We doubt not these gentlemen, your ministers, will agree lovingly together; and for cherishing of love betwixt them, we pray you carry yourself impartially to all.

For the manner of exercising their ministry, and teaching both our own people and the Indians, we leave that to themselves, hoping they will make God's Word the rule of their actions, and mutually agree in the discharge of their duties.
"We have, in prosecution of that good opinion we have always had of you, confirmed you Governor of our Plantation, and joined in commission with you the three ministers--namely, Mr.Francis Higginson, Mr.Samuel Skelton, and Mr.Francis Bright; also Mr.John and Samuel Brown, Mr.
Thomas Groves, and Mr.Samuel Sharpe."-- The Company's First General Letter of Instructions to Endicot and his Council, the 17th of April, 1629.

(Young's Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, pp.

142-144.) "A form of an oath for a Governor beyond the seas, and of an oath for the Council there, was drawn and delivered to Mr.Humphrey to show to the (Privy) Council." (Company's Records, Young, &c., p.

69.)] [Footnote 42: The following is an extract of the Company's Second General Letter of Instructions to Endicot and his Council, dated London, 28th May, 1629: "We have, and according as we then advised, at a full and ample Court assembled, elected and established you, Captain John Endicot, to the place of Governor in our Plantation there, as also some others to be of the Council with you, as more particularly you will perceive by an Act of Court herewith sent, confirmed by us at a General Court, and sealed with our common seal, to which Act we refer you, desiring you all punctually to observe the same, and that the _oaths_ we herewith send you (which have been penned by learned counsel, to be administered to each of you in your several places) may be administered in such manner and form as in and by our said order is particularly expressed; and that yourselves do frame such other oaths as in your wisdom you shall think fit to be administered to your secretary or other officers, according to their several places respectively." (Young's Chronicles, &c., p.