m,
we pray you carry yourself impartially to all. For the manner of
exercising their ministry, and teaching both our own people and the
Indians, we leave that to themselves, hoping they will make God's Word
the rule of their actions, and mutually agree in the discharge of their
duties.

"We have, in prosecution of that good opinion we have always had of you,
confirmed you Governor of our Plantation, and joined in commission with
you the three ministers--namely, Mr. Francis Higginson, Mr. Samuel
Skelton, and Mr. Francis Bright; also Mr. John and Samuel Brown, Mr.
Thomas Groves, and Mr. Samuel Sharpe."--The Company's First General
Letter of Instructions to Endicot and his Council, the 17th of April,
1629. (Young's Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of
Massachusetts Bay, pp. 142-144.)

"A form of an oath for a Governor beyond the seas, and of an oath for
the Council there, was drawn and delivered to Mr. Humphrey to show to
the (Privy) Council." (Company's Records, Young, &c., p. 69.)]

[Footnote 42: The following is an extract of the Company's Second
General Letter of Instructions to Endicot and his Council, dated London,
28th May, 1629:

"We have, and according as we then advised, at a full and ample Court
assembled, elected and established you, Captain John Endicot, to the
place of Governor in our Plantation there, as also some others to be of
the Council with you, as more particularly you will perceive by an Act
of Court herewith sent, confirmed by us at a General Court, and sealed
with our common seal, to which Act we refer you, desiring you all
punctually to observe the same, and that the _oaths_ we herewith send
you (which have been penned by learned counsel, to be administered to
each of you in your several places) may be administered in such manner
and form as in and by our said order is particularly expressed; and that
yourselves do frame such other oaths as in your wisdom you shall think
fit to be administered to your secretary or other officers, according to
their several places respectively." (Young's Chronicles, &c., p. 173.)]

[Footnote 43: The form of oath, which had been prepared under legal
advice, submitted to and approved of by the King's Privy Council, was as
follows:

"Oaths of Office for the Governor, Deputy Governor, and Council in New
England (ordered May 7th, 1629).

"The Oath of the Governor in New England." (The same to the Deputy
Governor.)

"You shall be faithful and loya