Sewall noted on
"Nov. 20.... Mr. Willard told me of the falling out between the president
and him about chusing fellows last Monday. Mr. Mather has sent him word,
he will never come to his house more till he give him satisfaction."
[Footnote: _Mass. Hist. Coll._ fifth series, v. 464.] But they had in
reality separated years before; for when, in the witchcraft terror,
Willard was cried out upon, and had to look a shameful death in the face,
he learned to feel that the men who were willing to risk their lives to
save him were by no means public enemies. And so, as the vice-president
lived in Boston, the administration of the college was left very much to
Leverett and the Brattles, who were presently reinstated.
Joseph Dudley was the son of that old governor who wrote the verses about
the cockatrice to be hatched by toleration, yet he inherited very little
of his father's disposition. He was bred for the ministry, and as the
career did not attract him, he turned to politics, in which he made a
brilliant opening. At first he was the hope of the high churchmen, but
they afterward learned to hate him with a rancor exceptional even toward
their enemies. And he gave them only too good a handle against him, for he
was guilty of the error of selling himself without reserve to the Andros
government. At the Revolution he suffered a long imprisonment, and
afterward went to England, where he passed most of William's reign.
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