[464]. Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 341 f.; J. Winthrop, History, vol. I, pp. 216, 223; B. Trumbull, History of Connecticut (New Haven, 1818), vol. I, p. 68.
[465]. Massachusetts Records, vol. I, pp. 170 f. Cf. W. DeL. Love, The Colonial History of Hartford (Hartford, 1914), pp. 70 ff. The earliest records of the three Connecticut towns are lost, but by using those of Springfield, Mr. Love has thrown much light upon the disputed points as to the origin of the Connecticut “constitution.”
[466]. The text of the sermon has not survived. The notes, by some hearer, which are all we have, are in G. L. Walker, Thomas Hooker (New York, 1891), p. 125, and elsewhere.
[467]. Public Records of Colony of Connecticut (Hartford, 1850), vol. I, pp. 20 ff. (Hereafter cited as Conn. Col. Records.)
[468]. Connecticut Historical Society Collections, vol. I, p. 17.
[469]. Letter to Winthrop, Ibid., p. 11.
[470]. Newton, Puritan Colonisation, pp. 160 ff. Cf. similar conditions in Bermuda, where the ministers went to such lengths as to “make a man quite out of love with the government of the clergy.” Cal. State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, p. 323.
[471]. Newton, Puritan Colonisation, p. 175.
[472]. J. Winthrop, History, vol. I, p. 160.
[473]. The commission and agreement are in Trumbull, Connecticut, vol. I, pp. 497 ff. The Warwick patent is given in vol. I, pp. 495 f. Cf. C. J. Hoadly, The Warwick Patent (Acorn Club, Hartford, 1902), pp. 7 ff.