[612] Cited in Elliot, vol. 1, p. 142. “In a subsequent letter this is reiterated thus: ‘We especially desire you to take care that no tobacco be planted under your government, unless it be some small quantity for mere necessity, for physic, or the preservation of health; and that the same be taken privately by old men, and no other.’” Ibid. [613] Young’s Chronicles, p. 141. Hazard, vol. 1. [614] Bancroft. [615] Ibid., vol. 1, p. 345. [616] History of the English Puritans, American Tract Society, N. Y., 1867. [617] Hist. of the English Puritans, ut antea. [618] Hume, Hist. of Eng., vol. 2, p. 253. [619] Perry, Eccl. Hist., vol. 1. [620] Mass. Col. Rec., vol. 1. Palfrey. [621] Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 293. [622] Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 293. Mather’s Magnalia. [623] Higginson’s New England Plantation. Palfrey. [624] Bradford, p. 263. Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 294. [625] Mather’s Magnalia. [626] Ibid., vol. 1, p. 68. Palfrey, vol. 1, pp. 294, 295. [627] Hutchinson’s Coll., 24, 25. Hubbard, Bancroft. [628] Mather’s Magnalia, ut antea. “_Ungrateful country of my birth, thou shall not possess even my lifeless bones._” [629] Mather’s Magnalia, vol. 1, p. 74. Uhden, pp. 63, 64. [630] Elliot, vol. 1, p. 150. [631] They landed on the 24th of June, 1629. Uhden, Hutchinson. [632] Higginson’s New England Plantation, pp. 123, 124. [633] Bradford, pp. 263, 264. [634] Bradford, pp. 263, 264. [635] In allusion to the wide-spread charge of Brownism, and bigoted exclusion of all other sects from Christian fellowship. [636] Bradford, pp. 264, 265. [637] Bradford, p. 245. [638] Higginson’s New England Plantation. Gott’s letter to Bradford; cited in Bradford, pp. 265, 266. [639] Palfrey. [640] Ibid., Bradford, Gott, etc. [641] Gott’s Letter to Bradford. [642] Morton’s Memorial, p. 146. Hubbard, Prince. [643] See the Covenant in Neale’s History of New England, vol. 1, pp. 141-143. The subordinate church officers were not chosen till later. See Bradford’s Letter-book. [644] Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 298. [645] Uhden’s New England Theocracy. [646] Bancroft, vol. 1, p. 348. [647] Mather’s Magnalia. [648] Ibid., vol. 1, p. 72. [649] Ibid., Morton, Prince, Young, Cheever. [650] Young’s Chronicles, p. 288. [651] Mass. Col. Rec., vol. 1, p. 408. [652] Mass. Col. Rec., vol. 1, p. 408. [653] Bancroft, vol. 1, p. 350. [654] See the _ipsissima verba_ of the charter, Mass. Hist. Col. [655] Hutchinson’s Hist. of Mass., vol. 1, p. 13. Bancroft, Grahame. [656] Ibid. [657] Ibid. Young’s Chronicles, p. 88. [658] Hutchinson, Winthrop, Palfrey, Bancroft. [659] Ibid. [660] Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 302. [661] Cited in Hutchinson, in Winthrop, vol. 1, pp. 359, 360, and in Bancroft. [662] Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 310. [663] Ibid. [664] Magnalia, vol. 1, p. 107. [665] See Winthrop’s Life, by R. C. Winthrop, Boston, 1866. Mather’s Account, Hutchinson’s Sketch, Palfrey, etc., etc. [666] Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 303. [667] Ibid. Elliot, Wilson.