York to carry over his Majesty's Commission of Government directed to a President and Council in New Hampshire.

29. I shipped all my goods and household stuff of a considerable value upon a vessel belonging to N. England and are all lost at sea, together with his late Majesty's picture and royal arms sent to N. Hampshire.

Dec. 7. I arrived to N. York and travelled by land from thence to New Hampshire in the winter, nigh four hundred miles.

27. I arrived at N. Hampshire and after great Opposition made by the Bostoneers setled his [Majesty's] Government in that Province. Jan. 15. His Majesty's Government declared and owned in the Province of New Hampshire.

28. I returned from N. Hampshire to Boston impowered by the Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs to prevent the irregular trade. I seized several of their vessels with their loading.

1680.* His Majesty's authority and the Acts of Trade disowned V openly in their courts and I was cast in all these causes and damage given against his Majesty.

March 15. Having complained hereof I returned to England and obtained his Majesty's Letters Patents to be Collector, &c., of his ✔ Majesty's Customs in New England.†

1681, May 20. The Rt Honorable the Lords of the Committee for Trade report to his Majesty that in consideration of my good service I ought to have a hundred pounds annually added to my former salary of one hundred pounds but his Majesty's service requiring my speedy return to N. England I was dispatched away and that addition not settled.

Dec. 17. I arrived again at Boston in N. England with his Majesty's Commission appointing me Collector, &c., but that Commission is opposed, being looked upon as an encroachment on their Charter.

Mar. 10. A law revived by the Assembly to try me for my life and for acting by his Majesty's Commission before it was allowed by them. -71682. His Majesty's Commission not allowed to be read openly in Courts. My Deputies and under officers imprisoned for acting by ✔ virtue of his Majesty's Commission.

Aug. 20. Other agents from Boston arrived in England.‡

Sept. 20. Boston agents appearing are directed to procure larger

powers.

Dec. 20. I received orders from the Lords of the Committee to

The date, 1680, prefixed to this entry, is intended to cover the year in which he experienced his adverse fortunes in our courts. He was in New Hampshire part of this time, on the same business, and was defendant in a cause tried there March 23; and the Provincial Records of that province speak of his being there as late as Nov. 3, 1680.- D.

It will be understood that Randolph's return to England at this time was in the year 1680-81, the year then beginning March 25. — D.

These were Joseph Dudley and John Richards. They had a long passage of nearly twelve weeks. They were absent a little more than a year, arriving in Boston, on their return, Oct. 23, 1683.-D.

return to England to prosecute a Quo Warranto against the Boston Charter.

1683, May 28. I arrived in England.

June 13. I was ordered to attend the Attorney General with proofs of the charge against the Boston Government.

July 20. Ordered a Quo Warranto be brought against Boston Charter.

Oct. 17.* I arrived in N. England served the Quo Warranto, published and dispersed two hundred of his Majesty's Declarations.

Dec. 14. I embarked myself for England, had a dangerous voyage, the vessel wrecked at sea, both her sides carried away in a storm, and all my goods lost.

Feb. 14. I arrived at Plymouth and was commanded to attend and prosecute the Boston Charter.

1684, Oct. 23. Judgment was entered up for his Majesty against the Boston Charter.

Dec. 20. I was ordered to prepare articles against the two colonies of Rhode Island and Connecticut.

1685, July 15. The Attorney General ordered to issue out writs of Quo Warranto against the colony of Rhode Island, Connecticut, &c., and against the several proprietors of Maryland, Pennsylvania and East and West Jersey.

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Aug. 15. I was directed to serve the Quo Warrantos upon my Baltimore, Proprietor of Maryland and the Proprietor of East and West Jersey, and to serve the two writs upon the colonies of R. Island and Connecticut, all which I duly performed.

Jan. 20. I and my family embarked upon the Rose frigate for N. England.

1686, May 14. I arrived at Boston with his Majesty's Commission of Government to a President and Council.

Then the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, the Province of New Hampshire and Maine are brought under his Majesty's Government.

May 30. I served the writ of Quo Warranto upon the Governor and Company of Rhode Island.

June 12. I made a second journey to Rhode Island to receive the General Court's answer.

July 12. I served the writ of Quo Warranto upon the Governor

* There is an error in this date. The date first written in was December 20, or 26, and then the present date, after one or more alterations in the figures, was written over. The true date of Randolph's arrival in Boston at this time is October 26. In a letter of his to the king, in Mass. Archives, vol. cvi. p. 303, he says: "I landed at Boston, in New England, the 26th of October last, where the General Court of the Colony had sat about three weeks, but upon notice given them by their agents (who had arrived four days before me), that they might daily expect me with a writ of Quo Warranto against their Charter, the Assembly was dissolved three or four hours before I landed. The next morning I delivered to the Governor your Majesty's declarations with the summons, and copy of the Quo Warranto." In a letter of Randolph's to Hinckley, in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll. vol. v. p. 93, dated "Boston, in N. England [Monday], Oct. 20, 1683," he says, "I arrived here Friday last," which would be the 26th.-D.

and Company of Connecticut above one hundred and fifty miles distant from Boston.

The Governor and Company of Rhode Island humbly submit to his Majesty and are by his Majesty's special order to his Excellency Sir Edmund Andros, Knt, united to this government.

Dec. 28. I received a second writ of Quo Warranto against Connecticut and was ordered to serve it.

Dec. 30. A second writ upon the Government of Connecticut is served upon the Government. They make their humble submission of themselves and Government to his Majesty.

1687, Oct. 25. His Excellency goes to Hartford the chief town in Connecticut and erects his Majesty's Government there, so that now the several colonies are united under his Majesty's immediate Government and authority, viz., the Massachusetts, New Plymouth, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and the Provinces of N. Hampshire Maine and Pemaquid, and the King's Province lying above seven hundred miles in length and above seven hundred miles upon the western sea.

The President called attention to the first volume of the "Memorial History of Boston," which numbers among its contributors many members of this Society.

Colonel T. W. HIGGINSON mentioned that a bridge over the Pemigewasset, at Plymouth, New Hampshire, was named in honor of Lafayette, Pont (now corrupted to Point') Fayette."

Mr. DENNY mentioned, as an illustration of the vagueness of spelling in the first generations of New England, that the name of Moseley is spelt in eleven different ways in the volume of Dorchester Records lately published by the Record Commissioners.

DECEMBER MEETING, 1880.

The regular monthly meeting of the Society was held in the Dowse Library, on Thursday, December 9, at 3 o'clock, P.M.; the President, the Hon. ROBERT C. WINTHROP, in the chair.

The Librarian presented the usual report of accessions by gift to the Library since the last meeting.

The Corresponding Secretary read a letter from the Rev. A. H. Quint, D.D., resigning membership on account of his removal to New Hampshire. In it Dr. Quint stated he had long been engaged in gathering materials for a History of New Hampshire, and also for a History of Dover in that State, both of which he was writing.

The President then spoke as follows:

Our meeting this afternoon, Gentlemen, will have lost the attendance of more than one of those whose presence we may generally count upon, by reason of the Complimentary Concert at the Music Hall, which I should have been so glad to attend myself. Few things are more memorable in the recent history of Boston than the improvement which has been witnessed in musical entertainments and musical education. And to no one are we so much indebted for this improvement as to Mr. John S. Dwight, as a tribute to whom this afternoon's concert has been arranged, and who has devoted his time, his pen, and his rare accomplishments, for so many years past, to inspiring a just and discriminating taste for the art which ministers so greatly to the rational enjoyment and refined culture of a community. I am glad of an opportunity, in these few words, to give his name a place on our records as one eminently entitled to the grateful consideration, not only of those who take pleasure in good music, but of all who are interested in the advancement of whatever promotes the happiness and welfare of the people. As I was one of the Committee of Fifty by whom this testimonial concert was offered to Mr. Dwight, I may be pardoned for expressing my special disappointment at being prevented by my duties here from attending it.

Since our last monthly meeting more than one commemor ation has taken place, of an historical character, which may

well be the subject of at least a passing allusion this afternoon, so that it may not fail of recognition in our records.

The celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the covenant and organization of the first Boston church, on the 18th ultimo, was an occasion of singular interest. Nothing could have been more impressive or more successful. The full account of it, with the Historical Discourses of the Rev. Dr. Rufus Ellis, and with the History of the Church by his son, cannot fail to form a volume of great attraction and value. The commemoration of the organization of the Watertown church on that same 30th July, 1630, which was the result of a common and concerted religious movement, took place ten days afterwards, and furnished additional materials for the true understanding of what may be called the origines sacre of the Massachusetts Colony.

Some questions have been suggested by these occasions which may form a subject of historical inquiry at a future day, but I dare not attempt to deal with them myself, at present, if at all.

I must not omit to refer, also, to the great Wycliffe Commemoration on the 2d instant, at New York, where the American Bible Society celebrated the five hundredth anniversary of the first translation of the whole Bible into the English language by John Wycliffe, and where our corresponding member, the Rev. Dr. Richard S. Storrs, delivered one of his masterly orations.

The heroic life and devoted labors of Wycliffe are worthy of commemoration by the whole Protestant world. We of New England and of America owe our homage to his memory, though there was no New England and no America known to him. Dr. Storrs well said, in concluding his eloquent discourse, that "it is on the work accomplished by Wycliffe and those who followed that our liberties have been builded." The grandest monument in the world is that of Luther at Worms. I travelled many miles out of my way to see it, five or six years ago, and was richly rewarded. Tyndale, too, has a Memorial Chapel at Antwerp, to which I was privileged to make a humble contribution some years since. But I can conceive of a group on a single base, in the Central Park at New York, if not in some of our own squares, which should include Wycliffe and Tyndale, and Coverdale and Luther, and perhaps others, and bear witness that our own land is not unmindful of its indebtedness to those noble men, who shrank from no labors or perils in giving the Bible to the common people. Our country owes a monument somewhere to