Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . 1700, quoted in Palfrey, iv. 189. Palfrey 146 ANNALS OF KINGS CHAPEL. good law to please the humours of a few men. The truth is, as I havebeen informed, some loose people have sometimes come from Englandand married in New England, though they had left wifes behind them inEngland ; and this law was calculated chiefly for prevention of such mar-riages. If a Minister of the Church of England will be at the pains ofgoing to any town or place to marry people, nobody will hinder him. 1 But the death of the noble governo
Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . 1700, quoted in Palfrey, iv. 189. Palfrey 146 ANNALS OF KINGS CHAPEL. good law to please the humours of a few men. The truth is, as I havebeen informed, some loose people have sometimes come from Englandand married in New England, though they had left wifes behind them inEngland ; and this law was calculated chiefly for prevention of such mar-riages. If a Minister of the Church of England will be at the pains ofgoing to any town or place to marry people, nobody will hinder him. 1 But the death of the noble governor and vestryman 2 inNew York, soon ended both the hopes and the disappointmentsof the church. 1 N. Y. Col. Mss., iv. 793. Earl ofBellomont to the Lords of the Treasury,New York, Nov. 28, 1700. 2 The disposition to place a name ofdignity at the head of the Vestry waslater carried so far in Salem, that in 1744 Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House ofCommons in England, was chosen War-den of St. Peters Church; BenjaminGerrish, Jr., being appointed his Salem, ii., CHAPTER V, GOVERNOR DUDLEY AND THE CHURCH.
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