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otherwise to stand to the judgment and censure of the
Court."
"It is orderetl by this Court that the answer to Mr. Pynchon's
book written by Mr. John Norton, shall be sent to Enj^land
to be printed."
Here ends the record history of this remarkable case.
Mr.
Pynchon and his wife, and Rev. Mr. Moxon and family, left
Springfield and returned to England, but the date of departure
is not known. His son-in-law, Henry Smith, followed
him early the next year. Whether the prosecution was quietly
dropped, or whether he went in defiance of the authorities,
there is nothing of record to show. In the rural village
of Wraysbury, England, not far from Windsor, Mr.
Pynchon passed the rest of his life in tranquility. He published
several theological works, aniong others a rejoinder
to Mr. Norton's reply to his former book. He died October
29, 1662, aged 72.
Several of Pynchon's friends in
England addressed appeals
to the Governor and Council and the clergy in his behalf.
The first which is printed in Mr. Norton's book, is a signed
replv by five of the leatling Massachusetts ministers to the
appeal of certain English clergymen, and the second is the 1
rei>ly of the Governor and Council to a letter from Sir Henry
'
\'ane,'
Reverend and Beloved Brethren in
our Lord Jesus:
Wc ;!ee by your Letters you have thought it niccte to address yourselves
to us (the Elders of these Churches) in behalf of Mr. Pinchon and his
Book, to incline us to a fa\ orable con-itruction of the Tcnents held forth in
it as Disputable, and (to some of note) prol)able: and for liimself to move
us to interce«le wilh our Maviistratos t «lcal favorably with him as a
Gentleman i>ii>u> and well deserving. In both which we shall give you
a just account of our Proceedings.
When Mr. Pinchon's Book came to us it was the time of the sitting of
our General Court, wherein both Magistrates and Deputies of every Town
in the Country, do assemble to consider and determine of the chiefest
affairs whjch concern this Colony: At the same time a Ship in the Harbor
was ready to set sail for F.nRland. Now the Court (both parts of
them, the Magistrates and Deputies) perceiving by the Title Page that