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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
ress his book on the Christian Commonwealth, and in guarded language to acknowledge the form of government by king, lords, and commons, as not only lawful, but eminent. Hutchinson, i. 195. A general expression of good will from the king, Feb. 15. could not quiet the apprehensions of the colonists. The committee for the plantations had already sur- April mised that Massachusetts would, if it dared, cast off its allegiance, and resort to an alliance with Spain, or to any desperate remedich was set off with the more lustre by the contrary deportment of Massachusetts. We shall soon have occasion to narrate the events in which Nichols was engaged at New York, where he remained. Carr, Cartwright, and Maverick, the other 1665. Feb. 15. commissioners, returning to Massachusetts, desired that, at the next general election day, the whole male population might be assembled in Boston, to hear the message from the king. The absurd proposal was rejected. He that will not attend to