Puritanism in the Old World And in the New From Its Inception in the Reign of E
Puritanism in the Old World And in the New From Its Inception in the Reign of E
J Gregory
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P. 58 : " Men of a liiglier rank than tlie iirst colonists, and now become hopeless alike of the civil and religious liberties of England ; men of capacious and commanding 304 PURITANISM Loss to the mother country represented by New England. — Xeal, the Puritan historian, basing his state- ments on :\Iather's History of New England, says that during t^Yelve years of Laud's administration there went over the sea about four thousand planters, carrying with them materials, in money and cattle, etc.... , to the value of not less than one hundred and ninety-two thousand pounds. " Upon the whole, it has been computed that the four settlements of Xew England, viz. Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and New Haven, all which were accomplished before the civil wars, drained England of four or five hundred thousand pounds in money (a very great sum in those days) ; and if the persecution of the Puritans had continued twelve years longer, it is thought that a fourth part of the riches of the kingdom would have passed out of it through this channel.
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