Moderated Expectations of Massachusetts Quarrel between the Governor and the Mathers Discontinuance of the Governor's Claim to a fixed Salary NEW HAMPSHIRE, RHODE ISLAND, AND CONNECTICUT. Dudley, Governor of New Hampshire Claims of John Mason and the Mohegans Hostile Pretensions of Dudley and Lord Cornbury The Saybrook Platform of Congregationalism Security and Contentment of Massachusetts. Ministry of King George the First Discouragements of the Governor His Instructions from the King His Disagreements with the General Court Proceedings relative to Supplies of Naval Stores Military and Civil Arrangements Successive Agents of the Colony in England HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND. BOOK IV. PROGRESS IN THE REIGNS OF KING WILLIAM THE THIRD AND QUEEN ANNE. CHAPTER I. PROSPECTS DISCLOSED BY THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. THE early dreams in New England of an independence of the parent country had faded away. Repeated disappointments, and new views of existing advantages and dangers, had checked that enthusiasm for absolute liberty which prompted the emigrations. The interests of business had come to rival the interests and to modify and complicate the plans of politics. The local unanimity had been dissolved. Permanent parties had been formed with opposing judgments both upon local questions and upon questions of the relations of the colonies to the empire; the men qualified to lead opinion were not, as formerly, agreed in opinion among themselves. As bodies politic, the colonies of New England were disabled. The most powerful and resolute of them, after triumphing in a sharp contest with the Ministry of King Charles the Second, had |