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ing and delivery of the deed -and in testimony thereof appended their signatures -was John Endecott, 1 the future Governor of the colony of Massachusetts-Bay.Of course, what we should very much like to know is how Endecott happened to be present on this occasion. Was he a friend or retainer of Sir John Villiers? If so, he was in strange company for a Puritan. It is more logical to assume that Endecott was in some way associated with Sir Edward Coke -for the author of the Commentary on Littleton was a good friend to the Puritans. Possibly Coke's attitude towards them was due to coincidence alone; that is to say, he may have been on their side only because the law was on their side. Still, there was probably more to it than that. He must have had at least a latent respect for these subjects who, like himself, were trying to hold their own against the aggressions of James I and his archbishops; and Coke's encouragement of Roger Williams suggests that in certain instances he had not only respect but affection for Puritans. About the time when John Endecott was signing his name on the Coke-Villiers indenture, Roger Williams, still in England, was taking down in shorthand what he heard i

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Author

Mayo, Lawrence Shaw

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1936

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674499607

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography