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lord_n	henry_n	john_n	son_n	19,667	5	5.2650	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49890	Plain dealing, or, Nevves from New-England a short view of New-Englands present government, both ecclesiasticall and civil, compared with the anciently-received and established government of England in some materiall points : fit for the gravest consideratin in these times / by Thomas Lechford ...; Plain dealing	Lechford, Thomas, ca. 1590-1644?	1642 (1642)	Wing L810; ESTC R12846	46,269	88

He was forced to goe away from thence with his wife and children There are also in this Patent divers other Plantations as Sandwich Situate Duxbury Greenes-harbour and Yarmouth Ministers there are master Leveridge master Blackwood master Mathews and master Andrew Hallet a School-master Master Saxton also who was comming away when we did At the Island called Aquedney are about two hundred families There was a Church where one master Clark was Elder The place where the Church was is called Newport but that Church I heare is now dissolved as also divers Churches in the Country have been broken up and dissolved through dissention At the other end of the Island there is another towne called Portsmouth but no Church there is a meeting of some men who there teach one another and call it Prophesie These of the Island have a pretended civill government of their owne erection without the Kings Patent There lately they whipt one master Gorton a grave man for denying their power and abusing some of their Magistrates with uncivill tearmes the Governour master Coddington saying in Court You that are for the King lay hold on Gorton and he againe on the other side called forth All you that are for the King lay hold on Coddington whereupon Gorton was banished the Island so with his wife and children he went to Providence They began about a small trespasse of swine but it is thought some other matter was ingredient At Providence which is twenty miles from the said Island lives master Williams and his company of divers opinions most are Anabaptists they hold there is no true visible Church in the Bay nor in the world nor any true Ministerie This is within no Patent as they say but they have of late a kind of government also of their owne erection One master Blakeston a Minister went from Boston having lived there nine or ten yeares because he would not joyne with the Church he lives neere master Williams but is far from his opinions There are five or six townes and Churches upon the River Connecticot where are worthy master Hooker master Warham master Hewet and divers others and master Fenwike with the Lady Boteler at the rivers mouth in a faire house and well fortified and one master Higgison a young man their Chaplain These plantations have a Patent the Lady was lately admitted of master Hookers Church and thereupon her child was baptized The Lady Moody lives at Lynne but is of Salem Church shee is good Lady almost undone by buying master Humphries farme Swampscot which cost her nine or eleven hundred pounds Beyond Connecticott are divers plantations as New-haven alias Quinapeag where master Davenport is Pastor and one master Iames a Schoole-master and another where master Whitfield is and another where master Pridgeon is and some others almost reaching to the Dutch plantation southward Among these are my old acquaintance master Roger Ludlow master Frost sometime of Nottingham and his sonnes Iohn Grey and Henry Grey the Lord in his goodnesse provide for them they have a Minister whose name I have forgotten if it be not master Blackwell I do not know what Patent these have Long Island is begun to be planted and some two Ministers are gone thither or to goe as one master Peirson and master Knowles that was at Dover alias Northam A Church was gathered for that Island at Lynne in the Bay whence some by reason of straitnesse did remove to the said Island and one master Simonds heretofore a servant unto a good gentlewoman whom I know was one of the first Founders Master Peter of Salem was at the gathering and told me the said master Henry Simonds made a very cleare confession Notwithstanding he yet dwels at Boston and they proceed on but slowly The Patent is granted to the Lord Starling but the Dutch claime part of the Island or the whole for their plantation is right over against and not far from the South end of the said Isle And one Lieutenant Howe pulling downe the Dutch Arms on the Isle there was like to be a great stir what ever may become of it The Dutch also claime Quinapeag and other parts At Northam alias Pascattaqua is master Larkham Pastor One master H. K. was also lately Minister there with master Larkham They two fell out about baptizing children receiving of members buriall of the dead and the contention was so sharp that master K. and his party rose up and excommunicated master Larkham and some that held with him And further master Larkham flying to the Magistrates master K. and a Captaine raised Armes and expected helpe from the Bay master K. going before the troop with a Bible upon a poles top and he or some of his party giving forth that their side were Scots and the other English Whereupon the Gentlemen of Sir Ferdinando Gorges plantation came in and kept Court with the Magistrates of Pascattaqua who have also a Patent being weake of themselves And they fined all those that were in Armes for a Riot by Indictment Jury and Verdict formally Nine of them were censured to be whipt but that was spared Master K. and the Captain their leaders were fined 100. l. a piece which they are not able to pay To this broyle came master Peter of Salem and there gave his opinion at Northam that the said excommunication was a nullity Master Thomas Gorgs sonne of Captain Gorgs of Batcombe by Chedder in Somersetshire is principall Commissioner for the Province of Maigne under Sir Ferdinando but he was not at that Court at Northham himselfe Master Wards sonne is desired to come into the Province of Maigne There is one master Ienner gone thither of late There is want of good Ministers there the place hath had an ill report by some but of late some good acts of Justice have been done there and divers Gentlemen there are and it is a Countrey very plentifull for fish fowle and venison Not farre from Northam is a place called Exeter where master Wheelwright hath a small Church And at Cape Anne where fishing is set forward and some stages builded there one master Rashley is Chaplain for it is farre off from any Church Rashley is admitted of Boston Church but the place lyeth next Salem and not very far further from Ipswich The Isle of Shoales and Richmonds Isle which lie neere Pasquattaqua and good fishing places About one hundred and fifty leagues from Boston Eastward is the Isle of Sables whither one Iohn Webb alias Evered an active man with his company are gone with commission from the Bay to get Sea-horse teeth and oyle Eastward off Cape Codd lyeth an Island called Martins Vineyard uninhabited by any English but Indians which are very savage Northward from the Bay or Northeast lyeth the French plantation who take up bever there and keepe strict government boarding all