39/65 140-145.] [Footnote 85: "Mr.Winthrop, who was then Deputy-Governor, was active in the prosecution of the petitioners, but the party in favour of them had so much interest as to obtain a vote to require him to answer in public to the complaint against him. Dr.Mather says: 'He was most irregularly called forth to an ignominious hearing before a vast assembly, to which, "with a sagacious humility," he consented, although he showed he might have refused it. The result of the hearing was that he was honourably acquitted,' etc."] [Footnote 86: This refers to a sermon preached by Mr.Cotton on a fast day, an extract of which is published in the Magnalia, B.III., p. |