Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry Into the Religious, Moral and Educational, Legal, Military, and Political Condition of the People Based on Original and Contemporaneous Records, Volume 1G.P. Putnam's sons, 1910 |
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... situated about a mile from Jamestown . It happened that , only a few days before , a settler residing not far from him had been treacherously killed by a band of Chickahominies . When Sunday arrived , Fairfax did not allow this fact to ...
... situated about a mile from Jamestown . It happened that , only a few days before , a settler residing not far from him had been treacherously killed by a band of Chickahominies . When Sunday arrived , Fairfax did not allow this fact to ...
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... situated in the lower parish of Isle of Wight county.2 Five years later , Samuel Fenn , of York , bequeathed five pounds sterling to the use of Middleton parish3 ; and a similar bequest was , about 1672 , made to the parish of Martin's ...
... situated in the lower parish of Isle of Wight county.2 Five years later , Samuel Fenn , of York , bequeathed five pounds sterling to the use of Middleton parish3 ; and a similar bequest was , about 1672 , made to the parish of Martin's ...
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... situated 1 Lower Norfolk County Antiquary , vol . iii . , p . 29 ; see also Lower Norfolk County Records , vol . 1651-6 , p . 113 . Some of these offenders were of the Quaker faith . * Hening's Statutes , vol . i . , p . 434 . on a ...
... situated 1 Lower Norfolk County Antiquary , vol . iii . , p . 29 ; see also Lower Norfolk County Records , vol . 1651-6 , p . 113 . Some of these offenders were of the Quaker faith . * Hening's Statutes , vol . i . , p . 434 . on a ...
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... situated in the county , and it was here that a part of the congregation were passing the interval of divine service , while the benches in the sacred edifice near by were almost empty of worshippers . This happened only a few years ...
... situated in the county , and it was here that a part of the congregation were passing the interval of divine service , while the benches in the sacred edifice near by were almost empty of worshippers . This happened only a few years ...
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... situated directly on the frontier . It will be interesting to investigate how far drunkenness prevailed in that community at this period as almost certainly reflecting the most extreme license in this form of self - indulgence then to ...
... situated directly on the frontier . It will be interesting to investigate how far drunkenness prevailed in that community at this period as almost certainly reflecting the most extreme license in this form of self - indulgence then to ...
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Page 14 - Lastly and chiefly, the way to prosper and achieve good success is to make yourselves all of one mind, for the good of your country and your own, and to serve and fear God, the Giver of all goodness; for every plantation which our Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out.
Page 614 - Correction'], there to imprison him [and keep him to hard labour] for the space of , and for so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant. Given under my hand and seal, this day of , in the year of our Lord , at , in the [county] aforesaid.
Page 245 - Majesties protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England from the penalties of certain laws...
Page 29 - Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries, that they shall endeavour themselves to the uttermost of their knowledges, that the due and true execution hereof may be had throughout their dioceses and charges, as they will answer before God for such evils and plagues, wherewith Almighty God may justly punish his people for neglecting this good and wholesome law.
Page 442 - Many lords of manors had received an education differing little from that of their menial servants. The heir of an estate often passed his boyhood and youth at the seat of his family with no better tutors than grooms and gamekeepers, and scarce attained learning enough to sign his name to a Mittimus...
Page 17 - It is provided and enacted, that every person at his or their respective admission to be incumbent in any...
Page 4 - WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the 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...
Page 205 - England, very few of good conversation would adventure thither, (as thinking it a place wherein surely the fear of God was not), yet many came, such as wore Black Coats, and could babble in a Pulpit, roar in a Tavern, exact from their Parishioners and rather by their dissoluteness destroy than feed their Flocks.
Page 7 - Likewise adding hereunto her great appearance of love to me, her desire to be taught and instructed in the knowledge of God, her capableness of understanding, her aptness and willingness to receive any good impression, and also the spiritual, besides her own, incitements stirring me up hereunto.
Page 456 - But in truth they lost little by living in rural seclusion. For, even in the highest ranks, and in those situations which afforded the greatest facilities for mental improvement, the English women of that generation were decidedly worse educated than they have been at any other time since the revival of learning.