In this deplorable situation, with " joint consent," they resolved to go into the Low Countries, where, they heard, was freedom of religion for all men. Hard was their lot, to leave their dwellings, their lands, and relatives, to go they knew not whither,... A Compendious History of New England: Exhibiting an Interesting View of the ... - Page 7by Jedidiah Morse, Elijah Parish - 1808 - 207 lehteFull view - About this book
| Nathaniel Morton - 1669 - 562 lehte
...spirit. Yet seeing themselves thus molested and that there was no hope of their continuance there, by a joint consent they resolved to go into the low countries,...where they heard was freedom of religion for all men, as also how sundry from London and other parts of the land, that had been exiled and persecuted for... | |
| Benjamin Brook - 1813 - 532 lehte
...seek an asylum in Holland, where they understood they could enjoy religious liberty. Hani, indeed, was their lot, to leave their dwellings, their lands and relatives, to become exiles in a strange land I Though persecuted, they were not destroyed; though distr ssed, their... | |
| 1841 - 568 lehte
...spirit. Yet seeing themselves thus molested, and that there was no hope of their continuance there, by a joint consent they resolved to go into the Low Countries,...where they heard was freedom of religion for all men, 1 as also how 1 After the introduction of the Reformed religion into the Low Countries in 1573, the... | |
| 1841 - 536 lehte
...spirit. Yet seeing themselves thus molested, and that there was no hope of their continuance there, by a joint consent they resolved to go into the Low Countries,...where they heard was freedom of religion for all men, 1 as also how opened for fugitives from persecu- description of the Low Countries tion from every land.... | |
| Edwin Hall - 1846 - 460 lehte
...Seeing themselves thus molested, and that there was no hope of their continuance," says Bradford, " they resolved to go into the Low countries, where they heard was freedom of religion for all men." Yet here difficulties awaited them ; it was a strange land, and they were to sojourn among a people... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1846 - 688 lehte
...against them, they at length resolved, when all hopes of toleration at home had fled, to remove to the Low Countries, " where they heard was freedom of religion for all men."* After making one unsuccessful attempt to leave England, suffering arrest and imprisonment from the... | |
| Edwin Hall - 1847 - 460 lehte
...Seeing themselves thus molested, and that there was no hope of their continuance," says Bradford, " they resolved to go into the Low countries, where they heard was freedom of religion for all men." Yet here difficulties awaited them ; it was a strange land, and they were to sojourn among a people... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1849 - 786 lehte
...spirit. Yet, seeing themselves thus molested, and that there was no hope of their continuance there, by a joint consent they resolved to go into the Low Countries,...where they heard was freedom of religion for all men, as also how sundry from London and other parts of the land, that had been exiled and persecuted for... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - 1858 - 696 lehte
...livelihood Seeing themselves thus molested, and that there was no hope of their continuance there, by a joint consent they resolved to go into the Low Countries,...where they heard was freedom of religion for all men, as also how sundry from London and other parts of the land, that had been exiled and persecuted for... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - 1859 - 674 lehte
...livelihood Seeing themselves thus molested, and that there was no hope of their continuance there, by a joint consent they resolved to go into the Low Countries,...where they heard was freedom of religion for all men, as also how sundry from London and other parts of the land, that had been exiled and persecuted for... | |
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