[This establishment of a subordinate government in Massachusetts corresponds to the government in Virginia in 1614, perhaps,--before the Virginia Company granted self-government to the settlement. There is no hint, here, be it noted, that this arrangement was soon to be superseded by the transfer of the English Company itself to America. Ten meetings are recorded between the one when these orders were taken and the one (next given here) in which that suggestion first appears.] FOOTNOTES: [32] White gets the order of events wrong here. Endicott came before the charter was secured. [33] This grant included the territory granted by the New England Council to Gorges in 1623. This was due, no doubt, to geographical ignorance. Ferdinando Gorges ("Briefe Narration," in _Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._, Third Series, V, 80), after explaining how the new Company came to ask for a grant from the New England Council, adds: "to which it pleased the thrice honored Lord of Warwick to write to me [from London], then at Plymouth, to condescend that a Patent might be granted. ... Whereupon I gave my approbation _so far forth as it might not be prejudicial to my son Robert Gorges' interests, whereof he had a patent_." Gorges always felt that the grant to the Massachusetts Bay Company had worked a great injustice to his family. Cf. _American History and Government_, ## 57, note, 61. [34] The very obscure sentence of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, written even later than Winthrop's one sentence, carries a like implication; but it contains such gross errors of chronology about external events that it can carry no weight at all as to motives of his adversaries (Mass. Hist. Society Collections, Third Series, VI, 80). [35] Curiously, even Osgood, almost infallible in colonial history, refers only to Winthrop's sentence (with justifiable caution, to be sure), without any reference to the contrary evidence in the _Records_. [36] This item is added by Higginson in his written acceptance of the above terms. XII. THE COLONY BECOMES A PURITAN ENTERPRISE 58. Decision to Transfer the Charter to the Colony _a. First Official Proposition to Transfer the Charter to America_ _Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay_, I, 47-51. _A Generall Court, holden for the Company of the Mattachusetts Bay, in New England, at Mr. Deputies House, on Tewsday, the 28 of July, 1629._ _Present_, Mr. MATTHEW CRADOCK, _Governor_, Mr. THOMAS GOFF, _Deputie_, Mr. GEORGE HARWOOD, _Treasurer_, Mr. THOMAS ADAMS, Mr. NATHANIELL WRIGHT, Mr. THEOPHILUS EATON, Mr. RICHARD PERRY, Mr. JOSEPH BRADSHAWE, Mr. BURNELL, Mr. RIVET, Mr. DANIEL BALLARD, Mr. SPURSTOWE, Mr. INCREASE NOELL, Mr. SYMON WHETCOMBE, Mr. JOHN POCOCKE, Mr. COLSON, Mr. HUTCHINS, Mr. WILLIAM PINCHON, Mr. SAMUEL VASSAIL, _Assistants_, Mr. THOMAS HEWSON, Mr. WOODGATE, Mr. WEB, Mr. CRANE, _Generalitie_.