The history and antiquities of Boston .. . the Government to New England. On this day,namely, July the twenty-eighth, 1629, the Gov-ernor of the Company, Matthew Cradock,Esquire, when the business of the meeting ofthe Company on that day was presumed to befinished, and the usual routine of matters wasgone through with, surprised its members by reading__ certaine proposicons conceived by himself, recommending to^^ transfer the gournment of the plantacon to those that shallinhabite there. Thus taken by surprise, the members had secrecymore than once enjoined upon them, and considerable debate en
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . the Government to New England. On this day,namely, July the twenty-eighth, 1629, the Gov-ernor of the Company, Matthew Cradock,Esquire, when the business of the meeting ofthe Company on that day was presumed to befinished, and the usual routine of matters wasgone through with, surprised its members by reading__ certaine proposicons conceived by himself, recommending to^^ transfer the gournment of the plantacon to those that shallinhabite there. Thus taken by surprise, the members had secrecymore than once enjoined upon them, and considerable debate ensued ;and every one was desired privately and seriously to consider hereof,and to sett downe their prticuler reasons in wry ting pro and contra,and to produce the same at the next meeting, that the Company maythen precede to fynall resolucon therein; and in the meane tyme tocarry this busines secretly, that the same bee not devulged. Thismeeting was held, as they had generally been of late, at the house ofDeputy Governor Goffe, in 68 HISTORY OF BOSTON. [1629. The time for a meeting to discuss the great question about a^^ removal having arrived, Mr. Deputie acquainted this Court,that the espetiall cause of their meeting was to give answere to diversgentlemen intending to go into New England, whether or noe thechiefe Gounm^ of the Plantacon, together with the pattent, should beesetled in New England or heere. Accordingly it was ordered, that, in the afternoon of the same day, Mr. Wright, Mr. Eaton, Mr. Adams, Mr. Spurstowe, and such othersas they should thinke fitt to call unto them, whether they were of theCompany or not, to consider the arguments against the proposed re-moval ; and on the other side, Sir Richard Saltonstall,* Mr. Johnson, * From Thoresbys History of Leeds, and an abstract of the will of Gilbert Saltonstall, I amprincipally able to present the following pedigree. It is enough to add, concerning this family,that they opposed the persecutions in New Engla
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