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Show _. . 41, (73) ......-a-.-.-____-._._.._._.......__ - \ .. . p (72) effected the mifchief before t/JL' people knew of their danger. Morton in his letter to Jefferies of the lirlt of may 1634, writes, that "the Mallachufctts " patent by an order of Council was brought " in View and the privileges well fcanncd. "* lint by whom? very like fomc of more modern fame : An arch-bilhop, and the privy council of Charles the firlt ! Excellent cllaymafters, for New-En- gland priviledges,--moft renowned judges of the rights and liberties of mankind l-"l‘hey firlt difcover the Charter ("to be void," (1) and then no doubt advife to the iffuing of the commiflion found by my Lord Barrington in the gift. vol. of Mr. Petyt's Manufcript, " a commiflion directed to " the archbilhop ofCanterbury, the Lord chancellor, and other Lords of the privy council, by which they are impowered to prepare laws, for [be [Jet/er government of the Colmzicr", " which were afterwards to be enforced by THE KING'S YROCLAMATION." I This was confidered as a malter-ftroke of policy, and the public confpirators of the day difplay'd the plumage of triumph with that fpirit and oftentation [I which have defcended to their fucceiTors. But how eafy is it, with Providence, to dililppoin‘c the projects and humble the pride of man ! Laud and his malterin the fubfequent periods of hiltory prayed abortive. Laud, 3'" in 1638. to attend much to thofe of others. But in the pious language More than a century agone, " the great privi" ledges of New-England were matter of envy,"{[ and accordingly complaints multiplied to Cromwell, ( a )no doubt for the benevolent purpofe of abridging (What Were called) Eng/i/b Line/lies. " All " attempts to the prejudice of the colony being to " no purpofe "( b ) with the Protector, the adverla. ties of the province were defpondent, untill the re~ fioration of Charles the 2d. gave new hopes; when " petitions and complaints were prefered " againlt the Colony to the king in council, and " to the Parliament. " (c) * Laud was the favourite character felcflcd for a coriefpon. dent by the ‘Amcrican letter-writers of the lull century; in the next age mankind will he as well acquainted With the genius and fpirit of fome more modern Britilh corrcfpom are with the temper of that renowned prclate. Hence this extraordinary Commiflion.was never executed and the plan fet on foot within three years after, " for revoking the patent of the Mallachufetts,"§ l" I Hutch. p. 3!. Jr of our fathers, " the LORD delivered them from the opprcflor, " I "' againft all men's expectations " they were encouraged, and much blame and " difgrace fell upon their adverfaries." H Yet notwithltanding, " a fpirit full ofmalignity againlt " the country (not very long after) much endan« " gered both it's civil and religious liberties. " S dents, as they now are found too bufied with their own concerns, Literary correfpondencies inimi- fal to the Province, commenced with Archbilhop Ploved 1" Same page I Barr: obi: onrhe more ant : Statutes p. I46. note. I; See Morton's Let: before cited. § 1 Hutchzhifl. p. 48 8c 5:. 1' I Hutch: hilt. p. 86. I Morton's Memo. p. 15. 1} Same book 35. See alfo Colleft. of orig. papers &c. p. 5?... § Morton's memo. 96. 187. 1] Hutch :hifl. 194. (3) lb. 192. 194. (bflb. 194. (0) lb. 211. |