The history of Connecticut, from the first settlement of the colony to the adoption of the present constitution . ve anticipated as likely to follow inthe train of those struggles in the early part of the sixteenthcentury, when Martin Luther and his contemporaries,wielding the hammer of the Word, wrought upon the hardmetal of human unbelief, till the world rang,* and extendeddown to the time when the blood, that was at once the mostvital and the most conservative that then flowed in Eng-lish veins, rebelled against the arbitrary exactions of the oldworld and warmed with the promises of the new
The history of Connecticut, from the first settlement of the colony to the adoption of the present constitution . ve anticipated as likely to follow inthe train of those struggles in the early part of the sixteenthcentury, when Martin Luther and his contemporaries,wielding the hammer of the Word, wrought upon the hardmetal of human unbelief, till the world rang,* and extendeddown to the time when the blood, that was at once the mostvital and the most conservative that then flowed in Eng-lish veins, rebelled against the arbitrary exactions of the oldworld and warmed with the promises of the new. Thus I have attempted, in a very humble way, to describethe beginnings of our venerable republic. The reader hasseen the seeds sown by the whirlwind taking root in thedesert and growing up and blossoming with hope whilewinter lingered in the lap of May. Hoping that some-thing of the fragrance of their young growth has been dis-tilled upon the last page of this volume, I close it, only to openanother that shall describe the glorious fruit that those seedshave borne. * Hoppins Notes of a Theological FENWICKs TOMB. APPENDIX. A. PATENT OF CONNECTICUT-1631. To all people vnto wliome this present wrlteing shall come, Robert, earle ofWarwick, sendeth greeting, in our Lord God everlasting : ICnow yee, that thesayd Robert, earl of Warwick, for divers Good causes & considerations himtherevnto moueing, hath giuen. Granted, Bargained, sold, enfeoffed. Aliened &confirmed, & bj these presents doth giue, grant, Bargain, sell, enfeoffe. Alien &confirme vnto the Right Honourable William, Viscount Say & Scale, The RightHonourable Robt, Lord Brooke, The right honourable Lord Rich, & the Honour-able Charles fines, Esqr, Sr. Nathaniel Rich, Knight, Sr. Richard Saltonstall,Knight, Richard Knightly, Esqr, John Pirn, Esqr, John Hamden, Esqr, JohnHumphrey, Esqr & Herbert Pelham, Esqr, theire heires & assignes & theirassociates foreuer, all that part of New England in Americah, which l
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