But that monarch entertained such an exalted idea of the dignity of kings, and fro a policy, affected so great veneration for the memory of his predecessor, that no interest of his friends could procure his pardon for an offence, which, in this day and country, would be considered a simple rout or riot, and punished with a small fine, in that age of kingly glory was supposed to combine treason and blasphemy: treason against the queen in her political capacity, and blasphemy against her, as God's representative and vicegerent on earth.

The Rev. Mr. Robinson, with a number of other pious puritans, having fled from the persecuting fury of the English prelates, to Holland, in one thousand six hundred and three, he dwelt and communed with them a number of years. He was strongly solicited to go with Governor Carver, Elder Brewster and the other worthies, part of Mr. Robinson's church, to the settlement of Plymouth, and had partly engaged with them, as

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their chief military officer; but, Captain Miles Standish, his brave feilovv soldier in the Low Countries, undertaking ihe business, he declined. How he joined Governor Winlhrop, does not appear, but he came over to New England with him, atid soon after we find him disciplining the Boston militia, where he was lield in such high estimation that he' was chosen to represent that town in the general court; but, his ideas of religious toleration being more liberal than those aroimd him, he lost his popularity, and was, on the twentieth of November, one thousand six hundred and thirty-seven, disfranchised and eventually banished the jurisdiction of Massachusetts.