Others think there is so much dissatisfaction that men are not sent, that it will provoke and raise a tumult; and in case that it be raised by loan, it will be hardly paid--if consent be not given in their sending men with it, and there be no good effect, which is contingent, and thus we are every way at a stand; some fearing these things will precipitate our ruin, and others apprehending that to act further will necessitate our ruin."-- _Ib._, pp.

110, 111.
From these notes, which Mr.Danforth made at the time when the proceedings referred to took place, it is plain there were a large number of loyalists even among the Congregationalists, as they alone were eligible to be members of, or to elect to the Court, and that the asserters of independence were greatly perplexed and agitated.] [Footnote 153: Danforth Papers, Collections of Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol.VIII., pp.

99, 100, 108, 109.] [Footnote 154: "There had been a press for printing at Cambridge for near twenty years.

The Court appointed two persons (Captain Daniel Guekins and Mr.Jonathan Mitchell, the minister of Cambridge), in October, 1662, licensers of the press, and prohibited the publishing of any books or papers which should not be supervised by them;" and in 1668, the supervisors having allowed the printing "Thomas a Kempis, de Imitatione Christi," the Court interposed (it being wrote by a popish minister, and containing some things less safe to be infused among the people), and therefore they commended to the licensers a more full revisal, and ordered the press to stop in the meantime.

(Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol.