MASSACHUSETTS DURING THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF CHARLES THE SECOND AND THE THREE YEARS' REIGN OF JAMES THE SECOND, FROM 1680 TO 1689; THE IMMEDIATE CAUSES AND MANNER OF CANCELLING THE FIRST CHARTER.

204-220 Crisis approaching; the double game of Massachusetts Bay Court played out; threat of a writ of _quo warranto_ 204 Proceedings of Massachusetts Bay Court; offer a bribe to the King; bribe clerks of the Privy Council 205 The Massachusetts Bay Court refuse the proposed conditions of perpetuating the Charter; refuse submission to the King on any conditions; determine to contest in a Court of Law; agents restricted; the King provoked 206 The Governor and a majority of the assistants or magistrates vote in favour of submitting to the King's decision; the Ministers advise, and a majority of the deputies vote against it 208 A writ of _quo warranto_ issued and sent, June and July, 1683, summoning the Corporation of Massachusetts Bay to defend their acts against the complaints and charges (thirteen in number) made against them, but assuring the inviolableness of private property, and offering to stay legal proceedings against the Corporation in case of their submitting to the decision of the King, on the points heretofore required by his Majesty as conditions of perpetuating the Charter 208 The Colony of Massachusetts Bay divided; origin of parties; the Governor and a majority of the "Upper Branch of the Government" were the moderate or loyalist party; the majority of the "House of Deputies," whose "elections were controlled by the ministers," were the _independence_ party; violent language by Dr.Increase Mather, whose appeal from man to God was decided against him (in a note) 209 Resolutions of the two Houses of the Court on the subject 210 Notice to the Massachusetts Bay Court of the issue of the writ of _quo warranto_, to answer to the complaints against them, _received_ October, 1683; judgment given July 1685, nearly two years afterwards 211 The questions at issue unfairly put to popular vote in Massachusetts; remarks on Mr.Palfrey's account of the transactions 211 Results of the fall of the Charter; death of Charles the Second; proclamation of the accession of James the Second; appointment of Joseph Dudley as Governor; character of his seven months' government 212 Appointment of Andros as local Governor and Governor-General; popular beginning of his government; his tyranny; seized at Boston and sent prisoner to England; acquitted on account of having obeyed his instructions 215 Toleration first proclaimed in Massachusetts by James the Second; thanked by the Massachusetts Bay Court, and its agent in England, the Rev.Increase Mather, for the proclamation which lost the King the Crown of England 216 Concluding review of the characteristics of the fifty-four years' government of Massachusetts Bay Government under the first Charter 217.