The danger of tolerating levellers in a civil state, or, An historicall narration of the dangerous pernicious practices and opinions wherewith Samuel Gorton and his levelling accomplices so much disturbed and molested the severall plantations in New-England parallel to the positions and proceedings of the present levellers in Old-England : wherein their severall errors dangerous and very destructive to the peace both of church and state ... together with the course that was there taken for suppressing them are fully set forth, with a satisfactory answer to their complaints made to the Parliament / by Edw. Winslow of Plymouth in New-England.

Title

The danger of tolerating levellers in a civil state, or, An historicall narration of the dangerous pernicious practices and opinions wherewith Samuel Gorton and his levelling accomplices so much disturbed and molested the severall plantations in New-England parallel to the positions and proceedings of the present levellers in Old-England : wherein their severall errors dangerous and very destructive to the peace both of church and state ... together with the course that was there taken for suppressing them are fully set forth, with a satisfactory answer to their complaints made to the Parliament / by Edw. Winslow of Plymouth in New-England.

Author

Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.

Publication

London :: Printed by Rich. Cotes for John Bellamy ...,

1649.

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Levellers.

Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649.

Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

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"The danger of tolerating levellers in a civil state, or, An historicall narration of the dangerous pernicious practices and opinions wherewith Samuel Gorton and his levelling accomplices so much disturbed and molested the severall plantations in New-England parallel to the positions and proceedings of the present levellers in Old-England : wherein their severall errors dangerous and very destructive to the peace both of church and state ... together with the course that was there taken for suppressing them are fully set forth, with a satisfactory answer to their complaints made to the Parliament / by Edw. Winslow of Plymouth in New-England." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66680.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• The Contents.
• A TRVE RELATION OF THE Proceedings of the Governour and Com∣pany of the Massachusets in New: England, against Samuel Gorton and his Accomplices; with the grounds and reasons thereof, examined and allowed by their Generall Court holden at Boston in November, 1646.
• Certaine Observations collected out of both their LETTERS.
  • I. Their reproachfull and reviling Speeches of the Government and Magistrates of the Massachusets.
  • II. Their reviling Language not onely against the Magi∣strates and Government here in particular, but also against Magistracy it self, and all Civill power.
  • III. Their blasphemous speeches against the holy things of God.
  • The Publisher to the Reader.
  • The sum of the Presentment of Samuel Gorton at Ports∣mouth in Roade-Island, by the Grand Iury.
  • Mr. Roger VVilliams his Letter unto Mr. VVinthrop, concerning Samuel Gorton.
  • To the Honoured Governour of Massachusett, together with the Worshipfull Assistants, and our loving Neighbours there.
  • To the rest of the five Men appointed to manage the affaires of our Towne aforesaid,
• A PARTICVLAR ANSWER TO THE Manifold Slanders and abominable Falsehoods contained in a Book, called Simplicities defence against Seven-headed Policy: Wherein Samuel Gorton is proved a disturber of Civill Societies, despe∣rately dangerous to his Country-men the English in New-Engl. and notoriously slanderous in what he hath Printed of them.
• ERRATA.