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 XXXIV INTRODUCTION.

and in the autumn took down the frame of his house, and moved it to Boston. This caused much dissatisfaction, as many thought that the prospects of the town would be thereb}^ injured. Dudley was especially displeased, and followed up this and other charges which he had against Winthrop, so as to produce a temporary alienation between them. The matter was afterwards amicably settled, hav- ing been referred to a conference of ministers ; * and the town continued to grow, notwithstanding the loss of the Governor. In August, 1632, it was largely increased by the arrival of those who had composed the congregation of the Rev. Thomas Hooker at Chelmsford, county of Essex, England. They left Mount Wollaston, where they had established themselves, for Newtown, by order of the Gen- eral Court. f At their urgent solicitation, their pastor, Mr. Hooker, eluding with difficulty the officers of the High Commission, came to New England in the " Griffin." He reached Boston on the 4th of September, 1633, X and went immediately to Newtown, where he was soon after chosen minister. Many of the people were pooi, and there was, at times, a scarcity of food. But the town flourished, the inhabitants being fortunately spared by the Indians, who had them at their mercy. Wood, who visited it before his return to England in August, 1633, thus describes it: —

" This is one of the neateft and befl compacted Townes in JVew Ejigland^ having many faire ftruftures, with many hand- fome contrived Itreets. The inhabitants moll of them are very rich, and well flored with Cattell of all forts." §

Vol. ii. pp. 91-102.
 * Holmes' Cambridge, pp. S and ii. Winthrop's Life and Letters,

t Winthrop's New England, Vol i. pp. S7-S. J Ibid., pp 10S-9.

§ N. E. Prolpea, p. 43.

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