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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
ion is spoken of, and several Puritan families, and perhaps I muse that so fewof our English ministers, that were so hot against the surplice and subscription, come hither, where neither is spoken of. Whitaker, in Purchas, b. IX. c. XI. some even of the Puritan clergy, emigrated to Virginia. They were so content with their reception, that large numbers were preparing to follow, and were restrained 1619. only by the forethought of English intolerance. We have seen, that the Pilgrims at Plymouth were invited to remove within the jurisdiction of Virginia; Puritan 1629. merchants planted themselves on the James River without fear, and emigrants from Massachusetts had 1640. recently established themselves in the colony. The honor of Laud had been vindicated by a judicial sentence, and south of the Potomac the decrees of the court of high commission were allowed to be valid; but I find no traces of persecutions in the earliest history of Virginia. The laws were harsh: the administr
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
tion, c. IV. Prince's N. E. Chronology, 113,114. u. Mass. Hist. Coll. IX. 3, 4. which Nov 10 Popham, the chief justice of England, and Gorges, the governor of Plymouth, had, with some others, equipped for discovery. But a second and almost simultaneous expedition from Bristol encountered no disasters; and the voyagers, on thei} Prince Charles confirmed. The French could boast, with truth, that New France had been colonized before New England obtained a name; Port Royal was older than Plymouth, Quebec than Boston. Yet the voyage was not free from crime. After Smith had departed for England, Thomas Hunt, the master of the second ship, kidnapped a largmerican annals, and even in the history of the world, has but one parallel. The adventurers and their successors were incorporated as The Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing New England, in America. The territory conferred on the patentees in absolute property
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
royal prerogative, though the parliament was dissolved before a bill could be carried through all the forms of legislation. Yet enough had been done to infuse vigor into mercantile enterprise; in the second year after the 1622 settlement of Plymouth, five-and-thirty sail of vessels went to fish on the coasts of New England, and made good voyages. The monopolists appealed to King James; and the monarch, preferring to assert his own extended prerogative, rather than to regard the spirit of the house of commons, issued a proclamation, Nov which forbade any to approach the northern coast of America, except with the special leave of the company of Plymouth, or of the privy council. It was monstrous thus to attempt to seal up a large portion of an immense continent; it was impossible to carry the ordinance into effect; and here, as so often, despotism caused its own fall. By desiring strictly to enforce its will, it provoked a conflict in which it was sure of being defeated. But