Parkinson, Marmaduke, explorer, 10.
Parliamentary freedom, struggle for, 87.
Parties, the two great, of Protestantism, rise of, 106; results, 107; lines between, not sharply drawn at once, 110; controversy between, grew more bitter, 114.
Party, a moderate, lamented the excesses of the extremists, 117.
Pa.s.sage to the Pacific Ocean sought, 3, 4, 9, 10, 22, n. 5; 73, 74.
See also NORTHWEST Pa.s.sAGE and PACIFIC OCEAN.
Patent, royal, validity of, questioned by Williams, 274, 281, 289, 308, n. 9; 309, n. 12.
Patience, the, pinnace, built wholly of wood, 41.
Paulus, Pieter, Verklaring der Unie van Utrecht, 312, n. 18.
Pearce, Mistress, "near twenty years" in Virginia, 71, n. 18.
Pearl fisheries in Virginia waters, 95, n. 3.
Peckard"s Life of Ferrar, 65, n. 5; 87, m.; 93, m.; account of, 97, n. 10; 100, m.
Peirce, John, received a grant from the Virginia Company, 184, n. 4.
Pequot war, Williams denounced slaughter of women and children in, 305; plan of campaign changed through a revelation, 338.
Pequots dangerous on Connecticut River, 323.
Percy, George, on the arrival at Virginia, 28; on the sufferings at Jamestown, 30; increased the hostility of the Indians, 38, 64, n. 4; inefficiency as governor, 44, 60, n. 2; succeeded by Gates, 101.
Percy to Northumberland, 46, m.; Trewe Relacyon, 40, m.; 60, n. 2; 64, n. 4; 65, n. 5.
Perfect Description of Virginia, 11, m.
Perfume to be extracted from the muskrat, 95, n. 3.
Persecution in Queen Mary"s time, 103; spirit of, pervaded every party, 113; of the Separatists, 141; begot Separatism, 154, 155; new storm of, 163, 182, n. 1; starts agitation for emigration to Virginia, 168, 183, n. 2.
Peter, Hugh, rebuked Cotton for defending Mrs. Hutchinson, 337; browbeat Mrs. Hutchinson"s witnesses, 338; returned to England and favored toleration, 348, n. 7.
Pet.i.tion to House of Lords, 345, m.
Pharisaism of the rigid Sabbath, 132.
Philosophical Transactions, 78, m.; 79, m.
Pilgrims brought Barrowism to New England, 148; Scrooby and Austerfeld cradles of the, 149; no tradition of, lingers at Scrooby, 150; common country folk, 151; flee to Amsterdam, 164; theological agitations drive them to Leyden, 165; danger of extinction, 166; intermarriages with the Dutch, 167; emigration to Virginia under consideration, 168, 182, n. 2; questioned whether to be Dutch or English colonists, 169; ask aid of Edwin Sandys, in securing religious liberty, 169; receive two charters, a general order, and a liberal patent from the Virginia Company, 172; their Compact under the general order, 173; departure from Leyden, 174; forced to land, select Plymouth, 177; suffered for their ignorance of colony-planting, 178; honor due, 186, n. 8; "stepping stones to others," 188; slender success of, stimulated commercial settlements, 189; the "large patent" granted to the, through influence of Sandys, 206; influence on the Ma.s.sachusetts colony, 212.
Piscataqua, settlement on the, 189.
Plaine Declaration of Barmudas, 65, n. 6.
Planting, the first, at Jamestown, 29.
Plants of every clime believed to grow in Virginia, 82.
Plays, performance of, on Sundays prohibited, 127.
Pledge signed at Cambridge by Winthrop"s party, 209.
Plymouth, ceremony observed at, 103; the landing at, 177; horrors of Jamestown repeated at, 179; the second step in the founding of a great nation, 181; Roger Williams "prophesied" at, 272; people styled "mungrell Dutch," 273; disturbed by Williams, 274; gives him a letter of dismissal to Salem, 275.
Pocahontas, 33, 35, 37; converted and wedded to Rolfe, 49; taken to England, 49, 68, n. 10; captured by Argall, 50; dies leaving an infant son, 52.
Pocahontas story, the, 63, n. 3.
Pomp and display at the court of Elizabeth, 98; imitation of, objected to by the Puritans, 100, 134, n. 2.
Popham, Captain George, attempt of, to colonize in Maine, 178.
Port Royal, map showing strait near, 8, 21, n. 4.
Pory"s Report, 70, n. 15; 77, m.
Pots and Phettiplace, narrative, 35, 61, n. 2.
Powhatan releases Captain Smith, 33, 34, 35.
Precinct in Virginia asked for by Calvert, 229.
Presbyterianism developed under Cartwright, 112, 136, n. 6; swept out by Whitgift, 122; hoped for in New England, 213.
Price of commodities, rise of, promoted voyages, 22, n. 5.
Private interest, even a slave"s patch of, put life into Virginia, 48.
Proceedings Ma.s.s. Hist. Soc., Wheelwright"s sermon in, 331, m.
Proceedings of Virginia a.s.sembly, 80, m.
Property, community of. See COMMUNISM; LABOUR.
Prophet, the, and the reformer, 306.
Proportion, lack of sense of, peculiar to zealots and polemics, 130.
Protestant colonists at St. Christopher"s oppose Catholic fellow-colonists, 231; no Protestant minister or worship on ships coming to Maryland, 242.
Protestant Nunnery, Ferrar"s community at Little Gidding called the, 93.