And can they be justified for denying to their friends in England, and their friends denying to the public and to the King, on their behalf and on their authority, what they had done, and what all the world now knows they had done, at Massachusetts Bay?
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And finally, was it not a breach of faith to their Sovereign, from whom they had received their Charter, and, as they themselves acknowledged, most kind treatment, to commence their settlement by abolishing the established religion which both the King and they professed when the Charter was granted, and when they left England, and banish from the territory which the King had granted them all settlers who would not renounce the form of worship established in England from the Reformation, and adopt a new form of worship, which was not then lawful in England?
The foregoing pages bear witness that I have not taken a sentence from any writer adverse to the Puritans.

I have adhered to their own statements in their own words, and as printed in their Records.

Their eloquent apologist and defender, Mr.Bancroft, says: "The Charter confers on the colonists the rights of English subjects; it does not confer on them new and greater rights.

On the contrary, they are strictly forbidden to make laws or ordinances repugnant to the laws or statutes of the realm of England.