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    nies of Providence , Connecticut , New Hampshire , Maine , and Newhaven were formed in the course of a few years , all substantially on the same plan . Heresy was punished with banishment ; Jesuits and other Roiuish priests in case of their return ,

    with death . This law was afterwards extended to quakers . Perpetual slavery was not allowed by law , ( though , as we have seen , the law was evaded ) except in the case of captives lawfully taken in the wars . All but defensive war was disclaimed . Many of the penal enactments closel y resembled the Mosaic code . Some hints might be taken by Sir Andrew Agnew from

    their sabbath laws . All persons were forbidden to run or even walk , " except reverently to and from church , " on Sunday , or to profane the day by sweeping their houses , cooking their victuals , or shaving their beard . Mothers were not allowed to kiss their children on Sunday . The celebration of marriage was confined to the magistrate , or such other person as the general court might authorise . These are a few of the laws of New England which appear most peculiar and worthy of

    It was not long before Charles began to repent of the liberty he had permitted to grow up in America . He made various efforts to crush it , but they were evaded . He then determined to stop further emigration , and detained the fleet in which Hazlerig , Hampden , Pyin and Cromwell had embarked . His further proceedings were checked by the discontents at home , which occupied all his attention . At this period the population of New England was 20 , 000 .

    The colonists had to contend with the Long Parliament , which endeavoured to extend its power over them , and required their charters to be surrendered to it , but Cromwell pr tected them , and they remained as before . Their well founded fears of tyrannical encroachment at the Restoration produced the following Declaration of

    Rights" That the patent ( under God ) is the original compact and main foundation of the provincial Commonwealth , and of iu institutions and policy : that the governor and company are by the patent , a body politic empowered to confer the rights of freemen ; and that the freemen so constituted have authority to elect annually their governors ,

    assistants , representatives , and all other officers ; that the magistracy thus composed hath all requisite power , both legislative and executive , for the government of all the people , whether inhabitants or strangers , without appeal , except against laws repugnant to those of England : that the provincial government is entitled by every means , even by

    force of arms , to defend itself both by land and sea against all who should attempt injury to the province or its inhabitants ; and that any imposition injurious to the provincial community , and contrary to its just laws , would be an infringement of the fundamental laws of the people of New England . "—Vol . I . p . 309 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 309, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/45/