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A85462	Simplicities defence against seven-headed policy. Or, innocency vindicated, being unjustly accused, and sorely censured by that seven-headed church-government united in New-England: or, that servant so imperious in his masters absence revived, and now thus re-acting in Nevv-England. Or, the combate of the united colonies, not onely against some of the natives and subjects but against the authority also of the kingdom of England, ... Wherein is declared an act of a great people and country of the Indians in those parts, ... in their voluntary submission and subjection unto the protection and government of Old England ... Imprimatur, Aug. 3d. 1646. Diligently perused, approved, and licensed to the presse, according to order by publike authority.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1308; Thomason E360_16; ESTC R18590	106,374	127

verbatim and is stil extant Massachusets To our Neighbours of Providence WHereas William Arnald of Pautuxet and Robert Cole and others have lately put themselves and their families lands and estates under the protection and government of this Jurisdiction and have since complained to us that you have since upon pretence of a late purchase from the Indians gone about to deprive them of their lawfull interest confirmed by four years possession and otherwise to molest them We thought good therefore to write to you on their behalfe to give you notice that they and their lands c. being under our Jurisdiction we are to maintain them in their lawfull rights If therefore you have any just title to any thing they possesse you may proceed against them in our Court where you shall have equall justice But if you shall proceed to any violence you must not blame us if we shall take a like course to right them The 28o. of the 8o. 1642. Jo. Winthrop Governor Tho. Dudley Ri. Bellingham Incr. Nowell This Warrant being delivered unto us by their new made officer William Arnald in the name of the Massachusets we took into serious consideration having former experience abundantly of their unkind and inhumane dealing with us yea towards our wives and children when our selves were sometimes in banishments and sometimes in prison and irons by them before We thought it meet for the preservation of our peace together with that Compassion we had of our wives and little ones to leave our houses and the rest of our labors lying neer unto those their pretended subjects whom we saw maliciously bent and to remove our selves and families further off from the Massachusets and such their coadjutours being then amongst us For we saw that they did not only endeavor to take away our livelyhood but intended to take away our lives also in case they could find a way to satisfie the Country in doing of such an act and execution For we had never accusation brought in against us but what rose from the Magistrates and the Ministers for we walked so as to do no man wrong only justified the cause of our Religion as we had learned and received the principles thereof before we went amongst them as also the laws and government of this Kingdome of England unto which we ever willingly acknowledged our selves to be loyall subjects and therefore could not suffer our selves to be intrenched upon by our fellow subjects further then the laws of our King and State doth allow Now that they sought the lives of some of us at this time is evident For Iohn Warner Citizen and Freeman of London a man well known who afterwards was one of those against whom they now prosecuted having formerly had some businesse with Master Winthrop the Governor of the Massachusets he asked the said Warner living then in the Nanhyganset Bay whether he knew one Samuel Gorton a man also against whom they now prosecuted who lived also in the said Bay but at that time Iohn Warner had not seen him living a matter of twenty miles one from the other The Governor told him he was a man not fit to live upon the face of the earth also one of the Elders of the Church of Boston told a Minister who reported it in the place where Gorton lived That if they had Gorton at Boston in the Massachusets he would hardly see his own house any more yea one Master Collins a man of excellent parts of learning and of an unblameable life amongst men being Minister of one of the Western Islands from that report he heard of Religion came to new-New-England who married one of Mistresse Huchinsons daughters and being Francis Huchinson his brother in law was a member of the Church at Boston who seriously considering and laying to heart the wayes of their Church and the carriage of his brethren consulting with the Minister the two yong men could not have rest in their spirits till they went down to advise or debate the matter with the Church though they were come out from them and lived on Road Island in the Nanhyganset Bay and when they came to Boston and the Brethren were gathered together either to give or receive satisfaction when they saw the arguments produced by the Minister and his brother to weigh somewhat heavy then the strongest of their Church members of Boston namely the Governor and Assistants cast them in prison to regulate their opinion that differed from them and there kept them in durance for many Moneths but at the last setting them at liberty yet giving out some threatning words afterwards as though they would fetch them again the yong men could have no rest in their spirits day nor night till they were gone out further from the Massachusets then that Island was yea under some forreign government where the Massachusets could not pretend to have any thing to do for they had heard that the Massachusets intended to take in all the Nanhyganset Bay under their Government and Jurisdiction Whereupon Master Collins came where the aforesaid Gorton and his Family were namely at Providence and seriously advised him to go along to the Dutch Plantation or else to the Sweads for upon his knowledge the Massachusets intended in short time to take away his life if he aboad in any of the English Plantations for he had received certain information thereof whil'st he was amongst them shewing great affection to move him thereunto Gorton thanked him kindly for his love being but a stranger to him but told him he could not go under a forreign Prince for protection till he saw further then yet he did knowing he had neither been false to his King nor Country nor to his conscience in point of Religion so far as God had informed him But Master Collins and his Brother together with their Mother and whole Family for fear removed to the Dutch Plantation with divers other friends and families who were miserably massacred by those barbarous Indians both men women and children being then at war with the Dutch who took some of the English children out of families of good note as Captives and keep and train them up amongst themselves unto this day having most barbarously and cruelly slain their Parents who had been not a little carefull to train them up in their life time both in faith and manners But we removing ourselves as abovesaid into another part of the Nanhyganset Bay further from the Massachusets and where none of the English nor other Nations had any thing to do but only Indians the true natives of whom we bought a parcell of land called Shaw-omet as is abovesaid not only of Myantonomy chiefe Sachim or prince of those parts of the Country but also with the free consent of the Inhabitants of the place Now we plainly perceiving that the drift of the Massachusets and those joyned with them was not only to take the whole Country of the English Plantations into their

SIMPLICITIES DEFENCE against SEVEN-HEADED POLICY OR Innocency Vindicated being unjustly Accused and sorely Censured by that Seven-headed Church-Government United in NEW-ENGLAND OR That Servant so Imperious in his Masters Absence Revived and now thus re-acting in NEVV-ENGLAND OR The combate of the United Colonies not onely against some of the Natives and Subjects but against the Authority also of the Kingdme of England with their execution of Laws in the name and Authority of the servant or of themselves and not in the Name and Authority of the Lord or fountain of the Government Wherein is declared an Act of a great people and Country of the Indians in those parts both Princes and People unanimously in their voluntary Submission and Subjection unto the Protection and Government of Old England from the Fame they hear thereof together with the true manner and forme of it as it appears under their own hands and seals being stirred up and provoked thereto by the Combate and courses above-said Throughout which Treatise is secretly intermingled that great Opposition which is in the goings forth of those two grand Spirits that are and ever have been extant in the World through the sons of men from the beginning and foundation thereof Jmprimatur Aug. 3d. 1646. Diligently perused approved and Licensed to the Presse according to Order by publike Authority LONDON Printed by John Macock and are to be sold by LUKE FAVVNE at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the sign of the Parrot 1646. Vpon an occasionall view of this unexpected and much unwished for Story THis Story 's strange but altogether true Old Englands Saints are banisht out of New Oh Monstrous Art and cunning of the Devill What hidden paths he goes to spread his evill The Man of Sin 's the same his eldest Son Both have more shapes then be moats in the Sun Hence disappointed are the most of men When trouble 's past some thinke they rise agen Thus it befell these Pilgrims in that Land To which they fled from persecutions hand This Indians note with Papists Iews and Turks For in them all the selfe same spirit works Thus is the Name of Christ blaspem'd by these Who burthen them to whom they promise ease Oh Christ arise and spread thy glorious fame That all may know the sweetnesse of thy Name As● Affric Europe and America Expect and waite the dawnings of that day That Papists Greeks and we the Protestants Of Calvins Sect those too the Lutherans And they that are a streine above them all At Iesus feet at length may humbly fall That so such Christs which most in fancy make Whence 'tis Men think that Christendome doth shake May at th' appearing of the Lord depart And all may worship him ev'n with one heart That so the Nations may this glory see And into it at length transformed be This to effect can't be by sword of man But that which to with-stand no Kingdomes can For t is the Lords owne might the sword that doth Ev'n with two edges flow out of Gods mouth By which are slaine the wicked of each Land And will sure breake each Persecutors band Then England and Yee Nations round about That are now so lofty and so stout At length downe fall to him that 's Lord of you And learne with him like meeknesse for to show If you with iron Rods Saints breake and bruise Know then your selves that Christ you so will use R. B. A Lover of peace and one of eminent respect viewing this Treatise at the Presse kindly added this verse prefixed which hath both sodainly and unexpectedly drawn from my thoughts as here followeth as a testimony of my kind respects unto the party though but a stranger unto him it may also serve as an intelligencer what was the only ground of controversie in acting according unto and publishing of this Treatise THe serpent with a voyce so slie and fine Consults with nature as though he were divine Whil'st she doth seek for glory wealth and love In things that are below and not in that above Lending an ear to listen unto him The fruit looks fair the tree seems nothing grim And thence doth he at first begin t' arise Through earthly projects for to make man wise Whereas the light of heaven GOD himself ordain'd To be that thing whereby man is maintain'd In wisdom honor happiness and peace That doth from serpent sin death hell release And not conjectural doubtful subtil notion Set forth by art with sign of great devotion Come from the Prelates your persecuting foes Our Church as Primitive Christ Jesus doth disclose Her Ordinances pure a Church erected here Where you may worship voyd of care or fear Our Land is large Our Magistracy good Come o're to save that innocent-like blood From such as are to cruelty so bent Our ways are meek and humble to give all content Thus he appears apparrelled in white To snare in that wherein he takes delight An earthly Kingdom he would fain erect Then spiritual honor he must needs reject That when that woman appeareth in her glory With him in womb of whom intreats all story Then 's he a dragon red for to devour That child to whom is given all the power In heaven and in earth to rule as King and Lord. None to the serpent no heaven cannot afford A place of residence he must thence depart Down to the earth full sore against his heart That he a place cannot devise to frame Which from the heavens may seem to take its fame Cruel Raging Carnal now he cometh forth His slie and subtil wisdom now proves nothing worth This woman now in travel finds not time To listen unto him nought but the child is mine Which child in her can nothing else confesse But Throne of glory and bare Wildernesse Which twain together give all praise to one Then fury 's in the Serpent smooth policy is gone No middle place for Sathan now is found Not one with th' manehild down he goes to ground His cunning cannot now intice so far But Michael and his Angels wil make War With Dragon and with all his Angels great Yea overcome him never sound retreat Most of his skil he useth he knows how To talk of benefits to receive although not now And so from place and person still delights to wend Where 's outward peace there 's Christ doth he pretend And if so be that troubles do arise Himself he saves the serpent is so wise No tye to fold nor flock he then wil know Christ in an earthly peace he 'l have where e're he go Whereas our Lord his voyce doth sometimes teach Go to Decapolis and there thou shalt me preach Unto ten Cities great the number bee My Word shal reach them and I am with thee For I am truth and truth thou goest to show Which makes thee free my presence thou dost know No place can scant thee off then walke at large Doubt not I 'm

are very consciencious to recompense the shedding of blood especially of such personages with blood againe But when wee were come to the old Sachims house we were courteously entertained and from thence conducted to the house of Sachim Pessecus Brother and successor in government to the late Myantonomy when we were there divers Sachims and their chiefe Counsellors took us aside to consult with us and asked what we intended to doe or how we could live seeing the Massachusets had not onely taken our estates from us in goods and ●hattels but also our houses lands and labours where we should raise more for the preservation of our Families and with●ll told us that their condition might in great measure he paraleld with ours else they would willingly have done any thing for our helpe in regard that our Land was bought of the● and we had faithfully paid them for it according to our co●tract But they told us they had not only lost their Sachim so beloved amongst them and such an instrument of their publick good but had also utterly impoverished themselves by paying such a ransome for his life as they then made u● an account of notwithstanding his life taken away and that detaine also we made answer unto them that for our p●●ts we were not discouraged in any thing that had b●faln● us for we were subjects to such a noble State in Old-England that however we were farre off from our King and Stat● yet we doubted not but in due time we should have redresse and in the mean time we were resolved to undergoe it with patience and in what way we could labor with our hands for the preservation of our wives and children the answer that they made unto us was this That they thought we belonged to a better Master then the Massachusets did whereupon desiring our stay they called a generall Assembly to make known th●ir minds and to see the minds of their people and with j●y●t and unanimous consent concluded to become subjects to the State and Government of Old-England in case they might be accepted of we told them we could promise them nothing nor take any ingagements upon us not knowing the minds of that Honourable State but if they would volunt●rily make tender of themselves as they themselves thought meet we would endeavour to convey it safely in case we went over about our own occasions and bring them word what was the pleasure of the State therein whereupon they chose four of us as Commissioners in trust for the safe custody and conveyance of their Act and Deed unto the State of old-Old-England The Act and Deed of the voluntary and free submission of the chiefe Sachim and the rest of the Princes with the whole people of the N●n●ygansets unto the government and protection of that Honourable State of old-Old-England se● down here verbatim the Deed it selfe being extant KNOW ALL MEN Colonies Peoples and Nations unto whom the fame hereof shall come that we the chiefe Sachims Princes or Governours of the Nanhyganset in that part of America now called New-England together with the joynt and unanimous consent of all our people and subjects inhabitants thereof do upon serious consideration mature and deliberate advise and Counsell great and weighty grounds and reasons moving us thereunto vvhereof one most effectuall unto us is That noble fame vve have heard of THAT GREAT AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES KING OF GREAT BRITAIN in that honorable and Princely care he hath of all his servants and true and loyall subjects the consideration vvhereof moveth bendeth our hearts vvith one consent freely voluntarily and most humbly to submit subject and give over our selves Peoples Lands Rights Inheritances and Possessions whatsoever in our selves and our heires succ●ssively for ever unto the protection care and government of that WORTHY AND ROYALL PRINCE CHARLES KING OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND his Heirs and Successors for ever to be ruled and governed according to those ancient and honourable Lawes and customs established in that so renovvned Realme and Kingdome of Old-England vve doe therefore by these Presents confesse and most vvillingly and submissively acknovvledge our selves to be the humble loving and obedient servants and subjects of His Majesty to be ruled ordered and disposed of in our sel●es and ours according to his Princely vvisdom counsel a●d l●vves of ●hat honourable State of old-Old-England UPON CONDITION OF HIS MAIESTIE● ROY●●E PROTECTION and righting of us in what wrong is or may be done unto us according to his honourable Lavves and customs exercised amongst his subjects in their preservation and safety and in the defeating and overthrow of h●● and their enemies not that we find our selves necessitated hereunto in respect of our relation or occasion we have or may have with any of the natives in these parts knowing our selves sufficient defence and able to judge in any matter o● cause in that respect but have just cause of jealousie and suspicion of some of His Majesties pretended subjects Therefore our desire is to have our matters and causes heard and tried according to his just and equal Laws in that way and order His Highnes●e shal please to appoint NOR CAN WE Y●●●D OVER OUR SELVES UNTO ANY THAT ARE SUBIECTS THEMSELVES IN ANY CASE having ourselvs bin the chiefe Sachims or Princes successively of the countrey time out of mind and for our present lawful enacting hereof being so farre remote from His Majestie we have by joynt consent made choyse of four of his loyall and loving Subjects our trusty and well beloved friends Samuel Gorton Iohn Wickes Randall Ho●lden and Ioh● Warner whom we have deputed and made our lawfull A●●●rnies or Commissioners not only for the acting and performing of this our Deed in the behalfe of His Highnesse but also for the safe custody carefull conveyance and declar●tion ●●ereof unto his grace being done upon the Lands of the Nanhyganset ●t a Court or Generall Assembly called and assemble● together of purpose for the publick enacting and manifest●●ion hereof And for the further confirmation and establishing of this our Act and Deed we the above-said Sachims or Princes have according to that commendable custome of English-men subscribed our names and set our Seales hereunto as so many Testimonies of our faith and truth our love and loyaltie to that our dread Soveraigne and that according to the English mens account Dated the nineteenth day of Aprill One thousand six hundred forty foure Pessicus his Marke Chiefe Sachim and Successor of that late deceased Myantonomy The Marke of that Ancient Conaunicus Protector of that late deceased Myantonomy during the time of his nonage The Marke of Mixan son and heir of that above-said Conaunicus Indians Witnessed by two of the chiefe Counsellors to Sachim Pessicus A●washo●sse his Mark Tomanick his Mark Sealed and delivered in the presence of these persons English Christopher Helme Robert Potter Richard C●rder Here followeth a Copie of a Letter sent to the Massachusets by the Sachi●ns of

the Nanhygansets shortly after their subjection to the State and Government of Old-England they being sent unto by the Massachusets to make their appearance at their Generall Cour● th●n approaching We understand your desire is that we should come downe into the Massachusets at the time of your Court now approaching our occasions at this time are v●●y great and the more because of the losse in that m●nner of our late deceased brother upon which occasion if we should not stirre our selves to give Testimony of our faithfulnesse unto the cause of that our so unjust deprivation of such an instrument as he was amongst us for our common good we should feare his blood would lie upon our selves so that we desire of you being wee take you for a wise people to let us know your reasons why you seeme to advise us as you doe not to g●e out against our so inhumane and cruell adversary who too●e so great a ransome to release him and his life also when that was done Our Brother was willing to stirre much abroad to converse with men and wee see a sad event at the last the●eupon Take it not ill therefore though we resolve to keepe at home unlesse some great necessitie call us out and so at t●is time doe not repaire unto you according to your request And the rather because we have subjected our selves our Land● and Possessions with all the right and inheritances of us and our people either by conquest voluntary subjection or otherwise unto that famous and honourable government of that Royall King Charles and that State of old-Old-England to be ordered and governed according to the Laws and Customs thereof not doubting of the continuance of tha● former love that hath been betwixt you and us but rather to have it increased hereby being subjects now and that with joynt and voluntary consent unto the same King and State your selves are So that if any small thing of difference should fall out betwixt us only the sending of a Messenger may bring it to right againe but if any great matter should fall which we hope and desire will not nor may not then neither your selves nor we are to be Judges but both of us are to have recourse and repaire unto that honourable and just Government and for the passage of u● or our men to and againe amongst you about ours or their own occasions to have comerse with you we desire and hope they shall have no worse dealing or entertainment then formerly we have had amongst you and do resolve accordingly to give no worse respect to you or yours then formerly you have found amongst us according to the condition and manner of our countrey Nanhyganset this present May the 24. 1644. PESSICVS his Marke CONAVNICVS his Marke Now before the assembling of the next generall Court in regard the Indians had expressed themselves as above we heard there were feares and jealousies raised up in the minds of the people of the Massachusets and other of their united Colonies as though there was some danger of the Nanhygansets comming against them to doe some hurt unto them So that when we heard their Court was assembled we writ unto them a● follows A true Copie of a Letter sent to the M●ss●chus●ts at a generall Court held shortly after the submission of the people of the Nanhygansets unto the State of Old-England by the Commissioners put in trust for the further publication of their solemne Act. THese are to let you understand tha● since you expelled us out of your Coasts the Sachims of the Nanhyganset have sent for certaine men of the Kings Majesties subjects and upon advised Counsell amongst themselves a generall Assembly being called of purpose for that end they have joyntly voluntarily and with unanimous consent submitted and subjected themselves with their Lands and Possessions inherited by lineall discent voluntary subjection right of Conquest purchase or otherwise what ever lands or priviledges appertain and belong unto them unto that honourab●e and famous Prince Charles King of Great Britain and Ireland in that renowned State and Government of old-Old-England to be ruled and ordered according to those honourable Laws and Customs in themselves and their Successors for eve● which is performed and done in that solemn durable and commendable custome of Record under divers and severall han●● and seals witnessed sufficiently both by the Natives and English solemnly delivered and received on His Majesties behalfe holding correspondencie with the Laws and Customs of th●● honourable State of Old-England in all points We thought good therefore to give notice hereof at your generall Court now assembled that it may serve to informe your selves and all your united Colonies of the performance of this Act done without any further pains or trouble that so not our selves only that are eye and ear witnesses hereof but you also may follow our occasions and imployments without any extraordinar care or feare of the people above-said to offer to make a●y in-road or give any assault upon us But with that indigni●y offered and done unto their Soveraign which cannot be borne nor put up without a sharpe and Princely revenge nor may we upon the like penalty offer to disturbe them in their bounds and territories in their ordinary and accustomed imployments among themselves or with any of their neighbouring Natives whose grounds of proceed causes and occasions are better known unto themselves then we can be able to judge of But if either you or we find any thing amongst them too grievous to be borne they not making any violent assault upon us we know whither and to whom we are to repaire and have recourse for redresse as we tender our allegeance and subjection unto our King and State unto which they are become fellow subjects with our selves and therefore of necessity his Majesties Princely care must reach unto them Furthermore that it may appeare that our dealings towards you and all men have been and shall prove just and true whatever your dealings may or have manifested themselves to be towards us Know therefore that being abroad of late about our occasions we fell to be where one of the Sachims of that great people of the Maukquogges was with some of his men whom we perceive are the most fierce and warlike people in the countrey or continent where we are furnished with 3700. guns men expert in the use of them plenty of powder and shot with furniture for their bodies in time of warre for their safety which other Natives have not we understand that of late they have slain a hundred French with many Indians which were in league with the French putting many of them to cruell tortures and have but lost two of their own men these being as we understand deeply affected with the Nanhygansets in the losse of their late Sachim unjust detaining also of so great a ransome given and received for his life and else are resolved that if any people offer to assault them in