[118] Walker, _The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism_, pp. 502–506, where “The Saybrook Meeting and Articles” are printed in full. For expositions, see Backus, _History of New England_, vol. i, pp. 470 _et seq._; Palfrey, _A History of New England_, vol. iii, p. 342; Dexter, _The Congregationalism of the last Three Hundred Years_, pp. 489, 490. [119] _The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut_, vol. v, p. 87. [120] Greene, _The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut_, p 151. [121] _Cf. supra_, p. 53. [122] _The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut_, vol. v, p. 50. It seems clear that either through neglect or evasion a considerable number of congregations failed to qualify under the law. In any event the legislature deemed itself warranted in passing an act, May, 1721, imposing a fine of five shillings on persons convicted of not having attended “the publick worship of God on the Lord’s day in some congregation by law allowed.” (See _ibid._, vol. vi, p. 248.) Churches which for doctrinal or other reasons withdrew from the Establishment suffered serious embarrassments on account of this law respecting the licensing of congregations. [123] _Ibid._, vol. v, p. 50. Any infraction of this law was to be punished by a heavy fine. Failure to pay the fine involved heavy bail or imprisonment. [124] Greene, _The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut_, pp. 191 _et seq._ [125] _The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut_, vol. vi, p. 106. [126] _The Pub. Records of the Colony of Conn._, vol. vi, pp. 237, 257. Unlike the Massachusetts exemption laws passed on behalf of these two bodies, these were perpetual. [127] _Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society: Talcott Papers_, vol. v, pp. 9–13; Backus, _History of New England_, vol. ii, pp. 98 _et seq._ [128] Parker, _History of the Second Church of Christ in Hartford_, pp. 117, 119; _Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society_, vol. iv: _The Bradford Annals_, pp. 318 _et seq._; Backus, _History of New England_, vol. ii, pp. 57 _et seq._, 79 _et seq._ For the account of the difficulties of a particular Separatist congregation, see Dutton, _The History of the North Church in New Haven_, pp. 25–28. _Cf._ _The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut_, vol. xi, pp. 323 _et seq._; also Beardsley, _The History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut_, vol. i, p. 140.