Note 164 — Chapter II
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Hudson’s Amer. Journalism, p. 45; Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 387; Haven’s Pre-Revolutionary Bibliog., 333 (in Amer. Antiq. Soc. Collections). This innocent attempt to correct the floating rumors gave offence to the magistrates, as a license that should be resisted, or much worse might happen. Sewall refers to it as giving “much distaste, because not licensed, and because of passage referring to the French king and Maquas.” On the 1st of October the governor and council “disallowed” it. Mather attacked its impudence in a sharp letter the next day; and the little over-ambitious chronicle never came to a second issue. (Sewall’s Diary, i. 332.)