ng up a Presbytery as
the established religion of England and its dependencies, determined on
a severe suppression of dissent from it, and keenly exasperated against
that Independency which New England had raised up to torment them in
their own sphere, and which, for herself, New England cherished as her
life."

"It being understood that two of the remonstrants, Fowle and Smith, were
about to embark for England, to prosecute their business, the Court
stopped them with a summons to appear and 'answer _to the matter of the
petition_.' They replied 'to the Gentlemen Commissioners for
Plantations;' and the Court committed them to the custody of the Marshal
till they gave security to be responsible to the judgment of the Court.
The whole seven were next arraigned as authors of divers false and
scandalous statements in a certain paper ... against the Churches of
Christ and the civil government here established, derogating from the
honour and authority of the same, and tending to sedition. Refusing to
answer, and 'appealing from this government, they disclaimed the
jurisdiction thereof.' This was more than Presbyterian malcontents could
be indulged in at the present critical time in Massachusetts. The Court
found them all deeply blamable, and punished them by fines, which were
to be remitted on their making 'an ingenuous and public acknowledgment
of their misdemeanours;' a condition of indemnity which they all
refused, probably in expectation of obtaining both relief and applause
in England."--"Four deputies opposed the sentence; three
magistrates--Bellingham, Saltonstall, and Bradstreet--also
dissented."--Palfrey's History of New England, Vol. I., pp. 166-170.]

[Footnote 93: Winthrop, II., 261. "The movement in Plymouth was made at
a General Court in October, 1645, as appears from a letter of Winslow to
Winthrop (Hutchinson's Collection, 154); though the public record
contains nothing respecting it. I infer from Winslow's letter, that half
the assistants (namely, Standish, Hatherly, Brown, and Freeman) were in
favour of larger indulgence to the malcontents." (Note by Mr. Palfrey.)

(The majority of the General Court were clearly in favour of the
movement; and knowing this, the Governor, Prince (the only persecuting
Governor of the Plymouth Colony), refused to put the question to vote.)]

[Footnote 94: Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I., Chap.
v., p. 75.]

[Footnote 95: History of New England, Vol. II. p.