PETITION OF RIGHT, 61.
PHILLIPS, SAMUEL, 128.
PILGRIM CHURCH in Plymouth, 94, 98.
PILGRIM FATHERS, 49; Gainsborough-upon-Trent, 51; Scrooby,
51; spirit of the Pilgrims, 53-57; their sufferings, 52, 54, 55;
their departure for Holland, 54-55; in Amsterdam, 56; remove
to Leyden, 56; reasons for their going to America, 57; their
departure, 57, 84; poetic quality in Pilgrim history, 101; their
legislation, 109; Quakers at Plymouth, 109-110.
PILGRIM MODEL OF A CHURCH adopted, 94, 96.
Pilgrims, The, pioneers, 236; without domestic animals, 236;
or ploughs, without milk or butter, 236; without nourishing
food, 237; or suitable clothing, 237; compared with Jacob and
his sons, 238; in debt to the Company in England, 238; ex-
posed to savages, 239.
PLYMOUTH COLONY, 84; government of, 98; no religious tests, 99,
IOI, 102, 170.
POLITY OF THE EARLY CHURCHES, 177; the Cambridge Platform,
179; fellowship of the Churches, 180, 285.
POLITICAL ELEMENTS IN THE PURITAN CAUSE, 39.
POVERTY OF THE PIONEER SETTLERS IN MAINE, 380; the pillion,
number of wheeled carriages, 380.
PREACHING IN BRUNSWICK in the last century, 383; doctrines
preached, catechising, 383.
PRESBYTERIANS IN MAINE, 372; first church in Brunswick Presby-
terian, 378; became Congregational, 379.
PRESBYTERIAN ORDINATION recognized by the Church of Eng-
land, 42.
PRINCE, THOMAS, 327.
PRINTING-PRESSES, not allowed, 20, 28, 31.
PRISCILLA MULLINS, 243; reply to Standish, 244.
PROTESTANT EXILES return to England, 16.
PROTESTANT REFORMATION in England, 9; the Puritan protest
against error, 282; love of the Bible, 282; the Lord's-day, 283.
PROTESTANT Refugees in ENGLAND, 16, 33.
PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS, 170, 338; provisions of its charter,
union of Church and State, 339; no religious test for the Suf-
frage, 340.
PUBLIC WORSHIP, 147; attendance required by law, 148; began at
9 o'clock, 148; called at beat of the drum, 149; order of ser-
vices, 149; prayers, 149; exposition, singing, 150; sermons,
152; afternoon services, 154; contributions, 155.
PUBLIC WORSHIP, AND THE SACRAMENTS, in Maine, 374; how the
Lord's Supper was administered, 379; baptism, 379; regular
services on the Lord's-day, 380.
PURITANS IN ENGLAND, 5, 14, 16; origin of the word, 16; Religio
purissima, 16; division of the Puritans, 21; rapid growth of
Puritanism, 30; political elements in the Puritan cause, 39; the
defenders of liberty, 39, 45, 76, 92; requests from the Church
of England, 36; their so-called bigotry, causes, 68; migration
to New England, 69, 79; limitations of the Puritans, 76; their
culture, 78, 79; John Owen, 78; Colonel John Hutchinson, 78,
222-225; their colleges, 79; their influence, So; causes of the
fall of the Commonwealth, 75-76.
PURITANS IN NEW ENGLAND, Non-Conformists, 84; from the
upper middle classes, 90; political plans, 92; suffrage restricted
by a religious test, 100; thrifty and prosperous people, 102;
their intellectual spirit, 106; Harvard College, Cambridge
Platform, 107; their legislation, 111, 251.
PURITANS IN MASSACHUSETTS, provided with cattle and other
domestic animals, 239; often destitute of nourishing food, 240;
visited by sickness, 240; dependent on a wind-mill, 240; in-
fluence of, 273-276, 306.
PURITAN INFLUENCE IN NEW ENGLAND, 4; numbers who came
from England, 4; proportion of Puritan descent, 5.
PURITAN MINISTERS SILENCED, 20, 64, 67.
PURITAN OBJECTIONS TO SEPARATISTS, 94.
PURITAN SCRUPLES about Conformity, 15.
PURITAN TYPE, THE, 271; compared with the Greek type, 271 ;
Patricians of Rome, 272.
PYNCHON RECORD BOOK, 194.
PYNCHON, WILLIAM, GENT., 185; ancestry, 186; portrait, 187;
education, member of the Massachusetts Company, Treasurer,
188; fur-trader, 188; house lot, 192; magistrate, 192, 194;
controls trade with the Indians, 199; gains a large fortune,
200; publishes a book in 1650, 200; the Meritorious Price of
our Redemption, 200; called to answer before the General
Court, 202; required to retract; causes of the excitement, poli-
tics in the case, 202; his scholarship, 206; constructive part of
his book, 207; confers with the Elders, 209; explains his opin-
ions before the General Court, 210; meaning of his letter to the
Court, 210; left out of the magistracy, 211; placed under
bonds, 212; returns to England, 212; Wraysbury, literary occu-
pations, 215: Works, 215-216; family, 217; portrait, 218;
book, 290, 338.
QUAKERS, their treatment in England, 174; reasons why they were
not tolerated in New England, 175; four of them put to death,
175; repeal of the law, 175, 254.
REACTIONARY PARTY IN THE CHURCH, 43; advocates passive
obedience, 45; the divine right of kings, 41, 46, 59; the high
prerogatives of the king, 47; Montague, 59; Mainwaring, 59.
REASONS FOR EXCLUDING those not of their way of thinking, 93.
REFORMATION IN ENGLAND, 9; Luther, 9; difference between
German Reformation and the English, 9.
REFORMING SYNOD, 315.
RELIGION IN PURITAN LIFE, 262.
REPUBLICS of Greece, 85.
REVIVALS OF RELIGION, few, 313; The Great Awakening, 314,
338; revivals in Maine, 385; in Harpswell, 386; in North
Yarmouth, 386.
RHODE ISLAND, 240.
RING IN MARRIAGE, 15.
ROBINSON, REV. JOHN, 52, 94, 120.
ROMANISM in the Church of England, 59, 65, 66, 84, 95.
ROMANISTS, numbers of in England, 15.
ROYAL COMMISSIONERS, 105, 123.
RUTHERFORD, Rev. Robert, 374 and note; length of pastorate,
374.
SABBATH, THE PURITAN VIEW concerning, 65, 148, 268, 282-283;
Book of Sports, 65, 283.
SALEM, First Church formed, 97, 159.
SAVOY CONFESSION, 319; an improvement on the Westminster
Confession, 320; adopted in Boston, 1680, 320; reaffirmed
1865, 321.
SAYBROOK PLATFORM, 321; influence of, 328; in the second
century, 336.
SCOTTISH WAR in 1640, 73.
SECOND CENTURY in New England History, 335; period of trans-
ition, improved buildings, and ways of living 336; Half-way
Covenant, 336; Yale College, 336; Saybrook platform, 336;
Arminian theology, 336.
SEPARATISTS, origin of, 21; Separatist Church in Norwich, 22;
Separatists in London, 24; persecution of, 25; martyrs, 25-28.
SERMONS OF THE PURITAN MINISTERS, 152; not written; length,
SERVICE OF SONG IN MASSACHUSETTS, 150; in Brunswick, 379;
number of tunes, 381; version of psalms, 381.
SETTLEMENT FOR THE MINISTER, 132, 340.
Seventeenth CENTURY, 233; belief in witchcraft, 234; cruel pun-
ishments, 234; slavery, 234; simple life, reverence, dignity, 235;
respect for philosophy and religion, 235; its great poets and
statesmen, 236.
SHEPARD, THOMAS, personal history, 106, 292; pastor of the Church
in Cambridge, 293; his views in theology, 293; his works, 292
SIMPLE COBBLER OF AGAWAM, 258.
SINGING, 150; no instruments of music, 150; psalter of Ainsworth,
Bay Psalm Book, tunes used, 150; no choirs, 152; singing by
note, or by rote, 151; decline of church music (note), reform
in methods of singing, 151; church choirs, 152; in Maine,
379.
SKELTON, SAMUEL, 122, 158.
SOCIAL DISTINCTIONS, 143; the titles Mr. and Mrs., 256; Good-
man and Goodwife, 257; loss of the title by a misdemeanor,
257; catalogues of Harvard, 257; the title Sir, 257.
SOUNDING BOARD, 141; in English churches (note), 142.
SPRINGFIELD, Settlement of, 191; mutual agreement, 191, 195;
number of families, allotment of land, 191; Agawam, 191; agree-
ment with the Indians, 192; jury, 194; sets up a government,
195; town-meeting, 197; penalty for carrying fire; standard of
measure; monthly training, powder not to be sold to Indians,
197; wages of carpenters, 198; other laborers; penalty for re-
fusing to serve as an officer of the town; stipend paid for beat-
ing the drum for the meetings, 198.
SPRINGFIELD IN ITS SECOND Century, 337; towns in the Con-
necticut Valley, Association of Ministers, 337.
STAFFORD IMPEACHED, 74.
STANDISH, MILES, 243.
STAR CHAMBER, 20.
SUFFRAGE LIMITED by a religious test, 99, 168, 169.
SUPPORT OF MINISTERS, 130; voluntary contributions, 131; tax
by authority of the Colony, 131; salaries of, 132; “settlement,”
132; not poor men, 134; qualifications, 339; method of select-
ing a minister, 340; support of, 340.
SYNOD OF 1637, 289; condemns eighty-two erroneous views, 290.
SYNOD OF CAmbridge, 1646, 107, 178, 291.
SYNOD OF 1679, 315; time and place of meeting, 315; questions
before it, 315; statement of the sins of New England, 316–
318; recommendations, 318; seconded by the General Court,
318; and by the Churches, results, 319; adjourned meeting of
the Synod, 319; Savoy Synod, and its confession, 319-320;
The Boston Synod adopts its confession, 320; amendments,
320; Congregational Council of 1865, 321; influence of this
Confession, 321, 327.
TABLE FURNITURE, 137.
TAX FOR SUPPORT OF CHURCHES, 100.
TEA, not in use, 138.
TENNYSON, quoted, 112.
THANKSGIVING DAYS, 167; days of fasting, 167.
THIRTY YEARS WAR, 34, 50.
TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE, Wyclif's, 6; Tyndale's, 11; Cover-
dale's, 11; King James', 37.
UNITARIANISM IN NEW ENGLAND, origin of, 313.
VANE, SIR HENRY, 185, 213.
VERSIONS quoted in Mr. Pynchon's book, 206.
WARD, NATHANIEL, 255; author of Body of Liberties, and the
Simple Cobbler of Agawam, 258.
WAREHOUSE POINT, 199.
WATER MILL, the first, 241.
WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY, date of, 204; statement of its doctrines
concerning Atonement, 205.
WHITE, REV. JOHN, of Dorchester, England, 89.
WHITGIFT, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, 18.
WILLARD'S, SAMUEL, Body of Divinity, 283; earliest folio in New
England, 302; evidence for the Bible, 303; inspiration; elec-
tion, 303; Redemption, 304; Person of Christ, Inability, 304;
difference between this theology and that of Hooker, 305.
WILLIAMS, ROGER, 122, 171, 173; recalled, 174, 306.
WILLIAM THe Silent, 76, 84.
WILSON, JOHN, 121, 132.
WINDMILL SET UP IN NEWTOWN, 240; in Boston, 241.
WINE AND SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, 139.
WINSLOW, GOVERNOR EDWARD, 90, 96, 185.
WINTHROP, ADAM, 226.
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