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The Founding of New England

出版	Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009-08
主題	History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
ISBN	14589159729781458915979
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YMRGQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1921. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII THE NEW ORDER Just a year before the events of that 18th of April, described at the close of the last chapter, the Reverend Increase Mather had sailed for England as representative of "many congregations" in the colony, in an effort to secure from King James the restoration of an assembly, confirmation of land-titles, and as many of the old charter privileges as possible. Although he was more than once received in audience by the King, before the Revolution brought the negotiations to an abrupt end, it had been evident for some time that the churches' agent was likely to gain little more than fair words and memories of royal interviews.1 He had, however, succeeded in making useful friends, one among whom, Sir Henry Ashurst, became associated with him as agent, and another, Lord Wharton, introduced him to the Prince of Orange a month before the coronation, enabling him thus early to present a petition for the restoration of the charter.2 Three days after that interview, a circular letter was prepared, to be sent to all the English colonies, ordering officials then in office to continue to administer affairs temporarily until the new government could send different instructions.3 Word of this was given to Mather by Jephson, a cousin of Wharton and an under-secretary to the King. Mather's alarm, when he heard of it, would seem to indicate that he either had definite information of the uprising planned in Boston, or very strong suspicions of what might occur. Prince William had already been two months in England, and it is 1 Mather sailed April 7, 1688. Andros Tracts, vols- 1n, pp. 130 f., and n, pp. 274 ff. As the addresses which he carried with him were unsigned, and as they were merely issued " in the name of many Congregations," it is impossible to say whom he really re...