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Excerpt from John Checkley, Vol. 1 of 2: Or the Evolution of Religious Tolerance in Massachusetts Bay
But, neverthelefs, evolution had not yet achieved a com plete viétory. Fines, imprifonment, and unjuft taxation, taxation to build churches and to fupport a religion which they did not believe, were {till infiic'ied with a rapacious hand. Againft this Intolerance, for more than twenty years, Mr. Checkley {truggled on, nothing daunted by fines, penalties, and perfonal abufe, gaining one point after another, until at length he law the confiimmation of his wifhes in the enaét ment of a general law, which, for the firft time fince the planting of the colony, placed the members of the Church of England on an equal footing with the Standing Order. Vz'zz'e Vol. II. P. 201, and note 71.
In col leéting the material for this 11 ork, largely gathered out of original documents, I have receii ed from fcholars, ftu dents Of hiftory, officials and others, numerous courtefies for which I defire to place upon record my hearty appreciation.
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