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CHAPTER V.

• Government of Massachusetts Bay and other Colonies during twenty years, under
  Charles the Second, from 1660 to 1680. 130-203
• Restoration; the news of it was received with joy in the Colonies, except in Massachusetts Bay, where
  false rumours were circulated alone 130
• Change of tone and professions at Massachusetts Bay on the confirmation of the news of the King's
  restoration and firm establishment on the throne; John Eliot, Indian apostle, censured for what he had
  been praised 131
• When and under what circumstances the Massachusetts Bay Government proclaimed the King, and
  addressed him; the address (in a note) 132
• Remarks on this address, and its contrariety to the address to Cromwell ten years before 133
• The King's kind letter addressed to Governor Endicot (in a note) 135
• The Massachusetts Court's "ecstasy of joy" at the King's letter, and reply to it 135
• The King enjoins ceasing to persecute the Quakers: how answered (in a note) 137
• Petitions and representations to the King from Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, &c., in
  Massachusetts Bay, on their persecutions and disfranchisement by the local Government 137
• The King's Puritan Councillors, and kindly feelings for the Colony of Massachusetts Bay 138
• The King's letter of pardon and oblivion, June 28, 1662 (in a note), of the past misdeeds of the
  Massachusetts Bay Government, and the six conditions on which he promised to continue the Charter 139
• The King's oblivion of the past and promised continuance of the Charter for the future joyfully
  proclaimed; but the publication of the letter withheld, and when the publication of it could be withheld
  no longer, all action on the royal conditions of toleration, &c., prescribed, was ordered by the local
  Government to be suspended until the order of the Court 141
• Messrs. Bradstreet and Norton, sent as agents to England to answer complaints, are favourably received;
  are first thanked and then censured at Boston; Norton dies of grief 142
• On account of the complaints and representations made to England, the King in Council determines
  upon the appointment of a Commission to inquire into the matters complained of in the New England
  Colonies, and to remedy what was wrong 145
• Slanderous rumours circulated in Massachusetts against the Commission and Commissioners 146
• Copy of the Royal Commission (in a note), explaining the reasons and objects of it 147
• All the New England Colonies, except Massachusetts Bay, duly receive the Royal Commissioners; their