ons.
This letter is dated the 28th of May, 1629, and encloses the official
proceedings of the Council or "General Court" appointing Endicot as
Governor, with the names of the Councillors joined with him, together
with the form of _oaths_ he and the other local officers of the Company
were to take.[42] The oath required to be taken by Endicot and each
local Governor is very full and explicit.[43] It is also to be observed
that these two letters of instructions, with forms of oaths and
appointments of his Council, were sent out three months before Endicot,
Higginson, and Skelton proceeded to ignore and abolish the Church
professed by the Company and themselves, and set up a new Church.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 22: Two years after the Plymouth settlement, "Thirty-five
ships sailed this year (1622) from the west of England, and two from
London, to fish on the New England coasts, and made profitable voyages."
(Holmes' Annals of America, Vol. I., p. 179.) In a note on the same page
it is said: "Where in Newfoundland they shared six or seven pounds for a
common man, in New England they shared fourteen pounds; besides, six
Dutch and French ships made wonderful returns in furs."]

[Footnote 23: "The Council of New England, on the 19th of March (1627),
sold to Sir Henry Rowsell, Sir John Young, and four other associates,
[Thomas Southwood, John Humphrey, John Endicot, and Simeon Whitcombe,]
in the vicinity of Dorchester, in England, a patent for all that part of
New England lying between three miles to the northward of Merrimack
River, and three miles to the southward of Charles River, and in length
within the described breadth from the Atlantic Ocean to the South Sea."
(Holmes' Annals, Vol. I., p. 193.)]

[Footnote 24: The zeal of White soon found other powerful associates in
and out of London--kindred spirits, men of religious fervour, uniting
emotions of enthusiasm with unbending perseverance in action--Winthrop,
Dudley, Johnson, Pynchon, Eaton, Saltonstall, Bellingham, so famous in
colonial annals, besides many others, men of fortune and friends to
colonial enterprise. Three of the original purchasers parted with their
rights; Humphrey and Endicot retained an equal interest with the
original purchasers. (Bancroft's United States, Vol. I., pp. 368, 369.)]

[Footnote 25: Bancroft says: "Endicot, a man of dauntless courage, and
that cheerfulness which accompanies courage, benevolent though austere,
firm though choleric, of