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

Massachusetts Colony in N. E. objected against Sir E. A. and others Seized and Secured by the people there Moreover there are other matters referring to Sir E. A. which caused great and almost Universal Jealousie of him For 1. His Commission was such as would make any one believe that a Courtier in the time of the Late King James spoke true who said Sir E. A. was sent to New-England on purpose to be a Plague to the people there For he with three or four more none of them chosen by the people but rather by that Implacable Enemy who prosecuted the Quo Warranto 's against their Charters had power given them to make Laws and raise what Moneys they should think meet for the support of their own Government and he had power himself alone to send the best and most useful Men a Thousand Miles and further if he would out of the Countrey and to Build Cities and Castles in the Air if he could and demolish them again and make the Purses of the Poor people pay for it all Such a Commission was an unsufferable grievance and no honest Englishman would ever have accepted of it or acted by it Secondly Jealousies were augmented by his involving the Countrey in a War with the Indians by means whereof he hath occasioned the Ruine of many Families and Plantations yea the Death or Captivity of we know not how many Souls For he went with the Rose Frigat and violently seized and took and carried away in a time of peace all the Houshold Goods and Merchandises of Monsieur Casteen a Frenchman at Penobscot who was Allied to the Indians having Married the Daughter of one of their Princes whom they call Sagamores or Sachems and when this was done it was easie to foresee and was generally concluded that the French and Indians would soon be upon the English as it quickly came to pass After the Flame was kindled and Barbarous Outrages committed by the Indians Sir Edmund's managery was such as filled the Countrey with greater fears of an horrid design For Bloody Indians whom the English had secured were not only dismissed but rather courted than punished by him 3. It cannot be exprest what just and amazing fears surprized the People of new-New-England when they had notice of the Late King James's being in France lest Sir E. A. whose Governour and Confident he was should betray them into the Power of the French King other circumstances concurring to strengthen these fears The Mohawks and other Indians were in hostility against the French and it was very advantagious to the English Interest to have it so but Sir E. caused them to make a Peace with the French whereby the French Interest in those parts was strengthened and the English weakened Mr. Peter Reverdy a French Protestant in his Memoirs concerning Sir E. A. complains of this After that Sir E.A. and his Complices were secured such reports and informations came to hand as made new-New-England admire the Divine Providence in accomplishing what was done against the late Oppressors They then saw the persons from whom they suspected the greatest danger were now incapable of betraying them If an unaccountable Instinct and Resolution had not animated the Inhabitants in and about Boston to seize on those few men the People there believe N. E. would have been in the hands not of King William but King Lewis e're this day For in Sept. 1689. several Vessels belonging to N. E. were taken near Cansir in America by some French Men of War The Prisoners since at liberty inform that the French told them that there was a Fleet of Ships bound from France directly for Boston in N. E. but some of them were taken by the English Ships of War and three or four of them lost at New-found-land and that Sir E. A. had sent to the French King for them to come over and the Countrey should be delivered up And the Lieutenant of a French-man of War professed that if Sir E. A. had not been imprisoned they would then have gone to Boston This shews what a good Opinion the French had of him and such reports so testified made a strange impression on the spirits of the People throughout the Countrey And that the World may see we do not write Fictions of our own the subsequent Affidavits are produced and here inserted John Langford of Salem testifieth That he being in the Ketch Margaret of Salem Daniel Gygles Commander they were taken by the French Ships off of Tarbay in America near Cansir on Tuesday the 17th day of September last past and being put on board of the Admiral viz. The Lumbuscado and in the said Ship carried a Prisoner to Port Royal and then did hear several of the Company on board the said Ship say that they came directly from France and that there was ten or twelve Sail of them Ships of War that came in company together but some of them were taken upon the Coast of France and some were lost since and that they were all bound directly for N. E. and that Sir E. A. late Governour of N. E. had sent to the French King for them to come over and the Countrey should be delivered up into his hands and that they expected that before they should arrive it would have been delivered into the hands of the French John Langford Benjamin Majery of Salem Jersey-man also testifieth That he being taken the same day and at the same place in the Ketch Diligence Gilbert Peters Commander as is abovesaid in the Evidence of John Langford he heard the same related by several of the company on board the other French Ship of War that was in company with the Lumbuscado viz. The Frugum so called that there was ten Sail of them came out directly from France together that Sir E. A. late Governour of N. E. had sent to the King of France for them to come over and he would deliver the Countrey into their hands and that they were bound directly for Boston in N. E. but had lost most of their Ships coming over The mark M of Benjamin Majery John Langford and Benjamin Majery both made Oath to the truth of these their respective Evidences in Salem Novemb. 23. 1689. Before me John Hathorne Assistant Joshua Conant testifieth That he being Commander of the Ketch Thomas and Mary of Salem he was taken by three French Ships off from Tarbay near Cansir upon Tuesday the 17th of September last two of which were Ships of War the other a Merchant-man and being put on board the Admiral viz. the Lumbuscado and therein carried to Port-Royal a Prisoner Mr. Mero told me that the French on board told him that there was ten Sail of them Ships of War came out in company together from France and that they came directly from France and were bound to Boston in N. E. and that Sir E. A. had sent to the French King for them and that the Countrey was to be delivered up into their hands but

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

Principal men there shall keep them from Ravening that this is the Sin of Rebellion condemned in the Scripture How or by whose Authority our Lawyer comes to play the Divine we know not But since he hath thought meet to take a Spiritual Weapon into his hand let him know that the Scripture speaks of a lawful and good Rebellion as well as of that which is unlawful It is said of good Hezekiah that he Rebelled against the King of Assyria and served him not 2 Kings 18.7 Indeed reviling Rabshakch upbraided him and said as in verse 20. thou Rebellest not unlike to Captain Palmer saying to N. E. thou rebellest Hezekiahs predecessours had basely given away the Liberties of the people and submitted to the Arbitrary Power of the Assyrians and therefore Hezekiah did like a worthy Prince in casting off a Tyrannical Government and asserting the Liberty of them that were the Lords People and God did signally own and prosper him in what he did and would never permit the Assyrian to regain his Tyrannical Power over Jerusalem or the Land of Judah though for their tryal he permitted their Enemies to make some Devastations among them The like we hope may be the happy case of New England Mr. Palmer tells us that N. E. hath valued it self for the true profession and pure exercise of the Protestant Religion but he intimates that they will be termed a Land full of Hypocrisie and Rebellion Irreligion and a degenerate wicked people p. 39. And is this the Sincerity and Christian Moderation which he boasts himself of in his Preface Surely these are the Hissings of the Old Serpent and do sufficiently indicate whose Children the men are that use them Since he will be at Divinity let him if he can read the Apologies written by Justin Martyr and Tertullian and there see if Pagans did not accuse Christians of Old just after the same manner and with the same Crimes that he wickedly upbraids that Good and Loyal People with Who are they that use to call the Holiest and most Conscientious men in the World Hypocrites Liars Rebels and what not but they that are themselves the greatest Hypocrites Liars and Rebels against Heaven that the Earth does bear It is hard to believe that Captain Palmer does not rebel against the light of his own Conscience when he affirms as in Page 38 that in N. E. every thing that hath any relations to their Majesties is neglected and unregarded without any recognition of their Authority over those dominions He cannot be ignorant of the humble Addresses which the people in N. E. have from time to time made to their present Majesties acknowledging their Authority He knows that on the first notice of their Majesties being proclaimed King and Queen in England both those now in Government in N. E. and the body of the people with them did without any command of their own accord with the greatest Joy proclaim their Majesties in N. E. he knows that their Majesties have no subjects more cordially and zealously devoted to them than those in N.E. are or that do with greater fervour pray for their long and happy Reigns or that are more willing to expose themselves to the utmost hazards in their service and yet this man that knoweth all this to cast an Odium on that Loyal and Good people insinuates as if they were Rebels and disaffected to the Present Government and designed to set up an Independant Common Wealth and had no regard to the Laws of God or Men. After this lying and malicious rate hath he exprest himself What Rational Charity can be extended so far as to believe that 't is possible for him to think that what himself hath written is true When Sanballat wrote that Nehemiah and the Jews with him intended to Rebel did he believe what he had written no he did not but feigned those things out of his own heart The like is to be said of those Sanballats that accuse the people of N. E. with thoughts of Rebellion And so we have done with Mr. Palmer What hath been said is sufficient to justify the Revolution in N. E. and to vindicate the People there from the Aspersions cast upon them by their Enemies Several Worthy Gentlemen have under their hands given an account concerning some of Sir Edmund's Arbitrary proceedings which is subscribed by five and more would have concurred with them had there been time to have communicated it of those who were of Sir Edmunds Council during his Government there and for that cause their complaints carry the more weight with them which shall therefore as a Conclusion be here subjoined Reader THere is such Notoriety as to Matter of Fact in the preceding Relation that they who Live in New-England are satify'd concerning the Particulars contained therein If any in England should Hesitate they may please to understand that Mr. Elisha Cooke and Mr. Thomas Oakes who were the last Year sent from Boston to appear as Agents in behalf of the Massachusetts Colony have by them Attested Copies of the Affidavits at least wise of most of them which are in this Vindication published and are ready if occasion serve to produce them FINIS