OF

ANTHONY WAYNE

AND

SIR HENRY VANE.

BOSTON:

HILLIARD, GRAY, AND CO.

LONDON:

RICHARD JAMES KENNETT.

1835.

Entered according to the act of Congress in the year 1835,

by JARED SPARKS,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

CHARLES FOLSOM,

PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY.

FORMA
MENTIS

BERNA

CONTENTS.

LIFE OF ANTHONY WAYNE,

BY JOHN ARMSTRONG.

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LIFE OF SIR HENRY VANE,

BY CHARLES WENTWORTH UPHAM. 85

CHAPTER III.

Reception in Massachusetts. - Chosen Gover-

nor.-State of Parties. The Arrangement

with the English Captains.

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The Affair of

the King's Ensign.-Slight Connexion be-

tween the Colonies and Mother Country.-

Governor Vane's Entrance into Salem.

Conference with Indian Chiefs.

CHAPTER IV.

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106

Antinomian Controversy.- Religious Opinions

of the Colonists. Mrs. Anne Hutchinson's

Arrival in Boston. Her Weekly Meetings

for Females. Regarded with Jealousy. -

Accused of Heresy.—Violent Contentions on

her Account. — Her Tenets and Conduct.-

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- Crisis

Vane an Adherent of Mrs. Hutchinson.

of the Controversy. Colonial Election.

Vane superseded.- Supported by Boston.-

One of the earliest Advocates of Religious

Liberty.- Eulogized as such by Mackintosh.

– Colonial Legislation adverse to the Rights

of Conscience. Views of the Colonists on

the Subject of Religious Liberty. - Vane's

Controversy with Winthrop.- His Embarka-

tion for England.

141

`CHAPTER VI.

Sequel of Mrs. Hutchinson's History. - Her

Memory calumniated. The Spirit of Per-

secution.

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CHAPTER VII.

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Vane's Arrival in England. - Married.

Elected by Kingston upon Hull to Parlia

- Long Parliament. Made Treasur-

ment.

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er of the Navy. - Knighted. - Quarrel

between his Father and the Earl of Straf-

Characters given of Vane by Antho-

ny Wood, by Clarendon, by Ludlow, and by

Hallam.

ford.

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CHAPTER VIII.

Strafford's Impeachment.—Mr. Pym. — Privy

Counsellors first put upon Oath. - Testimo-

ny of the elder Vane.

165

Alienation between

the Father and Son.

Strafford condem-

179

CHAPTER IX.

Religion the Spirit of the Age in the Time of

His religious Character.