The Puritan Commonwealth An Historical Review of the Puritan Government in Mass
The Puritan Commonwealth An Historical Review of the Puritan Government in Mass
Peter Oliver
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People there, and on purpose to let •^ Hutchinson. The expression, the people understand what a speedy perhaps, was not too strong. The deliverance they might expect from Prince of Orange accused his father arbitrary power. " When the paper of endeavoring to enslave his own was demanded of him, by the gov- kingdom, after which he would join ernor, he uttered a falsehood, saying with the French monarch in reduc- he did not know where it was ; be- ing the United Provinces, and extir- cause he fea...red the people would be 360 THE ELDERS CONSPIRE had already matured the evil design, " and the rebellion that occurred was " not a violent passion of the rabble, but a long-continued piece of wickedness. " ^ The elders of Massachusetts beheld nothing- unnatural in the con- duct of Mary and her Dutch consort ; notwithstanding the dishonest letters of the one, and the falsehoods of the other, which lulled the unhappy father into a feeling of security that cost him his crown. Thus to dishonor her father and to rob her brother was not inconsistent with the code of morals of Mary of Orange, who could sleep quietly in the royal palaces of England, while the un- happy James was seeking where to lay his head.
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