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May 23rd (search for this): chapter 2
harter, there was no room to expect success in Massachusetts. The conference between the two parties degenerated into an altercation. It is insufferable, said the government, that the colony should be brought to the bar of a tribunal unknown to its charter. At length it was directly asked, Do you acknowledge his majesty's commission? The colony declined giving a direct answer, and chose May 19. rather to plead his majesty's charter. Tired of discussion, the commissioners resolved to May 23. act; and declared their intention of holding a court to decide a cause in which the colony was cited to appear as defendant. The general court forbade the procedure. The commissioners refused to recede; the morning for the trial dawned; the parties had been summoned; the commissioners were preparing to proceed with the cause, when, by order of the court, a herald stepped forth, and, having sounded the trumpet with due solemnity, made a public proclamation, in the name of the king, and by
May 23rd (search for this): chapter 3
d dignity. The two Charters to the Proprietors of Carolina, small 4to. The grant had hardly been made before it became apparent that there were competitors, claiming possession of the same territory. It was included by the Spaniards within the limits of Florida; and the castle of St. Augustine was deemed proof of the actual possession of an indefinite adjacent country. Spain had never formally acknowledged the English title to any possessions in America; and when a treaty was 1667. May 23. finally concluded at Madrid, it did but faintly concede the right of England to her transatlantic colonies, and to a continuance of commerce in the accustomed seas. And not Spain only claimed Carolina. In 1630, a patent for all the territory had been issued to Sir Robert Heath; and there is room to believe that, in 1639, permanent plantations were planned and perhaps attempted by his assign. Hening, i. 552. Records in the office of the general court at Richmond, labelled No. 1, 1639
May 23rd (search for this): chapter 4
m was eminently favorable to the power of the people; it menaced Culpepper with defeat in his attempts to appropriate to himself the cultivated plantations of the Northern Neck. The artful magistrate fomented a dispute between the council and the assembly. The burgesses, in their high court of appeal, claimed to sit alone, excluding the council from whose decision the appeal was made; and Culpepper, having referred the question to the king for decision, soon announced that no appeals 1683 May 23. whatever should be permitted to the assembly, nor to the king in council, under the value of one hundred pounds sterling. It shows the spirit of the counsil of Virginia, that it welcomed the new rule, desiring only that there might be no appeal to the king under the Chap. XIV.} value of two hundred pounds. Hening, III. 550. Beverley, 82, 83. The holders of land within the grant of Culpepper now lay at his mercy, and were compelled eventually to negotiate a compromise. All acco
May 24th (search for this): chapter 2
s proclamation. We may smile at this solitary imitation of a feudal ceremony. Yet when had the voice of a herald proclaimed the approach of so momentous a contest? It was not merely a struggle of the general court and the commissioners Chap. XII.} 1665. nor yet of Charles II. and Massachusetts; it was a still more momentous combat—the dawning strife of the new system against the old system, of American politics against European politics. The commissioners could only wonder that the May 24. arguments of the king, his chancellor, and his secretary, could not convince the government of Massachusetts. Since you will misconstrue our endeavors, said they, we shall not lose more of our labors upon you; and so they retreated to the north. There they endeavored to inquire into the bounds of New Hampshire and Maine, and to prepare for the restoration of proprietary claims. Massachusetts was again equally active and fearless; its governor and council forbade the towns on the Piscataqu
May 25th (search for this): chapter 1
sts gathered round buckets of wine in the streets, and drank the king's health on their knees. The bells in every steeple rung merry peals; the bonfires round London were so numerous and so brilliant, that the city seemed encircled with a halo; Pepys, i. 15. 18. and under a clear sky, with a favoring wind, the path of the exiled monarch homewards to the kingdom of his fathers, is serene and unruffled; as he landed on the soil of England, he was received by infinite crowds with all 1660. May 25. imaginable love. The shouting and general joy were past imagination. Pepys. On the journey from Dover to London, the hillocks all the way were covered with people; the trees were filled; Gumble's Life of Monck, 386. and such was the prodigality of flowers from maidens, such the acclamations from throngs of men, the whole kingdom seemed Chap XI.} 1660 May 29. gathered along the road-sides. The companies of the city welcomed the king with loud thanks to God for his presence; Clar
May 25th (search for this): chapter 7
e, afterwards infamous for military massacres in the West of England, was destined for its governor. It was a relief to find that Joseph Dudley, a degenerate son of the colony, was intrusted for a season with the highest powers of magistracy over the country from Narragansett to Nova Scotia. The general court, in session at his arrival, and unprepared for open resist- 1686 May 15. ance, dissolved their assembly, and returned in sadness to their homes. The charter government was publicly May 25. displaced by the arbitrary commission, popular representation abolished, and the press subjected to the Nov 29. censorship of Randolph. At last, Sir Edmund Andros, glittering in scarlet and Dec 20. lace, landed at Boston, as governor of all New England. How unlike Penn at Newcastle! He was authorized to remove and appoint members of his council, and, with their consent, to make laws, lay taxes, and control the militia of the country. He was instructed to tolerate no printing-press,
May 26th (search for this): chapter 2
thout a good government, and the colonies flourished in purity and peace. The English ministry dared not interfere with Massachusetts; it was right that the stern virtues of the ascetic republicans should have intimidated the members of the profligate cabinet. The affairs of New England were often discussed; but the privy council was overawed by the moral dignity which they could not comprehend. There were great debates, in which the king Evelyn,. II. 343 took part, in what style 1671 May 26. to write to New England. Charles himself commended this affair more expressly, because the colony was rich and strong; able to contest with all other plan- Chap. XII.} 1671. tations about them; there is fear, said the monarch, of their breaking from all dependence on this nation. Some of the council proposed a menacing letter, which those who better understood the peevish and touchy humor of that colonie were utterly against. After many days, it was concluded, Evelyn, II. 344. that,
May 26th (search for this): chapter 5
an. Immediately, an association 1666. of church members from the New Haven colony sailed into the Passaic, and, at the request of the governor, holding a council with the Hackensack tribe, themselves extinguished the Indian title to Newark. With one May 21. heart, they resolved to carry on their spiritual and town affairs according to godly government; to be ruled un- 1667. der their old laws by officers chosen from among themselves; and when, in May, 1668, a colonial legislative 1668. May 26. assembly was for the first time convened at Elizabethtown, the influence of Puritans transferred the chief features of the New England codes to the statute book of New Jersey. The province increased in numbers and prosperity. The land was accessible and productive; the temperate climate delighted by its salubrity; there was little danger from the neighboring Indians, whose strength had been broken by long hostilities with the Dutch; the Five Nations guarded the approaches from the inter
May 27th (search for this): chapter 7
from the succession was demanded; a bill for that purpose was introduced into the house of commons; and it was observed, that the young men cried up every measure against the duke; James, i. 548. like so many young spaniels, that run and bark at every lark that springs.—The axe, wrote Charles, is laid to the root; and monarchy must go down too, or bow exceeding low before the almighty power of parliament; and just after Shaftesbury, who, as James, i. 551. Mackintosh. James, II. 621. 1679. May 27. chancellor, had opened the prison-doors of Bunyan, now, as president of the council, had procured the passage of the habeas corpus act, the commons were prorogued and dissolved. Shaftesbury was displaced, and henceforward the councils of the Stuarts inclined Chap. XVII.} Penn, III. 181 1679 Oct. 5 to absolutism. Immediately universal agitation roused the spirit of the nation. Under the influence of Shaftesbury's genius, on Queen Elizabeth's night, a vast procession, bearing devices a
May 29th (search for this): chapter 1
his fathers, is serene and unruffled; as he landed on the soil of England, he was received by infinite crowds with all 1660. May 25. imaginable love. The shouting and general joy were past imagination. Pepys. On the journey from Dover to London, the hillocks all the way were covered with people; the trees were filled; Gumble's Life of Monck, 386. and such was the prodigality of flowers from maidens, such the acclamations from throngs of men, the whole kingdom seemed Chap XI.} 1660 May 29. gathered along the road-sides. The companies of the city welcomed the king with loud thanks to God for his presence; Clarendon, III. 772 and he advanced to Whitehall through serried ranks of admiring citizens. All hearts were open; and on the evening of his arrival in the capital of his kingdom, he employed the enthusiasm of the time to debauch a beautiful woman of nineteen, the wife of one of his subjects. In the midst of the universal gladness, the triumph of the royalist party wa
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