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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
York. The charter which secured a large and fertile province to William Penn, and thus invested philanthropy with 1681. executive power on the western bank of the Delaware, was a grant from Charles II. After Philip's war in New England, Mount Hope was hardly rescued from a 1679. courtier, then famous as the author of two indifferent comedies. The grant of Nova Scotia to Sir Thomas Temple was not revoked, while, with the inconsistency of ignorance, Acadia, with indefinite boundaries, was 1667. restored to the French. From the outer cape of Nova Scotia to Florida, with few exceptions, the tenure of every territory was changed. Nay, further, the trade with Africa, the link in the chain of universal commerce, that first joined Europe, Asia, and America together, and united the Caucasian, the Malay, and the Ethiopian races in indissoluble bonds, was given away to a company, which alone had the right of planting on the African coast. The frozen zone itself was invaded, and Prince Ru
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
actual possession of an indefinite adjacent country. Spain had never formally acknowledged the English title to any possessions in America; and when a treaty was 1667. May 23. finally concluded at Madrid, it did but faintly concede the right of England to her transatlantic colonies, and to a continuance of commerce in the accustifferent to the fate of her children, listened to their prayer for some relief in their distress, and in May, 1667, ministered to their wants by a general contri- 1667. ution through her settlements. Massachusetts Records for May, 1667, vol. IV. part II. p. 337. The infant town planted on Oldtown Creek, near the south side ofvasion of the Spanish commercial monopoly; had sometimes protected pirates; and Charles II. had conferred the honors of knighthood on a freebooter. The treaty of 1667 changed the relations of the pirate and the contraband trader. But men's habits do not change so easily; and in Carolina, especially after Portroyal had been laid
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
ed the Indian title to Newark. With one May 21. heart, they resolved to carry on their spiritual and town affairs according to godly government; to be ruled un- 1667. der their old laws by officers chosen from among themselves; and when, in May, 1668, a colonial legislative 1668. May 26. assembly was for the first time convenelitical unity. In the governor and his subservient council were vested the executive and the highest judicial powers; with the court of assizes, composed 1664 to 1667. of justices of his own appointment, holding office at his will, he exercised supreme legislative power, promulgated a code of laws, and modified or repealed them re held to require renewal, and Nicolls gathered a harvest of fees from exacting new title-deeds. Under Lovelace, his successor, the same system was Chap XV.} 1667 May. 1669 more fully developed. Even on the southern shore of the Delaware, the Swedes and Finns, the most enduring of all emigrants, were roused to resistance Th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
listening to the voice of conscience. Religion— such was his remonstrance to the viceroy of Ireland— is my crime and my innocence; it makes me a prisoner to malice, but my own freeman. After his enlargement, returning to England, he en- 1666, 1667. countered bitter mockings and scornings, the invectives of the priests, the strangeness of all his old companions; Ibid. So Besse. it was noised about, in the fashionable world, as an excellent jest, that William Penn was a Quaker again, or some very melancholy thing;; Pepys, II. 172. and his father, in anger, turned him penniless out of doors. 1667. The outcast, saved from extreme indigence by a mother's fondness, became an author, and announced 1668. to princes, priests, and people, that he was one of the despised, afflicted and forsaken Quakers; and repair- Penn, i. 125. ing to court with his hat on, he sought to engage the Chap XVI.} duke of Buckingham in favor of liberty of conscience, claimed from those in authority b