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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88924	Decennium luctuosum An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath had with the Indian salvages, from the year, 1688. To the year 1698. Faithfully composed and improved. [One line of quotation in Latin]	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Observable things.	1699 (1699)	Wing M1093; ESTC W18639	116,504	255

Decennium Luctuosum AN HISTORY OF Remarkable Occurrences In the Long WAR WHICH NEW-ENGLAND hath had with the Indian Salvages From the Year 1688. To the Year 1698. Faithfully Composed and Improved Infandum .... Jubes Renovare Dolorem BOSTON in New-England Printed by B. Green and J. Allen for Samuel Phillips at the Brick Shop near the Old-Meeting-House 1699. The Dedication TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW-ENGLAND SIRS YOU are Welcome unto the History of a Tedious War and unto a Period of that War so far in prospect as to render its History Seasonable Every Reasonable man will readily allow that ●t is a Duty to God and a Service to the World ●or to preserve the Memory of such matters as ●ave been the more Memorable Occurrences in the War that ha's for Ten Years together been multiplying Changes and Sorrows upon us And the Author in whose Historical Writings the most Inquisitive Envy ha's never to this Hour detected so much as one Voluntary and Material Mistake or one farthing paid unto the Readers in the Coin of Candia ha's now chosen to preserve the Memory of these matters while they are Fresh New and one hath not Fifty years which is the Channel of the River of Oblivion to pass over unto them This Expedition is used in the publication of our Decennium Luctuosum in hope that if any mistake worth Noting do appear in these Writing● it may Like and perhaps With a Second Edition be Corrected and Amended He Expects no Thanks for his Essayes to Do Good in this way or any other unto any part of his Country to whom he would gladly devote all his Talents if he were a Thousand Times better Talented than he is and though the most Ungrateful Trea●s Imaginable which are too well known by the Name of Country-pay should be given him he would still be of that Opinion Recte fecisse Merces est If a man may Do Good it is enough All the Favour he desires of you is That you would not Enquire after him or ask who he is but that as he is at best but an Obscure Person he may continue in yet more Obscurity which will be a greater pleasure to him than to be placed among the Great men of Achaia For indeed He hath often thought on a passage written by Holy Mr. Row to his Excellent Son I pray That God would make use of my self and you in such a way as that God only may be seen and we not be taken notice of at all that He may have the Glory and we may not be seen Could he have invited His EXCELLENCY unto such a glorious Table as that in a certain Cabinet at Florence which is furnished with Birds and Flow●rs all consisting of Nea●ly polished Jewels it laid into it a Work Fifteen years in making and worth an Hundred Thousand Crowns or could he have written a Book worthy to be laid up in the Cabinet of Darius the Author might have been under a Temptation to have had his Name Engraved upon his Work But a little Boild Indian Corn in a Tray is as much as our Best History of an Indian War compos'd perhaps in fewer Dayes than there were Years in the War may presume to be compar'd unto And since our History will not afford such a Diversion unto His Excellency under the Indispositions of His Health as those of Livy Curtius did unto the Princes that Recovered their lost Health by Reading them nor can any any passage here be so happy as That which cured Laurentius Medices of a Malady by having it Read unto him it wi●l require no more than a Nameless Writer to Assure that Great Person on this Occasion That all the Good People of New-England make their Fervent Vows unto the Almighty For His Excellencies Prosperity and the Welfare of His Excellent Lady and of His Noble and Hopeful Offspring And the Naming of the Author is as little Necessary to Qualify him that he may pay publick Acknowledgments unto the Honorable the Lieutenant Governour not only for his Cares about the Publick while it was Tempestuated with the Indian War which now makes an History but chiefly for his more than ordinary Tenderness of that Society which ha's been the very Decus ac Tutamen of New England The Nameless Writer of this History may Report that with a Greater Expence than that of the First-Founder this Honorable Person proves that he Loves our Nation by Building us another Edifice for the Supply of all our Synagogues and STOUGHTON-HALL out shines HARVARD-COLLEDGE and he speaks Kinder Language as well as Better Latin than that Eminent States-man in Flanders whose Answer to a Petition for the priviledges of an University there to be restored was Non curamus vostros privilegios This Report may he give without being obliged for to Confess any other Name than this which he Readily Confesses One that was once a Member of Harvard-Colledge I pray Sirs Ask no further Let this Writing be like that on the Wall to Belshazzar where the Hand only was to be seen and not who 's it was The History is compiled with Incontestable Veracity and since there is no Ingenuity in it but less than what many Pens in the Land might Command he knows not why his Writing Anonymously may not Shelter him from the Inconveniencies of having any Notice one way or other taken of him Though among his other small Furniture he hath not left himself unfurnished with skill in the Spanish Language yet he never could bring himself to the Belief of the Spanish Proverb Quien no parece perece i. e. He that appears not perishes He that Shows not himself to the world is undone At Milain there is an Academy of Sensible Persons called The Nascosti or Hidden men At Venice there is one of such persons called The Incogniti and at Parma there is one of them called The Innominati If there were nothing else Disagreeable in them the Author of this History would be glad of an Admission into such an Academy The History is indeed of no very Fine Thred and the Readers who every where Fish for nothing but Carps and who Love like Augustus to Tax all the World may find Fault enough with it Nevertheless while the Fault of an Untruth can't be found in it the Author pretends that the famous History of the Trojan War it self comes behind our little History of the Indian War For the best An●iquaries have now confuted Homer the Walls of Troy were it seems all made of Poets Paper and the Siege of the Town with the Tragedies of the Wooden Horse were all but a piece of Poetry And if a War between Us and an Handful of Indians do appear no more than a Batrachomyomachie to the World abroad yet unto us at home it hath been considerable-enough to make an History Nor is the Author afraid of promising that of all the Thirty Articles which make up this History there shall not be One without something