Not a single line alludes to such a purpose; nor can it be implied by a reasonable construction from any clause in the Charter." (Bancroft's History of the United States, Vol.
I., pp.

271, 272.)] [Footnote 67: It has been seen, p.

45, that the London Company had transmitted to Endicot in 1630 a form of the oath of allegiance to the King and his successors, to be taken by all the officers of the Massachusetts Bay Government.

This had been set aside and a new oath substituted, leaving out all reference to the King, and confining the oath of allegiance to the local Government.] [Footnote 68: Historians ascribe to this circumstance a remarkable change in the political economy of that colony; a cow which formerly sold for twenty pounds now selling for six pounds, and every colonial production in proportion.

(Chalmers' Annals, pp.