his quotation comes from an order sent to the governor of Massachusetts Colony in the 1680s. In this reading, the word “suffer” means “to allow.” Read the quotation, then answer the question. What is the governor not allowed to do? sell European goods buy European goods buy British goods “... You are strictly to give in charge to all his Majesty's officers, that they be very careful not to suffer any European goods, other than what are by the aforesaid law and Proclamation accepted, to be imported into New England” –“Commercial Orders to Governor Andros” (1686-1687)