“Arbitrary government described. . . ”
**G.765:2 Winthrop, John, 1st Governor of Massachusetts. 1597-1649.
“Arbitrary government described & the government of the Massa-
chusetts vindicated from that aspersion,’ By Governor John Win-
throp, in 1644. The original autograph, presented to the Public
Library of Boston by R. C. Winthrop.
[Boston.] 1877. Unpaged. Portraits. 4°.
The autograph manuscript occupies 20 ff. The volume contains also an
autograph introduction and notes by R. C. Winthrop, and pp. 322-29, 440-
59, of vol. 2 of his Life and letters of John Winthrop [2347.70.z, etc.], giv-
ing the whole essay in print, with an account of the circumstances under
which it was written,
[This work is kept on the Special Libraries Floor.]
G610—T.r. — Massachusetts. Hist. a and Province. — Manuscripts in this Library. — Winthrop, Robert Charles, ed. — Despotism. March ro, 1906