Note 15 — Chapter II
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"Their residence in Holland had made them acquainted with the various forms of Christianity; a wide experience had emancipated them from bigotry; and they were never betrayed into the excesses of religious persecution, though they sometimes permitted a disproportion between punishment and crime." (Bancroft's History of the United States, Vol. I., p. 322.)
"The Plymouth Church is free from blood." (Elliott's History of New England, Vol. I., p. 133.)