6.] Notwithstanding cross winds the Plymouth messengers were time enough to give the right hand of fellowship, by which ceremony the two churches professed mutual affection and communion. Probably none of the newly arrived settlers had the least idea of such ecclesiastic proceedings, when they left England; but thought very differently. Some continued to do so; for Mr. _Bright_, disagreeing in judgment from the other ministers, removed to a distance before their ordination; and Messrs. _John_ and _Samuel Browne_, dissatisfied with the proceedings of the society, separated with several who were like minded, and set up another. Governor _Endicott_, being of a hot temper, and not possessed of the greatest prudence, summoned the brothers before him as ringleaders of a faction; and apprehending that their conversation and conduct would occasion divisions, sent them back to _England_, against their own inclination notwithstanding their being counsellors, thinking himself justified by his public orders. Let us return to the company in _England_. [July 28.] Mr. _Matthew Craddock_, the governor, proposed at the general court, that, for the advancement of the plantation, the encouragement of persons of worth and quality to transplant themselves and families, and other weighty reasons, the government of the plantation should be transferred to its inhabitants, and not be continued in subordination to the company at _London_. The matter was debated; and it was agreed, that the persons present should seriously consider the business against the next general court; it was also requested, that they would in the mean while, conduct with that privacy, that the affair might not be divulged. At a month’s end they met, and consented that the government and patent should be settled in _New-England_, if it could be done legally. They soon after received letters respecting the difference between governor _Endicott_ and Messrs. _John_ and _Samuel Browne_; and fearing that these two had in their private letters defamed the plantation, they opened and read a number of them, and ordered that none from Mr. _Samuel Browne_ should be delivered; however, upon application from the brothers, they directed that they should have a copy of the accusation sent against them from _New-England_. The company’s letter upon this business one to Messrs. _Skelton_ and _Higginson_, and another to governor _Endicott_, intimated, that there had been in the parties addressed a degree of intemperance; that direct or oblique espersions had been thrown out against the state; and that undigested counsels had been too suddenly put into execution. They besides expressed an apprehension, lest, through an ill construction, the same might make the company obnoxious to any adversary.[8]