At her departure, it appears, from the best authorities, that she gave the great Chair to her friend Henry Vane.

He was a young man of wonderful talents and great learning, who had imbibed the religious opinions of the Puritans, and left England with the intention of spending his life in Massachusetts.

The people chose him governor; but the controversy about Mrs.Hutchinson, and other troubles, caused him to leave country in 1637.

You may read the subsequent events of his life in the History of England." "Yes, Grandfather," cried Laurence; "and we may read them better in Mr.Upham's biography of Vane.

And what a beautiful death he died, long afterwards! beautiful, though it was on a scaffold." "Many of the most beautiful deaths have been there," said Grandfather.
"The enemies of a great and good man can in no other way make him so glorious as by giving him the crown of martyrdom." In order that the children might fully understand the all-important history of the chair, Grandfather now thought fit to speak of the progress that was made in settling several colonies.