[503] Ibid., 441. See also his preceding pages.
[504] See Scobell, July the 27th, 1649, p. 66.
[505] Some in New England held back from this kind of missionary work,—Anderson, ii. 195.
Just on the eve of the Restoration this entry occurs in the minutes of the synod at Sion College, the 19th March, 1659-60.
"There was then propounded by some of the Corporation for New England that our help should be administered for the printing of the Bible in the Indian languages. It was then ordered that the design propounded was eminently acceptable, and that the ministers would engage that they would promote the design to their utmost capacity."
[506] Bancroft, i. 445.
[507] Thurloe, v. 147. We can trace this Gookin in the Colonial State Papers as admitted a patentee under a grant from the New England Company (July the 5th, 1622); as praying Charles I. for a patent in the capacity of planter and adventurer (March the 1st, 1631); as receiving a warrant to export to New England powder and shot (July the 24th, 1650); as receiving £300 to defray charges of service (September the 21st, 1655); and as passing from Jamaica to New England on board the Fraternity (December the 19th, 1655).
[508] Life of Williams, 111.
[509] Bancroft, i. 425.
[510] Bancroft, i. 428.