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88 Memoir of<br />

Wheelwright, and to fortify the General Court<br />

in its violent assault upon the religious freedom<br />

of the colonists. Supported as he was by Cot-<br />

ton and many of his parishioners, he was not<br />

permitted to be settled as a minister in Boston.<br />

Winthrop, then Lieut.-Governor, though he<br />

"thought reverentlie of his godliness, and<br />

could be content to live under such a minis-<br />

try," objected to him, " that he was apt to<br />

raise doubtful disputations." In I637 Wheel-<br />

wright was arrested, and being found guilty of<br />

entertaining opinions which were disapproved<br />

by the legislature, he was condemned as for<br />

"contempt'and sedition," and was banished<br />

from Massachusetts, only to become the<br />

founder of a new colony in New Hampshire.*<br />

William Asp.inwall was expelled from the House<br />

of Deputies, and with several other citizens<br />

was disfranchised and banished for having petitioned<br />

the General Court in favor of Wheel-<br />

wright.* Many others were disfranchised and<br />

banished for having signed a petition to<br />

the General Court in Wheelwright's behalf.<br />

z Mass. Rec., 207.

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