Note 339 — Chapter XII
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Calamy's Continuation, i. 28.—Bancroft, on the authority of Winthrop, says that the colonial Churches of America were invited to send deputies to the Westminster Assembly. But Hooker, of Hartford, "'liked not the business,' and deemed it his duty rather to stay in quiet and obscurity with his people in Connecticut, than to turn propagandist and plead for Independency in England."—United States, i. 417. Did Philip Nye seek to strengthen the Independents in the Assembly by inviting brethren from America?