fection towards us, cannot conceive so well of our
way as we could desire, we would entreat such not to despise us, nor to
desert us in their prayers and affections; but to consider rather that
they are so much the more bound to expresse the bowels of their
compassion towards us; remembering alwaies that both Nature and Grace
doth binde us to relieve and rescue, with our utmost and speediest
power, such as are deare unto us, when we conceive them to be running
uncomfortable hazards.

"What goodness you shall extend to us, in this or any other Christian
kindnesse, wee, your Brethren in Christ Jesus, shall labour to repay, in
what dutie wee are or shall be able to performe; promising, so farre as
God shall enable us, to give him no rest on your behalfes, wishing our
heads and hearts may be as fountains of tears for your everlasting
welfare, when wee shall be in our poore cottages in the wildernesse,
overshadowed with the spirit of supplication, through the manifold
necessities and tribulations which may, not altogether unexpectedly nor
we hope unprofitably, befall us.

"And so commending you to the Grace of God in Christ, we shall ever rest

"Your assured Friends and Brethren."
Signed by JOHN WINTHROP, _Governor_;

Charles Fines, George Philips, Richard Saltonstall,
Isaac Johnson, Thomas Dudley, William Coddington,
&c., and was dated "From Yarmouth, aboard the _Arabella_,
April 7, 1630."]

[Footnote 56: History of the United States, Vol. I., p. 273.

In a note, Mr. Bancroft says:--"The Editor of Winthrop did me the
kindness to read to me _unpublished letters_ which are in his
possession, and _which prove that the Puritans in England were amazed as
well as alarmed at the boldness of their brethren in Massachusetts_."
(_Ib._)

Why have these letters remained unpublished, when every line from any
opposed to Endicot and his party, however private and confidential, has
been published to the world? The very fact that all the letters of
Endicot and the Browns, and of the Puritans who wrote on the subject,
according to Mr. Bancroft, have been suppressed, affords very strong
ground to believe that the Massachusetts Puritans violated the
acknowledged objects of the Charter and the terms of their settlement,
and committed the first breach of faith to their Sovereign, and
inculcated that spirit and commenced that series of acts which resulted
in the dismemberment of the British Empire in America.]

[Footnote 57: The Gene