613.) Judge Story, after quoting this declaration of the Royal Charter, justly remarks, "This is a noble declaration, worthy of any Prince who rules over a free people.

It is lamentable to reflect how little it comports with the domestic persecutions authorized by the same monarch during his profligate reign.

It is still more lamentable to reflect how little a similar spirit of toleration was encouraged, either by precept or example, in other of the New England Colonies." (Commentaries, etc., Vol.

I., Chap, viii., Section 97.)] [Footnote 149: Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol.
VIII., Second Series, p.

74.] [Footnote 150: Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol.
VIII., Second Series, pp.