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General Court. He, and not Cali- bute Downing, (as is erroneously stated by Anthony Wood,) was the father of the notorious Sir George Downing. Simon Bradstreet, an Assistant, and afterwards Governor of the Colony, married a daughter of Emanuel Downing. See Wood's Athen. Oxon. iii. 108, (ed. Bliss) ; Hutchinson's Mass. 18, 111 ; Win- throp's N. E. i. 49, 100, ii. 240, 369.
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MANAGEMENT OF THE JOINT STOCK.
CHAP.
III. A Court of Assistants at the Deputy's house, on Friday, the 16th of October, 1629. Present,
1629. MR. MATTH. CRADOCK, Governor,
MR. G. HARWOOD, Treasurer,
Oct.
16. SIR RICHARD SALTONSTALL,
MR. WINTHROP,
MR. ISAAC JOHNSON,
MR. HUSON,
MR. DUDLEY,
MR. WHETCOMBE,
MR. JOHN HUMFRY,
MR. PERRY,
MR. WILLIAM VASSALL,
MR. POCOCK,
MR. REVELL,
MR. SPURSTOWE,
MR. GEORGE FOXCROFT,
MR. PINCHON,
MR. ADAMS,
CAPT. VENN,
MR. SAMUEL VASSALL.
This Court was appointed to treat and resolve, upon the transferring of the government to New- England, what government shall be held at London, whereby the future charge of the joint stock may be cherished and preserved, and the body politic of the Company remain and increase ;
What persons shall have the charge of the man- aging of the joint stock both at London and in New- England ; wherein it is conceived fit that Capt. En- decott continue the government there, unless just cause to the contrary.
These and other things were largely discussed ; and it was thought fit and natural that the govern- ment of persons be held there, the government of trade and merchandises to be here.
That the joint stock being mutual, both here and there, that some fit persons be appointed for man- aging thereof in both places.
But for that there is a great debt owing by the joint stock, it was moved that some course might be taken for clearing thereof before the government be
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LETTERS TO ENDICOTT AND HIGGINSON.
transferred ; and to this purpose it was first thought CHAP. III.
fit that the accounts should be audited, to see what the debt is. But the business not admitting any such 1629. delay, it was desired that Mr. Governor and Mr. Oct. 16. Treasurer would meet to-morrow, and make an esti- mate of the debts, and prepare the same against a meeting to be on Monday next, to determine this question.
The ship Eagle is to be freighted from Bristol.
Lastly, letters were read and signed to Mr. Ende- cott, Mr. Skelton, and Mr. Higgison, as appears by the entries of them in the book of copies of letters.1
A Meeting at Mr. Deputy's house, on Monday, the 19th of October, 1629. Present, 19.
MR. MATTHEW CRADOCK, Governor, MR. FOXCROFT,
MR. GEORGE HARWOOD, Treasurer, SIR R. SALTONSTALL, MR. ISAAC JOHNSON,
MR. NATHANIEL WRIGHT,
CAPT. VENN,
MR. DAVENPORT,
MR. PINCHON,
MR. WHYTE, the preacher,
MR. WILLIAM VASSALL,
MR. WHYTE,2 the counsellor,
MR. HUSON,
MR. WYNTHROPP,
MR. ADAMS,
The occasion of this meeting being to resolve of 1 the alteration of the government, and therein to con-
1 These letters, in the handwrit- ing of Burgess, the Secretary, are preserved in the first book of Deeds in the Registry of Suffolk. The MS. is probably a part of the origi- nal Letter-Book here referred to. They will be found in another part of this volume.
2 This was probably the Mr. White, described by Clarendon as "a grave lawyer, but notoriously disaffected to the Church," who was chairman of the parliamentary com- mittee on religion in 1640. See Clarendon's Rebellion, i. 348.
MR. NOELL,
MR. DUDLEY.
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THE PLANTERS AND ADVENTURERS.
CHAP. sider how the debts upon the joint stock shall be first III. discharged, and how the same shall be hereafter man-
1629. aged ; and herein what was formerly treated on was Oct. 19. again related. And for that divers questions will arise to be determined in this business, which will take up much time, and cannot be so conveniently done at a Court, it was thought fit that certain com- mittees be appointed, on either part, to meet and make propositions each to other, and set the same down in writing ; and if they can, to agree and con- clude of a fit end to be made for the good of the Plantation ; and if any differences happen which they cannot agree on, that then the same be referred to the umpirage and determination of some of the preach- ers, to be chosen to that purpose ; who are desired to set down in writing what they shall think in con- science is fit to be done indifferently for the good of the work and the encouragement both of planters and adventurers. And to this purpose, Articles be- tween the planters and adventurers for performance of what shall be determined, was now drawn by Mr. Whyte, the counsellor, read and approved, and are to be presented to-morrow at a General Court, to be ratified, and then sealed ; and at that Court the Go- vernor and Assistants to be chosen for the govern- ment in New-England.
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THE PURCHASE OF THE EAGLE CONFIRMED.
A General Court holden at Mr. Goff, the Deputy's house, CHAP.
III. on Tuesday, the 20th of October, 1629. Present, 1629.
MR. MATTHEW CRADOCK, Governor, MR. DAVENPORT,
Oct.
SIR RICHARD SALTONSTALL,
MR. WHYTE,
clerks,1 20.
MR. ISAAC JOHNSON,
MR. WINTHROP,
CAPT. JOHN VENN,
MR. DUDLEY,
MR. [SAMUEL] ALDERSEY,
MR. PULISTON,
MR. NATHANIEL WRIGHT,
MR. BALLARD,
MR. GEORGE HARWOOD, Treasurer,
MR. JOB BRADSHAW,
MR. JOHN HUMFRY,
MR. COOKE,
MR. WILLIAM VASSALL,
MR. REVELL,
MR, WILLIAM PINCHON,
CAPT. WALLER,
MR. GEORGE FOXCROFT,
MR. BALLARD,2
MR. INCREASE NOELL,
MR. WOODGATE,
MR. CHRISTOPHER COLSON,
MR. STEPHENS,
MR. RICHARD PERRY,
MR. FRANCIS FLYER,
MR. THOMAS ADAMS,
MR. SPURSTOWE,
MR. JOHN POCOCK,
MR. HUSON,
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MR. THOMAS HUTCHINS,
MR. ROE,
MR. WEBB,
Assistants.
With some others of the Generality.
Mr. Governor caused to be read the Order formerly made concerning the buying of the ship Eagle ; and desired to know the pleasure of the Court for confirmation thereof. Whereupon some debate be- ing had, the Order was well approved of; but for that it is wished that the gentlemen that are to go over should have the & part of the said ship which was formerly allotted to the Company, (the Company being out of cash, and for other reasons,) they not having notice thereof till now, desired time till the afternoon to consider thereof, and to give their an
1 Clergymen.
2 Mr. Ballard's name is probably repeated by mistake.
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ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT.
CHAP. swer ; which was condescended unto, and the same III. is then to be determined accordingly.
1629.
Oct.
20.
After which Mr. Governor acquainted those pre- sent, that the especial occasion of summoning this Court was for the election of a new Governor, Dep- uty, and Assistants, the government being to be transferred into New-England, according to the for- mer Order and resolution of the Company. But be- fore the Court proceeded to the said election, certain Articles of Agreement, conceived at a meeting yes- terday between the adventurers here at home and the planters that are to go over, as well for the man- aging and settling of the joint stock, as for reconcil- ing of any differences that may happen upon this change of government, was now read, and recom- mended to the Court for their approbation, and for the nomination and appointment of a competent num- ber of committees, to meet and treat and resolve of these businesses. The Articles themselves were approved of, and five committees on either part were thereupon chosen, viz. Sir Richard Saltonstall, Mr. Winthrop, Mr. Dudley, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Hum- fry, for the planters ; and for the adventurers was chosen Mr. Governor, Mr. Aldersey, Mr. Wright, Mr. Hutchins, and Capt. Venn. And in case the said committee, or the greater number of them, should differ in any one or more particulars, and not agree thereon, there was chosen for umpires Mr. Whyte, the counsellor, Mr. Whyte, of Dorchester, and Mr. Davenport,1 to whom the decision and de-
1 John Davenport was born in the degrees of A. M. and B. D. 1597,. at Coventry, of which city his He became a noted preacher among father was mayor. He was educa- the Puritans, and at length minister ted at Oxford, where he received of St. Stephen's, Coleman-street,
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JOHN DAVENPORT, OF NEW HAVEN.
termination of all such differences is referred, accord- CHAP. ing to the tenure of the said Articles of Agreement. III. And it being further taken into consideration, that in 1629. Oct. 20. regard of the shortness of the time limited to the committees, many things of weight and consequence in this so great a business may either not be at all thought on, or otherwise left unresolved, by them and the said umpires, it is therefore thought fit by this Court that the said committee and umpires shall continue till the end of this term ; and whatsoever material things for the good of the Plantation shall in that time be treated on and resolved by them, the same to be as valid and effectual as if it had been done before the expiration of the time limited by the
London. About the year 1627, he was appointed one of the feoffees for buying in of impropriations ; con- cerning which see note 3 on page 70. Being persecuted by the prelates for his nonconformity, and a warrant having been issued by the High Commission to summon him before them, he resigned his benefice Dec. 18, 1633, and fled into Holland. Archbishop Laud says in his annual account to the King, dated Jan. 2, 1634, " Since my return out of Scotland, Mr. John Davenport, vicar of St. Stephen's in Coleman-street, whom I used with all moderation, and about two years after thought I had settled his judgment, [not quite, my Lord !] having him then at ad- vantage enough to have put extrem- ity upon him, but forbore it, hath now resigned his vicarage, declared his judgment against conformity with the Church of England, and is since gone (as I hear) to Amsterdam." Here he preached for some time to the English congregation ; but on the breaking out of the civil wars, he returned to England, as other Nonconformists did, and had a ben-
efice bestowed on him. Not being entirely satisfied, however, with the proceedings there, he yielded to the urgent letters of John Cotton, and came over to New-England in June, 1637, with Theophilus Eaton, who had been one of his parishioners in London, and Edward Hopkins, and with them laid the foundations of the Colony of New Haven in 1638. In 1668, in his 71st year, he removed to Boston to become the pastor of the First Church, and died there in 1670. He was buried by the side of Cotton, and near to Governor Winthrop, in the northern corner of King's Chapel grave-yard. Increase Mather wrote some account of his life. See Wood's Athen. Oxon. iii. 889, (ed. Bliss) ; Newcourt's Re- pertorium, i. 537; Laud's Troubles and Trial, pp. 348, 526 ; Mather's Magnalia, i. 226, 292-302; Win- throp's N. England, i. 227; Hutch- inson's Mass. i. 82, 115, 215 ; Em- erson's Hist. of the First Church in Boston, pages 110-124; Prof. Kingsley's Cent. Discourse, pp. 12, 62; Leonard Bacon's Historical Dis- courses, pp. 75-155.
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JOHN WINTHROP, OF GROTON,
CHAP. III. Articles. And it was further thought fit that all such others of the Company as will, may from time 1629. Oct. to time have access to the said committee, to pro- 20. pound such things as they conceive beneficial for the business, or to present their opinions in writing, but not to debate with them for interrupting their pro- ceedings.
All which being put to the question, was approved of, and by erection of hands ordered accordingly.
And now the Court proceeding to the election of a new Governor, Deputy, and Assistants, which, upon serious deliberation, hath been and is conceived to be for the especial good and advancement of their affairs ; and having received extraordinary great commendations of Mr. JOHN WYNTHROP,1 both for
1 Of JOHN WINTHROP, the first Governor of the Massachusetts Col- ony, the narrow limits of a Note will not permit us to speak ade- quately or worthily ; and we must therefore refer those who wish to know the particulars of his life and understand his character, to the me- moir in Belknap's Am. Biog. ii. 337-358, to the account given by Mather, in the Magnalia, i. 108-120, and to his own Journal, or History of New-England, (with Savage's invaluable notes,) and his admirable letters appended to both volumes of that work. Suffice it now to say, that he was born at Groton, in Suf- folk, Jan. 12, 1588, and was de- scended from an ancient and honor- able family. He was bred to the law, as his ancestors had been be- fore him, one of them, Adam Win- throp, having been an eminent law- yer in the reign of Henry VIII. Such was the gravity and steadiness of his character, that, at the early age of eighteen, he was made a jus- tice of the peace. "He had an es- tate of six or seven hundred pounds a year, which he turned into money,
and embarked his all to promote the settlement of New-England. It is a very full evidence of the esteem in which he was held, that, when many gentlemen of character, some of them of noble alliance, were con- cerned in the same undertaking with him, he, by a general voice, was placed at their head." He says himself, "I was first chosen to be Governor without my seeking or ex- pectation, there being then divers other gentlemen who, for their abil- ities every way, were far more fit." He was eleven times chosen Gov- ernor, and spent his whole estate in the public service. His son John, and his grandson, Fitz-John, (who was a captain in Col. Read's regi- ment at the Restoration in 1660,) were successively governors of Con- necticut Colony, and Wait Still, an- other grandson, was chief justice of Massachusetts. Stephen, another son of the elder Winthrop, went to England in 1645 or 1646, had the command of a regiment, and suc- ceeded Harrison in his major-gen- eralship, was a member of Parlia- ment for Scotland in 1656, and was
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CHOSEN GOVERNOR OF THE COMPANY.
his integrity and sufficiency, as being one every CHAP. [way1] well fitted and accomplished for the place of III. Governor, did put in nomination for that place the 1629. Oct. 20. said Mr. John Winthrop, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Mr. Isaac Johnson, and Mr. John Humfry ; and the said Mr. Winthrop was with a general vote and full consent of this Court, by erection of hands, chosen to be Governor for the ensuing year, to begin on this present day ; who was pleased to accept thereof, and thereupon took the oath to that place apper- taining.
much trusted by the Protector. The Fort Warren is built, was granted family, in every generation, have to him, and the name was changed to the Governor's Garden. "Nov. 7, 1632, there is about fifty acres of meadow ground granted to John Winthrop, Esq., present Governor, lying between Cobbett's house and Wanottymies' river ; " and, March 4, 1634, the wear at Mistick was granted to him and Matthew Cra- dock, of London. - It is much to be regretted that Gov. Winthrop's "larger discourse of all things," mentioned in a letter to his wife, July 16, 1630, and twice afterwards referred to in his letters to his son, July 23 and Aug. 14, is lost. It may have contained interesting state- ments, not included in his Journal or History. - In his magnanimity, disinterestedness, and moderation, in his mingled firmness of principle and mildness of temper, in his har- monious character, consistent life, and well-balanced mind, the Father of Massachusetts reminds us of the great "Father of his country," and is the only name in our history worthy to stand as a parallel to WASHINGTON. See Mass. Col. Records, in MS., i. 82, 85, 95, 131 ; Hutchinson's Mass. i. 14, 151; Sa- vage's Winthrop,. i. 64-68, 126, 318, 396; ii. 338, 357, 372, 373, 376; Thurloe's State Papers, v. 366. occupied high stations, and been de- servedly held in great respect in New-England. Its.character is now worthily sustained by the Hon. Ro- bert C. Winthrop, who represents the city of Boston in the Congress of the United States. Gov. Win- throp was in his 43d year when he sailed for New-England. He died March 26, 1649, in the 62d year of his age, and was buried, April 3d, in the northern corner of the King's Chapel burial-ground, in Boston. His son John, governor of Connecti- cut, was interred in the same tomb in April, 1676. "The Green," the Governor's town lot, included the land now owned by the Old South Church in Washington-street, and his house stood about opposite School-street. Prince, the Annalist, who died in 1758, says that Win- throp " deceased in the very house I dwell in." It was a two-story building, of wood, and remained till it was destroyed by the British troops for fuel in 1775. The Gov- ernor's portrait, an original painting, hangs in the Senate Chamber of Massachusetts. - "Sept. 6, 1631, there is granted to Mr. Governor, 600 acres of land, near his house at Mistick." This was then and has ever since been called the Tenhills Farm. April 3, 1632, Conant's 1 This word seems to have been accidentally omitted. Island, in Boston harbor, on which
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JOHN HUMPHREY, DEPUTY GOVERNOR.
CHAP. III. 1629. Oct. 20. SIR RICHARD SALTONSTALL,
In like manner, and with like free and full con- sent, Mr. John Humfry1 was chosen Deputy Gov- ernor, and
MR. THOMAS SHARPE,
MR. ISAAC JOHNSON,
MR. JOHN REVELL,
MR. THOMAS DUDLEY,
MR. MATTHEW CRADOCK,
MR. JOHN ENDECOTT,
MR. THOMAS GOFF,
MR. INCREASE NOELL,
MR. [SAMUEL] ALDERSEY,
MR. WILLIAM VASSALL,
MR. JOHN VENN,
MR. WILLIAM PINCHON,
MR. NATHANIEL WRIGHT,
MR. SAMUEL SHARPE,
MR. THEOPHILUS EATON, and
MR. EDWARD ROSSITER,
MR. THOMAS ADAMS,
were chosen to be Assistants. Which said Deputy,
1 John Humphrey, it will be re- year 1640, to have removed to the collected, was one of the six original Bahama Islands; but the island of Providence being taken by the Span- iards, he abandoned that design. Soon after, having met with great losses by fire, and his estate being much impaired, he sold his farm at Swampscot to Lady Moody, (for nine or eleven hundred pounds, says Lechford,) and returned to England October 26, 1641. This estate pro- bably included the 500 acres granted him by the General Court May 6, 1635, in fulfilment of the resolve passed Nov. 7, 1632, by which “it is referred to Mr. Turner, Peter Palfry and Roger Conant to set out a proportion of land in Saugus to John Humfry, Esq." Winthrop speaks of him as "a gentleman of special parts of learning and activity, and a godly man, who had been one of the first beginners in the promot- ing of this Plantation, and had labor- ed very much therein." A letter of his to Winthrop, dated Sept. 4, 1646, is preserved in Hutchinson's Collec- tion, p. 159. See Mass. Col. Re- cords, in MS., i. 95, 149; Win- throp's N. E., i. 75, 332, ii. 13, 26, 46; Hutchinson's Mass. i. 15, 493, 498; Mass. Hist. Coll. xxiii. 97; Hazard's State Papers, i. 318; Trumbull's Connecticut, i. 495. patentees to whom the grant of Massachusetts Bay was made by the Council of Plymouth. See page 29. He was also one of the original pa- tentees of the Colony of Connecti- cut. It will be seen presently, that he stayed behind, and did not come over with Winthrop, as he intended. He married Susan, daughter of Thomas, the third Earl of Lincoln, and brought her with their children to Massachusetts in 1632, and set- tled at Swampscot, in Lynn. In expectation of his arrival, he was chosen an Assistant, and continued to be re-elected to that office as long as he remained in the Colony. John Cotton, in a letter to Lord Saye and Sele, written in 1636, says, "Mr. Humfrey was chosen for an Assist- ant (as I hear) before the Colony came over hither ; and though he be not as yet joined into church fellow- ship (by reason of the unsettledness of the congregation where he liveth,) yet the Commonwealth do still con- tinue his magistracy to him, as know- ing he waiteth for opportunity of en- joying church fellowship shortly." He was admitted to the church in Sa- lem Jan. 16, 1638. Upon an invitation from Lord Say, he intended, in the
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MONEY TO BE PAID.
and the greatest part of the said Assistants, being CHAP. III.
present, took the oaths to their said places appertain- ~ ing respectively. 1629.
A Court of Assistants, at Mr. Goff's house, on Friday, Nov.
the 20th of November, 1629. Present,
20.
MR. JOHN WYNTHROP, Governor, MR. THOMAS GOFF,
MR. JOHN HUMFRY, Dep. Gov. MR. WILLIAM PINCHION,
SIR RICHARD SALTONSTALL,
MR. [CHRISTOPHER] COLSON,
MR. THOMAS DUDLEY,
MR. MATTHEW CRADOCK,
MR. THOMAS ADAMS,
MR. GEORGE HARWOOD,
MR. NATHANIEL WRIGHT,
MR. JOHN REVELL,
MR. [THOMAS] HUTCHINS, MR. INCREASE NOELL.
The especial occasion of this meeting was to ad- vise of a course for bringing in of moneys for pay- ment of mariners' wages, freight of ships, and other debts. And thereupon Mr. Cradock acquainted those present what sums he had disbursed for ac- count of the Company, and what more was owing for mariners' wages upon the ships Talbot, May- flower, and Four Sisters,1 and for the freight of those ships, amounting to £1200 and upwards ; which the Court think fit and order to be first paid before any other debts. And Mr. Governor desiring to have power from the Court to grant warrants for payment of moneys, as was formerly accustomed, the same was condescended unto ; and a warrant was now made and signed by the Governor and Deputy, di- rected to Mr. Harwood, the Treasurer, for payment of [£]800 to Mr. Cradock, so soon as money shall come to his hands.
1 Which had lately returned from New-England, having carried over Higginson and his company.
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COMPLAINT OF THE BROWNES.
1629. Nov.
CHAP. III. Some debate was had concerning Mr. John and Samuel Browne's complaining that their goods, praised1 in New-England, are undervalued, and 20. divers things omitted to be praised ;1 wherein they desire to have relief, and justice done. It is there- upon thought fit, that if they can produce proof thereof, then they are to be relieved here ; other- wise, the same is to be suspended, and all the objec- tions they can make to be taken notice of and re- commended to Mr. Governor, to be considered of and determined after his arrival in New-England, when he may hear the praisers' answers to those objections ; and in the mean time Mr. Cradock to pay the money charged upon him for the same.
Mr. Beecher, master of the ship Talbot, desired to have in a bond, which he entered into, to Mr. Pratt2 for wages or allowance to a chirurgeon for the Lion's Whelp, who was to have 2s. 6d. for every person in the ship, according to an agreement made with them; the number of the persons being about 125, of which Mr. Beecher had formerly delivered a particular note to Mr. Goff. The Court conceiving the said allowance to be exorbitant, and more than is usual in like cases, do desire that the chirurgeon be appointed to be here the next General Court, and then such conclusion is to be made with him as shall be fit.
Lastly, Mr. Smith, the accomptant, attended them with their accounts ; and after perusal thereof, it appearing that divers were behind with their whole subscriptions or part thereof, it was thought fit that,
1 Appraised. 2 Sce note 1 on page 52.
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ANOTHER LETTER FROM ENDICOTT.
for the present supply of moneys, tickets should be CHAP.
sent unto them to desire them to send in the sums III. by them underwritten ; to which purpose a list of 1629. their names and sums was now drawn out, and tick- Nov. 20. ets are forthwith to be made accordingly.
A General Court on Wednesday, the 25th of November, 25.
1629. Present,
MR. JOHN WINTHROP, Governor, MR. MATTHEW CRADOCK,
MR. JOHN HUMFRY, Deputy,
CAPT. WALLER,
SIR RICHARD SALTONSTALL,
MR. WHYTE,
MR. ISAAC JOHNSON,
MR. DAVENPORT,
MR. THOMAS ADAMS,
MR. HUSON,
MR. NATHANIEL WRIGHT,
MR. BACKHOUSE,
MR. THEOPHILUS EATON,
MR. FOXCROFT,
MR. WILLIAM PINCHION,
MR. WOODGATE,
CAPT. VENN,
MR. INCREASE NOELL,
MR. BRADSHAW, and others.
A letter1 of the 5th of September from Mr. Ende- cot, the Governor, and others in New-England, was now read ; as also Mr. Governor acquainted those present with certain testimonies sent over against one William Rovell, master of a ship of [blank], concern- ing some insolent and misbeseeming speeches uttered by him in contempt of the Company's privileges and government ; which is to be taken into further con- sideration, and be proceeded against, when other certificates are come, which are expected, concern- ing that business.
This day being one one of the four quarter days appointed by the Charter for keeping a General
1 This letter is not preserved.
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MORE MONEY TO BE RAISED.
CHAP. Court, the general business of the Plantation should III, have been treated on. But by reason of the small 1629. appearance, and shortness of time, nothing was done
Nov.
25. therein. Only the Governor made relation of the proceedings of the joint committee concerning the settling of the joint stock; that notwithstanding there had been all good concordancy and fair pro- ceedings between them, yet by reason of the great- ness of the business and the smallness of the supplies, they could not bring the same to a wished effect, but only had reduced it to certain propositions, to be represented to the consideration of the Company to receive their resolution therein.
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