The world: historical and actual . CECIL, SECOND LORD BALTIMORE. the. Calverts regain-ed their vestedrights. They con-tinued to governthe colony untilthe Revolution-ary War. The name NewEngland was giv-en to the regionaround Cape Codby Captain JohnSmith, who triedassiduously in1614 to plantthere an Englishcolony. He was aman of broad views, great foresight, and a keen eyeto business. The first permanent settlement m New Englanddates from the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers onPlymouth Rock, December 21, 1620. James I. was then King of England. That nar-row and bigoted sovereign was determined to
The world: historical and actual . CECIL, SECOND LORD BALTIMORE. the. Calverts regain-ed their vestedrights. They con-tinued to governthe colony untilthe Revolution-ary War. The name NewEngland was giv-en to the regionaround Cape Codby Captain JohnSmith, who triedassiduously in1614 to plantthere an Englishcolony. He was aman of broad views, great foresight, and a keen eyeto business. The first permanent settlement m New Englanddates from the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers onPlymouth Rock, December 21, 1620. James I. was then King of England. That nar-row and bigoted sovereign was determined to makeall his subjects conform to the Established or Epis-copal Church. The non-conformists were subject topersecution. To enjoy their religion, a great manyof them crossed over to Holland, where the -widestlatitude was allowed. But that did not suit free and easy Dutch ways were shocking tothem. What in the Low Country was thought tobe liberty merely, the Puritans looked upon as li-cense, irreligious and immoral. Those who felt thatway the deepest returned
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