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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
The deputies consent not, but adhere to Nov 30. their former bills. Addresses were forwarded to the king, urging forbearance; but entreaty and remonstrance were vain. 1684 A scire facias was issued in England; and before the colony could act upon it, just one year and six days after the judgment against the city of London, the charter was conditionally adjudged to be forfeited; and June 18. the judgment was confirmed on the first day of the Michaelmas term. A copy of the judgment was 1685 July 2. received in Boston in July of the following year. Thus fell the charter, which the fleet of Winthrop had brought to the shores of New England, which had been cherished with anxious care through every vicissitude, and on which the fabric of New England liberties had rested. There was now no barrier between the people of Massachusetts and the absolute will of the court of England. Was religion in danger? Was landed property secure? Would commercial enterprise be paralyzed by rest
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
t up in a close park. Here was an invention which multiplied tyranny indefinitely, and lodged its lustful and ferocious passions under every roof, within the secret recesses of every family. At length, the edict of Nantz was formally revoked. 1685 Oct. 22. Calvinists might no longer preach in churches or in the ruins of churches; all public worship was forbidden them; and the chancellor Le Tellier could shout aloud, Now, Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace; even the eloquent Boss The palatine court, careful not to offend the king, who, nevertheless, was not diverted from the design of annulling their charter by a process of law, gave orders that the acts of navigation should be enforced. The colonists, who Chap. XIII.} 1685. had made themselves independent of the proprietaries in fact, esteemed themselves independent of parliament of right. Here, as every where, the acts were indignantly resisted as at war with natural equity, here they were also hated as an infring
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
gland, it met with no severe reprobation. The accession of James ii. made but few changes in 1685. the political condition of Virginia. The suppression of Monmouth's rebellion gave to the colonyf the monarch frequent gifts of their condemned countrymen. Jeffries heard of the scramble, and 1685. Sept. 19. indignantly addressed the king, I beseech your majesty, that I may inform you that ealegance 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, Thus did Jeffries contribute to people the New World; on another occasion, he exerted an oppo- 1685. site influence. Kidnapping had become common in Bristol; and not felons only, but young personsi. 215, 236, 242, 243. The same spirit of resistance was manifested by succeeding assemblies. In 1685, the first assembly convened after the accession of James ii., questioned a part of Chap. XIV.}
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
that thy children may be blessed.—Dear friends, my love salutes you all. And after he reached England, he assured the eager Oct. 3. inquirers, that things went on sweetly with Friends in Pennsylvania; that they increased finely in outward things and in wisdom. The question respecting the boundaries between the domains of Lord Baltimore and of William Penn was Dec 9. promptly resumed before the committee of trade and plantations; and, after many hearings, it was decided, Chap. XVI.} 1685. Oct. 17. Nov. 7. that the tract of Delaware did not constitute a part of Maryland. The proper boundaries of the territory remained to be settled; and the present limits of Delaware were established by a compromise. There is no reason to suppose any undue bias on the minds of the committee; had a wrong been suspected, the decision would have been reversed at the revolution of 1688. This decision formed the basis of an agreement between the respective heirs of the two proprietaries in 173
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
by the duke of York. From Scotland the largest emigration was expected; and, in 1685, just before embarking for America with his own family and about two hundred pas acces- 1685 sion of James II. was an act of delusive clemency. Chap. XVII.} 1685. Every day wretched fugitives were tried by a jury of soldiers, and executed in ng the franchises and privileges of the colony, except for its advantage; but in 1685, in 1685. less than a month after James the Second had ascended the throne, he 1685. less than a month after James the Second had ascended the throne, he prepared to overturn the institutions which he had conceded. A direct tax was Chap XVII.} Wood, 103, 104 decreed by an ordinance; the titles to real estate were qu virtue and religion more respectable: his tried valor and active zeal were en- 1685. hanced by prudence and sagacity. But blind obedience paralyzes conscience and a Jesuit priest in disguise. But the easy issue of the contest grew out of a 1685, 1686. division in the monarchical party itself. James II. could not comprehen