Chapter 3 No.3

The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Company and their Government, commencing in 1629. 24-84

PART FIRST.

First settlement-Royal Charter granted 24

Causes, characteristics, and objects of early emigration to New England 25

The Puritan emigrants to Massachusetts Bay professed members of the Established Church when they left

England 26

Professed objects of the emigration two-fold-religious and commercial; chiefly religious, for "converting

and civilizing the idolatrous and savage Indian tribes" 26

Endicot; Royal Charter 27

Second emigration; Endicot becomes a Congregationalist, and establishes Congregationalism as the only

worship of the Company at Massachusetts Bay, and banishes John and Samuel Brown for adhering

(with others) to the old worship 28

PART SECOND.

The question involving the primary cause of the American Revolution; the setting up of a new form of

worship, and abolishing and proscribing that of the Church of England, and banishing Episcopalians who

adhered to the old form of worship; the facts analysed and discussed; instructions of the Company in

England, and oaths of allegiance and of office prescribed by it 30

PART THIRD.

Complaints of the banished Episcopalians in England; proceedings by the Company, denials, proofs,

conduct and correspondence of the parties concerned 46

Address of Governor Winthrop, &c., on leaving England, in 1630, to their "Fathers and Brethren of the

Church of England," affirming their filial and undying love to the Church of England, as their

"dear mother," from whose breasts they had derived their spiritual nourishment, &c., &c. 55

Remarks on this address, and absurd interpretations of it 57

Puritan authorities alone adduced as evidence on the subjects of discussion; Puritan letters suppressed;

first seeds of the American Revolution 59

PART FOURTH.

Contest between King Charles the First and the Massachusetts Bay Puritans during ten years, from

1630 to 1640 61

Professions of the Puritans on leaving England, and their conduct on arriving at Massachusetts Bay 62

In the Church revolution at Massachusetts Bay, none but Congregationalists could be citizen electors,

or eligible for office of any kind; five-sixths of the male population disfranchised 63

This first violation of the Royal Charter and laws of England 65

Complaints to the King in Council in 1632 65

Imputations upon the complainants, and upon the King and Council for listening to their complaints 66

Proceedings of the King and Council in 1632; the accused deny the charges, and convince the King

of their innocence and good faith; further inquiry to be made; in the meantime the King dismisses the

complaints, assures the accused that he never intended to impose at Massachusetts Bay the religious

ceremonies to which they had objected in England, and assures them of his desire to promote the

interests of their plantation 66

The King's kind and indulgent conduct, and how the advocates of the Company deceived him 67

Continued oppressions and proscriptions at Massachusetts Bay, and fresh complaints to the King in

Council in 1634 69

Transfer of the Charter; kept secret during four years; remarks upon it; effect of the disclosure, and

renewed complaints 69

Issue of a Royal Commission; proposed armed resistance at Massachusetts Bay advised by the

Congregational ministers; remarks on Mr. Bancroft's attacks and statements; official representations,

and conduct of parties concerned 72

Massachusetts Bay rulers the aggressors throughout; review of the controversy 75

More despotism practised in Massachusetts Bay than was ever practised in Upper Canada 82