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CHAPTER IV.

• The Government of Massachusetts Bay under the Long Parliament, the Commonwealth,
  and Cromwell. 85-129
• Commissioners from the Massachusetts Bay rulers to the Long Parliament 85
• Change of Government in England stops emigration to Massachusetts 85
• First Address of the Massachusetts Commissioners to the Long Parliament 86
• Ordinance of the Long Parliament in regard to Massachusetts trade, &c., in 1642, and remarks upon it 87
• The Massachusetts Bay Court pass an Act in 1644, of persecution of the Baptists; another Act authorising discussion, &c., in favour of the Parliament, but pronouncing as a "high offence," to be proceeded against
  "capitally," anything done or said in behalf of the King 87
• In 1646, the Long Parliament pass an ordinance appointing a Commission and Governor-General over Massachusetts and other Colonies, with powers more extensive than the Commission which had been
  appointed by Charles the First in 1634 88
• The parliamentary authority declared in this ordinance, and acknowledged by the Puritans in 1646,
  the same as that maintained by the United Empire Loyalists of America one hundred and thirty years
  afterwards, in the American Revolution of 1776 (in a note) 88-92
• The Presbyterians in 1646 seek liberty of worship at Massachusetts Bay, but are punished for their
  petition to the Massachusetts Bay Government, and are fined and their papers seized to prevent their
  appeal to the Puritan Parliament 93
• How their appeal to England was defeated 98
• Further illustrations of the proceedings of the rulers of Massachusetts Bay as more intolerant and
  persecuting than anything ever attempted by the High Church party in Upper Canada 98
• Colonial government according to Massachusetts Bay pretensions impossible 99
• The order of the Long Parliament to the Massachusetts Bay Government to surrender the Charter
  and receive another; consternation 99
• Means employed to evade the order of Parliament 100
• Mr. Bancroft's statements, and remarks upon them (in a note) 100
• Mr. Palfrey's statements in regard to what he calls the "Presbyterian Cabal," and remarks upon them 103
• Petition of the Massachusetts Bay Court to the Long Parliament in 1651; two addresses to Cromwell—the
  one in 1651, the other in 1654 108
• Remarks on these addresses 110
• The famous Navigation Act, passed by the Long Parliament in 1651, oppressive to the Southern Colonies,
  but regularly evaded in Massachusetts Bay by collusion with Cromwell 111
• Intolerance and persecutions of Presbyterians, Baptists, &c., by the Massachusetts Bay rulers, from 1643
  to 1651 112
• Letters of remonstrance against these persecutions by the distinguished Puritans, Sir Henry Vane and Sir
  Richard Saltonstall 116
• Mr. Neal on the same subject