TTS BAY AND OTHER COLONIES
DURING TWENTY YEARS, UNDER CHARLES THE SECOND, FROM 1660
TO 1680. 130-203
Restoration; the news of it was received with joy in the
Colonies, except in Massachusetts Bay, where false rumours
were circulated alone 130
Change of tone and professions at Massachusetts Bay on
the confirmation of the news of the King's restoration
and firm establishment on the throne; John Eliot, Indian
apostle, censured for what he had been praised 131
When and under what circumstances the Massachusetts
Bay Government proclaimed the King, and addressed him;
the address (in a note) 132
Remarks on this address, and its contrariety to the
address to Cromwell ten years before 133
The King's kind letter addressed to Governor Endicot (in a note) 135
The Massachusetts Court's "ecstasy of joy" at the King's
letter, and reply to it 135
The King enjoins ceasing to persecute the Quakers: how
answered (in a note) 137
Petitions and representations to the King from Episcopalians,
Presbyterians, Baptists, &c., in Massachusetts Bay, on their
persecutions and disfranchisement by the local Government 137
The King's Puritan Councillors, and kindly feelings for
the Colony of Massachusetts Bay 138
The King's letter of pardon and oblivion, June 28, 1662
(in a note), of the past misdeeds of the Massachusetts
Bay Government, and the six conditions on which he promised
to continue the Charter 139
The King's oblivion of the past and promised continuance
of the Charter for the future joyfully proclaimed; but the
publication of the letter withheld, and when the publication
of it could be withheld no longer, all action on the royal
conditions of toleration, &c., prescribed, was ordered by
the local Government to be suspended until the order of the
Court 141
Messrs. Bradstreet and Norton, sent as agents to England to
answer complaints, are favourably received; are first
thanked and then censured at Boston; Norton dies of grief
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