irst had been of the same
spirit as those in the reign of King William, there would have been no
New England.'"]

[Footnote 33: History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I., Chap, iv., p. 418.]

[Footnote 34: "The Messrs. Brown went out with the second emigration, at
the same time as Messrs. Higginson and Skelton, a few months after
Endicot, and while he was the local Governor, several months before the
arrival of the third emigration of eleven ships with Governor Winthrop.
In the Company's first letter of instructions to Endicot, dated the 17th
of April, 1629, they speak of and commend the Messrs. Brown in the
following terms:

"'Through many businesses we had almost forgot to recommend to you two
brethren of our Company, Mr. John and Mr. Samuel Brown, who though they
be no adventurers in the general stock, yet are they men we do much
respect, being fully persuaded of their sincere affections to the good
of our Plantation. The one, Mr. John Brown, is sworn assistant here, and
by us chosen one of the Council there; a man experienced in the laws of
our kingdom, and such an one as we are persuaded will worthily deserve
your favour and furthermore, which we desire he may have, and that in
the first division of lands there may be allotted to either of them two
hundred acres.'" (Young's Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony
of Massachusetts Bay, from 1623 to 1636, p. 168.)]

[Footnote 35: History of New England, Vol. I., p. 298.]

[Footnote 36: Bancroft's History of the United States, Vol. I., p. 379.]

[Footnote 37: History of the United States, Am. Ed. 8vo, Vol. I., p.
350. These three sentences are not found in the British Museum (English)
Edition of Mr. Bancroft's History, but are contained in Routledge's
London reprint of the American Edition.]

[Footnote 38: "Ecclesiastical History of Massachusetts," in the
Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. IX., pp. 3-5.]

[Footnote 39: It is clear, from these and other corresponding
statements, that the Messrs. Brown had had no controversy with Endicot;
had not in the least interfered with _his_ proceedings, but had quietly
and inoffensively pursued their own course in adhering to the old
worship; and only stated their objections to his proceedings by giving
the reasons for their own, when arraigned before his tribunal to answer
for their not coming to his worship, and continuing in that of their own
Church. The reasonings and speeches thus drawn from