The history and antiquities of Boston .. . .Second Century since the Establishment of the || Dr. Bentley asserts that Mr. Endicott hadThursday Lecture;^ and the Rev. Mr. R. C. introduced the practice before the arrival ofWaterston, on the 14 Dec, 1843, preached A Mr. Williams, and that the latter supported itDiscourse in the First Church on the Occasion more to gratify Mr. Endicott and Mr. Skelton,of Resuming the Thursday Lecture. See Chr. than that he felt any interest in it , March, 1834, and Jan. 1844. But this does not agree exactly with the well- X Of late yeais, says the
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . .Second Century since the Establishment of the || Dr. Bentley asserts that Mr. Endicott hadThursday Lecture;^ and the Rev. Mr. R. C. introduced the practice before the arrival ofWaterston, on the 14 Dec, 1843, preached A Mr. Williams, and that the latter supported itDiscourse in the First Church on the Occasion more to gratify Mr. Endicott and Mr. Skelton,of Resuming the Thursday Lecture. See Chr. than that he felt any interest in it , March, 1834, and Jan. 1844. But this does not agree exactly with the well- X Of late yeais, says the Christian Ex- known character of Roger Williams, as we un-aminer, attendance on the Thursday Lecture derstand it. See Knowles Lfe Williams, dwindled down almost, as it were, to non- T[ His cotemporary, Capt. Scottow, says,attendance, except on the part of the liberal This Child of Light walked in darkness aboutclergy of Boston and its vicinity. The walls of forty years, yet the root of the matter abode 168 HISTORY OF BOSTON. [ ENDICOTT CUTTING OUT THE CROSS. this Mr. Hubbard sarcastically adds, What that good man would havedone with the Cross upon his coin, if he had any left, that bore that signof superstition, is uncertain. Mr. Endicott cut out the red Cross froman entire conscientious conviction, that itwas idolatrous to let it remain ; arguing,and truly, that it had been given to theKing of England by the* Pope ; and thatit was a relic of Antichrist. Mr. RichardBrowne, Ruling Elder of the church ofWatertown, complained of the act to theCourt of Assistants, as a high-handed pro-ceeding, which might be construed, inEngland, into one of rebellion. To con-clude the account of this matter by antici-pating the order of events, it may be brieflystated, that the Court issued an attachmentagainst Ensign Richard Davenport, then theensign-bearer of Salem, whose Colors hadbeen mutilated, to appear at the next that Court came together, which was a year after the
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