SECOND ROYAL CHARTER, AND THE GOVERNMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS UNDER IT FROM 1691 TO 1748; THE CLOSE OF THE FIRST WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE, AND THE PEACE OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.

221-241 Retrospect; reasons assigned by Mr.Palfrey why the Massachusetts Bay Government did not make armed resistance against "the fall of the first Charter," and remarks upon them 221 The Government of Massachusetts Bay continued two years after "the fall of the Charter," as if nothing had happened 226 They promptly proclaim King James the Second; take the oath of allegiance to him; send the Rev.Increase Mather as agent to thank his Majesty for his proclamation of indulgence, to pray for the restoration of the first Charter, and for the removal of Sir Edmund Andros; King James grants several friendly audiences, but does nothing 226 On the dethronement of James the Second, Dr.Increase Mather pays his homage to the new King, with professions (no doubt sincere) of overflowing loyalty to him (in a note) 226 Unsuccessful efforts of Dr.Increase Mather to obtain the restoration of the first Charter, though aided by the Queen, Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Burnet, the Presbyterian clergy, and others 228 How the second Charter was prepared and granted; Dr.
Increase Mather first protests against, and then gratefully accepts the Charter; nominates the first Governor, Sir William Phips 229 Nine principal provisions of the new Charter 233 Puritan legal opinions on the defects of the first Charter, the constant violation of it by the Massachusetts Bay Government, and the unwisdom of its restoration (in a note) 233 A small party in Boston opposed to accepting the new Charter; Judge Story on the salutary influence of the new Charter on the legislation and progress of the Colony 235 Happy influence of the new Charter upon toleration, loyalty, peace and unity of society in Massachusetts--proofs 237 The spirit of the old leaven of bigotry still surviving; and stung with the facts of Neal's History of New England on "the persecuting principles and practices of the first planters," a remarkable letter from the Rev.
Dr.Isaac Watts, dated February 19, 1720, addressed to the Rev.Dr.Cotton Mather, explanatory of Neal's History, and urging the formal repeal of the "cruel and sanguinary statutes" which had been passed by the Massachusetts Bay Court under the first Charter (in a note) 239 Happiness and progress of Massachusetts during seventy years under the second Charter 240 Debts incurred by the New England Colonies in the Indian Wars; issue of paper money; how Massachusetts was relieved by England, and made prosperous 240.