"5. That all persons coming to any privilege, trust or office, take the
oath of allegiance.

"6. That all military commissions as well as proceedings of justice run
in his Majesty's name.

"7. That all laws repugnant to, and inconsistent with, the laws of
England for trade, be abolished."[164]

There were certain injunctions in regard to complaints from neighbouring
colonies; but the necessity for such injunctions as those above
enumerated, and stated more at large in the King's letter, as stated in
note on p. 187, given for the third or fourth time the nineteenth year
after the Restoration, shows the disloyal proscriptions and persecuting
character of the Government of Massachusetts Bay, and the great
forbearance of the King's Government in continuing the Charter while the
conditions of its proposed continuance were constantly violated.

Dr. Palfrey speaks of these requirements, and the whole policy of the
King's Government, as "usurpations" on the chartered rights of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony. But let any reader say in which of the above
seven requirements there is the slightest "usurpation" on any right of a
British subject; whether there is anything that any loyal British
subject would not freely acknowledge and respond to; requirements
unhesitatingly obeyed by all the colonies except that of Massachusetts
Bay alone, and which have been observed by every British Province of
America for the last hundred years, and are observed by the Dominion of
Canada at this day.

Dr. Palfrey, referring to this period (1676-82), says: "Lord Clarendon's
scheme of colonial policy was now ripe," but he does not adduce a word
from Lord Clarendon to show what that policy was only by insinuations
and assertions, and assumes it to have been the subversion of the rights
and liberties of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Lord Clarendon, in his
letter to the Governor Endicot, given above, pp. 160, 161, explains his
colonial policy, which was not only to maintain the Charter in its
integrity, but to see that its provisions and objects were not violated
but fulfilled, and that while the Congregational worship should not be
interfered with, the Congregational Government should not proscribe from
the elective franchise and liberty of worship the members of other
Protestant denominations. The Hon. Robert Boyle, the philosopher and
benefactor of New England, and President of the New England Society for
Propagation of the Gospel among the India