" (Annals of America, Vol. I., p.
273.)]

[Footnote 83: History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I., p. 117;
Massachusetts Laws, pp. 140-145.]

[Footnote 85: "Mr. Winthrop, who was then Deputy-Governor, was active in
the prosecution of the petitioners, but the party in favour of them had
so much interest as to obtain a vote to require him to answer in public
to the complaint against him. Dr. Mather says: 'He was most irregularly
called forth to an ignominious hearing before a vast assembly, to which,
"with a sagacious humility," he consented, although he showed he might
have refused it. The result of the hearing was that he was honourably
acquitted,' etc."]

[Footnote 86: This refers to a sermon preached by Mr. Cotton on a fast
day, an extract of which is published in the Magnalia, B. III., p. 29,
wherein he denounces the judgments of God upon such of his hearers as
were then going to England with evil intentions against the country.]

[Footnote 87: Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I., pp.
145-149.

Mr. Palfrey, under the head of "Presbyterian Cabal," states the
following facts as to the treatment of Dr. Child, Mr. Dand, and others
who proposed to make their appeal to the English Parliament:

"Child and Dand, two of the remonstrants, were preparing to go to
England with a petition to the Parliament from a number of the
non-freemen. Informed of their intention, the magistrates ordered a
seizure of their papers. The searching officers found in their
possession certain memorials to the Commissioners for Plantations,
asking for 'settled Churches according to the (Presbyterian) Reformation
in England;' for the establishment in the colony of the laws of the
realm; for the appointment of 'a General Governor, or some honourable
Commissioner,' to reform the existing state of things. For this further
offence, such of the prominent conspirators as remained in the country
were punished by additional fines. Child and Dand were mulcted in the
sum of two hundred pounds; Mauerick, in that of a hundred and fifty
pounds; and two others of a hundred pounds each."--Palfrey's History of
New England [Abridged edition], Vol. I., pp. 327, 328.]

[Footnote 88: Mr. Bancroft, referring to the petition of Dr. Child and
others, quoted on page 94, says: "The document was written in the spirit
of wanton insult;" then refers to the case of Gorton, who had appealed
to the Earl of Warwick and the other Parliamentary Commissioners agains