380, 381.] [Footnote 193: Palfrey's History of New England, Vol.III., B.iii., Chap.ix., pp.

394, 395.] [Footnote 194: History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol.

I., p.

340.
"The Charter fell.

This was the last effective act of Charles the Second relative to Massachusetts; for before a new Government could be settled, the monarch was dead.