Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

Ma. Your Majesties Subjects have been willing •o Venture their Lives that they may enlarge Your Dominions: And are willing to do the like again, if Your Majesty Encourage them. Will Your Majesty Please, in Your Great Wisdom, to consider the Circumstances of that People; as in Your Wisdom you have considered the Circumstances of England and of Scotland. In New England they differ from other Plantations; They are such as are called Congregational and Presbyterian. So that such a Governor will not suit with the People of New England, as may be very Proper for the other English Plantations.

Ma. Your Majesties Subjects have been willing •o Venture their Lives that they may enlarge Your Dominions: And are willing to do the like again, if Your Majesty Encourage them. Will Your Majesty Please, in Your Great Wisdom, to consider the Circumstances of that People; as in Your Wisdom you have considered th Circumstances of England and of Scotland. In New England they differ from other Plantations; They are such as are called Congregational and Presbyterian. So that such a Governour will not suit with the People of New England, as may be very Proper for the other English Plantations.

Having so spoken, he bowed unto the King; who then retired into his Closet

Two Days after this, the Lords of the Committee Proposed unto the KING, whether he would have the People of New-England, make what Laws, and Appoint what Officers They Pleased? Or, Whether He would not Appoint a Governor of His own, that should have a Negative Voice on all Acts of Government? The King was very Inquisitive to know, whether he might without any Breach of Law, set a Governor over that Colony? Diverse Lords of the Council, and some of the Judges, answered, That whatever might be the Merit of the Cause, inasmuch as the Charter of the Massachuset-Colony stood Vacated by a Judgment against it, it was in his Power to put them under what Form