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Title: The fathers of New England; a chronicle of the Puritan commonwealths
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Andrews, Charles McLean, 1863-1943
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Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press (etc., etc.)
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ondon, England. Reproduced in The Andros Tracts,published by the Prince Society, Boston. D of Londoi ts and by at least the colony^ad no persona ke. In October, 1676, Massachus it over two of Representatives, to .Rft&d off, if possible, theattack on the colony, but with characteristicshort-sightedness gave them no authority todiscuss officially anything but the Mason andGorges claims. For more than two years thesemen, representative rather of the moderate partythan of the old faction in the colony, remainedin England, frequently appearing before the LordsI Trade, whe ejected to a searching examination at the hands of a not very sym-pathetic body of men. The meetings in the Coun-cil Chamber in Wb re the committeewere oc md excite-ment. At oi ^fh- \ndros Go. Hike were \o gJn,Bbfl90B9b vd b9nv/o gniJmBq Ip.ni^iio srll moil gnivBi%n3^tom! %o-vb«k ^A^ n\ b^ouboiqeH .briBlgnS ,nobnoJ ill acribn/..noi8oa,7>i9oSeonhq.ri*vdba^Iduq ^pressed it t the colonys of disobedience n, and showed
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THE BAY COLONY DISCIPLINED 157 no inclination to adopt a moderate policy, advo-cating, on the contrary, investigation from thewhole root. The position of a Massachusettsagent in England during these trying years wasmost undesirable, and so many difficulties anddiscouragements did Stoughton and Bulkeleyencounter that several times they asked for per-mission to return home and once, at least, hadto go to the country for their health. But what-ever were the troubles of an agent in England,they were trifling as compared with those whichconfronted him at home when he failed, as healmost invariably did fail, to obtain all that thecolony expected. Cotton Mather tells us thatNorton died in 1663 of melancholy and chagrin,am1 that for forty years there was not one agentbut met with some very fro ward entertainmentamong his countrymen. No wonder it was al-ways difficult to find men who were willing to go. At first the Lords of Trade favored the sendingof a supplemental charter and the extending

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