Note 45 — V SHAWOMET BECOMES WARWICK

The manner in which the authorities of Massachusetts Bay recognized this safe-conduct was characteristic. Under date of “13th May, 1648,” the following entry appears in the Colonial Records: “Vppon the request of the Earle of Warwicke, the Court allowes Samuell Gorton, now a shipboard, one full weeke after the date hereof, for the transportatiō of himselfe & his goods through or iurisdictiō to the place of his dwelling, he demeaning himselfe inoffensively, accordinge to the contents of the Ŝd earle’s l’re, & that the marshals or some of them shall shew him a coppie of this order, or fix it to the maine mast of the shippe in which he is.”—Mass. Records, Vol. III, p. 127.