavaliers (a more inconvenient privati, pilfering, cheating inn-keepers, and insulting women, it is inevitable to infer that in earlier and less stringent times they did the same unpunished. When Mrs. Hutchinson describes a portion of the soldiers on her own side as licentious, ungovernable wretches, --when Sir Samuel Luke, in his letters, depicts the glee with which and abstinence of the Parliamentary party deserve a yet loftier meed,--Vane surrendering an office of thirty thousand pounds a year to promote public economy,--Hutchinson refusing a peerage and a fortune as a bribe to hold Nottingham Castle a little while for the King,--Eliot and Pym bequeathing their families to the nation's jus
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Puritan minister. (search)
Eighty-two pestilent heresies were counted as having already sprung up in 1637; others say one hundred and six; others, two hundred and ten. The Puritans kept Rhode Island for what housekeepers call an odd drawer, into which to crowd all these eccentricities. It was said, that, if any man happened to lose his religious opinion, he might be sure to find it again at some village in Rhode Island. Thither went Roger Williams and his Baptists; thither went Quakers and Ranters; thither went Ann Hutchinson, that extraordinary woman, who divided the whole politics of the country by her Antinomian doctrines, denouncing the formalisms around her, and converting the strongest men, like Cotton and Vane, to her opinions. Thither went also Samuel Gorton, a man of no ordinary power, who proclaimed mystical union with God in love, thought that heaven and hell were in the mind alone, but esteemed little the clergy and the ordinances. The Colony was protected also by the thoughtful and chivalrous
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
n; for it hath never beene as yet putt in execution against any of them, although such are known to live amongst us. Hutchinson's Coll. 216. Even two of the presidents of Harvard college were Anabaptists. While dissenters were thus treated witrom your justice. We leave you with all the freedom and latitude, that may, in any respect, be duly claimed by you. Hutchinson, i. 136—140 is confused and inaccurate. Was it from ignorance? To correct his errors the inquirer must go to the original authorities—Colony Records; Hutchinson's Collection, 188—218; Winthrop, II. 278—301, and 317—322; N. E.'s Jonas cast up at London, in II. Mass. Hist. Coll. iv. 107, &c.; E Winslow's N. E.'s Salamander Discovered, in III. Mass. Hist. Coil. II. capital crime. Of four persons, ordered to depart the jurisdiction on pain of death, Mary Dyar, a firm disciple of Ann Hutchinson, whose exile she had shared, and Nicholas Davis, obeyed. Marmaduke Stephenson and William Robinson had come on pu