nts 69

Issue of a Royal Commission; proposed armed resistance at
Massachusetts Bay advised by the Congregational ministers;
remarks on Mr. Bancroft's attacks and statements; official
representations, and conduct of parties concerned 72

Massachusetts Bay rulers the aggressors throughout; review
of the controversy 75

More despotism practised in Massachusetts Bay than was
ever practised in Upper Canada 82

CHAPTER IV.

THE GOVERNMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT,
THE COMMONWEALTH, AND CROMWELL. 85-129

Commissioners from the Massachusetts Bay rulers to the Long
Parliament 85

Change of Government in England stops emigration to Massachusetts 85

First Address of the Massachusetts Commissioners to the
Long Parliament 86

Ordinance of the Long Parliament in regard to Massachusetts
trade, &c., in 1642, and remarks upon it 87

The Massachusetts Bay Court pass an Act in 1644, of persecution
of the Baptists; another Act authorising discussion, &c., in
favour of the Parliament, but pronouncing as a "high offence,"
to be proceeded against "capitally," anything done or said in
behalf of the King 87

In 1646, the Long Parliament pass an ordinance appointing a
Commission and Governor-General over Massachusetts and other
Colonies, with powers more extensive than the Commission which
had been appointed by Charles the First in 1634 88

The parliamentary authority declared in this ordinance, and
acknowledged by the Puritans in 1646, the same as that
maintained by the United Empire Loyalists of America one
hundred and thirty years afterwards, in the American Revolution
of 1776 (in a note) 88-92

The Presbyterians in 1646 seek liberty of worship at
Massachusetts Bay, but are punished for their petition to
the Massachusetts Bay Government, and are fined and their
papers seized to prevent their appeal to the Puritan Parliament 93

How their appeal to England was defeated