But in this they were interrupted, and haled before the new Governor, Endicot, to answer for their not coming to his worship and abandoning that which they and their fathers, and Endicot himself, had practised; were called "Separatists," for not acting as such in regard to their old way of worship; and were treated as "seditious and mutinous," for justifying their fidelity to the old worship before the new "Star Chamber" tribunal of Endicot.

The early New England ecclesiastical historian above quoted says: "The magistrates, or rather Endicot, _sent to demand a reason_[39] for their separation.

They _answered_ that as they were of the Church established by law in their native country, it was highly proper they should worship God as the Government required from whom they had received their Charter.

Surely they might be allowed that liberty of conscience which all conceived to be reasonable when they were on the other side of the water." But their arguments were called "seditious and mutinous." The first Congregational historian of Salem, above quoted, says: "Endicot had been the cause of all the rash proceedings against the Browns.

He was determined to execute his plan of Church government.