The King's letter was dated the 28th of June, 1662, and was presented by
Mr. Bradstreet and Mr. Norton to the Governor and General Court at
Boston, 8th of October, 1662;[128] but it was not until a General Court
called in August, 1664, that "the said letter was communicated to the
whole assembly, according to his Majesty's command, and copies thereof
spread abroad."[129] In the meantime they boasted of their Charter being
recognised by the King, according, of course, to their own
interpretation of it, while for _twenty-two months_ they withheld the
King's letter, against his orders, from being published; concealing from
the victims of their proscription and persecution the toleration which
the King had announced as the conditions of his perpetuating the
Charter.