In this connection, Winthrop wrote bitterly to Lord Say, complaining of his efforts to induce settlers to go out from England to the Caribbean instead of to New England. To this, Say made a long reply, rebuking the authorities in the colony for their misuse of Scripture texts to further their own views, and ended with the admonition that “for what you say of the church not compatable with another frame of government, I pray putt away that error ... the church beinge wholly spirritual, can subsist with any forme of outward government.”[543] Footnote 543: _Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._, Series V, vol. I, p. 302; J. Winthrop, _History_, vol. I, pp. 399 _f._ Not only, however, did immigration to Massachusetts stop, but there threatened to be an emigration from that colony to the English leaders' Caribbean settlement. John Humphrey, one of the most influential of the original planters, who had not prospered in the Bay, was made Governor of the West Indian Puritan settlements, and, in 1641, sailed thither with several hundred Massachusetts people.[544] Many others removed to other colonies, and Winthrop relates, with evident relish, the misfortunes which befell them as God's judgment upon them for leaving.[545] That the influences checking the growth of Massachusetts were not wholly due to general conditions is indicated also by the fact that, while her population, in the next two decades, was considerably less than doubled, that of New Hampshire was nearly tripled, Rhode Island increased five-fold, and Connecticut four-fold.[546] The actual numbers are even more striking than the percentages. Massachusetts, starting the period with fourteen thousand, added less than ten thousand, while the other three, beginning with but three thousand, added nearly nine thousand. Connecticut's growth, moreover, was made in spite of the fact that apparently Massachusetts made even greater efforts to divert emigrants from that colony than were being made in England to divert them from herself; so that Hooker, in complaining of the methods employed by her citizens, was forced to write to Winthrop, that “such impudent forgery is scant found in hell.”[547] Footnote 544: _Manchester Papers_, p. 424, cited by Newton, _Puritan Colonisation_, p. 292; J. Winthrop, _History_, vol. II, p. 15. There was also some movement the other way: 1200 persons are said to have gone from Barbadoes to New England from 1643 to 1647. _Cal. State Pap., Col., 1661-68_, p. 529. Footnote 545: J. Winthrop, _History_, vol. II, pp. 103 _ff._, 113, 156. Footnote 546: _Century of Population_, p. 9. Footnote 547: Letter in _Connecticut Historical Society Collections_, vol. I, pp. 4 _ff._