I ntroduction. In a former paper the present writer pursued studies along two lines. First, he sought to show from external and internal evidence, from contemporary and later authorities, that the first settlements in North Carolina were made not by Quakers fleeing from religious intolerance in other colonies, but by men seeking for homes under better economic conditions. In the course of a few years, especially after the failure of Bacon srebellion, these first settlers were reinforced by others seeking political freedom, which they found flourishing finely in the little colony by the A lbemarle. Before the end of the seventeenth century settlers were coming into the colony, possibly from religious motives, for Quakers were then coming from I reland as well as from Pennsylvania, and Huguenots were making their settlement about Bath. The second part of the paper was an effort to arrive at the true relations between Church and State as developed in theory and practice by the Lords Proprietors. We saw that provision was made for a State Church in the charter granting Carolana to Sir Robert Heath in 1629. These provisions were re-enacted in the charters to the Lords Proprietors in 1663 and 1665. No efifort was made, however, to put them into practice until 1701, when a vestry act was passed providing for an establishment. The fortunes The Eeligious Development in the Province of North Carolina, Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, X., pp. 239-306, May-J une, 1892. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don"t occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books" Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has b