Taking but little notice of their cold reception at Boston, the commissioners proceeded with the fleet, touching at Connecticut, where, the province having obtained in its charter all it desired, they were well received; and Winthrop, the governor, proceeded with them to New Amsterdam. New Netherlands having submitted, and Nichols being left there as governor, the remaining commissioners returned to Boston, after settling the boundaries of Connecticut and New York. In the meantime the people of Massachusetts had resolved upon their line of conduct, which was manly and straightforward. A remonstrance was drawn up to the king, and even this some of the sturdy democrats thought more than necessary, their compact being, it was argued, merely one-fifth of all gold and silver ore; “which was an obligation, any notice of the king beyond which was only by way of civility.” This remonstrance stated to the king that the first planters of the colony obtained a patent which empowered them to govern themselves by men chosen from themselves, and according to such laws as they should enact. “A royal donation,” said they, “under the great seal, is the greatest security that may be had in human affairs;” having, therefore, now for more than thirty years enjoyed the privilege of government within themselves, as their undoubted right in the sight of God and man, they required that the same should be left to them. As regarded the appointment of a commission, one member of which was a professed enemy, with power to receive and decide complaints according to their will and pleasure, the remonstrants state, “that if these things are to go on, his majesty’s subjects will either be forced to seek new dwellings, or will sink under intolerable burdens, which would be a loss to the king in the customs of exported and imported goods.” And fearing, reasonably enough, that Charles’s rapacious courtiers might be casting longing looks towards the now prosperous colony, they very sagaciously observe: “If the aim should be to gratify some particular gentlemen by livings and revenues here, that will also fail, because of the poverty of the people. If all the charges of the whole government by the year were put together, and then doubled or trebled, it would not be counted by one of these gentlemen a considerable accommodation.