_a._ Winthrop's account; from his _History of New England_ 189 _b._ The official records of the revolutionary General Court of 1634; from the _Colonial Records_ 191 68. Political reaction: the magistrates demand a "negative voice"; from Winthrop's _History of New England_ 194 69. The Puritan government denies free speech in political matters; _ib._ 195 70. The adoption of the ballot in elections in the General Court; _ib._ 196 71. The first use of the ballot in local elections; _ib._ 197 72. A military commission with power of martial law; from the _Colonial Records_ 198 73. Winthrop's account of various political actions: a "Life Council"; extension of the ballot by the use of proxies; restriction of "churches" to the organizations recognized by the government; from Winthrop's _History of New England_ 199 74. The Wheelwright controversy, with special reference to political phases; _ib._ 199 75. Political and social conditions in Massachusetts in 1636: _a._ "Proposals" of Lords Say and Brooke, with the answers of John Cotton; from the Appendix to Hutchinson's _History of Massachusetts Bay_ 201 _b._ Legislation of 1651 regarding dress of different classes; from the _Colonial Records_ 205 76. Attack upon the charter: _a._ An order in Council in England for its surrender; from Hutchinson's _Original Papers_ 206 _b._ The defiant refusal of the Colony; from Winthrop's _History of New England_ 207 77. Democratic discontent with aristocratic privilege in 1639 (Winthrop's denial of the right of petition; the abolition of Life Council; delay in conceding a written code); _ib._ 210 78. The "Body of Liberties"; from Whitmore's _Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of Massachusetts Colony_ 214 79. A Puritan view of the rules of fair trade (Cotton's sermon upon the conviction of a shopkeeper for exacting exorbitant profits); from Winthrop's _History of New England_ 225 80. The separation of the General Court into two Houses (the first two-chambered legislature in America); the story from Winthrop's _History of New England_, and the preamble of the act of 1644 from the _Colonial Records_ 226 81. A town code of school laws (1645); from the _Dorchester Records_ 230