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A brief account concerning several of the agents of New-England, their negotiation at the…
A brief account concerning several of the agents of New-England, their negotiation at the Court of England with some remarks on the new charter granted to the colony of Massachusetts showing that all things duly considered, greater privileges than what are therein contained, could not at this time rationally be expected by the people there.A brief account concerning several of the agents of New-England, their negotiation at the Court of England with some remarks on the new charter granted to the colony of Massachusets shewing that all things duely considered, greater priviledges than what are therein contained, could not at this time rationally be expected by the people there.
London : s.n., 1691
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The Queen graciously replied, That that was a reasonable Request, and that she hoped it would be done for us, only it could not be done but by the Council. Her Majesty moreover assured me, That she had divers times spoken to the King in behalf of New-England; and that, for her own part, she desired that that People might not only have what was Just done for them, but that something of Favour might be shown to them.— I the rather mention this, that so all New-England may be excited to Pray for so Gracious a Queen.
When the King returned to England, he stayed not there above a Fortnight: In which time I had twice the Honour to wait on his Majesty in behalf of New-England. The First time I only delivered the last Address from the General-Court at Boston, viz. that of Decemb. 16. 1690. and a Petition from many Merchants in London, praying, That Charter-Privileges might be restored to New-England; and that some Frigates might be sent for the Security of those Coasts. The Second time, I humbly ⟨p. 8⟩prayed the Continuance of his Royal Favour to his Subjects in that Territory. The King was then pleased to ask me, What I would have to be done for New-England? I humbly put his Majesty in mind of our Old Charter-Privileges: And that if they should, by his Royal Favour and Goodness, he restored, that would make his Majesty's Name Great in those Ends of the Earth, as long as the World should stand: That none of his Subjects prayed more for his Royal Person, and for the Success of his Arms, than they did: That they were all of them Protestants, and that they differed in lesser Matters from some others, being of those that were called Presbyterians, and Congregational-Men: That his Majesty, in his great Wisdom, had considered the Circumstances of England, and the Circumstances of Scotland: That, according to his Royal Wisdom, he would consider the Circumstances of New-England also; and that such Rulers would not be agreeable to them, as were very proper to the other English Plantations. The King replied to me, That within two or three days he expected a Report from the Committee of Lords, for Foreign Plantations, and that he should then see what could be done.