Charles the Second treated them 14

Complaints against the unjust and persecuting conduct of
the government of Massachusetts Bay, the cause of Parliamentary
and Royal Commissions in 1646, 1664, and 1678 17

Four questions of inquiry by the Commissioners of Charles
the Second, in 1665, and satisfactory answers by the
Plymouth Government 18

Opposition of the Puritan Government of Massachusetts
Bay to the Pilgrim Government in seeking a Royal Charter
in 1630 and 1678 21

Absorption of the Plymouth Colony into that of Massachusetts
Bay by the second Royal Charter; the exclusion of its chief men
from public offices 21

Reflections on the melancholy termination of the Plymouth
Government; the noble and loyal character of the Pilgrim
Fathers and their descendants 22

CHAPTER III.

THE PURITANS OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY COMPANY AND THEIR
GOVERNMENT, COMMENCING IN 1629. 24-84

PART FIRST.

First settlement--Royal Charter granted 24

Causes, characteristics, and objects of early emigration
to New England 25

The Puritan emigrants to Massachusetts Bay professed members
of the Established Church when they left England 26

Professed objects of the emigration two-fold--religious and
commercial; chiefly _religious_, for "converting and
civilizing the idolatrous and savage Indian tribes" 26

Endicot; Royal Charter 27

Second emigration; Endicot becomes a Congregationalist,
and establishes Congregationalism as the only worship of
the Company at Massachusetts Bay, and banishes John and
Samuel Brown for adhering (with others) to the old worship 28

PART SECOND.

The question involving the primary cause of the American
Revolution; the setting up of a new form of worship, and
abolishing and proscribing that of the Church of England,
and banishing Episcopalians who adhered to the old form of
worship; the facts analysed and discussed; instructions of
the Company in England, and oaths of allegiance and of office
prescribed by it