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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

IN VOL. V.

The date here assigned for the death of King James SI., of England, is not correct; whether it is considered as being according to Old Style or New Style, it is equally erroneous. The true date is March 27, 1625. O. S. The error was caused by a foolish confidence in Lempriere's "Universal Biography," (Lord's edition) and in the Biographical Dictionary of his copyist, Blake.

IN VOL. VI.

"368, line 25, Col. Alexander Rigby subsequently attained the dignity of a Baron of the Exchequer, and died Aug. 18, 1650. His associate on the Bench, Thomas Gates, died the next day, both of them "taking an Infection in their Circuit at Croydon. The High Sheriff of Surrey also died." Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, Lib. XIV. p. 23; Edward Rigby's letter, in Sullivan's Maine, pp. 317-18; Gibbs's Judicial Chronicle, (8vo. Cambridge, 1834;) p. 15; Savage's Winthrop, ii. 154; Williamson, i. 295.

424,"12, for twenty-five, read twenty-six.

484,

at the bottom, insert twenty-five.

[In Mass. Hist. Coll. xxvII. 90-121, is a collection of "Papers relative to the rival Chiefs, D'Aulney and La Tour, Governors of Nova Scotia," among which are the following.]

66 9. The letter to D'Aulney is in Mass. Hist. Coll. xxvii.

99-102.

"36. After La Tour's return to his Fort, he sent a letter of acknowledgment to the Government of the Colony, dated Oct. 27, 1644, which see, ibid. 96-8.

489,"26. See a letter from D'Aulney, dated at Port Royal, Oct. 21, 1644, which was probably sent to Boston by the shipmaster who was thus detained, ibid. 92-5.

66 491, "35.

See papers relating to Lady La Tour's lawsuit, ibid. 98-9, 105-6.

"17. D'Aulney's letter, dated March 31, 1645, may be seen, ibid. 102-5.

66 8. See D'Aulney's letter, dated Nov. 3, 1645, ibid. 108-10. 32, for to, before others, read [to].

66 519,

550,

66 13. See in Mass. Hist. Coll. xxvII. 122, an Order from Oliver Cromwell to "Captaine John Leverett, Commander of the Forts lately taken from the French in America, dated at Whitehall, April 3, 1655, in which the Protector says:-"Although WEE make no doubt of your

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574," 17,

577, note 3.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

579, line 41,

579,

600,

601,

606,

614, note

fidelitie and diligence in performance of your trust, yet
WEE have thought it necessarie to let you know of how
great consequence it is, that you use your utmost care
and circumspection, as well to defend and keep the
Forts above said, as also to improve the regayning of
them into Our hands, to the advantage of Us and this
State, by such wayes and meanes as you shall judge
conducible thereunto."

1

the references to the notes are wrong; instead of 1 and 3,
they should be ' and '.

2

for relapses, read relapse.

the word jury is worn from the MS., and its place is sup-
plied, in the former edition, by ***.

See page 722, note 3.

for honorable, read ||honored.

at the bottom, insert ||honorable||.

at the bottom of the page, note 2 refers to Andrew Augur.
8, for 1771, read 1671.

at the bottom of the page, note refers to John Eliot, the
son, and not the father, the reference in the text being
misplaced.

Here is an error of omission. See pages 739-41.
618, note refers to 14° Jac., in line 35.

3

636, line 3, for that, read as.

645, 66

2, for the, read ||his||.

at the bottom, insert ||the||.

649, line 7, Dedham was first written Dorchester, in the MS.

651, The words in italics on these pages (with the exception of the
two Latin words on page 652,) are conjectural, the MS. being
defaced.

66 668,

66 676,

66

651, line 7, for the, before father's, read ||his||.
at the bottom, insert the.

"663,"38, for neighboring read neighbor.

32. In Denton's work the words to populate it are imme-
diately followed by the sentence beginning To which I
answer. 'The intervening sentence in our text is a re-
mark of Hubbard, inserted in his MS., in a very fine
hand, between the end of one sentence and the beginning
of the next. After repeated efforts, both with the naked
eye and with a glass, I succeeded in decyphering all but
one or two of the words. But the paper, on which the
result was noted down, has been lost, and I am now
utterly unable to present the sentence in a more perfect
form than is seen in the text; the other words defying
my sharpest scrutiny.

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CHAP. XLI.

The first planting of the country about the River of Connecticut. The occasions leading thereunto, and progress thereof, in the years 1635 and 1636, with some occurrences which have since happened there, both in their civil and ecclesiastical affairs.

THE discovery of the famous River of Connecticut, known to the Dutch by the name of the Fresh River, and by them intimated to the inhabitants of New Plymouth, (possibly to make them some amends for the abuse formerly offered in supplanting them upon their first adventuring into those parts,) hath been mentioned already,' where it is declared how the English about the same time happened to discover it by land, as the other had done by sea. The Dutch had only resorted thither on the account of trade with the Indians; and if those of Plymouth had entertained any thoughts of removing thither, they spent too much time in deliberation about the matter, and so were prevented by the inhabitants of the Massachusetts, who were at that time overpressed with multitudes of new families, that daily resorted thither, so as, like an hive of bees overstocked, there was a necessity that some should swarm out. The places about the Bay were already, in a manner, all taken up, and the country about the said river, (whose fame, peradventure, did not a little outdo its real excellency,) though more remote, yet was thought to make compensation for that, by the abundant fertility of the soil. A great number, therefore, of the planters of the old towns, viz. Dorchester, Roxbury, Watertown, and Cambridge, were easily induced to attempt a removal of themselves and families upon the first opportunity afforded; which was not a little advanced by the fame and interest of Mr. Hooker, whose worth and abilities had no small influence upon the people of the towns forementioned. It was also said, that besides the causa procatarctica, there was a causa moonyouμen, an impulsive cause, that did more secretly and 1 Page 169.-H.