Note 279 — Chapter VI · NEW ENGLAND AND THE GREAT MIGRATION
Reading edition
C. M. Andrews, Introduction to Newton, Puritan Colonisation, p. viii. Robert Reyce, writing of the gentry, in 1618, says: “So againe what with the enterlacing of houses in marriage (a practise at this day much used for the strengthening of families therby) such is the religious unity wherewith in all good actions they doe concur, that whatsoever offendeth one displeaseth all, and whosever satisfieth one contenteth all.” Breviary, p. 60.