The Beginners of a Nation Part 55

Vane, Sir Henry, the younger, favored the Antinomians, 267; an ardent Puritan, 332; arrives in Boston and is elected governor, 332; a disciple of Cotton, 333; defeat of, 336; leaves the colony, 337.

Vaughan's Golden Fleece, 261, n. 7.

Vessel, the first Virginia, built by Captain Argall, 50.

Vestments objected to, in reign of Edward VI, 103; bitter debates about, 108; ceased to be abhorrent, 123.

Virginia a.s.sembly pet.i.tions the king, 56; proceedings of the first, 70, n. 15.

Virginia colony, the, 8; emigrants set sail, 25; code of laws and orders, 26; character of the emigrants, 27; arrival, 27; first meetings with the Indians, 28; the winter of misery, 29; fear of attack from the Indians, 30; food bought of the Indians, 31; five hundred colonists arrive under Archer and Ratcliffe, 36; settlements at Nansemond and the falls of the James River, 37; famine of 1609-'10, 38; only sixty survivors in June, 1610, 40; arrival of Gates and Somers, 40; Jamestown abandoned, 41; arrival of De la Warr, 41; De la Warr's government, 42; flight of De la Warr, 43; second lease of life, 43; inefficient government of George Percy, 44; martial law and slavery under Thomas Dale, 45; ten men escape, 47; Dale's services, 47; private gardens allowed, 48; tobacco cultivated, 49; Argall's government and treachery, 50-52; the Great Charter, 1618, 55, 173; joy at its receipt, 56; feared re-establishment of the old tyranny, 56, 70, n. 16; wives supplied, 57; the first homes, 58; whole number of colonists, 58; four fifths perished, 59; pet.i.tion to the king, 65, n. 5; began raising silkworms, 76; the silk-gra.s.s craze in, 79; gla.s.s and iron works established and failed in, 83; planted tobacco, 84; struck root and its life a.s.sured, 85; gained impetus from the king's opposition, 89; government of, pa.s.sed to the Crown, 92; reached its greatest prosperity, 186, n. 8; inhospitable to Lord Baltimore, 230; opposes Roman Catholics, 231, 261, n. 9; reckless living of people and clergy, 231; expulsion of Lord Baltimore from, 232; new emigration to, 344; second generation of native Virginians appears, 345; better ministers in the parishes and order in the courts, 345.

Virginia colony, map of, by John White, 1586, 8, 21, 22.

Virginia Company, letter of, to Governor Wyatt quoted, 22, n. 5; code of laws and orders for its colonists, 26; swindled and robbed, 52; fall of the lottery, 53; revival of interest, 53; records destroyed, 54; change in conduct of affairs, 55; cruelty of agents paralleled by those of the East India Company, 67, n. 9; overthrow of the company, 70, n. 16; dissolved in 1624, 85, 89, 92; organized for trading, 86; pa.s.sed out of the control of traders, 87; King James interferes with the election, 88; grants two charters and a liberal patent to the Pilgrims, 172; also leave to establish a provisional government, 173; Lord Baltimore a member and councilor of, 224, 229, 230; attempt to take away privileges granted to the colonists, 230.

Virginia Company's Ma.n.u.script Records. See Ma.n.u.sCRIPT RECORDS, VIRGINIA COMPANY.

Virginia Richly Valued, 79, m.; 95, n. 3.

Virginians obliged to pay quitrents in Maryland, 249.

Vries, David P. de, Voyages, 308, n. 7.

Waddington's Congregational History, 167, m.

Walker's First Church in Hartford, 317, m.; 321, m.

Ward's Simple Cobbler, 285, m.; 299, m.

Warwick, second Earl, intrigues to wreck the Virginia Company, 51, 68, n. 13; protects Argall in his plundering, 52; has Cavendish and others arrested, 69, n. 13; loses influence in the company, 87; made Governor in Chief and Lord High Admiral of all plantations in America, 252.

Waterhouse's Declaration of Virginia, 22, n. 6.

Watertown church, part of, ready to follow Hooker, 323; one of the centres of discontent, 324.

Welde's Short Story of the Rise, Reign, and Ruine of Antinomianism, 330, m.; 336, m.; 339, m.; 340, m.; 347, n. 4.

Wentworth, friend of Calvert, 222.

West, insubordinate settlers under, 37, 60, n. 2; Indians hostile to, 60, n. 2; treacherous and cruel, 64, n. 4.

West India plants tried in Virginia, 82.

Weston Doc.u.ments, 11, m.

Wethersfield, John Oldham and his company settled at, 324.

Weymouth kidnapped Maine Indians, 17.

Whale-fis.h.i.+ng in Lake Ontario, 11.

Whelewright, brother-in-law of Mrs. Hutchinson, 336; banished at November court following the synod, 337; testimony regarding his sister-in-law, 348, n. 6.

Whelewright's sermon, 331, m.

Whincop charter not used, 184, n. 4; 186, n. 8.

Whiston, a place of Puritan a.s.semblage, 142.

Whitaker, Alexander, praises Dale, 66, n. 9; minister at Henrico, 168; letters, 183, n. 3.

Whitaker's Good Newes from Virginia, 66, n. 9; 168.

Whitbourne, Captain, pamphlet on Newfoundland, 224, 258, n. 3; letters of Wynne and others in, 229, m.

White, Father, Relatio Itineris, 243, m.; 244, m.; 263, n. 16; on settlement of Montserrat, 261, n. 9; 263, n. 14, n. 16.

White, John, of Dorchester, an active colonizer, 189, 199, 203.

White, John, map of Virginia by, 1586, 8; in Grenville Collection, 21, n. 4; reproduced in the Century Magazine, 22, n. 4; copy in Kohl Collection, 22, n. 4

White's, John, The Planter's Plea, 190, m.; 199, m.

Whitgift, Archbishop, efforts of, to suppress nonconformity, 122; ordered Bownd's book called in, 132; persecuted the Puritans at Scrooby, 153; declared King James inspired, 161.

Whittingham, Dean of Durham, author of A Brieff Discourse, 135, n. 3; on the Puritan side in Frankfort, 143.

Williams, Roger, in advance of his age, 256; opposed the authorities in Ma.s.sachusetts, 267; early career of, 268; refused preferments, 269, 307, n. 2; flight of, to New England, 270; refuses communion with the Boston church, 270, 307, n. 3; opposed to compromise, 271, 307, n. 4; his selection as minister at Salem opposed by the General Court, 271, 272; removed to Plymouth, 272; wrote a treatise on the dialect of the New England Indians, 273; rebuked Bradford and wrote against the royal patents, 274, 281, 308, n. 9; returned to Salem with some followers, 275; his ideal too high for that age, 281; preached without holding office, 281; "convented at court," 281; charges against, based on his book, "not so evil as at first they seemed," 282; the broad principle laid down by, 283; made teacher at Salem, 284; fast-day sermon on eleven "public sins," 286; dealt with ecclesiastically, 287; scruples against enforced oaths, 289; new charges against, 289; champion of soul liberty, 290; incorrigible, 290, 291; trial and banishment, 292, 309, n. 12; 310, n. 13, 14, 16; authorities, 310, n. 17; on account of illness permitted to remain during the winter, 293; a few friends faithful to, 293, 294; escape to the Indians, 295; abandons settlement at Seekonk River and founds Providence, 296; banishment of, an act of persecution, 297; character of, 301, 307, n. 1; a collector of scruples, 301, 302, 314, n. 23; tenderness and friends.h.i.+p for Winthrop, 302; became a Baptist and renounced his baptism, 303; a Seeker, 303, 304; his moral elevation of spirit, 304; ascendency over the Indians, 305; an individualist, 291, 305; superior to his age and ours, 305; his prophetic character, 306 a John Baptist of the distant future, 306; enthusiastic nature of, 307, n. 2; needed no practical consideration to stir him to action, 308, n. 11; magnanimity without a parallel, 310, n. 15; removal of Williams and his friends the beginning of dispersions from the colony, 315; prepared a harbor for all of uneasy conscience, 315.

Williams's letter to Mrs. Sadleir, 268, m.; 270, m.; letters to Winthrop, 273, m.; 302, m.; 307, n. 5; Reply to Cotton, 283, m.; letters to Lady Barrington, 307, n. 1; letter to John Cotton, the younger, 307, n. 2, 3, 4; letter to Major Mason, 310, n. 15; Bloudy Tenent, 311, n. 18.

Wilson, John, interprets battle of mouse and snake, 277; on Williams's book, 282; condemned by the Hutchinsonians, 333; given to rhyming prophecies, 338.

Windebank, schemes of Cecilius Calvert with, 250.

Wine, efforts to produce, in Great Britain, 76; in Virginia, 81.

Wingandacon, Indian name of the coast of North Carolina, 21, n. 3.

Wingfield deposed from leaders.h.i.+p, 31; recognizes Smith's services, 36; plot against the life of, 61, n. 2; warned Newport against Archer, 64, n. 3.

Wingfield's Discourse, 64, n. 3.

Winslow, of Plymouth, warns Williams from Seekonk River, 296.

Winslow's Briefe Narration, 172, m.; 175, m.; 185, n. 6.

Winsor's, Justin, Elder Brewster, 155, m.; 169, m.