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him (in a note) 209
Resolutions of the two Houses of the Court on the subject 210
Notice to the Massachusetts Bay Court of the issue of the writ of quo
warranto, to answer to the complaints against them, received October,
1683; judgment given July 1685, nearly two years afterwards 211
The questions at issue unfairly put to popular vote in Massachusetts;
remarks on Mr. Palfrey's account of the transactions 211

Results of the fall of the Charter; death of Charles the Second;
proclamation of the accession of James the Second; appointment of
Joseph Dudley as Governor; character of his seven months' government
212
Appointment of Andros as local Governor and Governor-General;
popular beginning of his government; his tyranny; seized at Boston and
sent prisoner to England; acquitted on account of having obeyed his
instructions 215
Toleration first proclaimed in Massachusetts by James the Second;
thanked by the Massachusetts Bay Court, and its agent in England, the
Rev. Increase Mather, for the proclamation which lost the King the
Crown of England 216
Concluding review of the characteristics of the fifty-four years'
government of Massachusetts Bay Government under the first Charter
217
CHAPTER VII.
SECOND ROYAL CHARTER, AND THE GOVERNMENT OF
MASSACHUSETTS UNDER IT FROM 1691 TO 1748; THE CLOSE
OF THE FIRST WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE, AND
THE PEACE OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE. 221-241
Retrospect; reasons assigned by Mr. Palfrey why the Massachusetts
Bay Government did not make armed resistance against "the fall of the
first Charter," and remarks upon them 221
The Government of Massachusetts Bay continued two years after "the
fall of the Charter," as if nothing had happened 226
They promptly proclaim King James the Second; take the oath of
allegiance to him; send the Rev. Increase Mather as agent to thank his
Majesty for his proclamation of indulgence, to pray for the restoration
of the first Charter, and for the removal of Sir Edmund Andros; King
James grants several friendly audiences, but does nothing 226

On the dethronement of James the Second, Dr. Increase Mather pays
his homage to the new King, with professions (no doubt sincere) of
overflowing loyalty to him (in a note) 226
Unsuccessful efforts of Dr. Increase Mather to obtain the restoration of
the first Charter, though aided by the Queen, Archbishop Tillotson,
Bishop Burnet, the Presbyterian clergy, and others 228
How the second Charter was prepared and granted; Dr. Increase Mather
first protests against, and then gratefully accepts the Charter; nominates
the first Governor, Sir William Phips 229
Nine principal provisions of the new Charter 233
Puritan legal opinions on the defects of the first Charter, the constant
violation of it by the Massachusetts Bay Government, and the
unwisdom of its restoration (in a note) 233
A small party in Boston opposed to accepting the new Charter; Judge
Story on the salutary influence of the new Charter on the legislation
and progress of the Colony 235
Happy influence of the new Charter upon toleration, loyalty, peace and
unity of society in Massachusetts--proofs 237
The spirit of the old leaven of bigotry still surviving; and stung with the
facts of Neal's History of New England on "the persecuting principles
and practices of the first planters," a remarkable letter from the Rev. Dr.
Isaac Watts, dated February 19, 1720, addressed to the Rev. Dr. Cotton
Mather, explanatory of Neal's History, and urging the formal repeal of
the "cruel and sanguinary statutes" which had been passed by the
Massachusetts Bay Court under the first Charter (in a note) 239
Happiness and progress of Massachusetts during seventy years under
the second Charter 240
Debts incurred by the New England Colonies in the Indian Wars; issue
of paper money; how Massachusetts was relieved by England, and

made prosperous 240
CHAPTER VIII.
MASSACHUSETTS AND OTHER COLONIES DURING THE
SECOND WAR BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE,
FROM THE PEACE OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, 1748, TO THE
PEACE OF PARIS, 1763. 242-279
Places taken during the war between France and England mutually
restored at the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle; Louisburg and Cape Breton
restored to France, in return for Madras restored to England 242
Boundaries in America between France and England to be defined by a
joint Commission, which could not agree 242
Encroachments of the French on the British Colonies from 1748 to
1756; complaints of the Colonial Governors to England; orders to them
to defend their territories; conflicts between the Colonies, French and
Indians 243
England's best if not only means of protecting the Colonies, to prevent
the French from transporting soldiers and war material to Canada;
naval preparations 244
Evasive answers and disclaimers of the French Government, with naval
and military preparations 245
Braddock's unfortunate expedition; capture of French vessels, soldiers,
&c., (in a note) 247
The King's speech to Parliament on French encroachments; convention
of Colonies at Albany, and its representatives, a