be levyed, and the delinquents to pay the same." About this time we read: "Dr.John Pott, late Governor, indicted, arraigned, and found guilty of stealing cattle, 13 jurors, 3 whereof councellors.

This day wholly spent in pleading; next day, in unnecessary disputation." These were moving times in the little colony whose population may by now have been five thousand.

Harvey, the Governor, was rapacious; the King at home, autocratic.

Meanwhile, signs of change and of unrest were not wanting in Europe.

England was hastening toward revolution; in Germany the Thirty Years' War was in mid-career; France and Italy were racked by strife; over the world the peoples groaned under the strain of oppression.