Sir Ferdinando Gorges and His Province of Maine: Including the Brief Relation, the Brief Narration, His Defence, the Charter Granted to Him, His Will, and His Letters, Volumen18

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James Phinney Baxter
Prince Society, 1890

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Página 65 - Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those Parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government; DO, by these our Letters Patents, graciously accept of, and agree to, their humble and wellintended...
Página 9 - At the end of all this ceremonial a number of unmarried ladies appeared, who, with particular solemnity, lifted the meat off the table, and conveyed it into the queen's inner and more private chamber, where, after she had chosen for herself, the rest goes to the ladies of the court...
Página 8 - A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along with him another, who had a table-cloth, which, after they had both kneeled three times with the utmost veneration, he spread upon the table, and after kneeling again they both retired. Then came two others, one with the rod again, the other with a...
Página 8 - ... kneeled, as the others had done, and placed what was brought upon the table, they too retired with the same ceremonies performed by the first. At last came an unmarried lady (we...
Página 40 - By God's son I am no queen, that man is above me; — who gave him command to come here so soon ? I did send him on other business.
Página 64 - They were all of one nation, but of several parts, and several families. This accident must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations.
Página 51 - I wish you might speak any thing that might do yourself good ; but remember your reputation, and that you are a gentleman ; I pray you answer me, did you advise me to leave my enterprize ? Sir F. Gorge, My Lord, I think I did.
Página 114 - I know not (under favor) how any action of that kind could be a grievance to the public, seeing at first it was undertaken for the advancement of religion, the enlargement of the bounds of our nation, the increase of trade, and the employment of many thousands of all sorts of people.
Página 202 - Defences, encounter, expulse, repel, and resist, as well by Sea as by Land, by all Ways and Means whatsoever, all and every such Person and Persons, as without the especial Licence of the said several Colonies and Plantations, shall attempt to inhabit within the said several Precincts and Limits of the said several Colonies and Plantations, or any of them...
Página 205 - John Smith from Plymouth, in a ship, together with Master Darmer and divers others with him, to lay the foundation of a new plantation, and to try the fishing of that coast, and to...

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