History of the Town of Litchfield, Connecticut (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from History of the Town of Litchfield, Connecticut

In 1685, on the decease of Charles, his brother James the 92d, ascended the throne. He is represented as having been an obstinate, cruel tyrant, and a bigoted Roman Catholic, desti tute of all the principles of true honor, faith, justice or human ity. The most humble petitions, arguments from reason, char ters, the most solemn compact, and royal promises from jus tice, humanity, or any other consideration which a subject could plead, had no weight or influence with him. Nearly fifty corporations in England had been deprived of their charters.

With a monarch of such a character, the institutions of New England found no favor. The charter of Massachusetts was vacated. Rhode Island submitted. Its inhabitants, and those of the Narraganset country, were discharged from all obedi ence either to Connecticut or Rhode Island.

Writs of quo warranto were issued against the Governor and Company of Connecticut, requiring them to show by what warrant they exercised certain powers and privileges, and this under circumstances which showed that it was no part of the King's intention to do them justice.

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