[323]. Ibid., p. 345.

[324]. Massachusetts Records, vol. I, pp. 49-52, 55.

[325]. R. C. Winthrop, J. Winthrop, vol. II, p. 443; C. Deane, in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, Series I, vol. XI, pp. 166 ff.; Mellen Chamberlain, Ibid., Series II, vol. VIII, p. 110; J. Parker in Lowell Lectures, pp. 365 ff.; and Osgood, American Colonies, vol. I, pp. 145 ff., 183.

[326]. Decision of the English Chief Justices in 1677; Acts Privy Council, Colonial, vol. I, p. 724. Cf. Ibid., p. 841.

[327]. Massachusetts Records, vol. I, pp. 59 f. At the last moment, as Humphrey's sailing was delayed, Dudley was elected in his place. Ibid., p. 70.

[328]. The ships did not all arrive together. Some were delayed until the first week in July. John Winthrop, History of New England (ed. Boston, 1853), vol. I, p. 34. Cf. Young, Chron. Mass., pp. 310 ff.

[329]. Dudley's Letter, in Young, Chron. Mass., pp. 311, 319.

[330]. J. Winthrop, History, vol. I, p. 52.

[331]. Cal. St. Pap., Dom., 1628-9, p. 266; Acts Privy Council, Colonial, vol. I, p. 154.

[332]. R. Clap, Memoirs, in Young, Chron. Mass., p. 352.