492 7e. HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap.,II. KingJamesI. Inexprefìble were the hardfhips thefe new planters underwent the firft sow. winter ; a fad mortality raged among them, occafioned by the fatigues of their late voyage, by the feverity of the weather, and their want of net cefaries. The country was full of woods and thickets ; their poor cottages could not keep them warm ; they had no phyfician, or wholfome food, fo that within two or three months half their company was dead, and of them who remained alive which were about fifty, not above fix or (even at a time were capable of helping the reft ; but as the fpring came on they recovered, and having received Tome freft, fupplies from their friends in England, they maintained their ftation, and laid the foundation of one of the nobleft fettlements in America, which from that time has proved an Afylum for the proteftant non-conformifts under all their oppref- flons. 12i,e of the To return to England ; though the king had fo lately expreffed a zeal Armimans for the doftrines of Calvin at the fynod of Dort, it now appeared that at court, he had fhaken them offs by his advancing the molt zealous Armenians, as Buckeridge, Neile, Harfnet and Laud, to Tome of the belt hifhopricks in the kingdom. Thefe divines apprehending their principles hardly con- frflent with the thirty-nine articles, fell in with the prerogative, and co- vered themfelves under the wing of his majefty's pretenfions to unli- mited power, which gave rife to a new diftindion at court between CHURCH and. STATE PURITANS. All were puritans with king gamer, who flood by the laws of the land in oppofition to his arbitrary govern- ment, though otherwife never fo good church-men ; thefe were puritans in the /late, as thofe who fcrupled the ceremonies, and efpoufed the doctrines of Calvin, were in the church. The church puritans were comparative- ly few, but being joined by thofe who flood by the conflitution, they became the majority of the nation. To balance thefe, the king proteéted and countenanced the Arminians and Papißs, who joined heartily with the prerogative, and became a fiate faétion again( the old Engles confitu- tion. The parties being thus formed grew up into a hatred of each other. All who oppofed the king's arbitrarymeafures were called at court by the name of PURITANS; and thofe that flood by the crown in oppofition to the parliament, went by the names of papi/is and arminians. Thefe were the feeds of thole factions, which occafioned all the difurbances in the following reign.. 16z1. ThePalatinate being loft, and the king's fon in law and daughter forced Proceedings to take fanftuary in Holland, the whole world murmured at his majefty's fo rka- indolence, both as a father and a proteftant; thefe murmurs obliged him at length to have recourfe to a parliament, from whom he hoped to fqueeze a little money to fpend upon his peafures ; at the opening of the feffion, 7anuary20. '16zo-I. his majefy told them, " that they,were no other " than
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