[213] This recusant act occasioned a report from the attorney-general to the queen, cited in Shelburne Papers, vol. 61. Cf. Reports Hist. MSS. Commission, v. 228.
[214] Cf. Memoir of the Mohegans in Mass. Hist. Coll., viii. 73, etc.
[215] But this was not the end. It was finally settled in favor of the colony in 1771. Cf. Trumbull’s Connecticut, i. 410, 421; De Forest’s Indians of Conn., 309; The Governor and Company of Connecticut and Mohegan Indians by their guardians: Certified Copy of Book of Proceedings before the Commissioners of Review, 1743 (usually called The Mohegan Case, published in 1769,—copies in Harvard College library; Brinley, no. 2,085; Menzies, no. 1,338; Murphy, no. 660). Cf. Palfrey, iv. 336, 364; Trumbull Papers (Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. xlix., index), and E. E. Beardsley on the “Mohegan land controversy,” in New Haven Hist. Soc. Papers, iii. 205, and his Life and Times of Wm. Samuel Johnson.
[216] Palfrey, New Eng., iv. 489, 495; Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, iii. 277.
[217] Jeremiah Dummer, however, writes, January, 1714, of Col. Byfield, then in England, that he is “so excessively hot against Col. Dudley that he cannot use anybody civilly who is for him.” Mass. Hist. Coll., v. 198.
[218] This tribune of the people, however, did not long survive his victory, but died October 31, 1715, aged seventy-eight.
[219] Dr. Palfrey amply illustrates the reciprocal influence of the old and new politics. Cf. Dr. Ellis in Sewall Papers, iii. 46. There is no more pointed evidence, however, of the scant interest taken by the wits of London in the current politics and customs of the American colonies than the fact that among the multitudinous pictorial satires of the period, preserved in the British Museum and noted in its Catal. of prints, Satires (ii., iii., and iv., 1689-1763), there is scarce a single purely American subject. One or two about the confronting of the English and French in the Ohio valley, and incidentally touching English successes in American waters, are the only ones noted in a somewhat careful examination. Catal. of prints in the Brit. Mus. Satires, iii. pp. 927, 972, 1100.
[220] Mather was very complacent over this event, and called Shute of a “very easy, candid, gentlemanly temper.” Mass. Hist. Coll., xxxviii. 420.
[221] Discussions of the king’s rights to the woods of Maine and New England are in the documents (1718-1726, etc.) collected in Chalmers’s Opinions of Eminent Lawyers, i. 110, 115, 118, 136, 138.
[222] Cf. Barry, Mass., ii. 109.