[33]. “All ministers of the Gospel.” (Brayton.) The Providence men were Chad. Brown, Thomas Olney, William Field and William Wickenden. Sheffield says “Brown and Wickenden afterwards became clergymen.” (Samuell Gorton, p. 45).
[34]. Sheffield says “for several days.” (Address before R. I. Historical Society, February, 1893).
[35]. The invaders also took and sold eighty head of cattle belonging to Gorton and his friends.
[36]. A full account of this contest, with statements of both parties, appears in Gorton’s “Simplicities Defence,” (first ed., London, Aug. 3, 1646.) See also Winslow’s “Hypocrisie Unmasked.”
[37]. Gorton was at first ordered to formulate his answers “within fifteen minutes,” but on appeal was given until the next morning.
[38]. By two majority!
[39]. Gorton was taken to Boston as “prisoner of war,” Oct. 13, 1643. He was sentenced Nov. 3, 1643; released Mch. 7, 1643-44 (1643, O. S.).
[40]. History of New England, Vol. I.
[41]. Simplicities Defence against Seven Headed Policie.
[42]. The reference is to Mr. Cotton’s championship of Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian heresy.