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July 2nd (search for this): chapter 2
eputies consent not, but adhere to Nov 30. their former bills. Addresses were forwarded to the king, urging forbearance; but entreaty and remonstrance were vain. 1684 A scire facias was issued in England; and before the colony could act upon it, just one year and six days after the judgment against the city of London, the charter was conditionally adjudged to be forfeited; and June 18. the judgment was confirmed on the first day of the Michaelmas term. A copy of the judgment was 1685 July 2. received in Boston in July of the following year. Thus fell the charter, which the fleet of Winthrop had brought to the shores of New England, which had been cherished with anxious care through every vicissitude, and on which the fabric of New England liberties had rested. There was now no barrier between the people of Massachusetts and the absolute will of the court of England. Was religion in danger? Was landed property secure? Would commercial enterprise be paralyzed by restrictio
1660 AD (search for this): chapter 2
Chapter 12: Massachusetts and Charles II. MASSACHUSETTS never enjoyed the favor of the re- Chap. XII.} 1660. stored government. The virtual independence which had been exercised for the last twenty years, was too dear to be hastily relinquished. The news of the restoration, brought by the ships in which Goffe and Whalle, and the grievous confusions of the past. The colonists appealed to the king of England, Hutch. Coll. 325—329. as a king who had seen adversity, Chap. XII.} 1660. and who, having himself been an exile, knew the 1660 hearts of exiles. They prayed for the continuance of civil and religious liberties, and requested against co1660 hearts of exiles. They prayed for the continuance of civil and religious liberties, and requested against complaints an opportunity of defence. Let not the king hear men's words,—such was their petition;— your servants are true men, fearing God and the king. We could not live without the public worship of God; that we might, therefore, enjoy divine worship without human mixtures, we, not without tears, departed from our country, kindr<
July (search for this): chapter 2
re to Nov 30. their former bills. Addresses were forwarded to the king, urging forbearance; but entreaty and remonstrance were vain. 1684 A scire facias was issued in England; and before the colony could act upon it, just one year and six days after the judgment against the city of London, the charter was conditionally adjudged to be forfeited; and June 18. the judgment was confirmed on the first day of the Michaelmas term. A copy of the judgment was 1685 July 2. received in Boston in July of the following year. Thus fell the charter, which the fleet of Winthrop had brought to the shores of New England, which had been cherished with anxious care through every vicissitude, and on which the fabric of New England liberties had rested. There was now no barrier between the people of Massachusetts and the absolute will of the court of England. Was religion in danger? Was landed property secure? Would commercial enterprise be paralyzed by restrictions? Was New England destined
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assembly was regularly held. Williamson's Maine, i. 566, &c. The reason assigned is as unfounded as the statement in Chalmers. In the grant of 1639, the assent of the majority of the free holders is required for all acts of legislation. Hazard, i. 445. It is true, the proprietary supremacy of Massachusetts was unpalatable to many. Willis's Portland, i. 158. Maine Hist. Collections, i. 302. The change of government in New Hampshire was Chap XII.} 1675 less quietly effected. On the first apprehension that the claim of Mason would be revived, the infant people, assembling in town-meetings, expressed their content with the government of Massachusetts. But the popular wish availed little in the decision of a question of law; the patent of Mason was duly investigated in England; it was found that he had no right to jurisdiction over New Hampshire; the unappro- 1677 priated lands were allowed to belong to him; but the rights of the settlers to the soil which they actually occ
June 29th (search for this): chapter 2
he whistling of bullets. Some distinctly heard invisible troops of Chap. XII.} 1675. horses gallop through the air, while others found the prophecy of calamities in the howling of the wolves. C Mather, II. 486. I. Mather, 34. Hubbard, 120. At the very beginning of danger, the colonists exerted their wonted energy. Volunteers from Massachusetts joined the troops from Plymouth; and within a week from the commencement of hostilities, the insulated Pokanokets were driven from Mount June 29. Hope, and in less than a month, Philip was a fugitive among the Nipmucks, the interior tribes of Massachusetts. The little army of the colonists then entered the territory of the Narragansetts, and from the reluctant tribe extorted a treaty of neutrality, with a promise to deliver up every hostile Indian. Victory seemed promptly assured. But it was only the commencement of horrors. Canonchet, the chief sachem of the Narragansetts, was the son of Miantonomoh; and could he forget his fat
March 18th (search for this): chapter 2
e, and renew the favors which the Long Parliament had conceded. But the navigation act had just been passed; and Massachusetts never gained an exemption from its severity till she ceased to demand it as a favor. Meantime a treatise, which Eliot, the benevolent apostle of the Indians,—the same who had claimed for the people a voice even in making treaties,—had published in defence of the unmixed principles of popular freedom, was condemned, as too full of the seditious Chap. XII.} 1661 Mar. 18. doctrines of democratic liberty; the single-minded author did not hesitate to suppress his book on the Christian Commonwealth, and in guarded language to acknowledge the form of government by king, lords, and commons, as not only lawful, but eminent. Hutchinson, i. 195. A general expression of good will from the king, Feb. 15. could not quiet the apprehensions of the colonists. The committee for the plantations had already sur- April mised that Massachusetts would, if it dared, c
June 21st (search for this): chapter 2
of that colonie were utterly against. After many days, it was concluded, Evelyn, II. 344. that, if any, it June 6. should be only a conciliating paper at first, or civil letter; for it was understood they were a people almost upon the very brink of renouncing any dependence upon the crown. Information of the present face of things was desired, and Cartwright, one of the commissioners, was summoned before the council, to give a relation of that country; Ibid. 345. but such was the June 21. picture that he drew, the council were more intimidated than ever, so that nothing was recommended beyond a letter of amnesty. By degrees, it was Aug 3. proposed to send a deputy to New England, under the pretext of adjusting boundaries, but with secret instructions to inform the council of the condition of New England; and whether they were of such power as to be able to resist his majesty, and declare for themselves, as independent of the crown. Their strength was reported to be the c
June 24th (search for this): chapter 2
been compelled to surrender his English arms, and pay an onerous tribute, was summoned to submit to an 1674. examination, and could not escape suspicion. The wrath of his tribe was roused, and the informer was murdered. The murderers in their turn were identified, seized, tried by a jury, of which one half were 1675. June. Indians, and, on conviction, were hanged. The young men of the tribe panted for revenge; without delay eight or nine of the English were slain in or about Swansey; June 24. and the alarm of war spread through the colonies. Thus was Philip hurried into his rebellion; and he is reported to have wept Callender's Century Sermon. as he heard that a white man's blood had been shed. The authorities on King Phillip's war are, Present State of N. E., and four other Tracts, first published in 1675 and 1676, and now, in 1833 and 1836, reprinted by S. G. Drake; Increase Mather's Hist. of Troubles with the Indians; Hubbard's Indian Wars; Church's Hist. of King
October 25th (search for this): chapter 2
e, not against deeds of tyranny, but the menace of tyranny—not against actual wrong, but against a principle of wrong —thus addressed King Charles II.:— Oct 25. Dread Sovereign-The first undertakers of this plantation did obtain a patent, wherein is granted full and absolute power of governing all the people of this place, by men chosen from among themselves, and according to such laws as they should see meet to establish. A royal donation, under the great seal, is Chap XII.} 1664 Oct. 25. the greatest security that may be had in human affairs. Under the encouragement and security of the royal charter, this people did, at their own charges, transport themselves, their wives and families, over the ocean, purchase the land of the natives, and plant this colony, with great labor, hazards, cost, and difficulties; for a long time wrestling with the wants of a wilderness, and the burdens of a new plantation; having also, now above thirty years, enjoyed the privilege of govern-men<
March 15th (search for this): chapter 2
horne, at the head of a company of train-bands, made a speech which royalists deemed seditious; and the inflexible Endicott, just as the last sands of life were running out, addressed the people at their meeting-house in Boston. Charles II. had written to the colony against Endicott, as a person not well affected, and desired that some other person might be chosen governor in his stead; but Endicott, who did not survive till the day of election, retained his office till the King of 1665. Mar. 15. Kings summoned him from the world. The aged Davenport was equally unbending. The commission, said he from New Haven, is but a tryal of our courage; the Lord will be with his people while they are with him. If you consent to this court of appeals, you pluck down with your own hands the house which wisdom has built for you and your posterity. The elections in the spring of 1665 proceeded with great quiet; the people firmly sustained the govern- Chap XII.} 1664 ment. Meantime letters
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