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A58148	The revolution in New England justified and the people there vindicated from the aspersions cast upon them by Mr. John Palmer in his pretended answer to the declaration published by the inhabitants of Boston and the country adjacent, on the day when they secured their late oppressors, who acted by an illegal and arbitrary commission from the late King James.	Rawson, Edward, 1615-1693.; Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1691 (1691)	Wing R376; ESTC W479499	38,176	56

THE REVOLUTION IN New England JUSTIFIED And the People there Vindicated From the Aspersions cast upon them By Mr. JOHN PALMER In his Pretended Answer to the Declaration Published by the Inhabitants of Boston and the Country adjacent on the day when they secured their late Oppressors who acted by an Illegal and Arbitrary Commission from the Late King JAMES Printed for Joseph Brunning at Boston in New England 1691. TO THE READER IT is not with any design or desire unnecessarily to expose the late Oppressors of that good Protestant People which is in New England that the Authors of the ensuing Vindication have published what is herewith emitted But the Agents lately sent from thence could not be faithful to their Trust if when the People whom they Represent are publickly as well as privately aspersed they should not either by themselves or by furnishing some other with materials for such an undertaking vindicate those who have been so deeply injured As for Mr. Palmer his Account which he calls Impartial he has wrong'd New England thereby in some other particulars besides those insisted on in the subsequent Apology For he does endeavour to make the World believe that the Massachusetts refused to answer to the Quo Warranto prosecuted against their Charter Than which Misrepresentation nothing can be more untrue or injurious An Account concerning that matter hath formerly and more than once been made publick in the which it is most truly affirmed That when the Quo Warranto was issued out against the Governour and Company of the Massachusetts Colony in New England in the year 1683. the then King did by his Declaration enjoyn a few particular persons to make their Defence at their own Charge without any publick Stock which shew'd that there was a Resolution to take away that Charter Yet the Governour and Company appointed an Attorney to answer to the Quo Warranto but the Suit was let fall in the Court of Kings-Bench and a new Suit began by Scire facias in Court of Chancery where time was not allow'd to make Defence The former Attorney for that Colony brought several Merchants to testifie that in the time allow'd which was from April 16. till June 18. it was impossible to have a New Letter of Attorney returned from New England The then Lord Keeper North replied That no time ought to be given So was Judgment entred against them before they could possibly plead for themselves By this the Impartial Reader may judge what Ingenuity and Veracity is in Mr. Palmers Account There is lately come forth another Scandalous Pamphlet called New England's Faction Discovered The Author has not put his Name to it But it is supposed to be written by a certain person known to be a Prodigy for Impudence and Lying The Reflections in it not only on New England in general but on particular persons there as well as in England are so notoriously and maliciously false as that it must needs be much beneath a great Mind to take notice of such Latrations or to answer them any otherwise than with contempt When we are treated with the Buffoonry and Railery of such ungentiel Pens 't is good to remember the old Saying Magnum Contumeliae remedium Negligentia As for what Mr. Palmer does in his Preface insinuate concerning the New-Englanders being Commonwealths-men Enemies to Monarchy and to the Church of England that 's such a Sham as every one sees through it There are none in the World that do more fully concur with the Doctrine of the Church of England contained in the 39 Articles than do the Churches in New England as is manifest from the Confession of their Faith published in the year 1680. Only as to Liturgy and Ceremonies they differ for which cause alone it was that they or their Fathers transported themselves into that American Desert as being desirous to worship God in that way which they thought was most according to the Scriptures The Platform of Church Discipline consented unto by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches Assembled in a General Synod at Cambridge in New England in the year 1647. sheweth that they are as to Church-Government for the Congregational way The judiciously Learned Mr. Philip Nye has long since evinced that no Form of Church-Government no not that which is Episcopal is more consistent with Monarchy or with the King's Supremacy than that of the Way-Congregational which some will needs call Independent But there are a sort of men who call those that are for English Liberties and that rejoyce in the Government of Their present Majesties King William and Queen Mary by the name of Republicans and represent all such as Enemies of Monarchy and of the Church It is not our single Opinion only but we can speak it on behalf of the generality of Their Majesties Subjects in New England that they believe without any diminution to the Glory of our former Princes the English Nation was never so happy in a King or in a Queen as at this day And the God of Heaven who has set them on the Throne of these Kingdoms grant them long and prosperously to Reign E. R. S. S. THE Revolution in New England justified THE Doctrine of Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance which a sort of men did of late when they thought the World would never change cry up as Divine Truth is by means of the happy Revolution in these Nations exploded and the Assertors of it become ridiculous No man does really approve of the Revolution in England but must justifie that in New England also for the latter was effected in compliance with the former neither was there any design amongst the People in New England to reassume their Antient Charter-Government until His present Majesties intended descent into England to rescue the Nation from Slavery as well as Popery was known to them for indeed to have attempted it before that would have been madness They considered that the men then usurping Government in New England were King James's Creatures who had invaded both the Liberty and Property of English Protestants after such a manner as perhaps the like was never known in any part of the World where the English Nation has any Government And the Commission which they had obtained from the Late King James was more Illegal and Arbitrary than that granted to Dudley and Empson by King Henry 7th or than it may be was ever before given to any by King James himself or by any one that ever swayed the English Scepter which was a Grievance intolerable and yet they desired not to make themselves Judges in a case which so nearly concerned them but instead of harsher treatment of those who had Tyrannized over them they only secured them that they might not betray that Countrey into the hands of the Late King or of King Lewis which they had reason enough to believe considering their Characters and Dispositions they were inclined to do They designed not to revenge themselves on

having lost several of their Ships in their Voyage and hearing that Sir E. A. was taken and now in hold should not proceed at present but threatned what they would do the next Summer Joshuah Conant Joshuah Conant personally appeared before me and made Oath to the truth of the abovesaid Evidence Salem Novemb. the 23d 1689. John Hathorne Assistant Phillip Hilliard of Salem Jersey-man testifieth That he was taken by the French in a Ketch belonging to Salem viz. The Thomas and Mary Joshua Conant Commander off from Torbay near Cansir this Autumn Septemb. 17. and being carried on board the Lumbuscado did on board the said Ship hear several of the company say that there was about twelve Sail of them Ships of War came out in company together from France and were bound directly for Boston in N. E. and that Sir E. A. the late Governour there had sent into France for them to come over The mark 8 of Phillip Hilliard Phillip Hilliard personally appeared before me and made Oath to the truth of the abovesaid Evidence Salem Novemb. the 23. 1689. John Hathorne Assistant James Cocks of Salem Mariner testifieth That he was taken by the French in the Ketch Margaret of Salem Daniel Gygles Commander on Tuesday the 17th of September last past off from Tarbay near Cansir by two French Ships of War who had one Merchant-man in company with them and he being carried on board their Admiral viz. the Lumbuscado he there met with a man he had known in London one of the said Ships Company who was a Biscay born named Peter Goit who told him that there was thirteen Ships of them came out of France in company together and that they were bound directly for Boston in New-England expecting that the Countrey was before or would be at their coming delivered up to the King of France and told him before they could get clear of the Coast of France several of their Ships were taken by the English Ships of War and the rest of their Fleet taken or dispersed and lost about New-found-land The mark SS of James Cocks James Cocks personally appeared before me and made Oath to the truth of the abovesaid Evidence Salem Nov. 23. 1689. John Hathorne Assistant But as to one of the Crimes objected against Sir E. A. and his Arbitrary Complices Habemus confitentem reum Mr. Palmer cannot deny but that they levied moneys on the King's Subjects in New-England contrary to the fundamentals of the English Government which doth not allow the imposition of Taxes without a Parliament The New-Englanders supposed that their late Oppressors had been guilty of no less than a capital Crime by their raising Money in such a way as they did and we are assured that one of them after he received and before he acted by vertue of his illegal Commission from the Late King professed that if ever he had an hand in raising a penny of Money without an Assembly his neck should go for it and yet no man that we know of had a deeper hand in it than this person had But Mr. Palmer for the justification of this so foul a business laies down several Positions which he would have no man deny One of his Positions is That it is a fundamental Point consented to by all Christian Nations That the first discoverer of a Countrey inhabited by Infidels gives a right and dominion of that Countrey to the Prince in whose service and employment the discoverers were sent These are his words p. 17. We affirm that this fundamental Point as he calls it is not a Christian but an unchristian Principle It is controverted among the School-men an dominium fundatur in gratiâ Papists are as Mr. Palmer is for the affirmative but the Scripture teaches us to believe that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Heathen Nations and the Sons of Adam and not the Children of Israel only have a right to the Earth and to the Inheritance which God hath given them therein Deut. 32.8 When Mr. Palmer hath prov'd that Infidels are not the Sons of Adam we shall consent to his notion that Christians may invade their Rights and take their Lands from them and give them to whom they please and that the Pope may give all America to the King of Spain But let him know that the first Planters in New-England had more of conscience and the fear of God in them than it seems Mr. Palmer hath For they were not willing to wrong the Indians in their Properties for which cause it was that they purchased from the Natives their right to the Soil in that part of the World notwithstanding what right they had by vertue of their Charters from the Kings of England Mr. Palmer's Position is clearly against Jus Gentium Jus Naturale which instructs every man Nemini injuriam facere He that shall violently and without any just cause take from Infidels their Lands where they plant and by which they subsist does them manifest injury And let us know of Mr. Palmer if Christian Princes have power to dispose of the Lands belonging to Infidels in the West-Indies whether they have the like Dominion over the Lands belonging to the Infidels in the East-Indies and if these Infidels shall refuse to consent that such Christians shall possess their Lands that then they may lawfully Vi Armis expel or destroy them as the Spaniards did We may send Mr. Palmer for further instruction in this point to Balaam's Ass which ingenuously acknowledged that her Master though an Infidel had a Property in and right of Dominion over her Numb 22.30 But this Gentleman hath some other Assertions which he would have us take for postulata and then we shall be his Slaves without all peradventures He tells us in page 17 18 19. that the English Plantations in particular New-England are no parts of the Empire of England but like Wales and Ireland which were Conquered and belong to the Dominion of the Crown of England and that therefore he that wears the Crown may set up Governments over them which are Despotick and Absolute without any regard to Magna Charta and that whereas in Barbadoes Jamaica Virginia c. they have their Assemblies that 's only from the favour of the Prince and not that they could pretend Right to such Priviledges of Englishmen And now we need no further discovery of the man Could the people of N. E. who are zealous for English Liberties ever endure it long that such a person as this should be made one of their Judges that so by squeezing them he might be able to pay his Debts And can any rational man believe that persons of such Principles did not Tyrannize over that people when once they had them in their cruel Clutches and could pretend the Authority of the late King James for what they did In our opinion Mr. Palmer hath not done like a Wise man thus to expose himself to the just resentments and indignation of all the

Jury to serve their turns or words to that purpose nor did Suffolk as appeared by their practice for they made use of Non-Residents in divers cases there I mention not my damage though it is great but to the truth above-written I the said Lynde do set to my hand Joseph Lynde Boston the 14th of January 1689 90. Juratus coram me John Smith Assistant And that the practices of these men have been according to their Principles destructive to the Property of the Subject is now to to be declared It is a thing too well known to be denied that some of Sir Edmunds Council begged if they had not had secret encouragement no man believes that they would have done so those Lands which are called The Commons belonging to several Townships whereby Plymouth Lyn Cambridge Road Island c. would have been ruinated had these mens Projects taken effect And not only the Commons belonging to Towns but those Lands which were the Property of several particular persons in Charles-town were granted from them And Writs of Intrusion were issued out against Coll. Shrimpton Mr. Samuel Seawall and we know not how many more besides That their Lands might be taken from them under pretence of belonging to King James An Island in the possession of John Pittome anciently appropriated to the maintenance of a Free-School was in this way seized How such men can clear themselves from the guilt of Sacrilegious Oppression they had best consider Mr. Palmer swaggers and hectors at a strange rate for he hath these words p. 29. I should be glad to see that man who would bare-faced instance in one particular grant of any mans Right or Possession passed by Sir E. A. during his Government And what if we will shew him the men that dare affirm as much or more than that what will he do Me me adsum qui feci in me convertite Ferrum We will produce those that have said and sworn as much as all this comes to For John Pittome hath upon Oath declared That James Sherlock Sir Edmunds Sheriff came on Dear Island on the 28th of January 1688. and turned him and his Family afloat on the Water when it was a snowy day although he was Tenant there to Coll. Shrimpton and that the said Sherlock put two men whom he brought with him into possession of the said Island as he said on behalf of King James the Second Let him also know that Mr. Shepard and Mr. Burrill of Lyn and James Russell Esq of Charles-towne in New-England have declared upon Oath as followeth Jeremiah Shepard Aged forty two years and John Burril aged fifty seven years we whose names are subscribed being made choice of by the Inhabitants of the Town of Lyn in the Massachusetts Colony in New England to maintain their right to their properties and Lands invaded by Sir Edmund Androsse Governour we do testify that besides Sir Edmund Androsse his unreasonable demands of Money by way of Taxation and that without an assembly and Deputies sent from our Town according to ancient custom for the raising of Money or levying of Rates our Properties our honest and just and true Titles to our Land were also invaded and particularly a great and considerable tract of Land called by the name of the Nahants the only secure place for the Grazing of some thousands of our Sheep and without which our Inhabitants could neither provide for their own Families nor be capacited to pay dues or duties for the maintenance of the publick but if dispossessed of the Town must needs be impoverished ruined and rendred miserable yet this very tract of Land being Petitioned for by Edward Randolph was threatned to be rent out of our hands notwithstanding our honest and just Pleas for our right to the said Land both by alienation of the said Land to us from the Original Proprietors the Natives to whom we paid our Moneys by way of purchase and notwithstanding near fifty years peaceable and quiet possession and improvement and also inclosure of the said Land by a Stone Wall in which tract of Land also two of our Patentees were interested in common with us viz. Major Humphreys and Mr. Johnson yet Edward Randolph Petitioning for the said Land Sir Edmund the Governour did so far comply with his unreasonable motion that we were put to great charges and expences for the Vindication of our honest rights thereto and being often before the Governour Sir Edmund and his Council for relief yet could find no favour of our innocent cause by Sir Edmund notwithstanding our Pleas of Purchase antient Possession Improvement Inclosure Grant of the General Court and our necessitous condition yet he told us all these Pleas were insignificant and we could have no true Title unless we could produce a Patent from the King neither had any person a right to one foot of Land in N. E. by vertue of Purchase Possession or Grant of Courts but if we would have assurance of our Lands we must go to the King for it and get Patents of it Finding no relief and the Governour having prohibited Town Meetings we earnestly desired Liberty for our Town to meet to consult what to do in so difficult a case and exigency but could not prevail Sir Edmund angrily telling us that there was no such thing as a Town in the Country neither should we have Liberty so to meet neither were our Antient Town Records as he said which we produced for the vindication of our Titles to said Lands worth a Rush Thus were we from time to time unreasonably treated our Properties and civil Liberties and Priviledges invaded our misery and ruine threatned and hastned till such time as our Country groaning under the unreasonable heavy Yoke of Sir Edmunds Government were constrained forcibly to recover our Liberties and Priviledges Jeremiah Shepard John Burril Jeremiah Shepard Minister and John Burril Lieutenant both of Lin personally appeared before us and made Oath to the truth of this Evidence Salem Feb. 3. 1689 90. John Hathorn Assistant Jonathan Corwin Assistant James Russel Esq on the behalf of the Proprietors of the stinted Pasture in Charlestown and on his own personal account declares as followeth That notwithstanding the answer made to Sir E. A. his demand by some Gentlemen of Charlestown on the behalf of the Proprietors which they judged satisfactory or at least they should have a further hearing and opportunity to make out their Rights there was laid out to Mr. Lidget adjoining to his Farm in Charlestown a considerable tract of Land as it is said one hundred and fifty Acres which was of considerable value and did belong to divers persons which when it was laid out by Mr. Wells there were divers bound marks shewed by the Proprietors and some of them and I had Petitioned for a Patent for my particular Propriety yet the whole tract was laid out to the said Lidget who not only did cut down Wood thereon without the right owners consent but Arrested