The Colonising Activities of the English Puritans

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Excerpt from The Colonising Activities of the English Puritans: The Last Phase of the Elizabethan Struggle With SpainMr. Newton has done more than fill in our picture and set before us a new point of view. He has presented an exceedingly interesting account of a colonial settlement, hitherto almost unknown and, except in one or two features, entirely unstudied. The ample material that exists for the°history of the Providence Company and its colonising ventures enables the author to deal fully with the company, its organisation, personnel, and methods, with the colony, its types of settlers, manner of settlement, forms of cultivation, staples, labour, dim oulties, quarrels, and other hindrances to success, and, lastly, with the relations between the two, government.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.