he
adventurers should have discouragement, or take suspicion that the State
there had no good opinion of that Plantation,--their Lordships not
laying the fault, or fancies (if any _be_,) _of some particular men upon
the general government, or principal adventurers_, which in _due time
is_ further to be inquired into, have thought fit in the meantime to
declare that _the appearances were so fair, and the hopes so great, that
the country would prove both beneficial to this country and to the
particular adventurers, as that the adventurers had cause to go on
cheerfully with their undertakings, and rest assured, if things were
carried as was pretended_ when the patents were granted, and accordingly
as by the patents is appointed, his Majesty would not only maintain the
liberties and privileges heretofore granted, but supply anything further
that might tend to the good government of the place, and prosperity and
comfort of his people there."--Palfrey's History of New England, Vol.
I., Chap, ix., pp. 364, 365.]

[Footnote 63: The Congregational Society of Boston has published, in
1876, a new book in justification of the "Banishment of Roger Williams
from the Massachusetts Plantation," by the Rev. Dr. Henry M. Dexter, of
Boston. It is a book of intense bitterness against Roger Williams, and
indeed everything English; but his account of the origin and objects of
the Massachusetts Charter suggests, stronger than language can express,
the presumption and lawlessness of Endicot's proceedings in establishing
a new Church and abolishing an old one; and Dr. Dexter's account of the
removal of the Charter, and its secrecy, is equally suggestive. It is as
follows:

"Let me here repeat and emphasize that it may be remembered by and by
that this 'Dorchester Company,' originally founded on the transfer of a
portion of the patent of Gorges, and afterwards enlarged and
re-authorized by the Charter of Charles the First, as the 'Governor and
Company of Massachusetts Bay,' was in its beginning, and in point of
fact, neither more nor less than a private corporation chartered by the
Government for purposes of fishing, real estate improvement, and general
commerce, for which it was to pay the Crown a fifth part of all precious
metals which it might unearth. It was then more than this only in the
same sense as the egg, new-laid, is the full-grown fowl, or the acorn
the oak. It was not yet a State. It was not, even in the beginning, in
the ordinar