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§ IX All the Council were not engaged in these […] but those of them which were true Lovers of their Country, were seldom admitted to, and seldomer consulted at the Debates which Produced these unrighteous things: Care was taken to keep them under disadvantages; and the Governor with five or six more did what they would. We bore all these, and many many more such things, without making any attempt for any Relief; only Mr. Mather purely out of Respect unto the good of his Afflicted Country, undertook a Voyage into England; which, when these men suspected him to be preparing for, they used all manner of Craft and Rage, not only to interrupt his Voyage, but to ruin his Person too. God having through many Difficulties given him to arrive at White Hall, the King more than once or twice Promised him a certain Magna Charta for a speedy redress of many things which we were groaning under: and in the mean time said, That our Governor should be written unto, to forbear the measures that he was upon. However, after this, we were injured in those very things, which were complained of; and besides what wrong hath been done in our civil Concerns, we suppose the Ministers, and the Churches every where have seen our Sacred Concerns a pace going after them: How they have been Discountenanced, has had a room in the reflections of every man, that is not a stranger in our Israel.

§ IX All the Council were not ingaged in these 〈…〉 but those of them which were true Lovers of their Country, were seldom admitted to, and seldomer consulted at the Debates which Produced these unrighteous things: Care was taken to keep them under disadvantages; and the Governour with five or six more did what they would. We bore all these, and many many more such things, without making any attempt for any Relief; only Mr. Mather purely out of Respect unto the good of his Afflicted Country, undertook a Voyage into England; which, when these men suspected him to be preparing for, they used all manner of Craft and Rage, not only to interrupt his Voyage, but to ruine his Person too. God having through many Difficulties given him to arrive at White Hall, the King more than once or twice Promised him a certain Magna Charta for a speedy redress of many things which we were groaning under: and in the mean time said, That our Governour should be written unto, to forbear the measures that he was upon. However, after this, we were injured in those very things, which were complained of; and besides what wrong hath been done in our civil Concerns, we suppose the Ministers, and the Churches every where have seen our Sacred Concerns a pace going after them: How they have been Discountenanced, has had a room in the reflections of every man, that is not a stranger in our Israel.