 | William Bradford - History - 1912 - 552 pages
...therunto, but it proved all in vaine. Yet thus farr they prevailed, in sounding his majesties mind, that he would connive at them, and not molest them (provided they carried them 1 S r Robart Nanton.— BRADFORD. Sir Robert Naunton (1563-1635), received on January... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Liberty - 1917 - 296 pages
...of Leyden, visited London and "found the Virginia Company very desirous to have them go" to America, "and willing to grant them a patent with as ample privileges as they had or could grant to any." In order to remove the objections of the king and others to the religious purposes... | |
 | John Holladay Latané - United States - 1918 - 702 pages
...grant them a charter recognizing their religious rights, but the most he could obtain was the promise that "he would connive at them and not molest them, provided they carried themselves peaceably." London merchants furnished £7000 for the enterprise under a joint stock... | |
 | Walter Herbert Burgess - History - 1920 - 472 pages
...their attempt to gain toleration and allowance by the King's public authority failed, they gathered that " he would connive at them, and not molest them, provided they carried themselves peaceably. . . . This was all the chief of the Virginia Company or any others of... | |
 | Theodore Calvin Pease - United States - 1927 - 838 pages
...produce to a system of private property. The English government, following King James's indirect promise that he would "connive at them, and not molest them; provided they carried themselves peaceably," did not interfere. From the Council for New England they obtained a... | |
 | William Bradford - Massachusetts - 1952 - 518 pages
...rest) to solicit this matter, who found the Virginia Company very desirous to have them go thither and willing to grant them a patent, with as ample privileges as they had or could grant to any; and to give them the best furtherance they could.2 And some of the chief of... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - History - 1997 - 1148 pages
...rest) to sollicit this matter, who found the Virginia Company very desirous to have them go thither, f e eD7 } or could grant to any, and to give them the best furtherance they could. CHAPTER 7 OF THEIR DEPARTURE... | |
 | David A. Weir - History - 2005 - 486 pages
...rest) to solicit this matter, who found the Virginia Company very desirable to have them go thither and willing to grant them a patent, with as ample privileges as they had or could grant to any; and to give them the best furtherance they could. And some of the chief of that... | |
 | Christianity - 1825 - 642 pages
...they were still to be regarded, agreeing " not to tolerate them by his public authority," but only that he "would connive at them, and not molest them, provided they carry peaceably." July 21, 1620, a part of this 1 The case of these refugees was thus noticed at the... | |
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Though these agents found the Virginia company very desirous of the projected settlement in their American territory, and willing to grant them a patent with as ample privileges, as they had power to convey ; yet they could prevail with the king no farther,... 
