Both were members of the Colonial Council, and they had been favourites of the Corporation in England; and one of them, an experienced and meritorious lawyer, had been a member of the Board of Assistants in London.

They declared their dissent from the Church of Higginson; and at every risk of union and tranquillity, they insisted upon the use of the English Liturgy." "Finding it to be a vain attempt to persuade the Browns to relinquish their resolute opposition, and _believing_ that their speeches _tended_ to produce _disorder_ and dangerous feuds, Endicot sent them back to England in the returning ships; and _faction_, deprived of its leaders, died away."[36] It is clear from these statements--partial as they are in favour of Endicot and against the Browns--that Endicot himself was the innovator, the Church revolutionist and the would-be founder of a new Church, the real schismatic from the old Church, and therefore responsible for any discussions which might arise from his proceedings; while the Browns and their friends were for standing in the old ways and walking in the old paths, refusing to be of those who were given to change.

Mr.Bancroft says that "the _new system_ was _unexpected_" to them.

Mr.Palfrey says that "John and Samuel Brown, considering the late proceedings, _as well they might_, to amount to a _secession from the national Establishment_, they, with some others of the same mind, set up a separate worship conducted according to the Book of Common Prayer." Or, more properly, they _continued_ the worship according to the Book of Common Prayer, which they and their fathers had practised, as well as Endicot and Higginson themselves up to that day, refusing to leave the old Church of the Reformation, and come into a new Church founded by joining of hands of thirty persons, in a new covenant, walking around the place of the old town-pump of Salem.

Mr.Endicot is sent from England as the manager of a trading Company, and invested with powers as their local temporary Governor, to manage their business and remove persons that might disturb or interfere with its operations; and he becomes acquainted with a Doctor Fuller, a deacon of a Congregational Church at New Plymouth, and imbibes his views; and forthwith sets himself to abolish the old Church, and found a new one, and proceeds at length to banish as seditious and mutinous those who would not forsake the old way of worship and follow him in his new way of worship.
Some of the above quoted language of Dr.Palfrey and Mr.Bancroft implies improper conduct on the part of the brothers Brown, for which they were banished.