39;
settlement, 127;
conditions favoring growth, 128;
servants, 128;
rural society, 129;
government, 129;
manors, 130;
democracy, 130;
origin of laws, 131, 133;
composition of assembly, 133;
Kent Island affair, 134-139;
Catholic propaganda, 139;
and Great Rebellion, 140;
and Ingle, 141;
Protestant revolt, 141, 142;
Calvert regains control, 142;
Stone governor, 143;
and Parliament, 143, 145-147;
oath of fidelity, 145;
parliamentary control, 147;
population (1652), 147;
social conditions, 147;
bibliography, 332-334.

Mason, John, grants, 185, 207, 266-268;
opposition to Massachusetts, 204-208;
death, 208;
Massachusetts annexes grant, 209, 271, 272;
settlements in territory, 268-270.

Mason, John, in Pequot War, 254-256.

Massachusetts, trade with Virginia, 104;
minor settlements, 166, 168, 170, 175;
Dorchester adventurers, 170, 183;
Merry Mount, 174, 186, 192, 197;
religion not primary interest, 184;
patent, 184, 185;
boundaries, 184, 270;
conflicting grants, 185;
Salem reinforced, 186;
government for colonists, 189;
land allotment, 189;
and Oldham's claim, 187, 190;
charter, government, 188, 189;
Congregationalism established, 190, 192, 196, 201, 202, 210;
religious persecution, 191, 201, 211, 237, 319;
government transferred to America, 193;
great emigration, cause, 193-195;
sickness, 195, 196, 198, 199;
towns (1630), 198;
first general court, 199;
governors, 199;
and Indians, 200;
rise of theocracy, 200-202;
quality of clergy, 200, 205;
assistants usurp power, 201;
restricted suffrage, 202, 210, 211;
criminal law, 202;
representation established, 202, 203;
popular elections, 203;
origin of laws, 203;
code, 203;
opposition in England, 204-209;
temporarily sustained, 204;
and Laud, 205;
increased immigration, 205;
population (1634), 205; (1643), 209;
charter demanded, 205, 208;
prepares for resistance, 206;
and English flag, 206;
petition, 206;
judgment against, frustrated, 208;
annexes New Hampshire and Maine, 209, 271, 272, 279-281;
opposition to religious despotism, 211, 212;
Williams incident, 212-218;
religious regulations, 218;
Antinomian controversy, 219-228;
its effect, 228;
and Rhode Island, 230, 231, 235-238;
and Gorton, 232-235;
parliamentary grant, 235;
and settlement of Connecticut, 240-242;
emigration to Connec