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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)
apparently acquiescing in the subjection of parliament. An insurrection had indeed been planned; the doctrine had indeed been whispered, that resistance to oppression was lawful. But the doctrine had been expiated by the blood of Sidney and of Russell; and the colonists knew, that, on the very day of the death of Russell, July 21. the university of Oxford, recalling the days of Henry VIII., and asserting an historical fact rather than a principle, had declared submission and obedience. cleaRussell, July 21. the university of Oxford, recalling the days of Henry VIII., and asserting an historical fact rather than a principle, had declared submission and obedience. clear, absolute, and without exception, to be the badge and character of the church of England. They knew that many cities of England had surrendered their charters; that London itself, the metropolis which had sheltered Hampden against Charles I., had found resistance ineffectual; and to render submission in Massachusetts easy, by showing that opposition was desperate, two hundred copies of the proceedings against London, Chap XII.} 1683. were sent over to be dispersed among the people. The go
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
e patentees of South Carolina for a large district of land, where Scottish exiles for religion might enjoy freedom of faith and a government of their own. Wodrow, II 230. Laing, IV 133. Yet the design was never completely executed. A gleam of hope of a successful revolution in England, led to a conspiracy for the elevation of Monmouth. The conspiracy was matured in London, under pretence of favoring emigration to America; and its ill success involved its authors in danger, and brought Russell and Sydney to the scaffold. It was, therefore, with but a small colony, that the Presbyterian Lord Cardross, many of whose friends had suffered impris- 1684 onment, the rack, and death itself, and who had himself been persecuted under Lauderdale, Laing IV. 72. set sail for Chap. XIII.} 1684. Carolina. But even there the ten families of outcasts found no peace. They planted themselves at Port Royal; Ramsay says, in 1682. the colony of Ashley River claimed over them a jurisdiction