Excerpt from Short History of the Church in the United States Whole settlement Should have a Christian character, and enjoined the worship of the Church Of England, re quiring every male colonist of Sixteen and upward to pay ten pounds of tobacco and one bushel of corn for the support Of the Church. When the Puritans gained ascendency in England, under the Protectorate of Cromwell, Virginia and the Carolinas became the refuge for the Cavalier and the Churchman, as after wards Of the Huguenot and the German Protestant. Georgia was colonized expressly as an asylum for im prisoned and persecuted Bohemians and the inhabitants of the Italian valleys, and the Colony Of Gustavus Adolphus was to be a blessing to the whole Protestant world by offering a shelter to all who stood in need Of one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.