,
that the light of their fair and loyal acts might be manifest to all
England, in refutation of all statements made against them. Had the
Browns and their Church friends been permitted to worship after the
manner of their fathers and of their childhood, while Endicot and his
converts elected to worship in a new manner, there would have been no
cause of collision, and no spirit of distrust and hostility between the
Massachusetts settlement and the King, any more than there was between
either Charles the First or Second, and the settlements and separate
Governments of Plymouth, Rhode Island, or Connecticut. But Endicot, in
the spirit of tyranny and intolerance, would allow no liberty of worship
not of his own establishment; and to maintain which in the spirit of
proscription and persecution, caused all the disputes with the parent
Government and all the persecutions and bloodshed on account of religion
in Massachusetts which its Government inflicted in subsequent years, in
contradistinction to the Governments of Plymouth, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, and even Maryland.[57]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 44: The Company's Records on the whole affair are as
follows:--

"Sept. 19, 1629.

"At this Court letters[45] were read from Mr. Endicot and others of New
England. And whereas a difference hath fallen out betwixt the Governor
there and John and Samuel Brown; it was agreed by the Court that, for
the determination of those differences, John and Samuel Brown might
choose out any three of the Company on their behalf to hear the said
differences, the Company choosing as many."

From the Records of the Company, September 29, 1629:

"The next thing taken into consideration was the letters from John and
Samuel Brown to divers of their private friends here in England, whether
the same should be delivered or detained, and whether they should be
opened and read, or not. And for that it was to be doubted by probable
circumstances that they had defamed the country of New England, and the
Governor and Government there, it was thought fit that some of the said
letters should be opened and publicly read, which was done accordingly;
and the rest to remain in the Deputy's house (Goffe's), and the parties
to whom they are directed to have notice; and Mr. Governor and Mr.
Deputy, Mr. Treasurer, and Mr. Wright, or any two of them, are entreated
to be at the opening and reading thereof, to the end that the Company
may have notice if aught be i