Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1630-1913)
The English Puritans - Thomas Dudley; his family; his military career and connection with the courts; his con temporaries - Political and religious unrest in England - Dudley and the Earl of Lincoln - Protestants, op pressed in England, meet with reverses on the Continent - The Puritans at a conference at Cambridge, Eng land, decide to emigrate to America - The twelve signers - The Massachusetts Bay Company - The Puritan exodus - Thomas Hooker; his career in England - He arrives at Newtown and becomes pastor - Thomas Shepard and his troubles in England - Shepard minister of a new church at Newtowne - Qualities of Dudley.
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