This may have been one of the "new customs" at which poor Anne's
"heart rose, for none of the company, not even excepting the
governor, had come from as stately and well-ordered a home as
theirs, the old castle still testifying to the love of beauty in
its ancient owners." Dudley's excuse was, however, accepted, "that
it was for the warmth of his house, and the charge was but little,
being but clapboards nailed to the wall in the form of wainscot."

The disagreement on this question of adornment was not the only
reason why a removal to Ipswich, then known as Agawam, may have
seemed desirable. Dudley, who was some thirteen years older than
the Governor, and whose capacity for free speech increased with
every year, had criticised sharply the former's unexpected removal
to Boston, and placable as Winthrop always was, a little feeling
had arisen, which must have affected both families. The first open
indication of Dudley's money-loving propensities had also been
made a matter of discussion, and was given "in some bargains he
had made with some poor members of the same congregation, to whom
he had sold seven bushels and a half of corn, to receive ten for
it after harvest, which the governor and some others held to be
oppressing usury."

Dudley contested the point hotly, the governor taking no "notice
of these speeches, and bore them with more patience than he had
done upon a like occasion at another time," but the breach had
been made, and it was long before it ceased to trouble the friends
of both. With all his self-sacrifice, Dudley desired leadership,
and the removal to Ipswich gave him more fully the position he
craved, as simply just acknowledgment of his services to the
Colony, than permanent home at Cambridge could have done.