MASSACHUSETTS DURING THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF CHARLES
THE SECOND AND THE THREE YEARS' REIGN OF JAMES THE SECOND,
FROM 1680 TO 1689; THE IMMEDIATE CAUSES AND MANNER OF
CANCELLING THE FIRST CHARTER. 204-220
Crisis approaching; the double game of Massachusetts Bay
Court played out; threat of a writ of _quo warranto_ 204
Proceedings of Massachusetts Bay Court; offer a bribe
to the King; bribe clerks of the Privy Council 205
The Massachusetts Bay Court refuse the proposed conditions
of perpetuating the Charter; refuse submission to the
King on any conditions; determine to contest in a Court of
Law; agents restricted; the King provoked 206
The Governor and a majority of the assistants or magistrates
vote in favour of submitting to the King's decision; the
Ministers advise, and a majority of the deputies vote against it 208
A writ of _quo warranto_ issued and sent, June and
July, 1683, summoning the Corporation of Massachusetts Bay
to defend their acts against the complaints and charges
(thirteen in number) made against them, but assuring the
inviolableness of private property, and offering to stay
legal proceedings against the Corporation in case of their
submitting to the decision of the King, on the points
heretofore required by his Majesty as conditions of
perpetuating the Charter 208
The Colony of Massachusetts Bay divided; origin of parties;
the Governor and a majority of the "Upper Branch of the
Government" were the moderate or loyalist party; the majority
of the "House of Deputies," whose "elections were controlled
by the ministers," were the _independence_ party;
violent language by Dr. Increase Mather, whose appeal from
man to God was decided against him (in a note) 209
Resolutions of the two Houses of the Court on the subject 210
Notice to the Massachusetts Bay Court of the issue of
the writ of _quo warranto_, to answer to the complaints
against them, _received_ October, 1683; judgment given
July 1685, nearly two years afterwards 211
The questions at issue unfairly put to popular vote in
Massachusetts; remarks on Mr. Palfrey's account of the
transactions 211
Results of the fall of the Charter; death of Charles
the Second; proclamation of the accession of James the
Second; appointment of Joseph Dudley as Governor;
character of his seven months' government 212
Appointment of Andros as local Governor and
Governor-General; popular beginning of his government;
his tyranny; seized at Boston and sent prisoner to
England; acquitted on account of having obeyed his
instructions 215
Toleration first proclaimed in Massachusetts by
James the Second; thanked by the Massachusetts Bay
Court, and its agent in England, the Rev. Increase
Mather, for the proclamation which lost the King the Crown
of England 216
Concluding review of the characteristics of the
fifty-four years' government of Massachusetts Bay
Government under the first Charter 217