Therefore, the cost of carrying out the orders of the government devolved upon Mason and Gorges, who set to work to build a ship to convey the latter to America, but it fell and broke in the launching,[27] and about November, 1635, Captain John Mason died.
After this, though the king in council, in July, 1637, named Gorges again as "general governor,"[28] and the Lords Commissioners for Plantations, in April, 1638, demanded the charter anew,[29] the Massachusetts general court would not recognize either order.

Gorges could not raise the necessary funds to compel obedience, and the attention of the king and his archbishop was occupied with forcing episcopacy upon Scotland.

In 1642 war began in England between Parliament and king, and Massachusetts was left free to shape her own destinies.

It was now her turn to become aggressive.

Construing her charter to mean that her territory extended to a due east line three miles north of the most northerly branch of Merrimac River, she possessed herself, in 1641, of New Hampshire, the territory of the heirs of John Mason; and in 1653-1658, of Maine, the province of Gorges.
When the Long Parliament met, in 1641, the Puritans in England found enough occupation at home, and emigration greatly diminished.