...tered by King Charles I. He never came oversea but suggested the transfer here of the charter which became the foundation of a commonwealth. Old home associations such as Mr. Brooks alluded to at Dr. Swan 's dinner-table (also alluded to by the English diarist quoted) may have prompted him to call the new plantation he was starting, Medford or Metford. Dudley, his associate and successor in office, wri...