may be cast
upon the State here; to whom we owe so much duty, and from whom we have
received so much favour in this Plantation where you reside. So with our
love and due respect to your callings, we rest,

Your loving friends,

R. SALTONSTALL, THO. ADAMS,
ISA JOHNSON, SYM WHITCOMBE,
MATT. CRADOCK, _Governor_, WM. VASSAL,
THOS. GOFFE, _Deputy_, WM. PYNCHION,
GEO. HARWOOD, _Treasurer_, JOHN REVELL,
JOHN WINTHROP, FRANCIS WEBB.

London, 16th October, 1629."]

[Footnote 51: Extract from Deputy Governor Dudley's letter to the
Countess of Lincoln, dated November 12th, 1631:

"To increase the heap of our sorrows, we received from our friends in
England, and by the reports of those who came hither in this ship [the
_Charles_] to abide with us (who were about twenty-six), that they who
went discontentedly from us last year, out of their evil affections
towards us, have raised many false and scandalous reports against us,
affirming us to be Brownists in religion, and ill affected to our State
at home, and that these vile reports have won credit with some who
formerly wished us well. But we do desire and cannot but hope that wise
and impartial men will at length consider that such malcontents have
ever pursued this manner of casting dirt, to make others seem as foul as
themselves, and that our godly friends, to whom we have been known, will
not easily believe that we are so soon turned from the profession we so
long have made in our native country. And for our further clearing, I
truly affirm that I know no one person, who came over with us last year,
to be altered in judgment and affection, either in ecclesiastical and
civil respects, since our coming hither. But we do continue to pray
daily for our Sovereign Lord the King, the Queen, the Prince, the Royal
blood, the Council and whole State, as duty binds us to do, and reason
persuades us to believe. For how ungodly and unthankful should we be if
we should not do thus, who came hither by virtue of his Majesty's
letters patent and under his gracious protection; under which shelter we
hope to live safely, and from whose kingdom and subjects we now have
received and hereafter expect relief. Let our friends therefore give no
credit to such malicious aspersions, but be more ready to answer for us
than we hear they have been." (Young's Chronicles, &c., pp. 331, 332.)]

[Footnote 52