Palfrey's History of New England, Vol.III., B.iii., Chap.viii., p.

341.] [Footnote 168: To this there were two or three exceptions.

They repealed the penal laws "against keeping Christmas;" also for punishing with death Quakers returned from banishment; and to amend the laws relating to heresy and to rebellion against the country.] [Footnote 169: Palfrey's History of New England, Vol.III., B.iii., Chap.viii., p.

352.
They usurped authority over New Hampshire and Maine, at the same time that they prevented the execution of the Acts of Trade and Navigation (the 12th and 15th of Charles the Second).

Mr.Hutchinson says: "The Massachusetts Government (1670) governed without opposition the Province of New Hampshire and the Province of Maine, and were beginning settlements even further eastward.