The History of the Rise And Progress of the United States of North America Till
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Hutchinson, i. P. 12, 13. NORTH A. AIEUICA. 259 arranfje their internal constitution, whether civil or chap. . . . ... II ecclesiastical, according to their own discretion. An ' English corporation, appointed by its charter to re- i629. Side in London, resolved itself, by its own act, into an American corporation, and transferred its resi- dence to Massachusetts : and this was openly trans- acted by men whose principles rendered them pe- culiarly obnoxious to their rulers, and under the eyes of... a prince no less vigilant to observe, than vigorous to repress every encroachment on the limits of his prerogative. So far was Charles from en- tertaining the slightest dissatisfaction at this pro- ceeding, or from desiring, at this period of his reign, to obstruct the removal of the puritans to New Eng- land, that about two years after this change had been carried into effect, when a complaint of arbitrary and illegal proceedings was preferred against the colony by a papist who had been banished from it, and who was supported by Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the king, after a full hearing of the case in the privy council, issued a proclamation not only justifying but commending the whole conduct of the colonial government, reprobat- ing the prevalent reports that he "had no good opinion of that plantation, " and engaging not only to main- tain the privileges of its inhabitants, but to supply whatever else might contribute to their further com- fort and prosperity -^ Erom the terms of this docu- ment (of which no notice is taken by the writers inimical to the puritans), and from the whole com- plexion of the king's conduct towards the founders 3 Neal, i.
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