Story of Dr. John Clarke, the Founder of the First Free Commonwealth, of the World, on the Basis of Full Liberty in Religious Concernments #244408

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.