of the new Ministry. ii. 54.

Parliament votes L115,000 sterling to compensate the Colonies for expenses
incurred by them. i. 252.

Parties--Origin of political parties at Massachusetts Bay. i. 209.

Petitions and representations to the King from Episcopalians,
Presbyterians, Baptists, etc., in Massachusetts Bay, on their
persecutions and disfranchisement by the local Government. i. 137.

Petitions from various towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland against
Lord North's coercive American policy. i. 425.

Pilgrim Fathers--who. i. 2.

Their settlement, and residence of 12 years in Holland. i. 3.

Long to be under the English Government. i. 3.

Cross the Atlantic in the _Mayflower_. i. 3.

Where intended to settle in America, i. 4

What known of Cape Cod before the Pilgrims landed. i. 4.

Their agreement and constitution of government before landing. i. 5.

Remarks upon it by Messrs. Bancroft and Young. i. 6.

Inflated American accounts of their voyage. i. 7.

Their first "Harvest-home." i. 9.

Pitt (afterwards Earl of Chatham) changes the whole fortune of the war
with the French in America in favour of England. i. 260.

Policy of the British Ministry in employing foreign soldiers and Indians,
deprecated by all classes in Europe and America. ii. 72-74.

Pownall (Governor)--His speech and amendment in the House of Commons to
repeal the duty on tea; rejected by a majority 242 to 204. i. 361.

Preface--The reason and objects of writing the history of the Loyalists
of America. i. 3-5.

Protests and Loyal Petitions of the Colonists against English
Parliamentary Acts to raise a revenue in the Colonies. i. 337.

Puritan authorities alone adduced in this historical discussion. i. 59.

Puritan letters suppressed by the biographer of Governor Winthrop. i. 59.

Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Company. i. 24.

Their Charter and settlement in 1629. i. 23.

Their intolerance. i. 24.

Their wealth and trade. i. 25.

Their enterprise under two aspects. i. 26.

Professed members of the Church of England when they left England. i. 26.

Puritan treatment of the Indians. i. 298.

Puritan legal opinions in England on the constant violation of the first
Charter by the Massachusetts Bay Rulers. i. 233.

Quebec taken by General Wolfe. i. 263.

Queenston Heights--Battle of. ii. 365-8.

Quo Warranto--Notice of sent to the Rulers of Massachusetts Bay in July,
1683,