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... charge ( very unjustly , and ungodlily , yet prelatelike ) some of their cheefe opposers , with rebellion and hightreason against the Emperour , and other such crimes . 1 And this contention dyed not with queene Mary , nor was left ...
... charge ( very unjustly , and ungodlily , yet prelatelike ) some of their cheefe opposers , with rebellion and hightreason against the Emperour , and other such crimes . 1 And this contention dyed not with queene Mary , nor was left ...
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... charge , of which I will give an instance or tow , and omitte the rest . Ther was a large companie of them purposed to get pas- sage at Boston in Lincoln - shire , and for that end had hired a shipe wholy to them selves , and made ...
... charge , of which I will give an instance or tow , and omitte the rest . Ther was a large companie of them purposed to get pas- sage at Boston in Lincoln - shire , and for that end had hired a shipe wholy to them selves , and made ...
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... charge of the rest ) to sollicite this matter , who found ✓ the Virginia Company ' very desirous to have them goe thither , and willing to grante them a patent , with as ample priviliges as they had , or could grant to any , and to ...
... charge of the rest ) to sollicite this matter , who found ✓ the Virginia Company ' very desirous to have them goe thither , and willing to grante them a patent , with as ample priviliges as they had , or could grant to any , and to ...
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... charge , as by the sequell will appeare . This patente being sente over for them to veiw and consider , as also the passages aboute the propossitions between them and such marchants and freinds as should either goe or adventure with ...
... charge , as by the sequell will appeare . This patente being sente over for them to veiw and consider , as also the passages aboute the propossitions between them and such marchants and freinds as should either goe or adventure with ...
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... charged with fraudulent transactions by Robert Gorges , who for a time was governor- general of New England , but saved from punishment by the intercession of Governor Bradford . He died in Bristol , England , not far from 1640 . some ...
... charged with fraudulent transactions by Robert Gorges , who for a time was governor- general of New England , but saved from punishment by the intercession of Governor Bradford . He died in Bristol , England , not far from 1640 . some ...
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Page 156 - And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
Page 95 - ... was the same unto him. But hear I cannot but stay and make a pause, and stand half amased at this poore peoples presente condition; and so I thinke will the reader too, when he well considers the same. Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles...
Page 130 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God...
Page 238 - Indeans, they spent it as vainly, in quaffing and drinking both wine and strong waters in great exsess, and, as some reported, 10 It.
Page 105 - Occasioned partly by the discontented and mutinous speeches that some of the strangers amongst them had let fall from them in the ship: That when they came ashore they would use their own liberty, for none had power to command them...
Page 110 - ... tooles that were stolen away before, and made way for the coming of their great Sachem, called Massasoyt; who, about 4. or 5. days after, came with the cheefe of his freinds and other attendance, with the aforesaid Squanto. With whom, after frendly entertainment, and some gifts given him, they made a peace with him (which hath now continued this 24. years) in these terms.
Page 172 - Concerning the killing of those poor Indians, of which we heard at first by report, and since by more certain relation. Oh, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some, before you had killed any; besides where blood is once begun to be shed, it is seldom staunched of a long time after.
Page 107 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Page 108 - And of these, in the time of most distress, there was but six or seven sound persons who to their great commendations, be it spoken, spared no pains night nor day, but with abundance of toil and hazard of their own health, fetched them wood, made them fires, dressed them meat, made their beds, washed their loathsome clothes, clothed and unclothed them.
Page 108 - ... their inacomodate condition had brought upon them; so as ther dyed some times 2 or 3 of a day, in the aforesaid time; that of 100 and odd persons, scarce 50 remained.