It was settled that he was to be called 'His Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor-General,' and that his authority should be unrestricted."[193] This quotation from Dr.Palfrey suggests one or two remarks, and requires correction, as it is as disingenuous in statement as it is eloquent in diction.

He admits and assumes the validity of the judicial act by which the Charter was declared forfeited; though the loyalty of this decision was denied by the opposing party in Massachusetts, who denied that any English Court, or that even the King himself, had any authority in Massachusetts to disallow any of its acts or decisions, much less to vacate its Charter, and professed to continue its elections of deputies, etc., and to pass and administer laws as aforetime.

Dr.
Palfrey's language presents all such pretensions and proceedings as baseless and puerile.
Dr.Palfrey states what is true, that the Massachusetts Government had been the "ally" of Cromwell; but this they had denied in their addresses to Charles the Second.

(See above, pp.

153-9.) It is hardly ingenuous or correct in Dr.Palfrey speaking of Col.