have been done to carry into effect the order for his deportation, and he was soon set at liberty. Footnote 351: Bradford, _Plymouth_, p. 294. Footnote 352: P. Oliver, _The Puritan Commonwealth_ (Boston, 1856), p. 35. Footnote 353: Dudley's Letter, in Young, _Chron. Mass._, p. 333. Footnote 354: _Massachusetts Records_, vol. I, p. 83. Footnote 355: J. Winthrop, _History_, vol. I, p. 65. Footnote 356: Bradford, _Plymouth_, p. 295. Footnote 357: J. Winthrop, _History_, vol. I, p. 68. Meanwhile a lonely settler from Maine had appeared in Boston, and had looked with favor upon Gardiner's fair companion. He decided to marry the lady and to take her back to the Eveless Eden of the Androscoggin. Gardiner himself accompanied them, and the curiously assorted trio spent the winter together at Brunswick, from which season there was an odd echo in the Maine law courts nine years later, when Gardiner's host, and not himself, was properly sued for a warming-pan stolen by the knight during his chilly stay. In the summer of 1632, Gardiner landed in England just in time to add his witness to that of Morton and Ratcliffe in Gorges's attack upon the Massachusetts charter.[358] Ratcliffe, who was a mentally unbalanced servant of Cradock, had apparently talked loosely about the government and the Salem church. For these “mallitious and scandulous speeches,” as the crime was designated in his sentence by the court, he was whipped, had both his ears cut off, was fined the impossible sum of £40, and banished from the colony.[359] He was not long in joining Morton and Gardiner in England, and becoming one more arrow in Gorges's quiver. These cases, moreover, though they proved more important individually, in their reaction upon the colony, by no means stood alone. A certain Thomas Gray, for an unspecified crime, was banished, his house was pulled down, and all Englishmen were enjoined from giving him shelter, “under such penalty as the Court shall thinke meete to inflicte.” Thomas Dexter, for saying, “This captious government will bring all to naught,” adding that “the best of them was but an atturney, &c.,” was put in the stocks, fined £40, and disfranchised. Henry Lynn, “for writeing into England falsely and mallitiously against the government and execuccion of justice here,” was ordered whipped and banished; while Thomas Knower was put in the stocks for saying that, if punished, he would have the legality of his sentence tried in England.[360] Footnote 358: C. F. Adams, _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings_, Series I, vol. XX, p. 80. Footnote 359: _Massachusetts Records_, vol. I, p. 88; J. Winthrop, _History_, vol. I, p. 67. Footnote 360: _Massachusetts Records_, vol. I, pp. 77, 101, 103, 104, 102.