In 1637, his great friend Sir Harry Vane, sent him as commander of the colony troops, to Saybrook,'* Connecticut." The same year he was "disfranchised, and eventually banished from the jurisdiction of Massachusetts-- his ideas of religious toleration being more liberal than those around him." "In 163S, he returned to England, but was banished thence for certain religious and moral delinquences. WTiile there he published a work entitled " iN'evves from America, or a New and Exper. imental Discoverie of New England ; containing a true relation of their warlike proceedings there, two years last past, with a figure of the Indian Fort, or Palizado. By Capt. John' Underbill, a commander in the warres there." The book gives a very good account of the Pequot war, m which he was a conspicious actor. " Myself," he wTites, "received. an arrow through my coat-sleeve, a second against my helmet, on the forehead; so, as if God, in His pro\'idence, had not moved the heart of my wife to persuade me to carry it along with me, (which I was unwilling to do), I had been slain. Give me leave to observe two things from hence -- first, when the hour of death is not yet come, you see God useth weak means to keep His purpose inviolated ; secondly, let no man despise advice and counsel of his wife, thougJi she be a ivcinan." The book abounds in similar quaint passages. It is filled wath religious cant, for he was an arrant h}^ocrite. He appears to be equally fond of sinning and repenting. It is amusing to read in these pages of Winthrop, how ingeniously he managed through several years, to delude the Puritans by his professions of sanctity, while he led in their midst the most dissolute of lives."*