o merchandise, either of Asia, Africa, or
America, including the English Plantations there, should be imported
into England in any but English-built ships, and belonging either to
English or English Plantation subjects, navigated also by an English
commander, and three-fourths of the sailors to be Englishmen; excepting
such merchandise as should be imported directly from the original place
of their growth, manufactured in Europe solely: and that no fish should
thenceforward be imported into England or Ireland, nor exported thence
to foreign parts, nor even from one of their own ports, but what should
be caught by their own fishers only." (Holmes' Annals of America,
Anderson, ii., 415, 416; Robertson, B. 9, p. 303; Janes' edit. Vol. I.,
p. 294.) Mr. Holmes adds in a note: "This Act was evaded at first by New
England, which still traded to all parts, and enjoyed a privilege
peculiar to themselves of importing their goods into England free of
customs." (History Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I., p. 40.)]

[Footnote 99: Palfrey's History of New England, Vol. II., p. 393.]

[Footnote 100: Palfrey's History of New England, Vol. II., p. 397, in a
note.]

[Footnote 101: Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I., p.
152; Holmes' Annuls, Vol. I., p. 294. Note xxxi., p. 579.

This law was passed in 1651, while Endicot was Governor. Two years
before, shortly after Governor Winthrop's death, Governor Endicot, with
several other magistrates, issued a declaration against men wearing long
hair, prefaced with the words, "Forasmuch as the wearing of long hair,
after the manner of the ruffians and barbarous Indians, has begun to
invade New England," and declaring "their dislike and detestation
against wearing of such long hair as a thing uncivil and unmanly,
whereby men do deform themselves, and offend sober and modest men, and
do corrupt good manners," etc.--_Ib._]

[Footnote 102: Such was the opinion of the late Mr. John Forster, in his
beautiful Life of Sir Henry Vane, in his Lives of the Puritan Statesmen
of the Commonwealth.]

[Footnote 103: Hutchinson's Collection of Original Papers, etc.;
Publication of the Prince Society.

_Note_ by Mr. Hutchinson: "Mr. Winthrop had obliged Mr. Vane to leave
Massachusetts and return to England. The letter was written when Mr.
Vane's interest in Parliament was very great. It shows a good spirit,
and the reproof is decent as well as seasonable."]

[Footnote 104: History of New England, Vo