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fed and dispersed in Enjjland : all which we thought needful,
for the reasons above aleag:ed. to make known by this short
protestation c^- declaration. Also we further purpose, with
what convenient speed we may. to appoynt some fitt person to
make particular answer to all materiall and controversyall
passages in the said book. & to publish the same in print, that
so the errors and falsityes therein may be fully discovered,
the truth cleared. & the minds of those that love & seek after
truth confirmed therein."
It being put to vote in the House of Deputies six of its
members voted in the negative, viz: Capt. William Hathorne,
the Speaker, and Henry Bartholomew of Salem; Jose|)h Hills
of Maiden. Richard Walker of Reading. Stei)hen Kingsley of
Braintree, and Edwanl Holyoke. sitting for Springfield.
the father of l''li7.ur Holyoke.
The following was also adopted immediately after the jiassage
of the preceding:
"It is agreed u])pon by the whole Court that Mr. Norton,
one of the reverend elders of Ipswich, should be entreated to
answer Mr. Pynchon's book with all convenient speed."
"It is ordered that the foregoing declaration concerning
the book subscribed by the name of William Pynchon. in New
England, gent, should be signed by the Secretary, and sent
into England to be printed there."
"It is ordered that William Pynchon shall be summone;n.-ity of a witness at^ninst tho nnfortMnatc
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.M.nv rar--'n>» and to an>\\or to tlu- complaint as to his book,
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