Abraham Lincoln . a government of the people in America. We alsoknow that there was an older brother, Thomas; but it is not certainthat we shall ever learn much about their parents. It seems probablethat they w^ere obliged to work hard to obtain a living for themselvesand their children. We may conclude that their home was a cottagethatched with straw. We may think of the brothers as playing in thestreets, or going into the green fields and gathering daisies, listening tothe larks and nightingales. They could look across the meadows andsee the tall spire of Norwich Cathedral, and in the hush a
Abraham Lincoln . a government of the people in America. We alsoknow that there was an older brother, Thomas; but it is not certainthat we shall ever learn much about their parents. It seems probablethat they w^ere obliged to work hard to obtain a living for themselvesand their children. We may conclude that their home was a cottagethatched with straw. We may think of the brothers as playing in thestreets, or going into the green fields and gathering daisies, listening tothe larks and nightingales. They could look across the meadows andsee the tall spire of Norwich Cathedral, and in the hush and stillnesshear the o-reat bell sending]: forth its music. Quite likely they heard their parents say that King James had died, and that his son, Charles I., was King. Then the talk was about troublesome times. Tlie Kino- maintained that he was ordained 1625 ^ by God to rule the nation, and thiit it was the duty of the peo-ple to obey. The bishop preached that the King could do no LIFE OF ABRAHAM NORWICH CATHEDRAL. Charles wanted money, and levied taxes without consulting Puritans who would not pay, together with those who would notaccept the ritual prepared by the bishop, were arrested —so many thatthe jail and the Guildhall in Norwich were filled. When the officersundertook to collect the tax in Lincoln the people pelted them with ANCESTRY. stones. The Puritans all over England were resisting the demands of theKing. Possibly it was the desire of Charles to get rid of them that ledhim to grant a charter for a government of their own in America. The])ersecution of the bislioj) and the arbitrary acts of the King made life sobitter that thousands of Puritans were ready to quit England forever. Many of the people of Norfolk and Lincoln counties had sailed for]\[assachusetts; others were ready to join them. The ships Hose andthe Joh)h and Dorothy were at Yarmouth, preparing to Lawes resolved to become an emigrant; and it seemsprobable
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