TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE FIRST CENTURY OF ENGLISH COLONISATION. (16071700.) By JOHN A. DOYLE, M.A., Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. PAGE Spain, France, and England 1 Foundation of Virginia 2 Ralegh and Grenville 3 London and Plymouth Companies ...... 4 Colony of Virginia ......... 5 Growth of Virginia 6 London Company extinguished ....... 7 Virginia and the Commonwealth ....... 8 Virginia and the Restoration 9 Virginia after the Revolution 10 Puritanism and New England ... ... 11 New England and the Independents ...... 12 The Pilgrim Fathers .... .... 13 Constitution of New Plymouth 14 Massachusetts Company 15 Settlement of Massachusetts 16 Religious difficulties ......... 17 Settlement of Connecticut 18 Pequod war 19 Settlement of New Haven 20 Maine and New Hampshire 21 New Netherlands 22 New England Confederation 23 Rhode Island and Maine 24 The Quakers in New England 25 New England and the Restoration 26 Indian wars ........... 27 James II and New England ....... 28 Governor Andros 29 New England and the Revolution 30 Settlement of Maryland 31 Maryland and Virginia 32 Maryland and the Commonwealth ...... 33 Maryland after the Restoration 34 Settlement of Carolina 35 North and South Carolina , 36