The Scope and Purpose of an Historical Society in Newport, Vol. 20 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Scope and Purpose of an Historical Society in Newport, Vol. 20 Bishop Berkeley, it is recorded, was never more agreeably surprised than at the sight of the Town and Harbor of Newport. "Around him was some of the softest rural and grandest ocean scenery in the world." In regard to the mildness of the climate, Dr. Stiles, in his diary, records: "Dec.21, 1772, Thermometer 50 at noon, abroad a fine mild day" and Jan.7, 1773, "Yesterday at dinner, we ate lettuce in the garden, growing abroad and not in hot beds, so moderate the season. I saw and measured a branch of rose-bush of this Winter´s fresh growth, gathered New Year´s Day, about six inches long of which the new grown stalk was about four inches and some leaves nearly fully grown." Into such a picturesque and fortunate situation and amid such a mild and attractive climate were transplanted a body of men selected by the stern refinement of persecution from the Puritan Commonwealth. Much has been written of the Massachusetts Puritans, how, in order that they might enjoy a fuller political liberty and that they might worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience, they obtained the charter of an English trading Company, left Leicestershire in old England and settled Boston in New England and founded a State. There is little doubt that, in the world as it then existed, few people had a wider knowledge of the principles of political liberty and a more sincere love of religious truth than they. But the Puritan theocracy, to say the least, was not attractive and congenial to those who were not in entire sympathy with its purposes and its beliefs. It was William Blackstone, the original settler of Rhode Island who, when the Massachusetts settlers disturbed him in possession of Beacon Hill and Boston said that "he had come from England to escape the Lord´s Bishops but he did not like the Lord´s Brethern any better." This was the common view of all the Rhode Island founders: Blackstone. Roger Williams and John Clarke, in succession. Whatever love of liberty and of religious devotion existed in Boston, it was nowhere stronger than among the Elders of the First Church and the Magistrates of Boston who (including Sir Henry Vane) supported Wheelwright and some of whom followed Ann Hutchinson. When these were disarmed and banished, these exiles of exiles, refined by the persecution of New England, after the persecution of old England, founded on this lovely island a community whose story allures and attracts the historian to this day as do few other spots. Ambassador Bryce has said: "Rhode Island has had a singularly interesting and eventful history. 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.
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