edings against the Corporation in case of their
submitting to the decision of the King, on the points
heretofore required by his Majesty as conditions of
perpetuating the Charter 208

The Colony of Massachusetts Bay divided; origin of parties;
the Governor and a majority of the "Upper Branch of the
Government" were the moderate or loyalist party; the majority
of the "House of Deputies," whose "elections were controlled
by the ministers," were the _independence_ party;
violent language by Dr. Increase Mather, whose appeal from
man to God was decided against him (in a note) 209

Resolutions of the two Houses of the Court on the subject 210

Notice to the Massachusetts Bay Court of the issue of
the writ of _quo warranto_, to answer to the complaints
against them, _received_ October, 1683; judgment given
July 1685, nearly two years afterwards 211

The questions at issue unfairly put to popular vote in
Massachusetts; remarks on Mr. Palfrey's account of the
transactions 211

Results of the fall of the Charter; death of Charles
the Second; proclamation of the accession of James the
Second; appointment of Joseph Dudley as Governor;
character of his seven months' government 212

Appointment of Andros as local Governor and
Governor-General; popular beginning of his government;
his tyranny; seized at Boston and sent prisoner to
England; acquitted on account of having obeyed his
instructions 215

Toleration first proclaimed in Massachusetts by
James the Second; thanked by the Massachusetts Bay
Court, and its agent in England, the Rev. Increase
Mather, for the proclamation which lost the King the Crown
of England 216

Concluding review of the characteristics of the
fifty-four years' government of Massachusetts Bay
Government under the first Charter 217

CHAPTER VII.

SECOND ROYAL CHARTER, AND THE GOVERNMENT OF
MASSACHUSETTS UNDER IT FROM 1691 TO 1748; THE CLOSE
OF THE FIRST WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE, AND THE
PEACE OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE. 221-241

Retrospect; reasons assigned by Mr. Palfrey why
the Massachusetts Bay