these parts and never left watching and dogging them untill they got advantage and kill'd them all but three or four which they kept and sent from one Sachem to another to make sport with them and used them worse then Slaves and they conceived this Ship was now come to revenge it Two of the said French so used were redeemed by the aforesaid Mr. Dermer the other died amongst the Indians and as the Indians have reported one of them lived amongst them untill he was able to discourse with them and told them That God was angry with them for their wickedness and would destroy them and give their Country to another people that should not live like beasts as they did but should be clothed c. But they derided him and said That they were so many that God could not kill them His answer was That though they were never so many God had many wayes to destroy them that they knew not A memorable passage of Gods punishing of the Heathen for their notorious Blasphemy and other sins Shortly after his death came the Plague a Disease they never heard of before and mightily swept them away and left them as dung upon the earth as you have heard Not long after came the English to New-Plimouth and then several of the Indians began to minde the French-mans words thinking him to be more then an ordinary man And as the first part of his speech had proved true they began to be apprehensive of the latter viz. The less of their Country This Relation the first Planters at Plimouth after they came to be acquainted with them several of them heard from divers of their ancient and gravest Indians and have often seen the place where the French were surprised and taken which place beareth the Name of Frenchmans Point with many to this day This Relation for the verity thereof being also very observeable was thought meet to be here inserted And let me adde a word hereunto Several instances of the Mortality of the Indians occasionally taken notice of That it is very observable likewise That God hath very evidently made way for the English by sweeping away the Natives by some great Mortalities as first by the Plague here in Plimouth Jurisdiction secondly by the Small Pox in the Jurisdiction of the Massachusets a very considerable people a little before the English came into the Country as also at Conecticot very full of Indians a little before the English went into those parts and then the Pequots by the Sword of the English as will appear in its place and the Country now mostly possessed by the English I might also mention several places in the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth peopled with considerable companies of proper able men since the first Planters thereof came over even in our sight before they were in a capacity to improve any of their land that have by the same hand of Providence been cut off and so their Land even cleared for them and now so replenished with their Posterity Exod. 23.28 29.30 that places are too straight for them By little and little saith God of old to his people will I drive them out from before thee till thou be increased and inherit the Land But before I pass on let the Reader take notice of a very remarkable particular which was made known to the said Planters at Plimouth some short space after their arrival That the Indians before they came to the English to make Friendship with them Behold how Satan laboured to hinder the Gospel from coming into N. E. they got all the Powaws in the Country who for three dayes together in a horrid and devillish manner did Curse and Execrate them with their Conjurations which Assembly and Service they held in a dark and dismall Swamp But to return The Spring being now come it pleased God that the Mortality which had taken away so many of the first Planters at Plimouth ceased and the Sick and Lame recovered apace which was as it were a new life put into them they having born this Affliction with much patience being upheld by the Lord. And thus we are come unto the Twenty fifth of March 1621. 1621. THis Year several of the Indian Sachems besides Massasoiet before-named came unto the Government of New-Plimouth and acknowledged themselves to be the Loyal Subjects of our Soveraign Lord King James and subscribed unto a Writing to that purpose with their own hands the tenour of which said Writing followeth with their Names annexed thereunto It being conceived by some that are judicious that it may be of use in succeeding times I thought meet here to insert it September 13. Anno Dom. 1621. KNOW all men by these Presents That we whose Names are under-written do acknowledge our selves to be the Loyal Subjects of King James King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. In Witness whereof and as a Testimonial of the same we have Subscribed our Names or Marks as followeth Ohquamehud Cawnacome Obbatinnua Nattawahunt Caunbatant Chikkatabak Quadaquina Huttamoiden Apannow Now followeth several Passages of the Providence of God to and the further progress of the first Planters at Plimouth appertaining to the Year 1621. THey now began to hasten the Ship away which tartied so long by reason of the necessity and danger that lay on them because so many died both of themselves and the Ships Company likewise by which they became so few as the Master durst not put out to Sea untill those that lived recovered of their Sickness and the Winter over The Spring of this year they Planted their first Corn in New-England being instructed in the manner thereof by the fore-named Squanto they likewise sowed some English Grain with little success by reason partly of the badness of the Seed and lateness of the season or some other defect not then discerned In the Month of April in this year their Governour Mr. John Carver fell sick and within a few dayes after died whose death was much lamented and caused great heaviness amongst them and there was indeed great cause He was buried in the best manner they could with as much Solemnity as they were in a capacity to perform with the Discharge of some Volleys of shot of all that bare Arms. This worthy Gentleman was one of singular Piety and rare for Humility as appeared by his great condescendency when as this poor miserable people were in great sickness and weakness he shunned not to do very mean services for them yea the meanest of them He bare a share likewise of their labour in his own person accordingly as their extreme necessity required who being one also of a considerable Estate spent the main part of it in this Enterprize and from first to last approved himself not onely as their Agent in the first transacting of things but also all along to the period of his life to be a pious faithful and very beneficial Instrument and now
Squanto being their Guide and Interpreter fell sick and within a few dayes died Squanto's Death A little before his death he desired the Governour of Plimouth who then was there to pray for him that he might go to the English-mans God in Heaven and bequeathed divers of his things to sundry of his English Friends as Remembrances of his love of whom they had a great loss Here they got a considerable quantity of Corn and so returned After these things John Sanders who was left chief over Mr. Westons men at Wesagusquaset in the Month of February sent a Messenger shewing the great wants they were fallen into and would have borrowed Corn of the Indians but they would lend him none and desired advice whether he might take it from them by force to succour his men untill return from the Eastward whither he was now going But the Governour and the rest disswaded him by all means from it for it might so exasperate the Indians as might endanger their safety and all of them might smart for it for they had already heard how they had wronged the Indians by stealing their Corn c. so as the Natives were much incensed against them yea so base were some of their own Company as they went and told the Indians that their governour was purposed to come and take their Corn by force which with other things made them enter into a Conspiracy against the English And herewith I end the Relation of the most Remarkable Passages of Gods Providence towards the first Planters which fell out in this Year 1623. MR. Westons people fore-named notwithstanding all helps they could procure for supply of Provisions fell into great Extremity which was occasioned by their excessive expence while they had it or could get it and after they came into want many sold away their Clothes and Bed-coverings others were so base as they became servants to the Indians and would cut them Wood and fetch them Water for a Cap full of Corn others fell to stealing both night and day from the Indians of which they grievously complained In the end they came to that misery that some starved and died with hunger and one in gathering of Shell-fish was so weak as he stuck fast in the mud and was found dead in the place and most of them left their Dwellings and were scattered up and down in the Woods by the Water-side where they could finde Ground-nuts and Clams here six and there ten by which their carriages they became contemned and scorned of the Indians insomuch as they began greatly to insult over them in a most insolent manner so as if they had set on such Victuals as they had gotten to dress it when it was ready the Indians would come and eat it up and when Night came when as possibly some of them had a sorry Blanket or such like to lap themselves in the Indians would take it and let the other lye all night in the cold so as their condition was very lamentable and in the end they were fain to hang one of their Company whom they could not reclaim from stealing to give the Indians content Whiles things went on in this manner with them the Governour and People of Plimouth had notice that the Sachem Massasoiet their Friend was sick and near unto death and they sent to visit him and sent him some comfortable things which gave him content and was a means of his recovery Upon which occasion he discovered the Conspiracy of these Indians how they were resolved to cut off Mr. Westons Company for the continual Injuries they had done them and would now take opportunity of their weakness and do it and for that end had conspired with other Indians their Neighbours thereabouts and thinking the People here would revenge their death they therefore thought to do the like by them therefore to prevent it and that speedily by taking some of the chief of them before it was too late for he assured them of the truth thereof This did much trouble them and they took it into serious consideration and found upon Examination and other Evidences to give light thereinto That the matter was really so as the said Sachrin had told them In the mean time came an * This mans name was Phinchas Pratt who hath penned the particular of his perillous Journey and som other things relating to this Tragedy English-man from the Massachusets from the said Company in misery as hath been above-related with a small pack at his back and although he knew not a foot of the way yet he got safe hither but lost his way which was well for him for he was pursued by two Indians who by Gods Providence missed of him by that means and he related how all things stood with them there and that he durst stay no longer for he apprehended by what he observed they would be all slain ere long This made them make the more haste and they dispatched a Boat away with some men under the conduct of Captain Standish who found them in a miserable condition out of which he rescued them and helped them to some relief cut off some of the chief Conspirators against them and according to his Order offered to bring them all to Plimouth to be there untill Mr. Weston came or some other way should be presented for their help they thanked him and the rest but they rather desired that he would help them with some Corn and they would go with their small Ship to the Eastward to look out for a way for themselves either to have relief by meeting with Mr. Weston or if not to work with the Fishermen for their supply and their passage for England so they shipped what they had of any worth and he helped them with as much Corn as he could and saw them out of the Bay under sail and so came home not taking the worth of a peny of any of them This was the end of these that sometimes boasted of their strength being all able lusty men and what they would do and bring to pass in comparison of the people at Plimouth who had many Women and Children and weak ones and said at their first arrival when they saw the wants at Plimouth Here see the effect of Pride and Vain-glory. That they would take another course and not fall into such a condition as this simple people were come to but a mans way is not in his own power God can make the weak to stand Let him that thinketh he standeth in such respect as well as other take heed lest he fall Shortly after Mr. Weston came over with some of the Fishermen where he heard of the Ruine of his Plantation and got a Boat and with a man or two came to see how things were but by the way for want of skill in a Storm he cast away his Boat in the bottome of the Bay between Merrimack and Pascataqua and hardly escaped with life
to the whole Court aforesaid That he nor they shall nor will needlesly or unjustly raise any quarrels or do any wrong to other Natives to provoke them to War against him and That he nor they shall not Give Sell or Convey any of his or their Lands Territories or Possessions whatsoever to any person or persons whomsoever without the privity and consent of the Government of Plimouth aforesaid other then to such as the said Government shall send or appoint All which Conditions the said Woosamequen and Mooanam his Son for themselves and their Successors did then faithfully promise to observe and keep And the whole Court in the Name of the whole Government for each Town respectively did then likewise Ratifie and Confirm the aforesaid ancient League and Confederacy and did also further promise to the said Woosamequen and Mooanam his Son and their Successors That they shall and will from time to time defend the said Woosamequen Of this see pag. 24. and Mooanam his Son and their Successors when need and occasion shall require against all such as shall unjustly rise up against them to wrong or oppress them unjustly 1640. MR. William Bradford was Elected Governour of the Jurisdiction of Plimouth were Elected Assistants Mr. Thomas Prince Mr. William Collier Mr. John Brown Captain Miles Standish Mr. Timothy Hatherly and Mr. Edmond Freeman 1641. THis Year Mr. William Bradford was Elected Governour of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth were Chosen Assistants to him in Government Mr. Edward Winslow Mr. Thomas Prince Mr. William Collier Captain Miles Standish Mr. Timothy Hatherly Mr. John Brown and Mr. Edmond Freeman 1642. THis Year Mr. William Bradford was Elected Governour of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth were Elected Assistants to him in Government Mr. Edward Winslow Mr. Thomas Prince Mr. William Collier Mr. Timothy Hatherly Mr. John Brown Mr. William Thomas and Mr. Edmond Freeman In reference unto the three years last specified although I have no special Providence to take notice of particularly to assign to each of them save the continuance of Gods mercy and goodness in the Annual Election of godly and able Magistrates in the Jurisdiction of Plimouth as is before-noted yet notwithstanding we are to take notice of the continued Peace and Plenty with which not onely these three years restrictively considered but also for many years together both before and after them New-England was so marvellously gratiated But that which is more that about these times the Lord was pleased of his great goodness richly to accomplish and adorn the Colony of Plimouth as well as other Colonies in New-England with a considerable number of godly and able Gospel-Preachers who then being dispersed and disposed of to the several Churches and Congregations thereof gave Light in a glorious and resplendent manner as burning and shining Lights Which mercy and transcendent favour had not Sin and Satans envy interposed might have rendred them greatly happy and prosperous it being observed That where Gospel-dispensation flourisheth there Prosperity in other respects may usually be expected In reference unto the honour of God and due respects unto such worthy Instruments I thought meet to nominate some of the speciallest of them viz. Mr. Charles Chauncy Mr. William Hook Mr. Nicholas Street Mr. John Laythrop Mr. John Mayo Mr. John Reyner Mr. Ralph Partridge Mr. Samuel Newman Mr. William Leverich Mr. Richard Blinman Mr. Edward Bulkly Mr. John Miller Mr. Marmaduke Matthews With some others that might be named These some of them stayed not long ere they removed some into the Neighbour-Colonies some into Old-England and others to their Eternal Rest whereby the said Jurisdiction was wanting in a great measure for some time of such a Blessing Howbeit the Lord hath since graciously raised up a supply to divers of the said Congregations and more may be expected according to his Promises 1643. THis Year Mr. William Bradford was elected Governour of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth And were chosen his Assistants in Government Mr. Edward Winslow Mr. Thomas Prince Mr. William Collier Mr. Timothy Hatherly Mr. John Brown Mr. Edmond Freeman And Mr. William Thomas This Year about the eighteenth day of April died Mr. William Brewster the Ruling Elder of the Church of Christ at Plimouth concerning whom I could say much of mine own knowledge but I shall content my self only to insert the honourable Testimony that Mr. William Bradford deceased hath left written with his own hand concerning him Saith he My dear Friend Mr. William Brewster was a man that had done and suffered much for the Lord Jesus and the Gospels sake and hath born his part in weal and woe with this poor persecuted Church above thirty six years in England Holland and in this Wilderness and done the Lord and them faithful service in his place and calling and notwithstanding the many troubles and sorrows he passed through the Lord upheld him to a great age he was four score and four years of age when he died The dea h of Mr. William Brewster he had this blessing added by the Lord to all the rest to dye in his bed in peace amongst the midst of his friends who mourned and wept over him and ministred what help and comfort they could unto him and he again recompensed them whiles he could his sickness was not long and until the last day thereof he did not wholly keep his bed his speech continued until somewhat more then half a day before his death and then failed him and about nine or ten of the clock that evening he died without any pangs at all a few hours before he drew his breath short and some few minutes before his last he drew his breath long as a man fallen into a sound sleep without any pangs or gasping and so sweetly departed this life unto a better I would now demand of any What he was the worse for former sufferings what do I say worse no he was the better and they now added to his honor 2 Thess 1.5 6 7. It is a manifest token saith the Apostle of the righteous Judgement of God that we may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God for which we also suffer seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you and to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels 1 Pet. 4.14 and if you be reproached saith the Apostle Peter for the Name of Christ happy are ye for the Spirit of God and of Glory shall rest upon you what though he wanted the riches and pleasures of the World in this life and Pompous monuments of his Funeral yet the memorial of the Just shall be blessed Prov. 10.17 when the name of the wicked shall rot with their Marble Monuments He was well educated in learning as at inferiour Schools so also at the Vniversity and from thence went to the Court and there served Mr. Davison a
out in Holland of about sixty Tun called The Speedwell as to serve to transport some of them over so also to stay in the Country and attend upon Fishing and such other affairs as might be for the good and benefit of the Colony when they came thither Another Ship was hired at London of Burthen about Ninescore called The May-flower and all other things got in a readiness so being prepared to depart they had a solemn day of Humiliation The Text of Scripture was Ezra 8.21 the Pastor teaching a part of the day very profitably and sutably to the present occasion the rest of the time was spent in pouring out of Prayers unto the Lord with great fervency mixed with abundance of tears and the time being come that they must depart they were accompanied with most of their Brethren out of the City unto a Town called Delfs Haven where the Ship lay ready to receive them so they left that goodly and pleasant City which had been their resting place above eleven years but they knew that they were Pilgrims and Strangers here below and looked not much on these things Hebr. 11.16 but lifted up their eyes to Heaven their dearest Country where God hath prepared for them a City and therein quieted their spirits When they came to the place they found the Ship and all things ready and such of their Friends as could not come with them followed after them and sundry came from Amsterdam to see them shipt and to take their leaves of them One night was spent with little sleep with the most but with friendly entertainment and Christian discourse and other reall expressions of true Christian love The next day the wind being fair they went on Board and their friends with them where truely-doleful was the sight of that sad and mournful parting to hear what sighs and sobs and prayers did sound amongst them what tears did gush from every eye and pithy speeches pierced each others heart that sundry of the Dutch strangers that stood on the Key as spectators could not refrain from tears yet comfortable and sweet it was to see such lively and true expressions of dear and unfeigned love But the Tide which stayes for no man calling them away that were thus loth to depart their Reverend Pastor falling down on his knees and they all with him with watery cheeks commended them with most fervent Prayers unto the Lord and his blessing and then with mutual imbraces and many tears they took their leaves one of another which proved to be the last leave to many of them Thus hoysing Sail with a prosperous gale of wind they came in short time to Southampton where they found the bigger Ship come from London This was about the second of July 1620. being ready with all the rest of their Company meeting each other with a joyful welcome and mutual congratulation At their parting their Pastor Mr. John Robinson wrote a Letter to the whole Company which I thought meet here to insert being so fruitfull in it self and sutable to their occasions Loving Christian Friends I Do heartily and in the Lord salute you as being those with whom I am present in my best affections and most earnest longings after you though I be constrained for a while to be bodily absent from you I say Constrained God knowing how willingly and much rather then otherwise I would have born my part with you in this first brunt were I not by strong necessity held back for the present Make account of me in the mean time as a man divided in my self with great pain and as Natural bonds set aside having my better part with you And although I doubt not but in your godly wisdomes you both foresee and resolve upon that which concerneth your present state and condition both severally and joyntly yet have I thought it but my duty to adde some further spur of provocation unto them who run already if not because you need it yet because I owe it in love and duty And first as we are daily to renew our Repentance with our God especially for our sins known and generally for our unknown trespasses so doth the Lord call us in a singular manner upon occasions of such difficulty and danger as lieth upon you to a both narrow search and careful reformation of your wayes in his sight lest he calling to remembrance our sins forgotten by us or unrepented of take advantage against us and in judgement leave us to be swallowed up in one danger or other whereas on the contrary sin being taken away by earnest Repentance and the pardon thereof from the Lord sealed up to a mant Conscience by his Spirit great shall be his security and peace in all dangers sweet his comforts in all distresses with happy deliverance from all evil whether in life or death Now next after this heavenly peace with God and our own Consciences we are carefully to provide for peace with all men what in us lyeth especially with our Associates and for that watchfulness must be had that we neither at all in our selves do give no nor easily take offence being given by others Woe be to the world for offences for although it be necessary considering the malice of Satan and mans corruption that offences come yet woe unto the man or woman either by whom the offence cometh saith Christ Matth. 18.7 and if offences in the unseasonable use of things in themselves indifferent be more to be feared then death it self as the Apostle teacheth 1 Cor. 9.15 how much more in things simply evil in which neither honour of God nor love of man is thought worthy to be regarded Neither yet is it sufficient that we keep our selves by the grace of God from giving of offence except withall we be armed against the taking of them when they are given by others for how imperfect and lame is the work of Grace in that person who wants Charity to cover a multitude of offences as the Scripture speaks Neither are you to be wherred to this grace onely upon the common grounds of Christianity which are that persons ready to take offence either want Charity to cover offences or Wisdome duely to weigh humane frailties or lastly are gross though close Hypocrites as Christ our Lord teacheth Mat. 7.1 2 3. as indeed in my own experience few or none have been found which sooner give offence then such as easily take it neither have they ever proved sound and profitable Members in Societies who have nourished this touchy humour But besides these there are divers Motives provoking you above others to great care and conscience this way as first there are many of you strangers as to the persons so to the infirmities one of another and so stand in need of more watchfulness this way lest when such things fall out in men and women as you expected not you be inordinately affected with them which doth require at your hands much Wisdome and
continued with him and his Successors to the time of the writing hereof The terms and Conditions of the said League is as followeth Of this see more in the year 1639. I. THat neither he nor any of his should injure or do hurt to any of their people II. That if any of his did any hurt to any of theirs he should send the Offender that they might punish him III. That if any thing were taken away from any of theirs he should cause it to be restored and they should do the like to his IV. That if any did unjustly War against him they would aid him and if any did War against them he should aid them V. That he should send to his Neighbour-Confederates to certifie them of this that they might not wrong them but might be likewise comprised in these Conditions of Peace VI. That when his Men came to them upon any occasion they should leave their Arms which were then Bowes and Arrows behinde them VII Lastly That so doing their Soveraign Lord King James would esteem him as His Friend and Ally All which he liked well and withall at the same time acknowledged himself content to become the Subject of our Soveraign Lord the King aforesaid His Heirs and Successors and gave unto them all the Lands adjacent to them and their Heirs for ever After these things he returned to his place called Sowams about fourty miles distant from Plimouth but Squanto continued with them and was their Interpreter and proved a special Instrument sent of God for their good beyond expectation he directed them in Planting their Corn where to take their Fish and to procure their Commodity and also was their Pilot to bring them to unknown places for their profit and never left them untill his death He was a Native of this place where Plimouth is and scarce any left besides himself He was carried away with divers others by one named Hunt a Master of a Ship who thought to sell them for Slaves in Spain but he got away for England This Merchants name was Mr. Slaney and was entertained by a Merchant in London and imployed to Newfound-land and other parts and at last brought hither into these parts by one Mr. Dermer a Gentleman imployed by Sir Ferdinando Gorges and others for Discovery and other Designs in these parts of whom I shall say something because it is mentioned in a Book set forth Anno 1622. by the President and Council for New-England That he made the Peace between the Salvages of these parts and the English of which this Plantation as it is intimated had the benefit and what a Peace it was may appear by what befell him and his men This Mr. Dermer was here the same year that these people came as appears by a Relation written by him bearing date June 30. Anno 1620. and they arrived in the Country in the Month of November following so that there was but four Months difference In which Relation to his honoured Friend he hath these passages of this very place where New-Plimouth is I will first begin saith he with that place from whence Squanto or Tisquantam was taken away which in Captain Smiths Map is called * This name of Plimouth was so called not only for the reason here named but also because Plimouth in O.E. was the last town they left in their Native Country for that they received many kindnesses from some Christians there Plimouth and I would that Plimouth had the like Commodities I would that the first Plantation might here be seated if there come to the number of Fifty persons or upwards otherwise at Charlton because there the Salvages are less to be feared The Pocanakets which live to the West of Plimouth bear an inveterate malignity to the English and are of more strength then all the Salvages from thence to Panobskut Their desire of Revenge was occasioned by an English-man who having many of them on Board made great slaughter of them with their Murderers and small Shot when as they say they offered no injury on their parts Note Whether they were English or no it may be doubted yet they believe they were for the French have so possest them for which cause Squanto cannot deny but they would have killed me when I was at Namassaket had he not intreated hard for me The Soyl of the Borders of this great Bay may be compared to most of the Plantations which I have seen in Virginia The land is of divers sorts for Patukset is an heavy but strong Soyl Nauset and Satukket are for the most part a blackish and deep Mould much like that where groweth the best Tobacco in Virginia In the bottom of the Bay is great store of Cod Bass or Mullet c. And above all he commends Pacannaket for the richest Soyl and much open ground likely and fit for English Grain Massachusets is about nine leagues from Plimouth and situate in the mids between both is many Islands and Peninsuls very fertile for the most part With sundry such Relations which I forbear to transcribe being now better known then they were to him This Gentleman was taken Prisoner by the Indians at Mannamoset a place not farre from Plimouth now well known he gave them what they demanded for his liberty but when they had got what they desired they kept him still and endeavoured to kill some of his men but he was freed by seizing on some of them and kept them bound till they gave him a Canooes load of Corn Of which see Purch lib. 9. fol. 1778. But this was Anno 1619. After the writing of the former Relation he came to the Isle Capewak Now called Martins Vineyard which lieth South from this place in the way to Virginia and the aforesaid Squanto with him where he going on shore amongst the Indians to trade as he used to do was assaulted and betrayed by them and all his men slain but one that kept the Boat but himself got on Board very sore wounded and they had cut off his Head upon the Cuddy of the Boat had not his Man rescued him with a Sword and so they got away and made shift to get into Virginia where he died whether of his wounds or the Diseases of the Country or both is uncertain By all which it may appear how farre this people were from Peace and with what danger this Plantation was begun save as the powerful hand of the Lord did protect them These things were partly the Reasons why the Indians kept aloof as aforesaid and that it was so long ere they could come to speech with any of them Another Reason as afterwards themselves made known was how that about three years before these first Planters arrived a certain French Ship was cast away at Cape Cod but the men got on shore and saved their lives and much of their Victuals and other goods but afterwards the Indians heard of it and gathered together from
is reaping the fruit of his labour with the Lord. His Wife who was also a gracious woman lived not six weeks after him shee being overcome with excessive grief for the loss of so gracious an Husband likewise died In some short distance of time after this Mr. William Bradford was chosen Governour of Plimouth in his stead being not as yet well recovered of his weakness having bin at the point of death and Mr. Isaac Allerton likewise was chosen to be his Assistant The second of July in this year they sent Mr. Edward Winslow and Mr. Steven Hopkins unto the great Sachem Massasoiet aforesaid with a gratuitie to congratulate with him and to view his Country and likewise to take notice of what strength of men he had c. having Squanto for their guide who found his place to be about forty Miles from New-Plimouth his People few in comparison of what they had been by reason of the mortality amongst the Indians forementioned These brought word upon their return of the Narrhagansets a People that lived on the otherside of that great Bay which are a People strong and many in number living compact together and had not at all been touched with the wasting Plague before specified They also brought a full intelligence in reference unto the particulars they were sent about and so returned in safety Thus their peace being well established with the Natives about them which was much furthered by an Indian named Hobamak who came to live amongst the English he being a proper lusty young man and one that was in account amongst the Indians in those parts for his valour continued faithful and constant to the English until his death He with the said Squanto being sent amongst the Indians about business for the English were surprized by an Indian Sachem named Corbitant who was no friend to the English he met with them at Namassaket and began to quarrel with them and offered to stab Hobamak who being a strong man soon cleared himself of him and with speed came and gave intelligence to the Governour of Plimouth saying he feared that Squanto was slain for they were both threatned and for no other cause but that they were friends to the English and serviceable to them On which it was thought meet to vindicate their Messengers and not to suffer them to be thus wronged and it was concluded to send some men to Namassaket well armed and to fall upon them whereupon fourteen men being well prepared were sent under the conduct of Captain Miles Standish who when they came thither beset the house and the said Captain entred into the same to look for the said Corbitant but he was fled and so they missed of him but understood that Squanto was alive so they withheld and did no hurt save three of the Natives pressing out of the house when it was beset were sorely wounded which they brought home to their Town with them and were dressed by their Chirurgion and cured After this they had many Congratulations from divers Sachems and much firmer peace yea those of the Isle of Capewak sent to make friendship with them and this Corbitant himself used the mediation of Massasoiet to make his peace but was shie to come near them a long time after After this on the eighteenth of September they sent out their Boat to the Massachusets with ten men and Squanto for their Interpreter to discover and view that Bay and to trade with the Natives and found kinde entertainment with them who expressed themselves to be much afraid of the Tarateens a people in the Eastern part of New-England which used to come in Harvest time and take away their corn and many times kill some of their people who after they had accomplished their business returned in safety and made report of the place wishing they had been there seated But the Lord who assigns to all men the bounds of their habitations had appointed it for another end and use And thus they found the Lord to be with them in all their wayes and to bless their out-goings and in-comings for which let his holy Name have the praise for ever Being now well recovered in respect of health as hath been said they began to fit up their buildings against winter and received in their first harvest and had great plenty of fowl and fish to their great refreshing About the ninth of November came in a small ship to them unexpected in which came Mr. Robert Cushman This ship was called the Fortune in which came no Provisions which was one cause of a great famine that befell the Plantation of New Plimouth soon after who was both a godly man and an active and faithful agent and useful instrument in the common interest of this first design and there came with him in that ship thirty five persons to remain and live in the Plantation which did not a little rejoyce the first planters And these when they came on shore and found all well and saw plenty of provisions beyond their expectation were also satisfied and no less glad for coming in at Cape Cod before they came to Plimouth and seeing nothing there but a barren place they then began to think what should become of them if the People were dead or cut off by the Indians and began to consult upon some passages which some of the Seamen had cast out to take the Sails from the Yard lest the ship should get away and leave them but the Master hearing thereof gave them good words and told them If any thing but well should have befallen the People at Plimouth he hoped he had provisions enough to carry them to Virginia and whiles he had any they should have their part which gave them good satisfaction This ship stayed at Plimouth not above fourteen dayes and returned and soon after her departure the People called the Narrhagansets aforesaid sent a messenger unto the Plantation with a bundle of Arrows tyed together with a Snakes skin which their Interpreter Squanto told them was a threatning and a challenge upon which the Governour of Plimouth sent them a rough answer viz. That if they loved war rather then peace they might begin when they would they had done them no wrong neither did they fear them or should they finde them unprovided and by another Messenger sent the Snakes skin back again with Bullets in it but they would not receive it but sent it back again It is probable the reason of this their Message to the English was their own ambition who since the death of so many Indians thought to domineer and lord it over the rest and conceived the English would be a barre in their way and saw that Massasoiet took shelter already under their wings but this made the English more carefully to look to themselves so as they agreed to close their Dwellings with a good strong Pale and made Flankers in convenient places with Gates to shut which were every
of good bigness were wound as a Wyth by it very strange and fearful to behold It began in the Southeast and veered sundry wayes but the greatest force of it at Plimouth was from the former quarter it continued not in extremity above five or six hours ere the violence of it began to abate the marks of it will remain this many years in those parts where it was sorest the Moon suffered a great Eclipse two nights after it 1636. THis Year Mr. Edward Winslow was chosen Governour of the Jurisdiction of Plimouth And were chosen to be his Assistants in Government Mr. William Bradford Mr. Thomas Prince Mr. William Collier Mr. John Alden Mr. Timothy Hatherly Mr. John Brown Mr. Stephen Hopkins This Year the Towns on the River of Connecticot began to be planted and in transporting of Goods thither from the Massachusets Bay two shallops were cast away loaden with Goods to go thither in an Easterly storm at the mouth of Plimouth Harbour Mr. William Cooper cast away the Boats men were all lost not so much as any of their bodies found for burial they being five in number in both the Boats the Principal of them was one Mr. William Cooper an antient Seaman of known skill having formerly been Master of a ship and had gone great Voyages to the East-Indies and to other parts but the night being dark and stormy they ran upon the skirt of a flat that lieth near the mouth of the harbour and so were over-raked the goods came on shore along the Harbour and the Governour caused a careful course to be taken for the preservation of them in the behalf of the right owners who afterwards received so many of them as were saved The Relation of the Pequot Wars Now followeth the Tragedy of the War that fell betwixt the English and the Pequots which I will relate according to my best intelligence in order whereunto I thought good to mention some particulars first that by discerning the whole matter in the several parts and circumstances the more of the mercy and goodness of God may be taken notice of to his praise for destroying so Proud and Blasphemous an Enemy In the Year 1634. the Pequots a stout and war-like People who had made War with sundry of their Neighbours and being puffed up with many Victories grew now at variance with the Narrhagansets a great People bordering upon them these Narrhagansets held correspondence and tearms of friendship with the English of the Massachusets now the Pequots being conscious of the guilt of Captain Stones death whom they knew to be an English man as also those that were with him and being fallen out with the Dutch lest they should have over many Enemies at once sought to make friendship with the English of the Massachusets and for that end sent both messengers and gifts unto them as appears by some Letters sent from the Governour of the Massachusets to the Governour of Plimouth as followeth Dear and Worthy Sir TO let you know something of our affairs you may understand that the Pequots have sent some of theirs to us to desire our friendship and offered much Wampam and Beaver c. The first messengers were dismissed without answer with the next we had divers dayes conference and taking the advice of some of our Ministers and seeking the Lord in it we concluded a peace and friendship with them upon these conditions that they should deliver up to us those men who were guilty of Stones death c. and if we desired to plant in Connecticot they should give up their right to us and we would send to trade with them as our friends which was the chief thing we aimed at they being now in War with the Dutch and the rest of their Neighbours To this they readily agreed and that we should mediate a peace between them and the Narrhagansets for which end they were content we should give the Narrhagansets part of the Present they would bestow on us for they stood so much on their honour as they would not be seen to give any thing of themselves as for Captain Stone they told us there were but two left of those who had any hand in his death and that they killed him in a just quarrel for said they he surprized two of our men and bound them to make them by force to shew him the way up the River and he with two other coming on shore nine Indians watched them and when they were asleep in the night they killed them to deliver their own men and some of them going afterwards to the Barque it was suddenly blown up We are now preparing to send a Barque unto them And in another Letter he saith our Barque is lately returned from the Pequots and our men put off but little Commodities and found them a very false people so as we mean to have no more to do with them Yours ever assured John Winthrop Boston March 12. 1634. Not long after these things Mr. John Oldham of whom much is spoken before being now an inhabitant of the Massachusets went with a small vessel and slenderly manned on trading on those south parts and upon a quarrel between him and the Indians Mr. Oldhams death was cut off by them in such manner as hath been fore-noted at an Island called by the Indians Mannisses but by the English Block-Island this with the former about the death of Stone and the baffling of the Pequots with the English of the Massachusets moved them to set out some to take revenge and require satisfaction for those wrongs but it took little effect some of the murderers of Mr. Oldham fled to the Pequots and although the English went to the Pequots and had some parly with them yet they did but delude them and the English returned without doing any thing to purpose being frustrate of their opportunity by their deceit After the English of the Massachusets were returned the Pequots took their time and opportunity to cut off some of the English at Connecticot as they passed up and down upon their occasions and tortured some of them in putting them to death in a most horrid and barbarous manner and most Blasphemously in this their cruelty The Pequots horrible Blasphemy bad them call upon their God or mocked and derided them when they so did and not long after assaulted them at their houses and habitations as will appear more fully in the ensuing Relation 1637. IN the fore-part of this Year the Pequots fell openly upon the English at Connecticot in the lower parts of the River and slew sundry of them as they were at work in the fields both men and women to the great terror of the rest and went away in great pride and triumph with many high threats they also assaulted Saybrock Fort at the mouth of the River of Connecticot although it was strong and well defended it struck them with much fear and astonishment to see their bold attempts in
Joy depart bid Merriment be gone Bid Friends stand by sit sorrowful alone But ah what sorrow can be to suffice Though Heaven and Earth were filled with our cries The Clouds were turned into drops of tears The Mourning for to last an Age of Years 'T were all too little to lament his death Whose life so precious was for Heaven and Earth Job wish'd his day might quite forgotten me Which brought him forth this world's light first to see O let not the day numbred be i' th Year That took this Light out of our Hemisphere A fatal day a day of sad presage To us survivers of this present Age The hour of thy decease when Sun went down When light turn'd dark when heavens began to frown 'T is ominous to us who saw his light That Grace provok'd should turn our day to night And Gospels light which shineth from on high Should clouded be and darkned in our skie O happy dayes when such Lights shine on Earth O bitter dayes when they are hid beneath This is our grief He which late shin'd on high Is hid in grave and now beneath doth lye Let Hartford sigh and say I 've lost a Treasure Let all New-England mourn at Gods Displeasure In taking from us one more gracious Then is the Gold of Ophir precious Sweet was the savour which his grace did give It season'd all the place where he did live His Name did as an Ointment give it's smell And all bare witness that it savour'd well Wisdome Love Meekness Friendly Courtesie Each Moral Virtue with rare Pietie Pure Zeal yet mixt with mildest Clemency Did all conspire in this one Breast to lye Deep was his Knowledge Judgement was acute His Doctrine solid which none could confute To Minde he gave light of intelligence And search'd the corners of the Conscience To Sinners stout which no Law could bring under To them he was a Son of dreadful Thunder When all strong Oaks of Bashan us'd to quake And fear did Lebanus his Cedars shake The stoutest Hearts he filled full of fears He clave the Rocks they melted into tears Yet to sad Souls with sense of Sin cast down He was a Son of Consolation Sweet peace he gave to such as were centrite Their darkness sad he turn'd to joyous light Of Preaching he had learn'd the rightest Art To every one dividing his own part Each Ear that heard him said He spake to me So piercing was his holy Ministrie His Life did shine Times Changes stain'd it not Envy it self could not there finde a spot Had he surviv'd to finish Works begun 'T had been a Blessing to all Christendome Then should the world have known what God had show'd him And what themselves for all his Works had ow'd him But this unthankfull Age is now cut short Of that rich Treasure ' cause they car'd not for 't O that his love may turn us yet to prize The blessings yet enjoy'd herein be wise Lest that which he not long ago foretold Be now in us fulfil'd as 't was of old That wantonness of Churches would bereave Them of their Ministers without their leave God plaguing this his messengers contempt With this soul-stroying Plague and Punishment But whatsoever wrath doth us abide Whatever plague for sin doth us betide Yet thou O blessed Saint art now at rest I' th bosom of thy Christ which is the best Bathing in rivers of divine pleasure Which is at Gods right hand most sweet and pure Tasting the fruit of all thy labours spent To honour God which was thy whole intent From God thou camest forth who sent thee hither And now hath call'd thee back to live together Him didst thou serve while life and breath did last With him now blest while life and breath is past Sense of our loss would call thee back again But out of love we bid thee there remain Till we yet left behinde our course fulfil To meet thee on the top of Zion hill When thou and we shall both rejoyce together So fast united as no death shall sever Both to sing praises to our heavenly King Who hath us saved from deaths poisonous sting And will restore our bodies from the grave Which them to dust of death consumed have Making them shine like brightness of the Sun With Glory ne'r to end when once begun Let Heaven and Earth Angels and Men him praise Sounding his Glory past all length of dayes P. B. 1648. THis Year Mr. William Bradford was elected Governour of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth And were chosen his Assistants in Government Mr. Thomas Prince Mr. William Collier Captain Miles Standish Mr. Timothy Hatherly Mr. John Brown Mr. William Thomas 1649. THis Year Mr. William Bradford was Elected Governour of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth were Chosen his Assistants in Government Mr. Thomas Prince Mr. William Collier Captain Miles Standish Mr. Timothy Hatherly Mr. John Brown And Mr. William Thomas This Year Mr. John Winthrop Governour of the Jurisdiction of the Massachusets deceased the twenty sixth day of March about ten of the clock The death of Mr. Winthrop He was singular for Piety Wisdom and of a publick spirit he brought over a great estate into the Country and partly by his liberality partly by the unfaithfulness of his Baily spent the most part of it so as when he died he was but low in that respect and yet notwithstanding very much honoured and beloved of the most and continued in the place of Governour for the most part until his death which was much lamented by many He was a man of unbyassed Justice patient in respect of personal wrongs and injuries a great lover of the Saints especially able Ministers of the Gospel very sober in desiring and temperate in improving earthly contentments very humble courteous and studious of general good His body was with great solemnity and honour buried at Boston in New-England the third of April 1649. This year some parts of the Country was much troubled with numerable hosts of Caterpillers An innumerable company of catterpillers in some parts of the Country which destroyed the fruits of the earth in divers places and did eat off the leaves of the trees so as they looked as bare as if it had been winter and in some places did eat the leaves from off the Pease straw and did not eat the Pease It pleased God to give them a check and a rebuke so as they hurt but in some places and of his goodness in short time removed them This Year August 25. that faithful and eminent servant of Christ Mr. Thomas Shepard died who was a soul-searching Minister of the Gospel and Pastor of the Church of Christ at Cambridge By his death not only that Church and people but also all New-England sustained a very great loss he not only preached the Gospel profitably and very successively but also hath left behinde him divers worthy works of special use in reference unto the clearing up the state of the
with you I was one of those That labour'd faithfully Gods Vineyard in Sowing his Seed and plucking up of Sin Now is the Harvest to my self indeed The Lord grant a supply of one to feed Your Souls with heavenly food and one to lead In wayes of God untill his Courts you tread Next to Gods love my Flock love one another And next to Christ preserve love to thy Brother Let ever precious be in your esteem Gods holy Word and such as slight it deem Of Serpents brood whatever they pretend By no means to such Blasphemies attend Decline all wanderings lest from all you stray If stept aside return in this your day Keep close to God so he that is Most High Shall you preserve as Apple of his Eye And give you peace on Earth Tranquillity Mansions in Heaven to Eternity VVhere we that Death doth for a time now sever Shall meet embrace and shall not part for ever R un is his Race A nd his work done L eft Earthly place P artridge is gone H e's with the Father and the Son P ure joyes and constant do attend A ll that so live such is their end R eturn he shall with Christ agen T o Judge both just and sinful men R ais'd is this Bird of Paradise I oy Heaven entred breaks the ice D eath under foot he trodden hath G race is to Glory straitest Path E ver enjoyes Love free from wrath This year on the last day of July it pleased God that by Thunder and Lightning one John Philips of Marshfield in the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth was suddenly slain Also in the moneth of August it pleased God to take away by death Mr. VVilliam Paddy who was a precious Servant of Christ endued with a meek and quiet Spirit of a courteous behaviour to all men and was very careful to nourish an intimate Communion with God He was Instrumental in his place for common good both in the Church being sometimes by Office a Deacon of the Church of Christ at Plimouth and in other respects very officious as occasion did require He having a great Temporal Estate was occasioned thereby to have abundance of business upon him but when he was to put off this his earthly Tabernacle he laid aside all his earthly Incumbrances and Occasions even as one would have taken off a garment and laid it down and without any trouble of Spirit on that behalf prepared himself for his Journey to the Everlasting Mansions prepared for him by his Lord and Master in the highest Heavens whereof he was well assured as to the like effect he spake some words to Mr. Norton near unto the period of his life and so falling asleep in the Lord he was buried at Boston with honour and great lamentation in the year and moneth above-mentioned One who was well acquainted with his Worth and gracious Endowments presented this following as a Testimoniall of his good respects of him W eep not dear Wife Childeren nor dear Friends I live a life of Joyes that never ends L ove God and fear him to end of your dayes L ive unto him but die to sin alwayes I n heavenly place of Bliss my Soul doth rest A mong the Saints and Angels I am blest M uch better here then in the world at best P raising my God is now my great imploy A bove such troubles as did me annoy D id but my friends know what I here possess D oubtless it would cause them to mourn the less Y our Souls with mine ere long shall meet in bliss 1659. THis Year Mr. Thomas Prince was Chosen Governour of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth were Chosen Assistants to him in Government Mr. William Collier Mr. John Alden Captain Thomas Willet Major Josias Winslow Lieut. Thomas Southworth Mr. VVilliam Bradford Mr. Thomas Hinkley Having noted before That in the Year 1657. there arrived in the Colony of New-Plimouth many of that pernicious Sect called Quakers the Reader may take notice That by this time and for some years after New-England in divers parts of it abounded with them and they sowed their corrupt and damnable Doctrines both by word and writings almost in every Town of each Jurisdiction some whereof were That all men ought to attend to the Light within them to be the Rule of their Lives and Actions and That the holy Scriptures were not for the inlightning of man nor a setled and permanent Rule of life They denied the Manhood of the Lord Jesus Christ and affirmed That as Man he is not in Heaven They denied the Resurrection from the dead They affirmed That an absolute Perfection in Holiness or Grace is attainable in this life They placed their Justification upon their Patience and Suffering for their Opinions and on their righteous life and retired demurity and affected singularity both in word and gesture As to Civil account they allowed not nor practised any civil respect to man though superiours either in Magistratical consideration or as Masters or Parents or the Ancient neither by word nor gesture They deny also the use of Oathes for the deciding of Civil Controversies with other abominable Opinions Dreams and Conceits which some of them have expressed tending to gross Blasphemy and Atheism This efficacy of Delusion became very prevalent with many so as the number of them increased to the great endangering of the subversion of the whole both of Church and Common-wealth notwithstanding the endeavours of those in Authority to suppress the same had not the Lord declared against them by blasting their Enterprizes Contrivements so as they have of late withered away in a great measure sundry of their Teachers and Leaders which have caused them to erre are departed the Country and we trust the Lord will make the folly of the remainder manifest to all men more and more Errour is not long-lived the day will declare it Let our deliverance from so eminent a danger be received amongst the principal of the Lords gracious Providences and merciful loving kindnesses towards New-England for the which let present and future generations celebrate his Praises This year that Learned and godly Servant of God Mr. Henry Dunster fell asleep in the Lord. He was sometimes President of Harvard Colledge at Cambridge in New-England in which he approved himself to the satisfaction of such as were in those Affairs concerned Afterwards he came into the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth and lived awhile in the Town of Scituate and was useful in helping to oppose the abominable Opinions of the Quakers fore-mentioned and in the defending of the Truth against them He deceasing in the said Town of Scituate his Body was embalmed and removed unto Cambridge aforesaid and there honourably buried 1660. THis Year Mr. Thomas Prince was Chosen Governour of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth were Chosen Assistants to him in Government Mr. William Collier Mr. John Alden Captain Thomas Willet Major Josias Winslow Capt. Tho Southworth Capt. VVilliam Bradford Mr. Thomas Hinkley This
the Earth as is before-noted If the Effects of them usually are such Exod. 19.18 Psal 29 6. 104.32 Matth. 28.2 Psal 18.15 Zech. 14.4 Rev. 6.12 14. Mat 27 51. Acts 16.25 as by them is sometimes a discovery of the Channels of Water and Foundations of the World the Removing of Mountains from one place to another the Cleaving of Rocks and opening of Graves and of Gates yea the throwing down of many famous Buildings and Cities and some swallowed up and many thousands of people destroyed thereby the turning of plain Land into Mountains the throwing down of Mountains and raising up of Islands in the Sea the breaking out of Rivers where there were none before the discovery of burning Mountains where there were none seen before Famine and Pestilence of which particulars divers instances might be produced out of the Sacred Scriptures and several other Authors Ought we not then to fear and tremble before so great a God who as one saith by his Handmaid Nature doth so terribly shake the Earth as no Land can be sure no place so strong that can defend us Nay the more strong the more dangerous for the higher the greater the fall Let us therefore say with the Wise-man Eccles 3 14. I know that whatsoever God doth shall stand for ever nothing can be put to it nor any thing taken from it and God doth it that men should fear before him This Year Mr. John Brown ended this life in his younger Years travelling into the low Countries he came acquainted with and took good liking to the Reverend Pastor of the Church of Christ at Leyden as also to sundry of the Brethren of that Church which ancient amity induced him upon his coming over to New England to seat himself in the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth in which he was chosen a Magistrate in which place he served God and the Country several Years he was well accomplished with abilities to both civil and religious concernments and attained through Gods grace unto a comfortable perswasion of the love and favour of God to him he falling sick of a Feaver with much serenity and spiritual comfort fell asleep in the Lord and was honourably buried at Wannamoiset near Rehoboth in the spring of the Year abovesaid 1663. THis Year Mr. Thomas Prince was Chosen Governour of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth were chosen to be his Assistants in Government Mr. William Collier Mr. John Alden Capt. Thomas Willet Major Josias Winslow Capt. Thomas Southworth Capt. VVilliam Bradford Mr. Thomas Hinckley This year Mr. Samuel Newman Teacher of the Church of Christ at Rehoboth changed this life for a better He was sometimes Preacher of Gods Word at Weymouth in the Jurisdiction of the Massachusets and from thence removed to Rehoboth where he continued in the Work of the Ministry untill the end of his dayes He was a lively dispenser of the Word of God and of a pious life very hospitable and at the close of his life very full of joy and comfort and with chearfulness of spirit resigned himself up to the Lord and his Spirit into arms of his blessed Redeemer desiring that the holy Angels might do their office in transporting his Soul into everlasting bliss and happiness He fell asleep in the Lord on the the fifth of July 1663. This year also it pleased God to put a speedy period to the life of Mr John Norton who was a burning and a shining Light and although the Church of Boston in a more special manner felt the smart of this sudden blow yet it reflected upon the whole Land He was singularly endowed with the Tongue of the Learned inabled to speak a word in due season not onely to the wearied Soul but also a word of Counsel to a people in necessity thereof being not onely a wise Steward of the things of Jesus Christ but also a wise Statesman so that the whole Land sustained a great loss of him At his first coming over into New-England he arrived at Plimouth where he abode the best part of one Winter and Preached the Gospel of the Kingdome unto them and ever after to his dying day retained a good affection unto them From thence he went to Boston and from thence to Ipswich in New-England where he was chosen the Teacher of their Church and after the death of worthy Mr. Cotton he was sollicited and at length obtained to return to Boston and there served in that Office untill his death He was chosen by the Jurisdiction of the Massachusets together with the much honoured Mr. Simon Bradstreet to go over into England as Agents in the behalf of that Jurisdiction unto His Majesty and the Privy-Council upon Business of greatest Trust and Concernment and soon after his Return it pleased God suddenly and unexpectedly to take him away by death on the fifth day of April 1663. His Body was honourably buried at Boston On whose much lamented death take this following Elegie An Elegie on the Death of that Eminent Minister of the Gospel Mr. John Norton the Reverend Teacher of the Church of Christ at Boston who exchanged this life for a better April 5. 1663. ASk not the reason why Tears are our meat And none but Mourners seen in ev'ry street Our Crown alas is faln from our head We finde it off Woe to us NORTON's dead Our breach is like the Sea no healing's known To comfort Sions daughter is there none Oh teach your daughters Wailing every one Their Neighbours deepest Lamentation Oh that mine eyes a Fountain were of Tears I 'd day and night in Mourning spend my years My Father Father Israels Chariots thou And Horsemen wer 't Sons of the Prophets now Weep since your Master from your head is taken This Father of the Muses hath forsaken His Study here not liking our dark Roome Doth chuse those Mansions in his Fathers Home The Schoolmen's Doctors whomsoe're they call Subtile Seraphick or Angelicall Dull Souls their Tapers burnt exceeding dim They might to School again to learn of him Lombard must out of date we now profess Norton the Master of the Sentences Scotus a Dunce to him Should we compare Aquinas here none to be named axe Of a more heavenly strain his Notions were More pure sublime Scholastical and cleare More like the Apostles Paul and John I wist Was this our Orthodox Evangelist And though an Exile from his Native Land As John in Patmos was yet here the hand Of Christ leads forth more clearly to espy The New-Jerusalem in her bravery Who more Acute in Judgement was then he More famous too for Heavenly Policie He was a wise and faithful Counsellor One of a thousand an Interpreter Mighty in Word and Prayer who could have Whate're almost from Heaven he did crave On him with things without which I 'le not name The care of all the Churches daily came He car'd thus naturally Oh hear that Rod Which us bereav'd of such a Man of God! Zealous for Order very Criticall For