Book XII, p. 327; and in Wise, _Vindication of the Government of the

New England Churches, Introduction_. The current Tory interpretation of the common law of sedition was severe. “In 1679, at the trial of Henry Carr [Care], indicted for some passages in a weekly paper, the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs declared it criminal at Common Law to ‘write on the subject of government, whether in terms of praise or censure, it is not material; for no man has a right to say anything of government’” (_State Trials_, VII, 929; quoted in Schuyler, _The Liberty of the Press in the American Colonies, etc._)

[121] See _Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings_, Second Series, Vol. XV, pp. 283-296.

[122] _Vindication_, edition of 1860, pp. 50-53.

[123] _Ibid._, pp. 54-55.

[124] _Ibid._, p. 60.

[125] _The Churches Quarrel Espoused_, p. 116.

[126] _Ibid._, p. 209.

[127] A gratuitous insult, as Wise was well known.

[128] “Letter to Robert Wodrow, September 17, 1715:” _Diary_, in _Massachusetts Historical Collections_, Seventh Series, Vol. VIII, p. 327.

[129] _Ibid._, p. 450.

[130] The account with affidavits is given in Sewall, _Diary_, Vol. II, pp. 144-147.

[131] Hutchinson, _History of Massachusetts Bay Colony_, Vol. II, p. 148.

[132] Sewall, _Diary_, Vol. II, Introduction, p. 109.

[133] _Diary_, Vol. II, p. 663.