[66] Bradford, p. 238; _Infra_, *134. Dagon was the sea-god of the Philistines, upon the occasion of whose feast, at Gaza, Samson pulled down the pillars of the temple. _Judges_, xvi.
[68] Oldham’s “vast conceits of extraordinary gain of three for one” afterwards caused “no small distraction” to the sober-minded governor and assistants of the Massachusetts Company. Young’s _Chron. of Mass._, p. 147.
[69] III. _Mass. Hist. Coll._, vol. vi. p. 80.
[70] Young’s _Chron. of Mass._, p. 171; Hutchinson, vol. i. p. 6.
[76] Campbell’s _Chief Justices_, vol. ii. p. 42.
[77] Campbell’s _Lord Chancellors_, vol. iii. p. 256.
[82] I. _Mass. Hist. Coll._, vol. iii. p. 63.
[86] Young’s _Chron. of Mass._, pp. 96, 148.
[97] _Coll. of N. Y. Hist. Soc._ (1869), p. 42.
[99] Young’s _Chron. of Mass._, p. 321; _Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc._, 1860-2, p. 133.
[102] Morton says (_Infra_, *163) “the Snare must now be used; this instrument must not be brought by Iosua [Winthrop] in vaine.”
[103] _Mass. Hist. Soc._, Lowell Inst. Lectures (1869), p. 377.
[104] I. _Mass. Hist. Coll._, vol. i. p. 250.
[106] _Mem. Hist. of Boston_, vol. i. p. 336.
[110] Clarendon’s _Rebellion_, B. III. § 27; B. VI. § 404.
[111] Winthrop. vol. i. p. *100. Downing sent a detailed account of the hearing, now lost, to Winthrop; see Hutchinson, vol. ii. p. 2.
[112] IV. _Mass. Hist. Coll._, vol. vi. p. 33, n.
[116] _Mem. Hist. of Boston_, vol. i. p. 338.
[117] III. _Mass. Hist. Coll._, vol. vi. p. 80.
[118] _Mem. Hist. of Boston_, vol. i. p. 338. The reference here, as at some other places, is to Deane’s chapter on “The Charter of King Charles I.” As a rule, in works of this description, dealing with the sources of history, it is not permissible to refer to contemporaneous authorities. Mr. Deane, however, so far as New England history is concerned, may fairly be made an exception to this rule. His knowledge is so exhaustive and his accuracy so great that a reference to him I consider just as good and as permissible as a reference to the original authorities.
[121] _Briefe Narration_, III. Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. vi. p. 82. Hazard, vol. i. p. 390-4.
[122] _Proc. of Amer. Antiq. Soc._, 1867, p. 124. Winthrop, vol. ii. p. 233. Hazard, vol. i. p. 347.