The three judges: story of the men who beheaded their king . expressly, Many of the principalpersons in the colpny greatly esteemed these per-sons for their professions of piety, and their gravedeportment, who did not approve of their politicalconduct. Mr. Mitchell, the minister of Cambridge,who showed them great friendship after their ar-rival, says, in a manuscript which he wrote in hisown vindication, Since I have had opportunity, byreading and discourse, to look a little into thataction for which these men suffer, I could neversee that it was justifiable. After they were de-clared traitors
The three judges: story of the men who beheaded their king . expressly, Many of the principalpersons in the colpny greatly esteemed these per-sons for their professions of piety, and their gravedeportment, who did not approve of their politicalconduct. Mr. Mitchell, the minister of Cambridge,who showed them great friendship after their ar-rival, says, in a manuscript which he wrote in hisown vindication, Since I have had opportunity, byreading and discourse, to look a little into thataction for which these men suffer, I could neversee that it was justifiable. After they were de-clared traitors, they certainly would have been sentto England, if they could have been taken. These remarks, as we shall presently see, thoughtrue of Massachusetts, were not applicable to New 166 THE THREE JUDGES. Haven. It was in consequence, doubtless, of sucha state of sentiment among the authorities andleading men of the former, and of assurances fromMr. Davenport and others of a more cordial feelingin the latter colony, that the judges determined toremove CHAPTER VIII FLIGHT TO NEW HAVEN,
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