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Domestic Correspondence, James I, 134, n. 1.

Dorchester Company, failure of colony of, on Cape Ann, 189, 199.

Dorchester, Ma.s.s., church covenant, 219, n. 9; ready to follow the lead of Hooker, 323; settlers remove from to Connecticut, 324; church emigrated bodily, 325.

Drama, the age of the, 99.

Dress, inordinate display in, 134, n. 2; laws to repress, 100; excesses in, denounced, 120; regulations against, in Ma.s.sachusetts, 285.

Drunkenness, punishment for, 342.

Dudley, a zealous advocate of religious intolerance, 287; impatient to snuff out Williams, 288; verse by, 288; rude and overbearing, 338.

Dudley to the Countess of Lincoln, 174, 317, m.

Durham, legal power of Bishops of, given to proprietor of Maryland, 236, 263, n. 12.

Dutch Government declined to a.s.sure the Pilgrims of protection against England, 173; made tempting offers to the Independents, 176; despised for showing toleration, 298, 311, n. 18; laid claim to the Connecticut, 323; occupation giving way, 346.

Duties, heavy, on tobacco, 85, 96, n. 8.

Dyer, Mary, misfortune of, 340.

East India Company's agents, cruelty of, 67, n. 9.

East Indies, desire for a short pa.s.sage to the, 3, 4, 5, 12, 22, n. 5.

Eastward, Ho! the play of, 23.

Ecclesiastical Commission, the inquisitorial, 114.

Ecclesiastical extension desired by the English Church, 90; organization of the Brownists dominant, 141; politics explosive in Ma.s.sachusetts, 326; system of government, petty tyranny that inheres in, 342.

Economic success of the Virginia colony a.s.sured, 49; adverse conditions more deadly than an ungenial climate, 78; problems solved by homely means, 84.

Edwards, T., Antapologia, 217, n. 4.

Eliot, Sir John, confined in the Tower, 203.

Eliot, John, convinced of error, 290, 291; usher and disciple of Hooker, 317.

Eliot's Biography, 201, m.; 288, m.

Elizabeth, Queen, jeweled dresses of, 98; gorgeous progresses of, 99; could not compel uniformity, 109; threatens to unfrock a bishop, 110; molded the church to her will, 112; her policy of repression resulted in the civil war, 114; greatest popularity in last years of her reign, 121.

Elizabethan age, the, 1; prodigal of daring adventure, 20.

Ellis Letters, The, 182, n. 1.

Ellis collection, first series, 238, m.

Elton's brief biography of Roger Williams, 311, n. 17.

Emigrants sail for Virginia, 25; bad character of the, 27, 59.

Emigration to New England quickened by troubles that preceded the civil war, 344; reached greatest height in 1638, 344; ceased entirely in 1640, 344; to Virginia and Maryland, received impetus from check of Puritan exodus, 344, 345.

Emmanuel College, Cambridge, the cradle of Puritan divines, 316.

Endecott, John, leaders.h.i.+p and character of, 200; cut arm of cross from English colors, 201; put Quakers to death, 202; impetuous radicalism of, 271; protested against the double injustice to Salem, 291; arrested, apologized, and submitted, 291; witnesses for Mrs. Hutchinson browbeaten by, 338.

England, danger from, feared in Ma.s.sachusetts, 284, 285.

English, character of the, at the period of Elizabeth and James, 20; sober living of, 342; superior apt.i.tude of, for planting agricultural communities, 346; compactness of settlement and increase of, decided the fate of North America, 346.

English knowledge and notions of America, 1; first protest against oppression, 56; jealousy of Spain, 74, 94, n. 1; ecclesiastics reproached by Roman Catholics, 90, 97, n. 11; Church leaders not content while Spanish priests converted infidels, 90; eminent clergy among the exiled, 104; churches organized in cities of refuge, 104; beginning of two parties in the Church, 107; heads of the Church attacked by Mar-Prelate, 115; laws against Catholics embarra.s.s the foreign policy, 238; rise of the first of the colonies, 1; prospective ascendency of the colonies, 345.

English Protestantism. See PROTESTANTISM, ENGLISH.

Ephod of Jewish high priest, discussion of material of, 108.

Epworth, the nest of Methodism, 150.

Esquimaux kidnapped by Frobisher, 17.

Eustachius and his doc.u.ment dropped from heaven, 138, n. 8.

Evans, Owen, accused of "pressing" maidens, 72, n. 19.

Evelyn's Diary, 18, m.; 134, n. 1.

Excerpta de Diversis Literis, 246, m.

Excommunication dreaded by the Puritans, 339.

Exiles, the English, 104; return of, 107; results of their squabbles, 107.

Exploration, American, the history of, a story of delusion and mistake, 3; r.e.t.a.r.ded settlement, 4.

Extravagance of Indian tales, 8.

Factions at Jamestown, 36, 64, n. 4.

Fairs and markets on Sundays, 138, n. 8.

Faith, devotion to, 245.