It was not till 1660 that Mr.Eliot baptized any Indians, and the next day admitted them to the Lord's Supper, nine years after he had begun to preach.

The numbers we do not know, but there is no doubt that he received no adults except well proved and tried persons coming up to the Puritan standard of sincerity and devotion.
At this time the Society at home was in great danger; for, on the Restoration, the charter had become void, and, moreover, the principal estate that formed the endowment had been the property of a Roman Catholic,--Colonel Bedingfield,--who resumed possession, and refused to refund the purchase money, as considering the Society at an end.

It would probably have been entirely lost, but for the excellent Robert Boyle, so notable at once for his science, piety, and beneficence.

He placed the matter in its true light before Lord Clarendon, and obtained by his means a fresh charter from Charles II.

The judgment in the Court of Chancery was given in favour of the Society, and Boyle himself likewise endowed it with a third part of a grant of the forfeited impropriations in Ireland which he had received from the king.