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M.

Machiavelli, 339.

_Macháug_, 237, _n._

Mackerel, 223.

Mackerel-shark, 223, _n._

Maine: trading-stations in, 23, 218, 221; royalists in, 85.

Maja, 281.

Manchester, Earl of, 60.

_Manittóoes_, 207, _n._

Maple, 186.

Marble in New England, 215.

Marblehead, quality of stone at, 215, _n._

Ma-re-Mount, 14. (_See_ Merry Mount.)

Marlins, 198.

Marriage in Massachusetts, a civil contract, 69, 330.

Mars, 292.

Martens: value of furs of, 205, _n._; described, 206.

_Mary & John_, arrival of at Hull, 42.

_Maske_, the North Star, 125.

Mason, Captain John: hostile to Massachusetts, 49; grantee of New Hampshire from Council of New England, 71; builds ships to take governor-general to New England, 73; financial needs of, 74; death of, and note on, 76, 238.

Massachusetts: latent spirit of rebellion in, in 1632, 51, 66; emigration to, in 1634, 55; panic in, in 1635, 66, 71; preparations against, in 1635, 67; church practices in, 69, 322-34; complaints against, in 1638, 81; appeals to king a misdemeanor in, 87; location and advantages of, 112; elk seen in, 200, _n._; population of, in 1632-7, 230; baptism limited to franchise in, 331, _n._; description of community in, 334, _n._; justice in, 334-6.

Massachusetts Charter: attack on in Privy Council, in 1632, 49; obtained by influence, 52; sent for by Privy Council, 56; second attack on, 58, 61; not returned to England, 64; plan for vacating, 67; _quo warranto_ proceedings to set aside, 75; demand for return of, in 1638, 82.

Massachusetts Company: grant to, 31; difficulty of, with Council of New England, 33; procures charter, 34; “old planters,” jealousy of, 38; instructions of, to Endicott, 38, 40, 45; policy of, to, 39; regulates trade in furs, 39; complaints against, 50; treasurer of, 305; patent-case of, 305.

Massachusetts Indians: number of, 11; Weston’s men killed by, 252, _n._; humanity of, 256.

Massasoit: a night in his lodge, 136, _n._; detains Samoset, 244, _n._

Mather, Cotton, quoted, 129, _n._, 132, _n._, 150, _n._, 152, _n._, 160, _n._, 175, _n._, 331, _n._

_Matta_, 237.

_Mattapan_, 12, 124.

Maverick, Rev. John, 325, _n._

Maverick, Samuel: says that Morton had a patent, 8; moves from Wessagusset to Noddle’s Island, 24; in connection with Morton’s arrest, 30; his assessment for charge of Morton’s arrest, 30; cited, 46; refers to Morton’s arraignment at Boston, 88; an Episcopalian, 94.

May, Thomas, quoted, 141, _n._

Mayberry, S. P., on Walter Bagnall, 218, _n._

May-day festivities: immorality of, 18; at Mount Wollaston, 18, 276-82.

May-pole, the: of Merry-Mount, 17, 270, 295; custom of erecting, 17; cut down by Endicott, 32.

Medusa, 292.

_Meechin_, 137.

Melpomene, 275.

Menhaden, 225, _n._, 226, _n._

Mephistopheles, 319.

Mermaid, the, 97.

Merriam, Mr., identifies simpes as woodcock, 191, _n._

Merry-Mount: fountain at, 276; Mayday at, 276-84; to be made a woeful mount, 278; monster at, 282. (_See_ Mt. Wollaston.)

_Metawna_, 194, _n._

Mice, 214.

Milo, 270.

Milton, John, quoted, 129.

Minerals of New England, 215-21.

Ministers: ordination of, at Plymouth, 262; at Salem, 300, _n._, 306; use of notes by, 322, _n._; ordination of, in New England, 324; superior to magistrates in New England, _ib._; first in New England, 325, _n._; absent-mindedness of a, _ib._; did not marry in New England, 330.

Ministers’ sons, whipped, 319, _n._

Minos, 275, 293, 294, 309.

Mint and Cummin, tithes of, 102, 111, 280, 333.

_Mittànnug_, 193, _n._

_Mona_, 124.

Monatoquit, 9, 28, 285; limestone near to, 216.

Money, Indian. (_See_ Wampum.)

Monsall, Ralph, 319, _n._

_Monthly Anthology_, 101, 320.

Moose, description and uses of, 142, 200.

Morell, Rev. William, quoted, 143, _n._

Morton, Nathaniel, cited, 5.

Morton, Thomas: comes to Massachusetts with Wollaston, 1; suspected of murder, 2, 15, 46; his previous life, 4-5; his acquaintance with classics, 4, 345, _n._; his first coming to New England, 6; his silence about Wollaston, 13; inaccuracy of, 14, 63, 96, 123, _n._, 335, _n._; his fondness for field sports, 15; his treatment of Indians, 16, 256; relations of, with Indian women, 16; his verses, 19; supplies Indians with guns, 20; silence of, on subject, 21; trades in Maine, 23; visits Wessagusset, 24; number of his neighbors, 25; remonstrated with for sale of fire-arms, 25; on proclamations, 26; arrest of, by Standish, 27, 282-6; escape of, 28, 283; taken to Plymouth, 29, 296; sent to England, 29, 289; cost of arrest of, 30, 302; reaches England, 31; not proceeded against, 35, 303; could have been proceeded against in Star Chamber, 35; ingratiates himself with Gorges, 36; and Allerton, 36, 325; good results of, 37; returns to Plymouth, 37, 304; to Mount Wollaston, 38; refuses to sign agreement, 39, 307; disregards trade regulations, 40, 308; an agent of Gorges, 41; profits of, 41, 308; attempt to re-arrest, 41, 308; re-arrest of, 43; trial and sentence of, 44; sent back to England, 45; charges against him, 46; punishment of, 46-8, 311, 312; a warrant for his arrest from King’s Bench, 47, 311; a “libertine,” 48; driven away from Massachusetts, 49, 336-7; in Exeter jail, 49; allies himself to enemies of Massachusetts Charter, 50; makes complaint before Privy Council, 50; gives reason of failure of complaint, 54; forwards more complaints, 56; elation of, in 1634, 60; his letters to William Jeffreys, 61; crying as Jonas, 61, 103, 344; plays on Laud’s foibles, 64, 93, 322-34, _n._, _n._; has Winslow put in Fleet prison, 69; Solicitor of Council for New England, 72; promptness of, in legal proceedings, 75; on Captain John Mason, 76; Cradock on, 77; in pay of Cleaves, 77; in disgrace with Gorges, 80; witnesses Acomenticus charter, 81; starved out of England, 83; at Plymouth in 1643, 84; pretends to be a Commonwealth’s man, 85; goes to Maine, 85; to Rhode Island, 85; to Boston, 86; arraigned, 86; extraordinary proceedings against, 87; petition of, 88-90; imprisonment, release and death of, 91; a man out of place, 92; Episcopalian defenders of, 92; “his faults,” 93; oppressively dealt with in Massachusetts, 94; small literary merit of, 95; may have met Butler and Jonson, 96; sense of humor of, 97; style of, 103; at Richmond Island, 218; uses Common Prayer, 260, 311; at Cape Ann, 261; at Nut Island, 268; date of arrest, 295; references of, to Winthrop, 310, _n._, 321; gets game for settlers, 321; at Salem, 325, _n._; at Canary Islands, 342; his voyage to England, 342-5.

Mount Dagon, 32, 278.

Mount Wollaston: why so called, 1; character and number of settlers at, 8, 286, 294; description and sketch of, 9-10; view from, 12; location of, 15; morals at, 17; May-day festivities at, 18; a refuge of runaways, 22, 23; within grant to Massachusetts Company, 31; destruction of house at, 45; Common Prayer at, 94, 283; fountain at, 229; monster at, 282.

Muskrats, 204; value of skins of, 205, _n._; description of, 210.

Muscles, 227.

_Munnoh_, 124, _n._

N.

_Nan weeteo_, 148, _n._

Nantasket, 24, 25, 30, 325, _n._, 337, _n._

Nanepashemet, 155.

Naumkeag, 25, 30.

Nebuchadnezzar, 116.

_Necut_, 193, _n._

_Neent_, 194, _n._

Neptune, 277.

Netherlands, 293.

_New Canaan_: political significance of, 68; as a political pamphlet, 68, 322, _n._; reference to Lake Irocoise in, 78; where written, 78, 233, _n._; referred to by Bradford, 79; latest revision of, 79; no copies of, get to New England, 79, 88; publication of, not agreeable to Gorges, 80; referred to by Winthrop, 86; references to Book of Common Prayer in, 93; ribaldry of, 94; criticism of, 95-6; referred to in _Hudibras_, 96; humor in, 97; a connecting link, 98; bibliography of, 99-101; titlepages of, 100; printing of, 102; cause of errors in, 103; rules for present edition of, 104.

New England: emigration to, in 1634, 55; royal policy towards, 57; church practices in, 69; division of, in 1635, 70; commission for governing, in 1637, 77; location and temperature of, 120-1; winds not violent in, 122, 232; plenty of, 175; air of, 177; beauty of, 180; motives of settlers in, 181; no boggy ground in, 228; perfumed air of, 228, 231-2; superiority of, to Virginia, 228, 229, 233, 265; natural waters of, 229; population of, 230; fertility of, 231; people of, never have colds, 232; rainfall of, 233; coast and harbors of, _ib._; fecundity of women in, 265; universities vilified in, 282. (_See_ Council for New England.)

_New English Canaan._ (_See_ _New Canaan_.)

New Hampshire, population of, in 1634, 230, _n._

Newburyport: galena found in, 219, _n._; silver ore, 220, _n._

Newcomein, John, 216-7.

Niagara Falls, 236.

“Nick and Froth,” 328, _n._

Nilus, 240.

Niobe, 277, 281.

Nipnets, 240, 270.

_Nneesnneánna_, 193, _n._

Noddy, Doctor, 309.

_Nokehick_, 175, _n._

North Star, the Indian name of, 125, _n._

Northwest passage, interest in the, in 1632, 118, _n._, 239.

“Noses out of joint,” 94, 281.

Notes used in preaching, 322.

Nourse, H. S., on Elk in South Lancaster, Mass., 200, _n._

Nowell, Increase, 305, _n._

Nut Island, 268.

Nuttall’s _Ornithology_, cited, 194, _n._

O.

Oaks in New England, 182.

Oates, Jack, 253, _n._

Œdipus, 277, 280.

Oil, cod-liver, 222.

“Old Planters,” jealousy of Massachusetts Company, 38.

Oldham, John, 40; at Hull, 24; takes Morton to England, 29-32; his promises of gain in New England, 32; his scheme for trading, 33; does not press matters against Morton, 33, 36; receives grant from John Gorges, 34; tries to organize expedition, 34; “a jack in his mood,” 40; his treatment at Plymouth, 262-4.

Oliver le Daim, 326.

_Om_, 124, _n._

Ordination. (_See_ Ministers.)

Otters, value of furs of, 205, _n._, 206.

Ounce, the, 206, _n._

Ovid, quoted, 217, 273.

Owls, 195.

Oysters, 227.

P.

Palfrey, J. G., quoted, 140, _n._, 148, _n._

“Pan the Shepherds’ God,” 124.

Papasiquineo. (_See_ Pasconaway.)

Parkman, Francis, quoted, 16, 17, 136, _n._, 140, _n._, 145, _n._, 158, _n._, 166, _n._, 168, _n._, 234, _n._

Partridges, 194.

Pasconaway, the sachem, 150, _n._; his tricks and incantations, 151; his daughter’s marriage, 154-5.

_Pascopan_, 124.

_Paskanontam_, 124, _n._

Passonagessit: description of, 9; signification of name, 14, 276; grave at, desecrated, 247; Master Bubble at, 267; revels at, 276-82; mine host, sachem of, 289. (_See_ Mt. Wollaston.)

Pastors. (_See_ Ministers.)

Patent of Massachusetts: granted, 31; brought over by Endicott, 305; its case, _ib._, _n._

Paul’s Walk, 298, _n._

Pawtucket, 124.

Peabody, W. B. O., referred to, 189, 192.

Peddock, Leonard, 130, _n._

Peddock’s Island, 130, _n._

Pemaquid, 244.

Penelope, 281.

_Pennacook, the Bridal of_, 155, _n._

Pestilence among Indians in 1616-7, 11, 120, 130-4; nature of, 133, _n._; Squanto’s fraud about, 245.

Phaethon, 293.

Phaos box, 280, 297; explained, 345, _n._

_Pharsalia_, May’s continuation of, quoted, 141, _n._

Pheasants, 194.

Phillips, Rev. George, 326.

Phillips Creek, Weymouth, site of Wessagusset settlement, 3.

Phlegethon, 314.

Phœbus, 293.

Phyllis 273.

Pike, 227.

Pilchers, 226.

Pillory and whetstone, 300, _n._

Pine-trees, 184.

Pipe-staves as merchandise, 182.

Piscataqua, 30; Hiltons and Thomson at, 22, 25, 255, _n._

Plague. (_See_ Pestilence.)

Plaice, 226.

Plantations, Foreign, board of Lords Commissioners of. (_See_ Lords Commissioners.)

Plato, Indians practise Commonwealth of, 177.

“Plough patent” in Maine, 85.

Plymouth, 30; settlers at, in 1628, 25; Morton carried to, 29; Indians about destroyed by pestilence, 133, _n._; Billington hanged at, 217, _n._; population of, in 1634, 230, _n._; Samoset’s appearance at, 244; treatment of Weston at, 245-6, 255-7; people of, at Passonagessit 247, _n._; Morton visits, 259; cattle at, 260; Lyford and Oldham at, 262-4; reordination of ministers at, 262; no vessel arrives at, in June 1628, 289, _n._; Christmas at, 294, _n._; Morton arrives again at, 304; ministers at, 325, _n._; Book of Common Prayer at, 332, _n._

Pocahontas, “a well-featured but wanton young girl,” 145, _n._

Porcupines, 211.

Portland, Earl of, 60.

Portland Harbor, 221, _n._

Potomac, the, 236, 239.

Powahs, Indian, 139, _n._, 150, _n._, 152, _n._

Pratt, Phineas, cited, 131, _n._, 132, _n._

Praying, manner of, 334.

Priapus, 94, 205, 281.

Privy Council: petition to, against Massachusetts Company, 51; order of, stopping emigration to New England, 56, 333, _n._

Proclamations, royal: about fire-arms, 20; not law, 26; violation of, punishable in Star Chamber, 35.

Procrustes, 335.

Proteus, 94, 281.

Purchase, Mr., cures himself of sciatica, 207, _n._

Purification of women, 331.

Putnam, F. W., 131, _n._, 227, _n._

Pygmalion, 315.

Pythagoras, 329, _n._

Q.

Quacksalver, punishment of, 299.

Quail, in New England, 194.

Quebec, capture of, by Kirk, 235, _n._

Quincy: seal of town of, 10; slate in, 216, _n._

_Quo warranto_ proceedings to set aside Massachusetts Charter, 74, 77, 82, 86.

R.

Rabbits, 204, 211.

Rabelais, 94.

Raccoon, 207.

Rasdall: a partner of Wollaston, 1; follows him to Virginia, 13; disappears, 15.

Ratcliff, Philip: before Privy Council, 50; thought a lunatic, 56; promised cropping of Winthrop’s ears, 62, 64; called Faircloath, 316, 340; punishment of, 316-8.

Rattlesnakes, 213; antidotes to poison of, 213, 214, _n._

Rats, 214.

Razor-shell, 227.

Readings, conjectural, 105.

Red-lead, 219.

Reordination. (_See_ Ministers.)

Reproductions, slavishness of, 104.

Reynolds, Dr. John, 331, _n._

Rhadamanthus, 293, 294, 309.

Rhode Island, Morton in, 86.

Richmond Island: Walter Bagnall at, 200, _n._, 218, _n._; coins found on, _ib._; whetstones at, 217; vessels at, 221.

Rigby, Alexander, 84.

Ring, use of, in marriage, 331.

Rogers, Mr., preacher at Plymouth, 325, _n._

Running footmen, 329, _n._

Rupert, Prince, 83.

S.

Sables, value of, 205, _n._

Sal, Isle of, 116, _n._, 117, _n._, 343, _n._

Salem: suffering at, in 1629-30, 42; a doctor made at, 298; Dr. Fuller at, 299; Endicott holds a court at, 306; ordination of ministers at, 306; Morton at, 306, 325, _n._; church of, abused by Ratcliff, 317, _n._; church of, vilified, 317-8; use of Common Prayer at, 332, _n._

Salmon, 224.

Salt: abundance of, in tropics, 117; use of, unknown among Indians, 161, 175, _n._; given to them by Morton, 161.

Saltonstall, Sir Richard, 43; before Privy Council, 51, 61.

Samoset, 244, _n._

Samson, 281.

Sanaconquam, an Indian god, 167.

Sanderling, 191.

Sandpiper, 191.

Sargent, Professor C. S., 182, _n._

Savage, James, cited, 30, _n._

Scallops, 227.

Scent, acuteness of Indian, 166.

Sciatica, cured by raccoon grease, 207.

Scogan, John, 278; choice of, 281.

Scotland: policy of Charles I. breaks down in, 78; troubles of 1638 in, 82.

Scylla, 278, 280.

Sea-sickness, 298.

Sequestration, in _New Canaan_, 308.

Serat, 204.

_Sesick_, 213.

Shackles: possibly Aspinwall, 319; whips Faircloath, 320; fed by Morton, 321; burns Morton’s house, 337.

Shad, 225.

Shakespeare, William, 98.

Shawmut, 12.

Shaler, Professor N. S., notes by, 215-20.

Shell-heaps: at Cotuit, 131, _n._; origin of, 226, _n._

Ships, number of engaged in fisheries, 221.

Shoals, Isles of, 29, 289, 296, 302.

Shrimpe, Captaine. (_See_ Standish.)

Silver in New England, 220, _n._

Simpes, 191.

Skelton, Rev. Samuel, 39, 300, _n._, 325, _n._; called Eager, 306.

Slafter, Rev. E. F., quoted, 234, _n._

Slate: in Quincy and Weymouth, 216, _n._; at Richmond Island, 217, _n._

Smart, Captain, brings over falcons to the king, 196, _n._

Smelts, 225.

Smith, John, 95; quoted, 1, _n._, 136, _n._, 144, _n._, 147, _n._, 150, _n._

Smith, Ralfe, 325, _n._

Snakes, 212.

Snipes, 191.

Socrates, quoted, 327.

Solomon: sayings of, quoted, 119, 127, 228; referred to, 184.

Sommers, Will, 253.

South Lancaster, Mass., elks in, 200, _n._

South Sea, 239.

“Sparke,” 160.

Sparrow-hawks, 198.

Spruce-trees, 185.

Squanto, 271, _n._; made use of by Chickatawbut, 164; kidnapped, 244, _n._

Squanto’s Chappel: chalkstones at, 216; fountain at, 229.

Squantum, 12, 216, 229; slate at, 216, _n._

Squidraket, Sagamore, 218, _n._

Squirrels, 212.

St. Michaels, 343.

St. Paul’s Church, 298.

Stam, Jacob Frederick, 100.

Standish, Miles: kills Indians at Wessagusset, 11; sent to arrest Morton, 27; threatens to shoot him, 29, 296; takes offence at Morton, in 1643, 84; at Wessagusset, 247, _n._; Captain Shrimpe, 285-7, 291, _n._, 296; a quondam drummer, 286; called Minos, 291, _n._

Star Chamber, court of, 35.

Stenography, 266.

Sterling, Earl of, 70.

Stones, chapter on, 215-20.

Strachey, Edward, quoted, 145, _n._, 147, _n._, 208, _n._, 210, _n._, 215, _n._

Strafford, Earl of, 60, 74.

Stubbs, his _Anatomy of Abuses_ cited, 18.

Students of Harvard College, whipped, 319, _n._

Sturgeon, 223.

Styx, 293, 314.

_Swan_, the, Weston’s vessel, 257, _n._

Swans, 189.

Swift, Lindsay, quoted, 328, _n._, 335, _n._, 345, _n._

T.

Tantoquineo, 152.

Tartars, supposed descent of Indians from, 125.

Tassell gentles, 196-7.

Teal, kinds of, in New England, 190.

Temperwell, Joshua. (_See_ Winthrop, John.)

Thomson, David: at Piscataqua, 24; moves to Boston Bay, 24; on origin of Indians, 128; authorities concerning, 128.

“Thorough,” Gorges policy, the New England branch of, 60, 74.

Tin, in New England, 220.

_Titta_, 148.

Tithes, 333.

Tornadoes, 217.

Trade with Indians, liquor the life of, 20, 174. (_See_ Fire-arms.)

Trade: profits of in New England, 32; regulations of Massachusetts Company, 39; disregarded by Morton, 40, 306, 308.

Trade-winds, effect of, 118.

Traps, to take deer, 202.

Trees: effect of burning underbrush on, 172; where to look for large, 172; of New England, 182-7.

Triton, 281.

Trojans, supposed descent of Indians from the, 126-7, 129.

Trout, 227.

Trumbull, J. Hammond: on name of Passonagessit, 14; notes by, on Indian words, 123, 124, 137, 148, 160, 167, 229; his notes to _Plaine Dealing_ referred to, 322-34.

Turbot, 225.

Turkeys: garments made of feathers of, 142, 144, _n._; hunted by Indians, 162; wild, in New England, 192.

Turtledoves, 180.

Tuttle, C. W., 238, _n._

U.

Universities, vilified in New England, 281-2.

Uttaquatock, 216.