had
'encreased' the same errors; that thirteen or fourteen persons (it was
reported) had been re-baptized at Sea Cunke, under which circumstances
'effectual restriction' was desired, 'the more as the interests of
Massachusetts were concerned therein.' The infection of such diseases
being so near us, are likely to spread into our jurisdiction, and God
equally requires the suppression of error as the maintenance of truth at
the hands of Christian magistrates."--_British_ (Congregational)
_Quarterly Review_ for January, 1876, pp. 150, 151.

"The Massachusetts did maintain Punham (a petty Sachem in this province
of Rhode Island) twenty years against this colony, and his chief Sachem,
and did by armed soldiers besiege and take prisoners Gorton, Hamden,
Weeks, Green, and others in this province, and carried them away to
Boston, put them in irons, and took eighty head of cattle from them, for
all of which they could never obtain any satisfaction. This colony (of
Rhode Island) could never be acknowledged (by Massachusetts) for a
colony till his Majesty's Charter was published (in 1663), though in the
year 1643 they sent over some in England to procure the King's Charter;
but finding that unnatural war begun, and the King gone from London,
they took a Charter from the Lords and Commons." (Report of the King's
Commissioners, in Hutchinson's Collection of Original Papers relative to
the History of Massachusetts Bay, pp. 415, 416.)]

[Footnote 205: In an audience of King William, obtained by the Duke of
Devonshire, April 28, 1691, Mr. Mather humbly prayed his Majesty's
favour to New England in restoring the old Charter privileges; adding at
the same time these words: "Sir,--Your subjects there have been willing
to venture their lives to enlarge your dominions; the expedition to
Canada was a great and noble undertaking. May it please your Majesty
also to consider the circumstances of that people, as in your wisdom you
have considered the circumstances of England and Scotland. In New
England they differ from other Plantations; they are called
Congregationalists and Presbyterians[206], so that such a Governor as
will not suit with the people of New England, may be very proper for
other English Plantations." (Neal's History of New England, Vol. II.,
Chap. xi., pp. 475, 476.)]

[Footnote 206: This was very ingenious on the part of Dr. Increase
Mather to say that the people of New England were called "Presbyterians"
as well as "Congre