He was a great enemy of the Sectaries, and was too severe in executing the penal laws against the Quakers and _Anabaptists_ during the time of his administration.

He lived to a good old age, and was interred at Boston with great honour and solemnity."-- Neal's History of New England Vol.
II., p.

346.] [Footnote 148: The same year, 1662, in which Charles the Second sent so gracious a letter to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts Bay, he granted Charters to the colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island, in both of which perfect liberty of conscience and religious liberty was encouraged and provided for, evincing the settled policy of the Government of the Restoration in regard to the New England colonies.

The annalist Holmes says: "1662 .-- The Charter of Connecticut was granted by Charles II.

with most ample privileges, under the great seal of England.