Attempts were made by the king and the archbishop to stay the flow of emigration, but with only transient success.

"At the end of ten years from Winthrop's arrival about twenty-one thousand Englishmen, or four thousand families, including the few hundreds who were here before him, had come over in three hundred vessels, at a cost of two hundred thousand pounds sterling."[99:1] What could not be done by despotism was accomplished by the triumph of the people over the court.

The meeting of the Long Parliament in 1640 made it safe for Puritans to stay in England; and the Puritans stayed.

The current of migration was not only checked, but turned backward.

It is reckoned that within four generations from that time more persons went to old England than originally came thence.