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ts of the plantation, so as such laws and ordinances be not contrary and repugnant to the laws and statutes of the realm of England. The principle and foundation of the charter of Massachusetts, wrote Charles the Second at a time when he had Clarendon for his adviser, was the freedom of liberty of conscience. The governor, or his deputy, or two of the assistants, was empowered, but not required, to administer the oaths of supremacy and allegiance to every person who should go to inhabit theform to the doctrines he had espoused, turning his dying hour into a seal of the witness, which his life had ever borne with noble consistency to the freedom of conscience and the people. If he were not su- Chap. IX.} perior to Hampden, says Clarendon, he was inferior to no other man; his whole life made good the imagination, that there was in him something extraordinary. Clarendon, b. VII. and b. III. vol. i. 379, and vol. i. 186, 187, 188. The freemen of Massachusetts, pleased th
Massachusetts Hist. Coil VIII. 258. More probably John Hamblin; a common name in the Old Colony. was undoubtedly there; but the greatest patriot-statesman of his times, the man whom Charles I. would gladly have seen drawn and quartered, whom Clarendon paints as possessing beyond all his contemporaries a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, and whom the fervent Baxter revered as able, by his presence and conversation, to give a new charm to the rest of the Saints in implies an extremely pure community; in no other would it find a place in the statute-book; in no other would public opinion tolerate the rule. Yet it need not have surprised the countrymen of Raleigh, or the subjects of the grand-children of Clarendon. Pepys' Diary, i. 81. The benevolence of the early Puritans appears from other examples. Their thoughts were always fixed on posterity. Domestic discipline was highly valued; but if the law was severe against the undutiful child, it wa