l unto our Sovereign Lord the King's
Majesty, and to his heirs and successors. You shall support and
maintain, to the best of your power, the Government and Company of
Massachusetts Bay, in New England, in America, and the privileges of the
same, having no singular regard to yourself in derogation or hindrance
of the Commonwealth of this Company; and to every person under your
authority you shall administer indifferent and equal justice. Statutes
and Ordinances shall you none make without the advice and consent of the
Council for Government of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. You
shall admit none into the freedom of this Company but such as may claim
the same by virtue of the privileges thereof. You shall not bind
yourself to enter into any business or process for or in the name of
this Company, without the consent and agreement of the Council
aforesaid, but shall endeavour faithfully and carefully to carry
yourself in this place and office of Governor, as long as you shall
continue in it. And likewise you shall do your best endeavour to draw
the natives of this country called New England to the knowledge of the
true God, and to conserve the planters, and others coming hither, in the
same knowledge and fear of God. And you shall endeavour, by all good
unions, to advance the good of the Plantations of this Company, and you
shall endeavour the raising of such commodities for the benefit and
encouragement of the adventurers and planters as, through God's blessing
on your endeavours, may be produced for the good and service of the
kingdom of England, this Company, and the Plantations. All these
premises you shall hold and keep to the uttermost of your power and
skill, so long as you shall continue in the place of Governor of this
fellowship; so help you God." (The same oath of allegiance was required
of each member of the Council.) (Young's Chronicles of First Planters of
the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 1623 to 1636, pp. 201, 202.)]

PART III.

EVASIONS AND DENIALS OF THE ABOLITION OF EPISCOPAL, AND ESTABLISHMENT OF
CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP AT MASSACHUSETTS BAY; PROOFS OF THE FACTS, THAT
THE COMPANY AND FIRST SETTLERS OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY WERE PROFESSED
EPISCOPALIANS WHEN THE LATTER LEFT ENGLAND; LETTERS OF THE LONDON
COMPANY AGAINST THE INNOVATIONS WHICH ABOLISHED THE EPISCOPAL, AND
ESTABLISHED CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP BY THE "ADVENTURERS" AFTER CROSSING
THE ATLANTIC; THIS THE FIRST SEED OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIO