Excerpt from The Puritan Commonwealth: An Historical Review of the Puritan Government in Massachusetts in Its Civil and Ecclesiastical Relations From Its Rise to the Abrogation of the First Charter The work is divided into chapters, and several of the chapters are subdivided into parts. Each chapter is distinct by itself, and independent of the others. The first is taken up with the history of the charter of The Massachusetts Bay Company; its nature, the ends it was intended to subserve, and its fraudulent transfer to Massachusetts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.