Edward Cranfield letter to William Blathwayt, 1683 November 15

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New Hampshire, November 15th. 1683.

Sir

Yours by Mr Randolph of the 30th. of August I have received,
which is in all respects most kind & oblidging, both as to the intelligible
part, & your further assurance of your favour & countenance in my
own concerns, I have left so little room to add any thing more ine
referrence to the publick affairs, then what I have inserted in my
letters by Mr Wharton, therfore shalbe the less tedious now especi=
=ally since Mr Randolph can at your best leisure by word of
mouth informe you of all passages since his arrival, & in
what an ill ferment the People of this Province are, by reason
of a report which came by Joles of Goves being pardoned, wheras be-
=fore they all beleived he was Executed, which kept them in obe=
=dience, which is demonstrable by what has hapned in the concerns
of Mr Mason, who has with patience expected a compliance upon
the conditions laid down in his Majesties Royal Commission, but finding
none, he brought actions against Several of the Principals, & obtained
Judgment against 30. or 40. of them, wherof Execution was taken out
against 2. of them & levied some time before Joles came in, but
after they heard that Gove was pardoned, they had publick meetings
& were in a combination to kill & destroy with Gunpowder, Scal=
=ding water & hot spits the Provost Marshall & all such as should
come to give them any interruption in their possessions, & like-
=wise did give opposition to the Marshal accordingly, wherupon
Mr Mason desired the Posse Commitatus, but I durst not proceed
further, fearing it might bring blood & confusion among us,
being incited & stir'd up by Moody, Waldron & Vaughan, who
gave out that I was sent for home a Prisoner by the ffrigat that car=
=ryes my Lord Howard to Virginia. Sir knowing you have too much
business, to read long letters, shall forbear to inlarge any further
but only request to give my humble thanks to Sir Robert Southwell,
& please to accept the same from

Mr Dudly & Mr Buckley has used
their utmost endeavours to dispose the General Court
to a dutiful & mannerly surrender of their Charter
but all ineffectual as yet

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15 November 1683
New Hampshire
From Mr. Cranfield
Received 22 February
1683

ffor William Blathwayt Esqr
Whitehall

The People fermented upon
report of Gove's pardon
Mr Mason obtains Judgment against
Severall of the [defendents];
Report that Mr Cranfeild is sent
for home
Dudley & Bulkley for a surrender
of the charter,