King addresses another letter, July, 1679
(copy of the letter in a note) 187

CHAPTER VI.

• Massachusetts during the last four years of Charles the Second and the three years'
  reign of James the Second, from 1680 to 1689; the immediate causes and manner of
  cancelling the first Charter. 204-220
• Crisis approaching; the double game of Massachusetts Bay Court played out; threat of a writ of
  quo warranto 204
• Proceedings of Massachusetts Bay Court; offer a bribe to the King; bribe clerks of the Privy Council 205
• The Massachusetts Bay Court refuse the proposed conditions of perpetuating the Charter; refuse
  submission to the King on any conditions; determine to contest in a Court of Law; agents restricted;
  the King provoked 206
• The Governor and a majority of the assistants or magistrates vote in favour of submitting to the King's
  decision; the Ministers advise, and a majority of the deputies vote against it 208
• A writ of quo warranto issued and sent, June and July, 1683, summoning the Corporation of
  Massachusetts Bay to defend their acts against the complaints and charges (thirteen in number) made
  against them, but assuring the inviolableness of private property, and offering to stay legal proceedings
  against the Corporation in case of their submitting to the decision of the King, on the points heretofore
  required by his Majesty as conditions of perpetuating the Charter 208
• The Colony of Massachusetts Bay divided; origin of parties; the Governor and a majority of the "Upper
  Branch of the Government" were the moderate or loyalist party; the majority of the "House of Deputies,"
  whose "elections were controlled by the ministers," were the independence party; violent language by
  Dr. Increase Mather, whose appeal from man to God was decided against him (in a note) 209
• Resolutions of the two Houses of the Court on the subject 210
• Notice to the Massachusetts Bay Court of the issue of the writ of quo warranto, to answer to the
  complaints against them, received October, 1683; judgment given July 1685, nearly two years afterwards 211
• The questions at issue unfairly put to popular vote in Massachusetts; remarks on Mr. Palfrey's account of
  the transactions 211
• Results of the fall of the Charter; death of Charles the Second; proclamation of the accession of James
  the Second; appointment of Joseph Dudley as Governor; character of his seven months' government 212
• Appointment of Andros as local Governor and Governor-General; popular beginning of his government;
  his tyranny; seized at Boston and sent prisoner to England; acquitted on account of having obeyed
  his instructions 215
• Toleration first proclaimed in Massachusetts by James the Second; thanked by the Massachusetts Bay
  Court, and its agent