Chapter VII

MORE FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC TROUBLES.--CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
REGULATIONS OF THE COLONY.--ARRIVAL OF QUAKERS.

Conscience claimed as the rule of action in civil
as well as religious matters, 33

Contentions between the Island and the main-land
towns, 34

1654. Court of Commissioners met and effected a reunion
in the Colony, 34

Attempts of the United Colonies to make war on the
Narragansetts, but they failed, as Williams had
influenced Massasoit not to sanction it, 35

Qualification of citizenship, 36

Duties of citizenship ascendant over dignity of
office, 37

Protection of marriage, 38

The Pawtuxet controversy settled by acknowledgement
of the claims of Rhode Island, 38

Fort built for protection against Indians, 39

Quakers arrived. Difference of treatment of them
between Rhode Island and Massachusetts, 39

1663. A new charter granted by Charles II. and accepted
by the colonists, 40