15 Carl Bridenbaugh, Vexed and Troubled Englishmen (New York, 1968), 70.
16Mass. Bay Records, I, 112.
17 Earle, The Sabbath in Puritan New England, 264.
18 Mather, Magnolia Christi America, I, 160-61; references to “honor” and “honorable” qualities appear throughout this work; see, e.g., I, 157, 158, 253, 262, passim. See also the discussion of Puritan ideas of honor in Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor; Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (New York, 1982), 26.