A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England

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Notes ABBREVIATIONS Cambridge Records The Records of the Town of Cambridge (Formerly Newtowne), Massachusetts, 1630–1703 (Cambridge, Mass.: City Council, 1901) Coll. MHS Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society CW Williams The Complete Writings of Roger Williams, 7 vols. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1963) Gardiner, Constitutional Documents Samuel Rawson Gardiner, The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution , 1625–1660, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1906) Hall, AC David D. Hall, The Antinomian Controversy, 1636–1638: A Documentary History (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1968) Hall, Faithful Shepherd David D. Hall, The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972) Kenyon, Stuart Constitution J. P. Kenyon, The Stuart Constitution: Documents and Commentary, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) Lawes and Liberties The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts Reprinted from a Copy of the 1648 Edition in the Henry B. Huntington Library, ed. Max Farrand (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1929) NEHGR New England Historic Genealogical Register 197 Proc. MHS Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society Pub. CSM Publications and Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts Recs. Conn. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636 to 1665, ed. J. Hammond Trumbull (Hartford, 1850) Recs. Mass. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New-England, ed. N. B. Shurtleff, 5 vols. (Boston, 1853–54) Recs. New Haven Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, ed. Charles J. Hoadly, 2 vols. (Hartford, 1857–58) Recs. Plymouth Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, 11 vols. (Boston, 1855–61) Recs. Southampton The First Book of Records of the Town of Southampton with Other Ancient Documents of Historic Value (Sag Harbor, N.Y., 1874) Shepard, Works The Works of Thomas Shepard, ed. John A. Albro, 3 vols. (Boston, 1853) Walker, Creeds and Platforms Williston Walker, The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism (New York, 1893) Whitmore, Colonial Laws William H. Whitmore, The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts (Boston, 1887) Winthrop, Journal The Journal of John Winthrop, ed. Richard S. Dunn, James Savage, and Laetitia Yeandle (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996) Winthrop Papers Winthrop Papers, 6 vols. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1929– ) WMQ William and Mary Quarterly INTRODUCTION 1. George Yerby, People and Parliament: Representative Rights and the English Revolution (Basinstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), p. 140; Winthrop, Journal , p. 66; Thomas Hutchinson, The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, ed. Thomas Shaw Mayo, 3 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936), 1:54n; Brian Manning, The English People and Notes to Page 3 198 the English Revolution, 1640–1649 (London: Heinemann, 1976), pp. 11–13. For Charles I’s criticism of the Petition of Right, see Kenyon, Stuart Constitution, p. 72. What John Wilson actually said from his perch in the tree is not indicated , but he was certainly urging the election of Winthrop, his ally in a Boston congregation divided between supporters and opponents of “Antinomians .” 2. Larzer Ziff, John Cotton on the Churches of New England (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968), pp. 71, 101; John Cotton, An Exposition upon the Thirteenth Chapter of the Revelation (London, 1655). 3. John Morrill, The Revolt of the Provinces: Conservatives and Radicals in the English Civil War, 1630–1650 (London: Longman, 1980), p. 47 and passim. 4. Winthrop, Journal, p. 107. 5. “A Remonstrance and Petition of Robert Child, and Others,” in Hutchinson Papers, 2 vols. (Albany: Prince Society, 1865), 1:216, 217. 6. Gardiner, Constitutional Documents, pp. 100–101. 7. Winthrop Papers, 4:162, 266–67. 8. Tocqueville owed this theme to the Boston minister-antiquarian Jared Sparks, as George Wilson Pierson showed in Tocqueville and Beaumont in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1938), pp. 397–416. 9. Nineteenth-century Unitarian stigmatizing of “Calvinism” as cruel, arbitrary , and superstitious is sketched in David D. Hall, “Calvin and Calvinism Within Congregational and Unitarian Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America,” in John Calvin’s American Legacy, ed. Thomas J. Davis (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 147–64. As part of revisionist scholarship (American-style) of the 1960s, I attempted to demonstrate the severe limitations of the “theocratic” interpretation in Hall, Faithful Shepherd, chap. 6. 10. Brooks Adams, The Emancipation of Massachusetts (Boston, 1887). 11. Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought, 3 vols., vol. 1: The Colonial Mind (New York...