A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . ligion in which they believed. There were many of these persecuted dissenters throughout the 1 History of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford, the Second Governor of TheColony. 2 Strypes Life of Whitgift, App. No. 46. Quoted in Palfreys History of New England,vol. ii., p. 130. 372 THE PURITANS. [Chap. XIV. Kingdom, sometimes gathered into s
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . ligion in which they believed. There were many of these persecuted dissenters throughout the 1 History of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford, the Second Governor of TheColony. 2 Strypes Life of Whitgift, App. No. 46. Quoted in Palfreys History of New England,vol. ii., p. 130. 372 THE PURITANS. [Chap. XIV. Kingdom, sometimes gathered into societies of their own, especiallyin London; sometimes bearing alone a silent but painful testimonyagainst the undoubted immoralities connived at in the church, and thevain ordinances — as they deemed them — which they were calledupon to share in and to sanction. But in no rural district were theyso numerous or so well organized as in that part of England wherethe borders of Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire than one earnest preacher in that neighborhood had called andheld together by his eloquence and zeal a little knot of followers asfirm in the faith as he, and ready to follow whithersoever his higherlight should View of Scrooby Village. In North Nottinghamshire, in the Hundred of Basset-Lawe, isThe village ^^^^ village of Scrooby. Though little more than a hamlet,i*n NotthJ i^ ^^s of some importance three hundred years ago, as ahamshire. post-towu ou the great road from London to Scotland, andas containing a manor place belonging to the Archbishop of York,then the Archbishop Sandys, one of whose sons was that Edwin San-dys who, in 1618, was made Treasurer of the Virginia Company inLondon. There were historical associations connected with the arch-bishops residence at Scrooby other than those for which the descend-ants of the Pilgrim Fathers may cherish its memory, and whicheven now are not without some interest. Here Margaret, Queen ofScotland,
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