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 . and secure from the Indians furs, all to the great financialprofit of the companies, and it was not until 1620 that thereal beginning, the real foundation of New England, events leading to this will be given as briefly as possible. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Englandthrobbed with an intensity of the religious convictions whichgoverned its people, that we of to-day cannot realize. Therehad been
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 . and secure from the Indians furs, all to the great financialprofit of the companies, and it was not until 1620 that thereal beginning, the real foundation of New England, events leading to this will be given as briefly as possible. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Englandthrobbed with an intensity of the religious convictions whichgoverned its people, that we of to-day cannot realize. Therehad been much progress made in the great reformation whenParliament, under Henry VIIL, in the sixteenth century,divorced the National Church from the Roman and substi-tuted the Reigning Sovereign for the Pope of Rome as itshead. While this act gave much satisfaction to the reformers,there was but little change made except in the head of theChurch, however, and nearly all the forms and ceremoniesof the Roman Church were retained, a matter which gavegreat disappointment to the very large numbers of the peoplewho were eager for a thorough reformation in church forms 13. MOOJEL. C)/ MAYf^LOWEH and customs, and they were known as non-Conformists, evenby their opponents held up to scorn and derisively termedPuritans—as being too pure to live upon this planet. Theydid not object to the doctrines of the Church, but strove forits reformation; so strongly did they object to the obnoxiousforms and ceremonies of the Church that large numbers ofthe clergy refused to conform to them in their service. Lawswere passed to enforce attendance at church and ob-servance of all its forms and ceremonies. As a- result ofthis attempted proscription, which failed in its purpose to agreat degree, hundreds of the clergy were driven from theirchurches, they having upheld their own faith and that ofthe rest of the non-Conformists in the belief that the formsand ceremonies were the inventions of men, and si
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