. Familiar sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and surroundings. \t . ».»: »?» h* «.t. 88 THE PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY. men, scholars and clergymen, — men prominent both instate and church, — left the comforts of home for the deserts of America, one must recall the history ofEngland at that time. The Church was divided intotwo great parties, the Arminian or High-Church party,and the Nonconformists ; the former representing theKing and court, the latter the commons and people. Burdened as they were by the extravagant and abso-lute rule of Charles I., sickened by the horrors of LaPtochelle, i
. Familiar sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and surroundings. \t . ».»: »?» h* «.t. 88 THE PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY. men, scholars and clergymen, — men prominent both instate and church, — left the comforts of home for the deserts of America, one must recall the history ofEngland at that time. The Church was divided intotwo great parties, the Arminian or High-Church party,and the Nonconformists ; the former representing theKing and court, the latter the commons and people. Burdened as they were by the extravagant and abso-lute rule of Charles I., sickened by the horrors of LaPtochelle, is it any wonder that they determined tosecure that civil and religious liberty which they couldnot obtain in England, by emigrating to America ? We cannot rightly understand the principles whichgoverned the family of the Founder of the PhillipsAcademies unless we know something of his Englishancestor, George Phillips.^ Entering Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,April 20, 1610, he was graduated B. A. in 1613, andM. A. in 1617. Soon after, he settled in Bosted (orBoxted) and bega
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