To the fourth, we consent that all laws and expressions in laws derogatory to his Majesty, if any sect shall be formed amongst us, which at present we are not conscious of, shall be repealed, altered, and taken off from the file.
"By order of the General Court For the jurisdiction of New Plymouth, Per me, NATHANIEL MORTON, _Secretary_." "The league between the four colonies was not with any intent, that ever we heard of, to cast off our dependence upon England, a thing which we utterly abhor, intreating your Honours to believe us, for we speak in the presence of God." "NEW PLYMOUTH, May 4th, 1665.
"The Court doth order Mr.Constant Southworth, Treasurer, to present these to his Majesty's Commissioners, at Boston, with all convenient speed." The above propositions and answers are inserted, with some variations, in Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts, Vol.

I., p.214.The remark respecting the union between the colonies is not on the colony records--it was inserted at the close of the copy delivered to the Commissioners, in conformity to a letter from the Commissioners, written to Governor Prince after they had left Plymouth.

The conditions expressed in the answer to the third proposition appeared so reasonable to the Commissioners, that when they afterward met the General Assembly of Connecticut, in April, 1663, their third proposition is qualified, in substance, conformably to the Plymouth reply.

(Morton's Memorial, Davis' Ed., p.

417.) It is thus seen that there was not the least desire on the part of King Charles the Second, any more than there had been on the part of Charles the First, to impose the Episcopal worship upon the colonists, or to interfere in the least with their full liberty of worship, according to their own preferences.