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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
y addressed the king, I beseech your majesty, that I may inform you that each prisoner Chap. XIV.} will be worth ten pound, if not fifteen pound, apiece; and, sir, if your majesty orders these as you have already designed, persons that have not suffered in the service, will run away with the booty. At length the spoils were distributed. The convicts were in part persons of family and education, accustomed to elegance and ease. Take all care, wrote the monarch, under the countersign of Sunderland, to the 1685. Oct. 4. government in Virginia—take all care that they continue to serve for ten years at-least, and that they be not permitted in any manner to redeem themselves by money or otherwise, until that term be fully expired. Prepare a bill for the assembly of our colony, with such clauses as shall be requisite for this purpose. No Virginia legislature seconded such malice; and in December, 1689, the exiles were pardoned. Laing's Scotland, IV. 166. Dalrymple, ii. 53. Mackin
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
of a province seemed the easiest mode of cancelling the debt. William Penn had powerful friends in North, Halifax, and Sunderland; Penn, in Memoirs of Pennsylvania Historical Society, iu. 244. and a pledge given to his father on his death-bed, obbert Spencer in tearing surplices. The story is one of Oldmixon's. It cannot be true Penn became first acquainted with Sunderland, in France, in 1663 Penn's letter to Sunderland, Mem. P. H. S. II. 244. His father, bent on subduing his enthusiasm, bSunderland, Mem. P. H. S. II. 244. His father, bent on subduing his enthusiasm, beat him and turned him into Chap XVI.} the streets, to choose between poverty with a pure conscience, or fortune with obedience. But how could the hot anger of a petulant sailor continue against an only son? It was in the days of the glory of Descthe source of wisdom in his own soul. Humane by nature and by suffering; familiar with the royal family; intimate with Sunderland and Sydney; acquainted with Russel, Halifax, Shaftesbury, and Buckingham; as a member of the Royal Society, the peer of
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
ecame the object of his implacable hatred. Her day of grace was past. The royal favor was withheld, that it might silently waste and dissolve like snows in spring. To diminish its numbers, and apparently from no other motive, he granted—what Sunderland might have done from indifference, and Penn from love of justice—equal franchises to every sect; to the powerful Calvinist and to the puny Quaker, to Anabaptists and Independents, and all the wild increase which unsatisfied inquiry could generajoined to rescue the privileges of the nobility; the Presbyterians rushed eagerly into the only safe avenue to toleration; the people quietly acquiesced. King James was left alone in his palace. His terrified priests escaped to the continent; Sunderland was al ways false; his confidential friends betrayed him; his daughter Anne, pleading conscience, proved herself one of his worst enemies. God help me, exclaimed the disconsolate father, bursting into tears, my very children have forsaken me;