for settling the Indians' title to land, be explained, for
it seems as if they were dispossessed of their land by Scripture, which
is both against the honour of God and the justice of the King. In 115th
Psalm, 16, "Children of men" comprehend Indians as well as English; and
no doubt the country is theirs till they give it up or sell it, though
it be not improved.]

[Footnote 135: They were not so poor as when, just 30 years before,
they, by the advice of their ministers, prepared to make armed
resistance against the rumoured appointment over them of a Governor
General of New England.]

[Footnote 136: They were not more "remote" than when they wrote to their
friends in England as often as they pleased, or than when they addressed
the Long Parliament four years before, and twice addressed Cromwell,
stating their services to him in men and prayers against Charles the
First, and asking his favours.]

[Footnote 137: The words "full and absolute power of governing" are not
contained in the Royal Charter.]

[Footnote 138: Emigrants generally transport themselves from one country
to another, whether across the ocean or not, at their own charges.]

[Footnote 139: It is shown in this volume that they never had the
"undoubted right" by the Charter, or the "undoubted right in the sight
of God and man," to abolish one form of worship and set up another; to
imprison, fine, banish, or put to death all who did not adopt their
newly set up form of worship; to deny the rights of citizenship to
four-fifths of their citizens on religious grounds, and tax them without
representation. How far they invaded the "undoubted right" of others,
"in the sight of God and man," and exceeded their own lawful powers, is
shown on the highest legal authority in the 6th and 7th chapters of this
volume.]

[Footnote 140: These references are acknowledgments on the part of the
Massachusetts Bay Court, that they had been kindly and liberally treated
by both Charles the First and Charles the Second.]

[Footnote 141: They here limit their compliance with the six conditions
on which the King proposed to continue the Charter which they had
violated, to their "conscience" and "the just liberties and privileges
of their patent." But according to their interpretation of these, they
could not in "conscience" grant the "toleration" required by the King,
or give up the sectarian basis of franchise and eligibility to office,
or admit of appeals from their tribuna