A history of the American nation . bitter winter set in, cold anddisease brought suffering and death; and the next summerthe enterprise was abandoned. This failure seems to have prej-udiced the people of England against the bleak and forbiddingnorth, and for some years no other effort at settlement wasmade. In 1614 John Smith, the doughty soldier who had saved Jamestown, made a voyage to these coastsjiamed^^ and explored them from the Penobscot to Cape Cod. He drew a map of the coast, sprinkledit plentifully with English names, and christened it NewEngland. ^ We have now to recount the beginni
A history of the American nation . bitter winter set in, cold anddisease brought suffering and death; and the next summerthe enterprise was abandoned. This failure seems to have prej-udiced the people of England against the bleak and forbiddingnorth, and for some years no other effort at settlement wasmade. In 1614 John Smith, the doughty soldier who had saved Jamestown, made a voyage to these coastsjiamed^^ and explored them from the Penobscot to Cape Cod. He drew a map of the coast, sprinkledit plentifully with English names, and christened it NewEngland. ^ We have now to recount the beginnings of permanent north-ern settlements, the courageous work of men and women whohad the strength of heart and lofty purpose to face the coldwinters of New England, to whom wealth was of little momentif they were allowed to worship as they chose and to live their ^ Smith says on his map: The most remarqueable parts thus namedby the high and mighty Prince Charles, Prince of Great Britaine. 48 THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES—1607-1700 49. Part of John Smiths Map of New England simple lives in a state of their own building. To understandaright how these perraanent settlements came to be made, wemust get some idea of the religious strivings and dissensionsof that day in England. Students of English history will remember that, in thereign of Henry VIII, the Church in England was separatedfrom the Roman Church and dependence on theIn^Engiand!*^*^ Pope renounced. In the time of Elizabeth, how-ever, not all the people were Protestants, nor wasthere agreement as to forms of worship or methods of churchgovernment. The queen insisted upon conformity to the reg- 50 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION ulations of the Established Church, of which she was thehead, and during her reign perhaps the majority of the peopleacquiesced in the conservative position she adopted. Many,on the other hand, were dissatisfied, and some were ready tosuffer persecution rather than conform to the existing land
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