The Historical Relation of New England to the English Commonwealth
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Bradford's Plymouth, 279. Scottow's Narrative. Brook's Puritans, ii, 239. The stigma of semi-separatism rested on the enterprise and its leaders, and the Rev. John White of Dorchester, the father of the enterprise and the correspondent and co-laborer of Roger Conant, the first governor of the Col- ony, published the Planter's Plea, 1630, especially to disprove this charge of " des- perate malice," and that the world might be " well-assured" to the contrary, they had made Winthrop governor, beca...use he " was sufficiently knowne . . . where he had long lived ... as every way regular and conformable in the whole course of his practice " to the established church and religion. Not therefore for exercise or trouble of conscience, but, it appears, for stern prudential reasons, this was to Mr. Winthrop a most welcome opportunity and relief. A lawyer; distressed by the lessening income from the waste of the savings of his grandfather — a thrifty clothier from London — scarcely eked out by a slender and precarious practice ; for years past restless and waiting .for something to turn up ; pressed by the laudable motive daily suggested by res angusta domi ; married at seventeen; in 1623 wishing " oft God would open a way to settle him in Ireland " ; in 1627 resolved to remove to London; in January, 1628, owing more already than 50 The Christian philosopher, Coleridge, finds that " the average result of the press, from Henry VIII to Charles I, was such a diffusion of religious light, as first redeemed, and afterwards secured this nation [Great Britain] from the spiritual and moral death of popery." ^ In the second part of this glorious work, especially in that relating to polity.
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