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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 3 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Colonial history. (search)
igion of state, earnestly advanced 1694 to 1698 by the boastful eagerness of Francis Nicholson, who passed from Virginia to the government of Maryland, and by the patient, the disinterested, but unhappily too exclusive earnestness of the commissary Thomas Bray, became the settled policy of the government. The first act, as it had contained a clause giving validity in 1692 the colony to the Great Charter of England, was not accepted by the crown. Again, in 1696, the inviolable claim of the colony to English rights and liberties was engrafted by the assembly on the act of establishment; and this also was disallowed. In 1700, the presence Chap. XIX.} and personal virtues of Bray, who saw Christianity only in the English Church, obtained by unanimity a law commanding conformity in every place of public worship. Once more the act was rejected in England from regard to the rights of Protestant dissenters; and when, at last, Episcopacy was established by 1702. the colonial legislatur