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the summons. Especially Hooker, of Hartford, liked not the business and deemed it his duty rather to stay in quite and obscurity with his people in Connecticut, than to turn propogandist, and plead for Independency in England. Yet such commercial advantages were desired, as might be obtained Without a surrender of chartered rights. In 1641, Hugh Peters and two others were despatched as agents for the colonies; and their mission was favorably received. The house of commons, on the tenth of March, 1643, publicly acknowledged, that the plantations in New England had, by the blessing of the Almighty, had good and prosperous success, without any public charge to the parent state; and Chap. X.} their imports and exports were freed from all taxation, until the house of commons should take order to the contrary. The general court of Massachusetts received the ordinance hardly as a boon from a sovereign, but rather as a courtesy and a benefit from a friendly state, and while they entere