326 PRIEST AND PURITAN. [1650. 



thinks it likely that he brought with him the means 

 of celebrating the Mass.^ If so, the house of the 

 Puritan was, no doubt, desecrated by that Popish 

 abomination ; but be this as it may, Massachusetts, 

 in the person of her magistrate, became the gra- 

 cious host of one of those whom, next to the Devil 

 and an Anglican bishop, she most abhorred. 



On the next day, Gibbons took his guest to Kox- 

 bury, — called Eogsbray by Druilletes, — to see the 

 Governor, the harsh and narrow Dudley, grown gray 

 in repellent virtue and grim honesty. Some half a 

 century before, he had served in France, under 

 Henry the Fourth ; but he had forgotten his French, 

 and called for an interpreter to explain the visitor s 

 credentials. He received Druilletes with courtesy, 

 and promised to call the magistrates together on 

 the following Tuesday to hear his proposals. They 

 met accordingly, and Druilletes was asked to dine 

 with them. The old Governor sat at the head of 

 the table, and after dinner invited the guest to 

 open the business of his embassy. They listened 

 to him, desired him to withdraw, and, after consult- 

 ing among themselves, sent for him to join them 

 again at supper, when they made him an answer, 

 of which the record is lost, but which evidently 

 was not definitive. 



As the Abenaqui Indians were within the juris- 

 diction of Plymouth,^ Druilletes proceeded thither 



1 J. G. Shea, in Boston Pilot. 



2 For the documents on the title of Plymouth to lands on the Kenne- 

 bec, see Drake's additions to Baylies's History of New Plymouth, 36, where 

 they are illustrated by an ancient map. The patent was obtained as early 

 as 1628, and a trading-house soon after established. 



