Author: Samuel Atkins Eliot

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Published: 2016-06-27

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9781332811205

Excerpt from A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1630-1913) The English Puritans - Thomas Dudley; his family; his military career and connection with the courts; his con temporaries - Political and religious unrest in England - Dudley and the Earl of Lincoln - Protestants, op pressed in England, meet with reverses on the Continent - The Puritans at a conference at Cambridge, Eng land, decide to emigrate to America - The twelve signers - The Massachusetts Bay Company - The Puritan exodus - Thomas Hooker; his career in England - He arrives at Newtown and becomes pastor - Thomas Shepard and his troubles in England - Shepard minister of a new church at Newtowne - Qualities of Dudley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.