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as collateral security for the payment of his salary. Thus invested with an ample royal commission, Mass. Hist. Coll. v. 232. with the promise of a fixed salary, a fifth of all quit-rents, a mortgage of the province, and the exclusive right to the anticipated abundant harvest of fines and forfeitures, Cranfield deemed his fortune secure, and, relinquishing a profitable employment in England, embarked for the banks of the Piscataqua. But the first assembly which he convened dispelled Nov. 14. all his golden visions of an easy acquisition of fortune. To humor the governor, the rugged legislators voted him a gratuity of two hundred and fifty pounds, which the needy adventurer greedily accepted; but they would not yield their liberties; and the governor in anger 1683 Jan. 20 dissolved the assembly. The dissolution of an assembly was a novel procedure in New England. Such a thing had till now been unheard of. Popular discontent became extreme; and a crowd of rash men raised t