[974]. Massachusetts Records, vol. V, pp. 304, 307.
[975]. Cf. Beer, Old Colonial System, vol. II, pp. 305 f.
[976]. Randolph Papers, vol. III, pp. 110 ff.
[977]. Cal. State Pap., Col., 1681-85, pp. 129 f. Osgood (American Colonies, vol. III, p. 328) states that this draft accompanied the King's letter, as does Doyle (Puritan Colonies, vol. II, p. 216). Hutchinson does not mention it in his account, however (History, vol. I, pp. 300 f.), and it seems to me that this document, which is undated, is merely the preliminary draft, as its heading indicates, of the final letter, which is in Cal. State Pap., Col., 1681-85, pp. 128 ff. The final drafts were often milder in expression than the preliminary ones.
[978]. Massachusetts Records, vol. V, pp. 333, 346; Hutchinson, History, vol. I, p. 301; Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series IV, vol. VIII, p. 494.
[979]. Randolph's description of Dudley as an opposer of the “faction,” and a man who “hath his fortune to make,” is well known. Randolph Papers, vol. III, pp. 145, 171, 172. Cf. E. Kimball, Public Life of Joseph Dudley (Harvard Historical Studies, 1911), pp. 1-21.
[980]. Hutchinson gives the date of sailing as May 31, N. S.; History, vol. I, p. 301.
[981]. Massachusetts Records, vol. V, pp. 346 ff.
[982]. Cal. State Pap., Col., 1681-85, pp. 288 ff.
[983]. Hutchinson, History, vol. I, p. 303; Cal. State Pap., Col., 1681-85, p. 373.