sland, 136;
treachery of Evelin, 137;
island seized, 138;
attainted, 138;
claim invalidated, 138;
property confiscated, 138;
return to Kent Island, 142;
ascendency in Maryland, 147.

Cocheco. _See_ Dover.

Coddington, William, in Rhode Island, 229, 237;
royal commission, 237, 238.

Colonies, English, Gilbert's charter, 15;
immunities, 16;
Gilbert's attempts, 16-21;
debt to Raleigh, 32;
Gosnold and Gilbert's attempt, 34;
joint-stock companies, 36;
royal administration, 96, 206;
connected history, 282;
bibliography, 329-331;
bibliography on religious influences, 338;
bibliography on social and economic conditions, 338.
_See also_ colonies and companies by name.

Colonies, French. _See_ Acadia, Canada.

Colonies, Spanish, influence on Spain, 4;
and Hawkins, 9, 10;
Drake's attacks, 11, 12;
Cavendish plunders, 13;
bibliography on English relations, 337.

Commission for Foreign Plantations, 96, 206.

Communism in Virginia, 59, 73, 77, 79;
in Plymouth, 167.

Conant, Roger, in Massachusetts, 170, 171, 183.

Congregationalism, beginnings, 154;
established in Massachusetts, 190, 196, 201, 202, 210;
disclaimed, 194, 197;
Massachusetts clergy, 200, 205;
opposition, 211, 212;
Antinomian controversy, 219-228;
in Connecticut, 258;
in New Haven, 263;
Cambridge platform, 320;
effect, 321.
_See also_ Pilgrims.

Connecticut, elements, 239;
Plymouth's interest, 240-242, 245;
Dutch in, 241, 249, 310, 316;
migration from Massachusetts, 242-247;
settled by organized communities, 247;
Saltonstall's settlement, 248;
Saybrook, 249;
union of settlements, 250;
Pequot War, 251-257;
Fundamental Orders, 257-259;
suffrage, 258;
theocracy, 258;
tenure of office, 259;
growth, 259, 260;
acquires Fenwick patent, 260;
population (1653), 260;
Massachusetts boundary, 304;
river tolls, 304-306;
bibliography, 335.
_See also_ New England.

Constitutions, Connecticut (1639), 257-259.

Cotton, John, in Massachusetts, 205;
character, 218, 243, 321;
and Antinomianism, 220, 223, 226, 227;
death, 321.

Council in Maryland, 129.
_See also_ Assistants.

Council for New England, charter, 152;
territory, 152;
patent to Plymouth, 164;
grant to Weston, 166;
fishing monopoly endangered, 167;
temporary activity, 168;
division, 168, 185;
discouraged, 169;
grant to Massachusetts, 184;
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