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CHAPTER II.

• Government of the "Pilgrim Fathers" at New Plymouth during seventy years, from 1620
  to 1690, as distinct from that of the "Puritan Fathers" of Massachusetts Bay. 11-23
• Two governments—difference between the government of the Pilgrims and that of the Puritans 11
• Compact, and seven successive governors of the Pilgrims 12
• Simple, just, popular and loyal government of the Pilgrims and their descendants 13
• Illustrations of their loyalty to successive sovereigns, and the equity and kindness with which Charles the First
  and Charles the Second treated them 14
• Complaints against the unjust and persecuting conduct of the government of Massachusetts Bay, the cause of Parliamentary and Royal Commissions in 1646, 1664, and 1678 17
• Four questions of inquiry by the Commissioners of Charles the Second, in 1665, and satisfactory answers
  by the Plymouth Government 18
• Opposition of the Puritan Government of Massachusetts Bay to the Pilgrim Government in seeking a Royal
  Charter in 1630 and 1678 21
• Absorption of the Plymouth Colony into that of Massachusetts Bay by the second Royal Charter; the exclusion
  of its chief men from public offices 21
• Reflections on the melancholy termination of the Plymouth Government; the noble and loyal character of the
  Pilgrim Fathers and their descendants 22

CHAPTER III.

• The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Company and their Government, commencing in 1629. 24-84

PART FIRST.

• First settlement—Royal Charter