GOVERNMENT OF THE "PILGRIM FATHERS" AT NEW PLYMOUTH DURING
SEVENTY YEARS, FROM 1620 TO 1690, AS DISTINCT FROM THAT OF THE
"PURITAN FATHERS" OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY. 11-23
Two governments--difference between the government of the
Pilgrims and that of the Puritans 11
Compact, and seven successive governors of the Pilgrims 12
Simple, just, popular and loyal government of the Pilgrims
and their descendants 13
Illustrations of their loyalty to successive sovereigns,
and the equity and kindness with which Charles the First
and Charles the Second treated them 14
Complaints against the unjust and persecuting conduct of
the government of Massachusetts Bay, the cause of Parliamentary
and Royal Commissions in 1646, 1664, and 1678 17
Four questions of inquiry by the Commissioners of Charles
the Second, in 1665, and satisfactory answers by the
Plymouth Government 18
Opposition of the Puritan Government of Massachusetts
Bay to the Pilgrim Government in seeking a Royal Charter
in 1630 and 1678 21
Absorption of the Plymouth Colony into that of Massachusetts
Bay by the second Royal Charter; the exclusion of its chief men
from public offices 21
Reflections on the melancholy termination of the Plymouth
Government; the noble and loyal character of the Pilgrim
Fathers and their descendants 22