of Rev. J. Robinson and Rev. John Cotton, whose name links the town so closely with the younger and greater Boston in America.

There are mentioned in the Corporation and Guild Records (of what is now "Red Lion" Hotel, in Strait Bargate), as belonging to the Guild of St. Mary, 1515, the rent paid to the Guild being œ3 6s 8d a year. In 1586 and 1590 it was specially licensed to sell beer brewed out of the borough. Later it belonged to the Sibsey family.

N. E. H. Gen. Reg., Vol. II, 4th Series:

Register of the bourough of Boston, Eng. Family of Mr. Thomas Leverett, from 1612 to 1632. Baptized.

                                         (Witness) DAN JENKENSON. 

Vol. VI, 4th Series. John Endicott came to New England in the Abigail, 1628; died 1665, age 77; was at Salem and Boston.

Vol. I, 5th Series. John Cotton, Vicar of Boston, Eng., from 1612 to 1633. Came to New England in the ship Griffin. Arrived in Boston, Sept. 4, 1633. Died 1652, age 67. He preached in Boston, Mass.

Vol. I, 5th Series. Gov. John Leverett, born in England, 1616. Came to New England about 1635. Died March 16, 1679, age 62.

Vol. VI, 4th Series. William Coddington came to New England with John Winthrop, 1630. He lived in Braintree (now Quincy, Mass.). He went to Rhode Island and was Governor in 1640. Again elected in 1674. He died in 1678, age 77.

Vol. XXXVI, 1882. Resistance by William Coddington and others in Lincolnshire, Eng., to the Royal Loan, 1626-27.

In a letter by William Coddington, Governor of Rhode Island, to Gov. Leverett of Massachusetts, in the year 1674, we find narrated some particulars of his life. Speaking of his early days in 1627 in Boston, Lincolnshire, Eng., he says: "We persecuted not but stood together for the public good. I was one of those many Lincolnshire gentlemen that denied the Royal Loan and suffered for it in King Charles the First's days."

This circumstance occurred ten years before the celebrated Treason of Hampden.

Rev. John Cotton, Vicar of Boston, Richards Ballingham, Records, and William Coddington, a member of the Corporation of the town to Boston County Lincolnshire, were fined for nonconformity.