The Fathers of New England: A Chronicle of the Puritan Co...
Andrews, Charles Mclean![The Fathers of New England: A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths (Classic Reprint)](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/267/26727920/CHSBZCOP0326727920.jpg)
Excerpt from The Fathers of New England: A Chronicle of the Puritan CommonwealthsLandholding classes, gentry and tenant farmers alike, were clamoring, the one for an increase of their landed estates, the other for freedom from the feudal restraints which still legally bound them. The land-hunger Of neither class could be satisfied in a narrow island where the law and the lawgivers were in favor Of the maintenance of feudal rights. The expectat...