W. 4. 166; 5 Collections , I. 486. The document referred to in this and the following six acknowledgments is the “Remonstrance or Petition” submitted to the Massachusetts General Court in March, 1636/37, in behalf of the Reverend John Wheelwright, who was then on trial on charges of sedition arising out of his Fast-Day Sermon. On November 20, 1637, the General Court ordered that all those who had signed “the seditious libell” and had not hitherto recanted should, before the thirtieth of the month, be disarmed, surrendering “all such guns, pistols, swords, powder, shot, and match as they shalbee owners of, or have in their custody,” unless they should “acknowledg their sinn in subscribing the seditious libell, or do not iustify it, but acknowledg it evill to two magistrates. ...” All those whose acknowledgments are here printed were, with the exception of Ralph Hudson, included among those specifically designated to be disarmed. Records of Massachusetts, I. 211–212. The records of the General Court do not mention these acknowledgments.

The handwriting of this signature appears to be the same as that of Robert Hull, just above. It is unlike that of another Hugh Gunnison signature in the Winthrop manuscripts.

The handwriting of this signature is that of Governor Winthrop.