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A50149	Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governour in Chief of the province of the Massachuset-Bay, New England, containing the memorable changes undergone, and actions performed by him / written by one intimately acquainted with him.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.	1697 (1697)	Wing M1138; Wing P2135_CANCELLED; ESTC R931	77,331	134

it is now time for us to return unto Sir William SECT 13. ALL this while CANAD A was as much written upon Sir William's Heart as CALLICE they said once was upon Queen Maries He needed not one to have been his daily Monitor about Canada It lay down with him it rose up with him it engrossed almost all his Thoughts he thought the subduing of Canada to be the greatest service that could be done for New-England or for the Crown of England in America In parsuance whereof after he had been but a few Weeks at Home he took another Voyage for England in the very depth of Winter when Satling was now dangerous conflicting with all the Difficulties of a tedious and a terrible Passage in a very little Vessel which indeed was like enough to have perished if it had not been for the help of his Generous Hand aboard and His Fortunes in the bottom Arriving per tot Discrimina at Bristol he hastned up to London and made his Applications to Their Majesties and the Principal Ministers of State for assistance to Renew an Expedition against Canada concluding his Representation to the King with such Words as these If Your Majesty shall graciously please to Commission and Assist me I am ready to venture my Life again in your Service And I doubt not but by the Blessing of God Canada may be added unto the rest of your Dominions which will all circumstances considered be of more advantage to the Crown of England than all the Territories in the West-Indies are The Reasons here subjoined are humbly Offered unto Your Majesties Consideration First The Success of this Design will greatly add to the Glory and Interest of the English Crown and Nation by the Addition of the Bever-Trade and securing the Hudson's Bay Company some of whose Factories have lately fallen into the Hands of the French and increase of English Shipping and Seamen by gaining the Fishery of Newfoundland and by consequence diminish the number of French Scamen and cut off a great Revenue from the French Crown Secondly The Cause of the English in New-England their failing in the late Attempt upon Canada was their waiting for a Supply of Ammunition from England until August their long Passage up that River the cold Season coming on and the Small-Pox and Fevers being in the Army and Fleet so that they could not stay fourteen days longer in which time probably they might have taken Quebeck yet if a few Frigats be speedily sent they doubt not of an happy Success the strength of the French being small and the Planters desirous to be under the English Government Thirdly The Jesuites endeavour to seduce the Maqua's and other Indians as is by them affirmed suggesting the Greatness of King Lewis and the inability of King William to do any thing against the French in those Parts thereby to Engage them in their Interests In which if they should succeed not only New-England but all our American Plantations would be endangered by the Great Increase of Shipping for the French built in New-England at easie Rates to the Infinite Dishonour and Prejudice of the English Nation But now for the Success of these Applications I must entreat the Patience of my Reader to wait until we have gone through a little more of our History SECT 14. THE Reverend INCREASE MATHER beholding his Country of New-England in a very Deplorable Condition under a Governour that acted by an Iilegal Arbitrary Treasonable Commission and Invaded Liberty and Property after such a manner as that no man could say any thing was his own he did with the Encouragement of the Principal Gentlemen in the Country but not without much Trouble and Hazard unto his own Person go over to White-Hall in the Summer of the Year 1688. and wait upon King James with a full Representation of their Miseries That King did give him Liberty of Access unto him whenever he desired it and with many Good Words promised him to Relieve the Oppressed People in many Instances that were proposed But when the Revolution had brought the Prince and Princess of Orange to the Throne Mr. Mather having the Honour divers Times to Wait upon the King he still prayed for no less a Favour to New-England than the full Restoration of their Charter-Priviledges And Sr. William Phips happening to be then in England very Generously joined with Mr. Mather in some of those Addresses Whereto his Majestie 's Answers were always very expressive of his Gracious Inclinations Mr. Mather herein assisted also by the Right Worshipful Sr Henry Ashurst a most Hearty Friend of all such Good Men as those that once filled New-England solicited the Leading Men of both Houses in the Convention-Parliament until a Bill for the Restoring of the Charters belonging to New-England was sully Passed by the Commons of England but that Parliament being Prorogu'd and then Dissolved all that Sisyphaean Labour came to nothing The Disappointments which afterwards most wonderfully Blasted all the hopes of the Petitioned Restoration obliged Mr. Mather not without the Concurrence of other Agents now also come from New-England unto that Method of Petitioning the King for a New Charter that should contain more than all the Priviledges of the Old and Sir William Phips now being again returned into England lent his utmost Assistance hereunto The King taking a Voyage for Holland before this Petition was answered Mr. Mather in the mean while not only waited upon the greatest part of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council offering them a Paper of Reasons for the Confirmation of the Charter-Priviledges granted unto the Massachuset Colony but also having the Honour to be Introduc'd unto the Queen he assured Her Majesty That there were none in the World better affected unto Their Majesties Government than the People of New-England who had indeed been exposed unto great Hardships for their being so and entreated That since the King had referred the New-English Affair unto the Two Lord Chief Justices with the Attorney and Solicitor General there might be granted unto us what They thought was Reasonable Whereto the Queen replied That the Request was Reasonable and that She had spoken divers times to the King on the behalf of New-England and that for Her own Part She desired that the People there might not meerly have Justice but Favour done to them When the King was returned Mr. Mather being by the Duke of Devonshire brought into the King's Presence on April 28. 1691. Humbly Pray'd His Majesties Favour to New-England urging That if their Old Charter-Priviledges might be restored unto them his Name would be Great in those Parts of the World as long as the World should stand adding Sir Your Subjects there have been willing to venture their Lives that they may enlarge Your Dominions The Expedition to Canada was a great and Noble Vndertaking May it Please Your Majesty In your great Wisdom also to consider the circumstances of that People as in Your Wisdom you

the utmost Sincerity and Veracity of a Christian as well as an Historian in the History which I have now given of him I have not written of Sir William Phips as they say Xenophon did of Cyrus Non ad Historiae Fidem sed ad Effigiem veri imperii what should have been rather than what really was If the Envy of his few Enemies be not now Quiet I must freely say it That for many Weeks before he died there was not one Man among his personal Enemies whom he would not readily and chearfully have done all the kind Offices of a Friend unto Wherefore though the Gentleman in England that once published a Vindication of Sir William Phips against some of his Enemies chose to put the Name of Publicans upon them they must in this be counted worse than the Publicans of whom our Saviour says They Love those that Love them And I will say this further That when certain Persons had found the Skull of a Dead Man as a Greek Writer of Epigrams has told us they all fell a Weeping but only one of the Company who Laughed and Flouted and through an unheard of Cruelty threw Stones at it which Stones wonderfully rebounded back upon the Face of him that threw them and miserably wounded him Thus if any shall be so unchristian yea so Inhumane as libellously to throw Stones at so deserved a Reputation as this Gentleman has dyed withal they shall see a Just Rebound of all their Calumnies But the Name of Sir WILLIAM PHIPS will be heard Honourably mentioned in the Trumpets of Immortal Fame when the Names of many that Antipathied him will either be Buried in Eternal Oblivion without any Sacer Vates to preserve them or be remembred but like that of Pilate in the Gospel or Judas in the Creed with Eternal Infamy The old Persians indeed according to the Report of Agathias exposed their Dead Friends to be Torn in pieces by Wild Beasts believing that if they lay long unworried they had been unworthy Persons but all attempts of surviving Malice to demonstrate in that way the worth of this Dead Gentleman give me leave to Rate off with Indignation And I must with a like Freedom say That great was the Fault of New-England no more to value a Person whose Opportunities to serve all their Interests though very Eminent yet were not so Eminent as his Inclinations If this whole Continent carry in its very Name of AMERICA an unaccountable Ingratitude unto that Brave Man who first led any numbers of Europeans thither it must not be wondred at if now and then a particular Country in that Continent afford some Instances of Ingratitude But I must believe that the Ingratitude of many both to God and Man for such Benefits as that Country of New-England enjoy'd from a Governour of their own by whom they enjoyed great quietness with very worthy Deeds done unto that Nation by His Providence was that which hastned the Removal of such a Benefactor from them However as the Cyprians buried their Friends in Honey to whom they gave Gall when they were Bo●n thus whatever Gall might be given to this Gentleman while he lived I hope none will be so base as to put any thing but Honey into their Language of him now after his Decease And indeed since 't is a frequent thing among Men to wish for the Presence of our Friends when they are Dead and gone whom while they were present with us we undervalued there is no way for us to fetch back our Sir William Phips and make him yet Living with us but by setting up a Statue for him as 't is done in these Pages that may out-last an ordinary Monument Such was the original Design of erecting Statues and if in Venice there were at once no less than an Hundred and sixty two Marble and Twenty three Brazen Statues erected by the Order and at the Expence of the Publick in Honour of so many Valiant Souldiers who had merited well of that Common-Wealth I am sure New-England has had those whose Merits call for as good an acknowledgment and whatever they did before it will be well if after Sir William Phips they find many as meritorious as he to be so acknowledged Now I cannot my self provide a better Statue for this Memorable Person then the Words uttered on the occasion of his Death in a very great Assembly by a Person of so diffus'd and Embalm'd a Reputation in the Church of God that such a Character from him were enough to Immortalize the Reputation of the Person upon whom he should bestow it The Grecians employ'd still the most Honourable and Considerable Persons they had among them to make a Funeral Oration in Commendation of Souldiers that had lost their Lives in the Service of the Publick And when Sir William Phips the Captain General of new-New-England who had often ventured his Life to serve the Publick did expire that Reverend Person who was the President of the only University then in the English America Preached a Sermon on that Passage of the Sacred Writ Isa 57.1 Merciful Men are taken away none considering that the Righteous are taken away from the Evil to come and in it gave Sir William Phips the following Testimony This Province is Beheaded and lyes a Bleeding A GOVERNOUR is taken away who was a Merciful Man some think Too Merciful And if so 't is best Erring on that Hand and a Righteous Man who when he had great Opportunities of gaining by Injustice did refuse to do so He was a known Friend unto the best Interests and unto the Churches of God Not ashamed of owning them No how often have I heard him expressing his Desires to be an Instrument of Good unto them He was a zealous Lover of his Country if any Man in the World were so He exposed himself to serve it He ventured his Life to save it In that a true Nehemiah a Governour that sought the welfare of his People He was one who did not seek to have the Government cast upon him No but instead thereof to my Knowledge he did several Times Petition the King that this People might always enjoy the great Priviledge of choosing their own Governour and I have heard him express his Desires that it might be so to several of the Chief Ministers of State in the Court of England He is now Dead and not capable of being Flattered But this I must testifie concerning him That though by the Providence of God I have been with him at Home and Abroad near at Home and afar off by Land and by Sea I never saw him do any Evil Action or heard him speak any thing unbecoming a Christian The Circumstances of his Death seem to intimate the Anger of God In that he was in the Midst of his Days removed and I know though Few did that he had great Purposes in his Heart which probably would have taken Effect if he had lived a few Months longer to