Excerpt from Story of Dr. John Clarke, the Founder of the First Free Commonwealth, of the World, on the Basis of Full Liberty in Religious Concernments Yet more clearly will the great concerns Of these English planters be made manifest to the world, when it will appear that Dr. John Clarke, the leader of the Aquidneck Plantation, procured, by wise diplomacy, from King Charles the Second, in July, 1663, the most liberal charter ever given to men, securing to Rhode Island and Providence Plantations full liberty in civil and religious concernments. 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.