middle of December. The purpose of his mission was to answer the complaints made to the Commissioners for Foreign Plantations by Robert Child and others, who claimed that many persons in that colony were denied the privileges of civil and religious liberty; and also to reply to the charges made by Gorton and his associates, who complained of severe treatment from that government, by imprisonment and expulsion from their lands at Shawomet. On arriving in London, Winslow found that Gorton, who went to England two years before, had published an account of the proceedings against himself and others in New England, under the title of "Simplicities Defence against Seven-Headed Policy," &c., &c., London, 1646. To this he published a reply, entitled " Hypocricie Unmasked," &c., bearing the same date as the above. The next year appeared a tract bearing the name of Major John Child, brother of the Robert Child above named, entitled "New England's Jonah cast up in London, or a Relation of the Proceedings of the Court at Boston in New England against divers honest and godly Persons," &c., in the Postscript to which is a notice of Winslow's book just named. Winslow answered this the same year, under the title of "New-England's Salamander, discovered by an irreligious and scornful Pamphlet," &c. Hutchinson says (I. 149, 1st ed.) that Winslow, "by his prudent management, and the credit and esteem he was in with many of the members of Parliament and principal persons then in power, prevented any prejudice to the colony from either of these applications." Gorton and his associates, however, were reinstated in their possessions at Shawomet. A full account of these controversies, which are not unimportant incidents in the early history of Massachusetts, will be found in Winthrop, and in the tracts above cited.

In the Appendix to "Hypocricie Unmasked," Winslow gives "A Brief Narration of the true grounds or cause of the first Planting of New England"; being a reply to Robert Baylie's "Dissuasive from the Errors of the Time," published in 1645. This contains the original of the celebrated "farewell discourse" of Robinson, alluded to on page 59. Winslow does not call it a discourse or sermon, but says, "At their departure from him [Robinson] to begin the great work of plantation in New England, among other wholesome instructions and exhortations, he used these expressions, or to the same purpose." See Young, pp. 378-408.

While in England, Winslow employed his interest successfully with the members of Parliament and others of quality and wealth for the erection of a corporation for the propagation of the Gospel among the Indians of New England. The Act creating this society bears date July 27, 1649. The same year he published a tract entitled "The Glorious Progress of the Gospel among the Indians in New England," containing letters of Eliot and Mayhew.

In 1654, Winslow was appointed one of three commissioners to determine the value of the English ships seized and destroyed by the king of Denmark, and his original commission from the Protector is now at Plymouth; it is published in Thatcher's History, pp. 99-103. In 1655, he accompanied the expedition under Admiral Penn and General Venable against Hispaniola, as the chief of three commissioners. In their attack on St. Domingo they were defeated with great loss. On the passage between that place and Jamaica Winslow fell sick, "and died the eighth day of May, which was about the sixtyfirst year of his life." See p. 111; Davis's ed. of the Memorial, pp. 259 -261; Hazard, II. 145-150; Belknap, II. 281-309; Drake's Boston, pp. 316, 317.- ED.