The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . hereafterfarthings shall not pass for current pay, and that musketbullets of a full bore shall pass current for a farthing actions were not intended as a defiance of the King,but it was hoped he would realize from them the necessity ofa milder form of action towards the colonists than had beenindicated in what they had learned from England as hisintentions, and yet they were determined to resist to thelast degree
The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . hereafterfarthings shall not pass for current pay, and that musketbullets of a full bore shall pass current for a farthing actions were not intended as a defiance of the King,but it was hoped he would realize from them the necessity ofa milder form of action towards the colonists than had beenindicated in what they had learned from England as hisintentions, and yet they were determined to resist to thelast degree any attempt to take from them what they hadso far accomplished, if in that taking the religious libertyso dear to them must be relinquished; hence preparationswere made to defend themselves to the last if the occasiondemanded it. In August of this year, 1634, the colony at Salem wasthrown into deep sorrow and anxiety; the Rev. SamuelSkelton, the pastor, who had been one of the great leaders;who had been stricken with that arch enemy consumption,died, and the church was without a leader. In the emergencythey called again Roger Williams to preside over them; 75 ^5 t. upon the Governor and assistants learning of this, they weremuch wrought up over the matter and summoned him toappear before them and make answer to the written declara-tion he had made at the Plymouth Church (particulars ofwhich will be found in the Story of the Pilgrims). Mr. Williams assured them that he had intended this pa-per only for the Plymouth people, and that he in no wise con-tended against the forms of the church. His defence beingsatisfactory, the matter was dropped, but in 1635 he wasagain called before the assistants and charged with promul-gating dangerous views, such as that a magistrate ought•not to tender an oath to an unregenerate man; that a manought not to pray with such, though wife or child; that aman ought not to give thanks after the sacrament, nor aftermeat, and various other heresies. T
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