This king had many vices; but he would not permit blood to be shed, under pretence of religion, in any part of his dominions.

The Quakers in England told him what had been done to their brethren in Massachusetts; and he sent orders to Governor Endicott to forbear all such proceedings in future.
And so ended the Quaker persecution,--one of the most mournful passages in the history of our forefathers." Grandfather then told his auditors, that, shortly after the above incident, the great chair had been given by the mint-master to the Rev.Mr.John Eliot.

He was the first minister of Roxbury.

But besides attending to the pastoral duties there, he learned the language of the red men, and often went into the woods to preach to them.

So earnestly did he labor for their conversion that he has always been called the apostle to the Indians.