lustrations. i. 501-504.

4. The commencement of persecutions and proscriptions and confiscation of
property against those who refused to renounce the oaths which they had
taken, and the principles and traditions which had, until then, been
professed by their persecutors and oppressors as well as by themselves;
proofs and illustrations. i. 504-507.

The plea of tyranny. i. 504.

5. The commencement of weakness in the army of its authors, and of defeat
in their battle-fields; proofs and illustrations. i. 508-513.

6. The announced expedient and prelude to an alliance with France and
Spain against the Mother Country. i. 513-517.

New penal laws passed against the Loyalists after adopting it. ii. 5.

Detroit--Taken by the British under General Brock. ii. 354.

De Salaberry (General)--Defeats 10,000 Americans with 300 Canadians at
Chateauguay ii. 381.

D'Estaing--His doings and failures in America. ii. 17-27.

Diamond (John). ii. 202.

Doane. ii. 192.

Dudley (Joseph)--Appointed Governor of Massachusetts by King James II.
i. 212.

Dunmore (Earl of)--Governor of Virginia, commits the same outrages upon
the inhabitants of Virginia, and about the same time, as those
committed by General Gage upon the inhabitants of Massachusetts. i. 462.

Assembles the House of Burgesses to deliberate and decide upon Lord
North's so-called "conciliatory proposition" to the Colonies; the
House rejects the proposition on a report prepared by Mr. Jefferson--a
document eulogized in the strongest terms by the Earl of
Shelburne. i. 464.

East India Company--Disastrous effect of its agreement with the British
Government. i. 381.

East India Company's Tea--Causes of it being thrown into Boston Harbour,
as stated on both sides. i. 377.

Elections in England hastened in the autumn of 1774; adverse to the
Colonies. i. 419.

Emigrants to Massachusetts Bay--Two classes. i. 1.

Emigration to Massachusetts Bay stopped by a change of Government in
England. i. 85.

Endicot--Leader of the first company of emigrants to Massachusetts
Bay. i. 27.

His character. i. 27.

Becomes a Congregationalist. i. 29.

Abolishes the Church of England, and banishes its adherents. i. 29.

Cause of all the tyrannical proceedings against them. i. 42.

Finally condemned by the Company, but officially retained by
them. i. 43-48.

England's best and only means of protecting the Co