Merchant in the Beaver trade,) that came over for his conscience sake,
(as other men have done,) and the meanes, (as the phrase is,) who in
his minority had bin prentice to a tombe maker; who, comming to more
ripenes of yeares, (though lesse discretion,) found a kinde of scruple
in his conscience that the trade was in parte against the second
commandement:[529] and therefore left it off wholely, and betooke
himselfe to some other imployments.
~_An Elder._~
In the end hee settled upon this course, where hee had hope of
preferrement, and become one of those things that any Iudas might hange
himselfe upon, that is an Elder.
Hee had bin a man of some recconing in his time, (as himselfe
would boast,) for hee was an officer, just under the Exchequer at
Westminster, in a place called Phlegeton: there hee was comptroller,
and conversed with noe plebeians, I tell you, but such as have angels
or their attendance, (I meane some Lawyers with appertenances, that is,
Clarks,) with whome a Iugg of Beare and a crusty rolle in the terme is
as currant as a three penny scute at Hall time.
{166} There is another place thereby, called sticks: these are two
daingerous places, by which the infernall gods doe sweare: but this of
Sticks is the more daingerous of the two, because there, (if a man be
once in,) hee cannot tell how to get out againe handsomely.
I knew an under sheriff was in unawaires, and hee laboured to be free
of it: yet hee broake his back before he got so farre as quietus
est: There is no such danger in Phlegeton, where this man of so much
recconing was comptroller.
~_Iosua displeased._~
Hee being here, waited an opportunity to be made a gentl. and now it
fell out that a gentl. newly come into the land of Canaan, (before hee
knew what ground hee stood upon,) had incurred the displeasure of great
Iosua so highly that hee must therefore be digraded.
No reconciliation could be had for him: all hopes were past for that
matter: Where upon this man of much recconing (pretending a graunt of
the approach in avoydance,) helpes the lame dogge over the stile, and
was as jocund on the matter as a Magpie over a Mutton.
~_Master Temperwell._~
Wherefore the Heralls, with Drums, and Trumpets, proclaiming in a very
solemne manner that it was the pleasure of great Iosua, (for divers
and sundry very good causes and considerations, Master Temperwell
thereunto especially mooving,) to take away the title, prerogative and
preheminence of the Delinquent, so unworthy of it, and to place the
same upon a Professor of more recconing: so that it was made {167} a
penall thing for any man after to lifte the same man againe on the top
of that stile, but that hee should stand perpetually digraded from that
prerogative. And the place by this meanes being voyde, this man, of so
much more reckoning, was receaved in like a Cypher to fill up a roome,
and was made a Gentleman of the first head; and his Coate of Armes,
blazon’d and tricked out fit for that purpose, in this Poem following.
THE POEM.
_What ailes Pigmalion? Is it Lunacy;
Or Doteage on his owne Imagery?
Let him remember how hee came from Hell,
That after ages by record may tell
The compleate story to posterity.
Blazon his Coate in forme of Heraldry.
Hee beareth argent alwaies at commaund, ~_Put it this way._~
A barre between three crusty rolls at hand,
And, for his crest, with froth, there does appeare
Dextra Paw Elevant a Iugg of beare._
Now, that it may the more easily be understood, I have here endeavoured
to set it forth in these illustrations following: Pigmalion was an
Image maker, who, doteing on his owne perfection in making the Image of
Venus, grew to be a mazed man, like our Gentleman here of the first
head: and by the figure Antonomasia[530] is hee herein exemplified.
Hee was translated from a tombe maker to be the {168} tapster at hell,
(which is in Westminster, under the Ex-Chequer office,) for benefit
of the meanes hee translated himselfe into New England, where, by the
help of Beaver and the commaund of a servant or two, hee was advaunced
to the title of a gentleman; where I left him to the exercise of his
guifts.
CHAP. XXV.
_Of the manner how the Seperatists doe pay debts to them that are
without._[531]
~_Goode Payement._~
There was an honest man, one M^r. Innocence Fairecloath,[532] by M^r.
Mathias Charterparty sent over into New Canaan, to raise a very good
marchantable commodity for his benefit; for, whiles the man was bound
by covenant to stay for a time, and to imploy such servants as did
there belong to M^r. Charterparty,[533] hee disdained the tenents of
the Seperatists: and they also, (finding him to be none,) disdained to
be imployed by a carnall man, (as they termed him,) and fought occasion
against him, to doe him a mischeife. Intelligence was conveyed to M^r.
Charterparty that this man was a member of the Church of England, and
therefore, (in their account,) an enemy to their Church and state. And,
(to the end they might have some coloure against him,) some of them
practised to get into his debte, which hee, not mistrusting, suffered,
and gave credit for such Commodity as hee had sold at a price. When the
day of payment came, insteede of monyes, hee, being at that time sick
and weake and stood in neede of the Beaver hee had contracted for, hee
had an Epistle full of zealous exhortations to provide for the soule;
and {169} not to minde these transitory things that perished with the
body, and to bethinke himselfe whether his conscience would be so
prompt to demaund so greate a somme of Beaver as had bin contracted
for. Hee was further exhorted therein to consider hee was but a steward
for a time, and by all likely hood was going to give up an accompt of
his stewardship: and therfore perswaded the creditor not to load his
conscience with such a burthen, which hee was bound by the Gospell to
ease him of (if it were possible;) and for that cause hee had framed
this Epistle in such a freindly maner to put him in minde of it. The
perusall of this, (lap’d in the paper,) was as bad as a potion to the
creditor, to see his debtor Master Subtilety (a zealous professor as
hee thought) to deride him in this extremity, that hee could not chuse,
(in admiration of the deceipt,) but cast out these words:
Are these youre members? if they be all like these, I beleeve the
Divell was the setter of their Church.
~_Blasphemy an example for carnall men._~
This was called in question when M^r. Fairecloath least thought of
it. Capt. Littleworth must be the man must presse it against him, for
blasphemy against the Church of Salem: and to greate Iosua Temperwell
hee goes with a bitter accusation, to have Master Innocence made an
example for all carnall men to presume to speake the least word that
might tend to the dishonor of the Church of Salem; yea, the mother
Church of all that holy Land.
And hee convented was before their Synagoge, where no defence would
serve his turne; yet was there none to be seene to accuse him, save the
Court alone.
{170} The time of his sicknes, nor the urgent cause, were not allowed
to be urg’d for him; but whatsoever could be thought upon against him
was urged, seeing hee was a carnall man, of them that are without.
So that it seemes, by those proceedings there, the matter was
adjudged before he came: Hee onely brought to heare his sentence
in publicke: which was, to have his tongue bored through; his nose
slit; his face branded; his eares cut; his body to be whip’d in
every severall plantation of their Iurisdiction; and a fine of forty
pounds impos’d, with perpetuall banishment: and, (to execute this
vengeance,) Shackles,[534] (the Deacon of Charles Towne,) was as ready
as Mephostophiles, when Doctor Faustus was bent upon mischeife.
Hee is the purser generall of New Canaan, who, (with his whipp, with
knotts most terrible,) takes this man unto the Counting howse: there
capitulates with him why hee should be so hasty for payment, when
Gods deare children must pay as they are able: and hee weepes, and
sobbes, and his handkercher walkes as a signe of his sorrow for Master
Fairecloaths sinne, that hee should beare no better affection to the
Church and the Saints of New Canaan: and strips Innocence the while,
and comforts him.
~_Notable Pay._~
Though hee be made to stay for payment, hee should not thinke it
longe; the payment would be sure when it did come, and hee should have
his due to a doite; hee should not wish for a token more; And then
tould it him downe in such manner that hee made Fairecloaths Innocent
back like the picture of Rawhead and blowdy bones, and his shirte
like a {171} pudding wifes aperon. In this imployment Shackles takes
a greate felicity, and glories in the practise of it. This cruell
sentence was stoped in part by Sir Christopher Gardiner, (then present
at the execution,) by expostulating with Master Temperwell: who was
content, (with that whipping and the cutting of parte of his eares,) to
send Innocence going, with the losse of all his goods, to pay the fine
imposed, and perpetuall banishment out of their Lands of New Canaan, in
terrorem populi.
Loe this is the payment you shall get, if you be one of them they
terme, without.
CHAP. XXVI.
_Of the Charity of the Seperatists._
Charity is sayd to be the darling of Religion, and is indeed the Marke
of a good Christian: But where we doe finde a Commission for ministring
to the necessity of the Saints, we doe not finde any prohibition
against casting our bread upon the waters, where the unsanctified, as
well as the sanctified, are in possibility to make use of it.
~_Lame charity._~
I cannot perceave that the Seperatists doe allowe of helping our poore,
though they magnify their practise in contributing to the nourishment
of their Saints; For as much as some that are of the number of those
whom they terme without, (though it were in case of sicknesse,) upon
theire landing, when a little fresh {172} victuals would have recovered
their healths, yet could they not finde any charitable assistance from
them. Nay, mine Host of Ma-re-Mount, (if hee might have had the use
of his gunne, powther and shott, and his dogg, which were denied,)
hee doubtles would have preserved such poore helples wretches as were
neglected by those that brought them over; which was so apparent, (as
it seemed,) that one of their owne tribe said, the death of them would
be required at some bodies hands one day, (meaning Master Temperwell.)
But such good must not come from a carnall man: if it come from a
member, then it is a sanctified worke; if otherwise, it is rejected as
unsanctified.
But when Shackles[535] wife, and such as had husbands, parents
or freinds, happened to bee sick, mine Hosts helpe was used, and
instruments provided for him to kill fresh vittell with, (wherein hee
was industrious,) and the persons, having fresh vittell, lived.
So doubtles might many others have bin preserved, but they were of the
number left without; neither will those precise people admit a carnall
man into their howses, though they have made use of his in the like
case; they are such antagonists to those that doe not comply with them,
and seeke to be admitted to be of their Church, that in scorne they
say, you may see what it is to be without.
CHAP. XXVII.
_Of the practise of their Church._[536]
The Church of the Seperatists is governed by Pastors, Elders and
Deacons, and there is not {173} any of these, though hee be but a Cow
keeper, but is allowed to exercise his guifts in the publik assembly
on the Lords day,[537] so as hee doe not make use of any notes for the
helpe of his memory:[538] for such things, they say, smell of Lampe
oyle, and there must be no such unsavery perfume admitted to come into
the congregation.
These are all publike preachers. There is amongst these people a
Deakonesse, made of the sisters, that uses her guifts at home in an
assembly of her sexe, by way of repetition or exhortation:[539] such is
their practise.
The Pastor, (before hee is allowed of,) must disclaime his former
calling to the Ministry, as hereticall; and take a new calling after
their fantasticall inventions: and then hee is admitted to bee their
Pastor.
The manner of disclaimeing is, to renounce his calling with bitter
execrations, for the time that hee hath heretofore lived in it:
and after his new election, there is great joy conceaved at his
commission.[540]
And theire Pastors have this preheminence above the Civile Magistrate:
Hee must first consider of the complaint made against a member: and if
hee be disposed to give the partie complained of an admonition, there
is no more to be said: if not; Hee delivers him over to the Magistrate
to deale with him in a course of Iustice, according to theire practise
in cases of that nature.[541]
{174} Of these pastors I have not knowne many:[542] some I have
observed together with theire carriage in New Canaan, and can informe
you what opinion hath bin conceaved of theire conditions in the
perticuler. There is one who, (as they give it out there that thinke
they speake it to advaunce his worth,) has bin expected to exercise
his gifts in an assembly that stayed his comming, in the middest of
his Iorney falls into a fitt, (which they terme a zealous meditation,)
and was 4. miles past the place appointed before hee came to himselfe,
or did remember where abouts hee went. And how much these things are
different from the actions of mazed men, I leave to any indifferent man
to judge; and if I should say they are all much alike, they that have
seene and heard what I have done, will not condemne mee altogether.
Now, for as much as by the practise of theire Church every Elder or
Deacon may preach, it is not amisse to discover their practise in that
perticuler, before I part with them.[543]
~_Lewes the II. sent a Barber Embassador._~
It has bin an old saying, and a true, what is bred in the bone will not
out of the flesh, nor the stepping into the pulpit that can make the
person fitt for the imployment. The unfitnes of the person undertaking
to be the Messenger has brought a blemish upon the message, as in the
time of Lewes the Eleventh, King of France, who, (having advaunced his
Barber to place of Honor, and graced him with eminent titles), made
him so presumptuous to undertake an Embassage to treat with forraine
princes of Civile affaires.
~_The Embassage despised._~
But what was the issue? Hee behaved himselfe so {175} unworthily, (yet
as well as his breeding would give him leave,) that both the Messenger
and the message were despised; and had not hee, (being discovered,)
conveyed himselfe out of their territories, they had made him pay for
his barbarous presumption.[544]
Socrates sayes, _loquere ut te videam_. If a man observe these people
in the exercise of their gifts, hee may thereby discerne the tincture
of their proper calling, the asses eares will peepe through the lyons
hide. I am sorry they cannot discerne their owne infirmities. I will
deale fairely with them, for I will draw their pictures cap a pe, that
you may discerne them plainely from head to foote in their postures,
that so much bewitch, (as I may speake with modesty,) these illiterate
people to be so fantasticall, to take Ionas taske[545] upon them
without sufficient warrant.
~_A Grocer._~
One steps up like the Minister of Iustice with the ballance onely, not
the sword for feare of affrighting his auditory. Hee poynts at a text,
and handles it as evenly as hee can; and teaches the auditory, that the
thing hee has to deliver must be well waied, for it is a very pretious
thing, yes, much more pretious then gold or pearle: and hee will teach
them the meanes how to way things of that excellent worth; that a man
would suppose hee and his auditory were to part stakes by the scale;
and the like distribution they have used about a bag pudding.
~_A Taylor._~
Another, (of a more cutting disposition,) steps in his steed; and hee
takes a text, which hee divides into many parts: (to speake truly) as
many as hee list. The fag end of it hee pares away, as a superfluous
remnant.
{176} Hee puts his auditory in comfort, that hee will make a garment
for them, and teach them how they shall put it on; and incourages
them to be in love with it, for it is of such a fashion as doth best
become a Christian man. Hee will assuer them that it shall be armor
of proffe against all assaults of Satan. This garment, (sayes hee,)
is not composed as the garments made by a carnall man, that are sowed
with a hot needle and a burning thread; but it is a garment that shall
out last all the garments: and, if they will make use of it as hee
shall direct them, they shall be able, (like saint George,) to terrifie
the greate Dragon, error; and defend truth, which error with her wide
chaps would devoure: whose mouth shall be filled with the shredds and
parings, which hee continually gapes for under the cutting bourd.
~_A Tapster._~
A third, hee supplies the rome: and in the exercise of his guifts
begins with a text that is drawne out of a fountaine that has in it no
dreggs of popery. This shall proove unto you, (says hee,) the Cup of
repentance: it is not like unto the Cup of the Whore of Babilon, who
will make men drunk with the dreggs thereof: It is filled up to the
brim with comfortable joyce, and will proove a comfortable cordiall to
a sick soule, sayes hee. And so hee handles the matter as if hee dealt
by the pinte and the quarte, with Nic and Froth.[546]
~_A Cobler._~
An other, (a very learned man indeed,) goes another way to worke with
his auditory; and exhorts them to walke upright, in the way of their
calling, and not, (like carnall men,) tread awry. And if they should
{177} fayle in the performance of that duety, yet they should seeke
for amendement whiles it was time; and tells them it would bee to late
to seek for help when the shop windowes were shutt up: and pricks them
forward with a freindly admonition not to place theire delight in
worldly pleasures, which will not last, but in time will come to an
end; but so to handle the matter that they may be found to wax better
and better, and then they shall be doublely rewarded for theire worke:
and so closes up the matter in a comfortable manner.
~_A very patorick._~
But stay: Here is one stept up in haste, and, (being not minded to
hold his auditory in expectation of any long discourse,) hee takes
a text; and, (for brevities sake,) divides it into one part: and
then runnes so fast a fore with the matter, that his auditory cannot
follow him. Doubtles his Father was some Irish footeman;[547] by his
speede it seemes so. And it may be at the howre of death, the sonne,
being present, did participat of his Fathers nature, (according to
Pithagoras,)[548] and so the vertue of his Fathers nimble feete being
infused into his braines, might make his tongue out-runne his wit.
Well, if you marke it, these are speciall gifts indeede: which the
vulgar people are so taken with, that there is no perswading them that
it is so ridiculous.
This is the meanes, (O the meanes,) that they pursue: This that comes
without premeditation; This is the Suparlative: and hee that does not
approove of this, they say is a very reprobate.
{178} Many vnwarrantable Tenents they have likewise: some of which
being come to my knowledge I wil here set downe: one wherof, being in
publicke practise maintained, is more notorious then the rest. I will
therefore beginne with that, and convince them of manifest error by the
maintenance of it, which is this:
~_Tenent I._~
That it is the Magistrates office absolutely, (and not the Minsters,)
to joyne the people in lawfull matrimony.[549] And for this they vouch
the History of Ruth, saying Boas was married to Ruth in presence of the
Elders of the people. Herein they mistake the scope of the text.
2. That it is a relique of popery to make use of a ring in marriage:
and that it is a diabolicall circle for the Divell to daunce in.[550]
3. That the purification used for weomen after delivery is not to be
used.[551]
4. That no child shall be baptised whose parents are not receaved into
their Church first.[552]
5. That no person shall be admitted to the Sacrament of the Lords
supper that is without.[553]
6. That the booke of Common prayer is an idoll: and all that use it,
Idolaters.[554]
7. That every man is bound to beleeve a professor upon his bare
affirmation onely, before a Protestant upon oath.
8. That no person hath any right to Gods creatures, but Gods children
onely, who are themselves: and that all others are but usurpers of the
Creatures.
9. And that, for the generall good of their Church and commonwealth,
they are to neglect father, mother and all freindship.
{179} 10. Much a doe they keepe about their Church discipline, as
if that were the most essentiall part of their Religion. Tythes are
banished from thence, all except the tyth of Mint and Commin.[555]
11. They differ from us something in the creede too, for if they get
the goods of one, that is without, into their hands, hee shall be kept
without remedy for any satisfaction: and they beleeve that this is not
cosenage.[556]
12. And lastly they differ from us in the manner of praying; for they
winke[557] when they pray, because they thinke themselves so perfect in
the highe way to heaven that they can find it blindfould: so doe not
I.[558]
CHAP. XXVIII.
_Of their Policy in publik Iustice._
Now that I have anottomized the two extreame parts of this Politique
Commonwealth, the head and the inferior members, I will shew you the
hart, and reade a short lecture over that too; which is Iustice.
I have a petition to exhibit to the highe and mighty M^r. Temperwell;
and I have my choise whether I shall make my plaint in a case of
conscience, or bring it with in the Compas of a point in law. And
because I will goe the surest way to worke, at first, I will see how
others are answered in the like kinde, whether it be with hab or nab,
as the Iudge did the Countryman.[559]
Here comes M^r. Hopewell: his petition is in a case of conscience,
(as hee sayes.) But, see, great Iosua allowes conscience to be of his
side: yet cuts him off with this answere; Law is flat against him. Well
let {180} me see another. I marry: Here comes one Master Doubt-not:
his matter depends, (I am sure,) upon a point in Law: alas, what will
it not doe, looke ye it is affirmed that Law is on his side: but
Conscience, like a blanket, over spreades it. This passage is like to
the Procustes of Roome, mee thinks; and therefore I may very well say
of them,
_Even so, by racking out the joynts & chopping of the head,
Procustes fitted all his guests unto his Iron bedd._
And, if these speede no better, with whome they are freinds, that
neither finde Law nor Conscience to helpe them, I doe not wonder to
see mine Host of Ma-re-Mount speede so ill, that has bin proclaimed an
enemy so many yeares in New Canaan to their Church and State.
CHAP. XXIX.
_How mine Host was put into a whales belly._
The Seperatists, (after they had burned Ma-re-Mount they could not get
any shipp to undertake the carriage of mine Host from thence, either
by faire meanes or fowle,) they were inforced, (contrary to their
expectation,) to be troubled with his company:[560] and by that meanes
had time to consider more of the man, then they had done of the matter:
wherein at length it was discovered that they, (by meanes of their
credulity of the intelligence given them in England of the matter, and
the false Carecter of the man,) had runne themselves headlonge into an
error, and had done that on a sodaine which they repented at leasure,
but could not tell which way to help it {181} as it stood now. They
could debate upon it and especially upon two difficult points, whereof
one must be concluded upon: If they sent mine Host away by banishment,
hee is in possibility to survive, to their disgrace for the injury
done: if they suffer him to stay, and put him in _statu quo prius_, all
the vulgar people will conclude they have bin too rashe in burning a
howse that was usefull, and count them men unadvised.
So that it seemes, (by theire discourse about the matter,) they stood
betwixt Hawke and Bussard: and could not tell which hand to incline
unto. They had founded him secretly: hee was content with it, goe which
way it would. Nay Shackles[561] himselfe, (who was imployed in the
burning of the howse, and therefore feared to be caught in England,)
and others were so forward in putting mine Host _in statu quo prius_,
after they had found their error, (which was so apparent that Luceus
eies would have served to have found it out in lesse time,) that they
would contribute 40. shillings a peece towards it; and affirmed, that
every man according to his ability that had a hand in this black
designe should be taxed to a Contribution in like nature: it would be
done exactly.
Now, (whiles this was in agitation, and was well urged by some of those
partys to have bin the upshot,) unexpected, (in the depth of winter,
when all shipps were gone out of the land,) in comes M^r. Wethercock,
a proper Mariner; and, they said, he could observe the winde: blow it
high, blow it low, hee was resolved to lye at Hull[562] rather than
incounter such a storme as mine Host had met with: and this was a man
for their turne.
{182} Hee would doe any office for the brethren, if they (who hee knew
had a strong purse, and his conscience waited on the strings of it, if
all the zeale hee had) would beare him out in it: which they professed
they would. Hee undertakes to ridd them of mine Host by one meanes or
another. They gave him the best meanes they could, according to the
present condition of the worke, and letters of credence to the favoures
of that Sect in England; with which, (his busines there being done, and
his shipp cleared,) hee hoyst the Sayles and put to Sea: since which
time mine Host has not troubled the brethren, but onely at the Counsell
table: where now Sub iudice lis est.
CHAP. XXX.
_Of Sir Christopher Gardiner Knight, and how hee spedd amongst the
Seperatists._
Sir Christopher Gardiner,[563] (a Knight, that had bin a traveller both
by Sea and Land; a good judicious gentleman in the Mathematticke and
other Sciences usefull for Plantations, Kimistry, &c. and also being a
practicall Enginer,) came into those parts, intending discovery.
But the Seperatists love not those good parts, when they proceede from
a carnall man, (as they call every good Protestant); in shorte time
[they] had found the meanes to pick a quarrell with him. The meanes is
that they pursue to obtaine what they aime at: the word is there, the
meanes.
So that, when they finde any man like to proove an enemy to their
Church and state, then straight {183} the meanes must be used for
defence. The first precept in their Politiques is to defame the man
at whom they aime, and then hee is a holy Israelite in their opinions
who can spread that same brodest, like butter upon a loafe: no matter
how thin, it will serve for a vaile: and then this man, (who they have
thus depraved,) is a spotted uncleane leaper: hee must out, least hee
pollute the Land, and them that are cleane.
If this be one of their guifts, then Machevill[564] had as good gifts
as they. Let them raise a scandall on any, though never so innocent,
yet they know it is never wiped cleane out: the staind marks remaines;
which hath bin well observed by one in these words of his,
_Stick Candles gainst a Virgin walls white back;
If they’l not burne yet, at the least, they’l black._
And thus they dealt with Sir Christopher: and plotted by all the wayes
and meanes they could, to overthrow his undertakings in those parts.
And therefore I cannot chuse but conclude that these Seperatists have
speciall gifts: for they are given to envy and mallice extremely.
The knowledge of their defamacion could not please the gentleman well,
when it came to his eare; which would cause him to make some reply,
as they supposed, to take exceptions at, as they did against Faire
cloath:[565] and this would be a meanes, they thought, to blow the
coale, and so to kindle a brand that might fire him out of the Country
too, and send him after mine Host of Ma-re-Mount.
They take occasion, (some of them,) to come to his howse when hee
was gone up into the Country, and {184} (finding hee was from home,)
so went to worke that they left him neither howse nor habitation nor
servant, nor any thing to help him, if hee should retorne: but of that
they had noe hope, (as they gave it out,) for hee was gone, (as they
affirmed,) to leade a Salvage life, and for that cause tooke no company
with him: and they having considered of the matter, thought it not fit
that any such man should live in so remoate a place, within the Compas
of their patent. So they fired the place, and carried away the persons
and goods.
Sir Christopher was gone with a guide, (a Salvage,) into the inland
parts for discovery: but, before hee was returned, hee met with a
Salvage that told the guide, Sir Christopher would be killed: Master
Temperwell, (who had now found out matter against him,) would have him
dead or alive. This hee related; and would have the gentleman not to
goe to the place appointed, because of the danger that was supposed.
But Sir Christopher was nothing dismaid; hee would on, whatsoever come
of it; and so met with the Salvages: and betweene them was a terrible
skermish: But they had the worst of it, and hee scaped well enough.
The guide was glad of it, and learnd of his fellowes that they were
promised a great reward for what they should doe in this imployment.
Which thing, (when Sir Christopher understood,) hee gave thanks to God;
and after, (upon this occasion to sollace himselfe,) in his table booke
hee composed this sonnet, which I have here inserted for a memoriall.
{185} THE SONNET.
_Wolfes in Sheeps clothing, why will ye
Think to deceave God that doth see
Your simulated sanctity?
For my part, I doe wish you could
Your owne infirmities behold,
For then you would not be so bold.
Like Sophists, why will you dispute
With wisdome so? You doe confute
None but yourselves. For shame, be mute,
Least great Jehovah, with his powre,
Do come upon you in a howre
When you least think, and you devoure._
This Sonnet the Gentleman composed as a testimony of his love towards
them, that were so ill-affected towards him; from whome they might have
receaved much good, if they had bin so wise to have imbraced him in a
loving fashion.
But they despise the helpe that shall come from a carnall man, (as they
termed him,) who, after his retorne from those designes, finding how
they had used him with such disrespect, tooke shipping, and disposed of
himselfe for England; and discovered their practises in those parts
towards his Majesties true harted Subjects, which they made wery of
their aboade in those parts.
{186} CHAP. XXXI.
_Of mine Host of Ma-re-Mount how hee played Ionas after hee had bin
in the Whales belly for a time._
Mine Host of Ma-re-Mount, being put to Sea, had delivered him, for his
releefe by the way, (because the shipp was unvitteled, and the Seamen
put to straight allowance, which could hold out but to the Canaries,)
a part of his owne provision, being two moneths proportion; in all but
3. small peeces of porke, which made him expect to be famished before
the voyage should be ended, by all likelyhood. Yet hee thought hee
would make one good meale, before hee died: like the Colony servant in
Virginea, that, before hee should goe to the gallowes, called to his
wife to set on the loblolly pot, and let him have one good meale before
hee went; who had committed a petty crime, that in those dayes was made
a cappitall offence.
And now, mine Host being merrily disposed, on went the peeces of porke,
wherewith hee feasted his body, and cherished the poore Sailers; and
got out of them what M^r. Wethercock, their Master, purposed to doe
with him that hee had no more provision: and along they sailed from
place to place, from Iland to Iland, in a pittifull wether beaten ship,
where mine Host was in more dainger, (without all question,) then
Ionas, when hee was in the Whales belly; and it was the great mercy
of God that they had not all perished. Vittelled they were but for a
moneth, when they wayd Ancor and left the first port.
{187} They were a pray for the enemy for want of powther, if they had
met them: besides the vessell was a very slugg, and so unserviceable
that the Master called a counsell of all the company in generall, to
have theire opinions which way to goe and how to beare the helme,
who all under their hand affirmed the shipp to be unserviceable: so
that, in fine, the Master and men and all were at their wits end about
it: yet they imployed the Carpenters to search and caulke her sides,
and doe theire best whiles they were in her. Nine moneths they made
a shifte to use her, and shifted for supply of vittells at all the
Islands they touched at: though it were so poorely, that all those
helpes, and the short allowance of a bisket a day, and a few Lymons
taken in at the Canaries, served but to bring the vessell in view of
the lands end.
They were in such a desperat case, that, (if God in his greate mercy
had not favoured them, and disposed the windes faire untill the vessell
was in Plimmouth roade,) they had without question perished; for when
they let drop an Anchor, neere the Island of S. Michaels,[566] not one
bit of foode left, for all that starving allowance of this wretched
Wethercock, that, if hee would have lanched out his beaver, might have
bought more vittells in New England then he, and the whole ship with
the Cargazoun, was worth, (as the passingers hee carried who vittelled
themselves affirmed). But hee played the miserable wretch, and had
possessed his men with the contrary; who repented them of waying anchor
before they knew so much.
Mine Host of Ma-re-Mount, (after hee had bin in {188} the Whales
belly,) was set a shore, to see if hee would now play Ionas, so
metamorphosed with a longe voyage that hee looked like Lazarus in the
painted cloath.
But mine Host, (after due consideration of the premisses,) thought it
fitter for him to play Ionas in this kinde, then for the Seperatists to
play Ionas in that kinde as they doe. Hee therefore bid Wethercock tell
the Seperatists, that they would be made in due time to repent those
malitious practises, and so would hee too; for hee was a Seperatist
amongst the Seperatists, as farre as his wit would give him leave;
though when hee came in Company of basket makers, hee would doe his
indevoure to make them pinne the basket, if hee could, as I have
seene him. And now mine Host, being merrily disposed, haveing past
many perillous adventures in that desperat Whales belly, beganne in a
posture like Ionas, and cryed, Repent you cruell Seperatists, repent;
there are as yet but 40. dayes, if Iove vouchsafe to thunder, Charter
and the Kingdome of the Seperatists will fall asunder: Repent you
cruell Schismaticks, repent. And in that posture hee greeted them by
letters retorned into new Canaan; and ever, (as opportunity was fitted
for the purpose,) he was both heard and seene in the posture of Ionas
against them, crying, repent you cruel Seperatists, repent; there are
as yet but 40. dayes; if Iove vouchsafe to thunder, the Charter and
the Kingdome of the Seperatists will fall a sunder: Repent, you cruell
Schismaticks, repent. If you will heare any more of this proclamation
meete him at the next markettowne, for _Cynthius aurem vellet_.[567]
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A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS
OF THE THREE BOOKES:
The Tenents of the first Booke.
Chapters.
1. _Prooving New England the principall part of all America, and most
commodious and fit for a habitation and generation._
2. _Of the originall of the Natives._
3. _Of a great mortallity happened amongst the Natives._
4. _Of their howses and habitations._
5. _Of their Religion._
6. _Of the Indians apparrell._
7. _Of their Childbearing._
8. _Of their reverence and respect to age._
9. _Of their Juggelling tricks._
10. _Of their Duelles._
11. _Of the maintenance of their reputation._
12. _Of their Traffick and trade one with another._
13. _Of their Magazines and Storehowses._
14. _Of theire Subtilety._
15. _Of their admirable perfection in the use of their sences._
16. _Of their acknowledgement of the creation and immortality of the
Soule._
17. _Of their Annalls and Funeralls._
18. _Of their Custome in burning the Country._
19. _Of their Inclination to drunckennes._
20. _Of their Philosophicall life._
The Tenents of the second Booke.
Chap.
1. _The generall Survey of the Country._
2. _What trees are there and how commodious._
3. _What Potherbes are there and for Sallets._
4. _Of the Birds of the aire and fethered Fowles._
5. _Of the Beasts of the Forrest._
6. _Of Stones and Mineralls._
7. _Of the Fishes and what commodity they proove._
8. _Of the goodnes of the Country and the Fountaines._
9. _A Perspective to view the Country by._
10. _Of the great Lake of Erocoise._
The Tenents of the third Booke.
Chap.
1. _Of a great legue made betweene the Salvages and English._
2. _Of the entertainment of Master Westons people._
3. _Of a great Battaile fought betweene the English and the Indians._
4. _Of a Parliament held at Wessaguscus._
5. _Of a Massacre made upon the Salvages._
6. _Of the Surprizing of a Marchants Shipp._
7. _Of Thomas Mortons Entertainement and wrack._
8. _Of the banishment of Iohn Layford and Iohn Oldam._
9. _Of a barren doe of Virginea growne Fruithfull._
10. _Of the Master of the Ceremonies._
11. _Of a Composition made for a Salvages theft._
12. _Of a voyage made by the Master of the Ceremonies for Beaver._
13. _A lamentable fitt of mellancolly cured._
14. _The Revells of New Canaan._
15. _Of a great Monster supposed to be at Ma-re-Mount._
16. _How the nine Worthies of New Canaan put mine Host of Ma-re-Mount
into an inchaunted Castle._
17. _Of the baccanall Triumphe of New Canaan._
18. _Of a Doctor made at commencement._
19. _Of the silencing of a Minister._
20. _Of a practise to get a snare to hamper mine host of Ma-re-Mount._
21. _Of Captaine Littleworths devise for the purchase of Beaver._
22. _Of a Sequestration in New Canaan._
23. _Of a great bonfire made in New Canaan._
24. _Of the digradinge and creatinge of Gentry._
25. _Of the manner how the Seperatists pay their debts._
26. _Of the Charity of the Seperatists._
27. _Of the practise of their Church._
28. _Of their Policy in publik Iustice._
29. _How mine Host was put into a Whales belly._
30. _How Sir Christopher Gardiner, Knight, speed amongst the
Seperatists._
31. _How mine Host of Ma-re-Mount played Jonas after hee got out
of the Whales belly._
FINIS.
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OFFICERS
OF
THE PRINCE SOCIETY.
1883.
_President._
THE REV. EDMUND F. SLAFTER, A.M. BOSTON, MASS.
_Vice-Presidents._
JOHN WARD DEAN, A.M. BOSTON, MASS.
WILLIAM B. TRASK, ESQ. BOSTON, MASS.
THE HON. CHARLES H. BELL, LL.D. EXETER, N.H.
JOHN MARSHALL BROWN, A.M. PORTLAND, ME.
_Corresponding Secretary._
THE REV. HENRY W. FOOTE, A.M. BOSTON, MASS.
_Recording Secretary._
DAVID GREENE HASKINS, JR., A.M. CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
_Treasurer._
ELBRIDGE H. GOSS, ESQ. BOSTON, MASS.
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1883.
The Hon. Charles Francis Adams, LL.D. Boston, Mass.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., A.B. Quincy, Mass.
Thomas Coffin Amory, A.M. Boston, Mass.
William Sumner Appleton, A.M. Boston, Mass.
Walter T. Avery, Esq. New York, N.Y.
Mr. Thomas Willing Balch Philadelphia, Pa.
George L. Balcom, Esq. Claremont, N.H.
Charles Candee Baldwin, M.A. Cleveland, Ohio.
Samuel L. M. Barlow, Esq. New York, N.Y.
James Phinney Baxter, A.M. Portland, Me.
The Hon. Charles H. Bell, LL.D. Exeter, N.H.
John J. Bell, A.M. Exeter, N.H.
Samuel Lane Boardman, Esq. Boston, Mass.
The Hon. James Ware Bradbury, LL.D. Augusta, Me.
J. Carson Brevoort, LL.D. Brooklyn, N.Y.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D. Boston, Mass.
Sidney Brooks, A.M. Boston, Mass.
Horace Brown, A.B., LL.B. Salem, Mass.
Mrs. John Carter Brown Providence, R.I.
John Marshall Brown, A.M. Portland, Me.
Joseph O. Brown, Esq. New York, N.Y.
Philip Henry Brown, A.M. Portland, Me.
Thomas O. H. P. Burnham, Esq. Boston, Mass.
George Bement Butler, Esq. New York, N.Y.
The Hon. Mellen Chamberlain, A.M. Chelsea, Mass.
The Hon. William Eaton Chandler, A.M. Washington, D.C.
George Bigelow Chafe, A.M. Boston, Mass.
Clarence H. Clark, Esq. Philadelphia, Pa.
Gen. John S. Clark Auburn, N.Y.
The Hon. Samuel Crocker Cobb Boston, Mass.
Ethan N. Coburn, Esq. Charlestown, Mass.
Jeremiah Colburn, A.M. Boston, Mass.
Deloraine P. Corey, Esq. Boston, Mass.
Erastus Corning, Esq. Albany, N.Y.
Ellery Bicknell Crane, Esq. Worcester, Mass.
Abram E. Cutter, Esq. Charlestown, Mass.
William M. Darlington, Esq. Pittsburg, Pa.
John Ward Dean, A.M. Boston, Mass.
Charles Deane, LL.D. Cambridge, Mass.
Edward Denham, Esq. New Bedford, Mass.
John Charles Dent, Esq. Toronto, Canada.
Prof. Franklin B. Dexter, A.M. New Haven, Ct.
The Rev. Henry Martyn Dexter, D.D. Boston, Mass.
Samuel Adams Drake, Esq. Melrose, Mass.
Henry Thayer Drowne, Esq. New York, N.Y.
Henry H. Edes, Esq. Charlestown, Mass.
Jonathan Edwards, A.B., M.D. New Haven, Ct.
William Henry Egle, A.M, M.D. Harrisburgh, Pa.
Janus G. Elder, Esq. Lewiston, Me.
Samuel Eliot, LL.D. Boston, Mass.
Alfred Langdon Elwyn, M.D. Philadelphia, Pa.
James Emott, Esq. New York, N.Y.
The Hon. William M. Evarts, LL. D. New York, N.Y.
Joseph Story Fay, Esq. Woods Holl, Mass.
John S. H. Fogg, M.D. Boston, Mass.
The Rev. Henry W. Foote, A.M. Boston, Mass.
Samuel P. Fowler, Esq. Danvers, Mass.
James E. Gale, Esq. Haverhill, Mass.
Isaac D. Garfield, Esq. Syracuse, N.Y.
Marcus D. Gilman, Esq. Montpelier, Vt.
The Hon. John E. Godfrey Bangor, Me.
Abner C. Goodell, Jr., A.M. Salem, Mass.
Elbridge H. Goss, Esq. Boston, Mass.
The Hon. Justice Horace Gray, LL.D. Boston, Mass.
William W. Greenough, A.B. Boston, Mass.
Isaac J. Greenwood, A.M. New York, N.Y.
Charles H. Guild, Esq. Somerville, Mass.
David Greene Haskins, Jr., A.M. Cambridge, Mass.
The Hon. Francis B. Hayes, A.M. Boston, Mass.
The Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes, LL.D. Fremont, Ohio.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A.M. Cambridge, Mass.
W. Scott Hill, M.D. Augusta, Me.
James F. Hunnewell, Esq. Charlestown, Mass.
Theodore Irwin, Esq. Oswego, N.Y.
The Rev. Henry Fitch Jenks, A.M. Lawrence, Mass.
The Hon. Clark Jillson Worcester, Mass.
Mr. Sawyer Junior Nashua, N.H.
George Lamb, Esq. Boston, Mass.
Edward F. De Lancey, Esq. New York, N.Y.
William B. Lapham, M.D. Augusta, Me.
Henry Lee, A.M. Boston, Mass.
John A. Lewis, Esq. Boston, Mass.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Ph.D. Boston, Mass.
Orsamus H. Marshall, Esq. Buffalo, N.Y.
William T. R. Marvin, A.M. Boston, Mass.
William F. Matchett, Esq. Boston, Mass.
Frederic W. G. May, Esq. Boston, Mass.
John Norris McClintock, A.M. Concord, N.H.
The Rev. James H. Means, D.D. Boston, Mass.
George H. Moore, LL.D. New York, N.Y.
The Rev. James De Normandie, A.M. Boston, Mass.
Prof. Charles E. Norton, A.M. Cambridge, Mass.
John H. Osborne, Esq. Auburn, N.Y.
George T. Paine, Esq. Providence, R.I.
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John Carver Palfrey, A.M. Boston, Mass.
Daniel Parish, Jr., Esq. New York, N.Y.
Francis Parkman, LL.D. Boston, Mass.
Augustus T. Perkins, A.M. Boston, Mass.
The Rt. Rev. William Stevens Perry, D.D., LL.D. Davenport, Iowa.
William Frederic Poole, LL.D. Chicago, Ill.
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The Hon. Nathaniel Foster Safford, A.M. Milton, Mass.
Joshua Montgomery Sears, A.B. Boston, Mass.
John Gilmary Shea, LL.D. Elizabeth, N.J.
The Hon. Mark Skinner Chicago, Ill.
The Rev. Carlos Slafter, A.M. Boston, Mass.
The Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A.M. Boston, Mass.
Charles C. Smith, Esq. Boston, Mass.
Oliver Bliss Stebbins, Esq. Boston, Mass.
George Stevens, Esq. Lowell, Mass.
George Stewart, Jr., Esq. Quebec, Canada.
Russell Sturgis, A.M. London, Eng.
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Joseph B. Walker, A.M. Concord, N.H.
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Miss Rachel Wetherill Philadelphia, Pa.
Henry Wheatland, A.M., M.D. Salem, Mass.
John Gardner White, A.M. Cambridge, Mass.
William Adee Whitehead, A.M. Newark, N.J.
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Henry Austin Whitney, A.M. Boston, Mass.
The Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Ph.D. Boston, Mass.
Henry Winsor, Esq. Philadelphia, Pa.
The Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, LL.D. Boston, Mass.
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Ashbel Woodward, M.D. Franklin, Ct.
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PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.
NEW ENGLAND’S PROSPECT.
A true, lively and experimentall description of that part of _America_,
commonly called Nevv England: discovering the State of that Countrie,
both as it stands to our new-come _English_ Planters; and to the old
Natiue Inhabitants. By WILLIAM WOOD. London, 1634. Preface by Charles
Deane, LL.D.
THE HUTCHINSON PAPERS.
A Collection of Original Papers relative to the History of the Colony
of Massachusetts-Bay. Reprinted from the edition of 1769. Edited by
William H. Whitmore, A.M., and William S. Appleton, A.M. 2 vols.
JOHN DUNTON’S LETTERS FROM NEW ENGLAND.
Letters written from New England A.D. 1686. By John Dunton in which are
described his voyages by Sea, his travels on land, and the characters
of his friends and acquaintances. Now first published from the Original
Manuscript in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Edited by William H.
Whitmore, A.M.
THE ANDROS TRACTS.
Being a Collection of Pamphlets and Official Papers issued during
the period between the overthrow of the Andros Government and the
establishment of the second Charter of Massachusetts. Reprinted from
the original editions and manuscripts. With a Memoir of Sir Edmund
Andros, by the editor, William H. Whitmore, A.M. 3 vols.
SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER AND AMERICAN COLONIZATION.
Including three Royal Charters, issued in 1621, 1625, 1628; a Tract
entitled an Encouragement to Colonies, by Sir William Alexander, 1624;
a Patent, from the Great Council for New England, of Long Island, and a
part of the present State of Maine; a Roll of the Knights Baronets of
New Scotland; with a Memoir of Sir William Alexander, by the editor,
the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A.M.
JOHN WHEELWRIGHT.
Including his Fast-day Sermon, 1637; his Mercurius Americanus, 1645,
and other writings; with a paper on the genuineness of the Indian deed
of 1629, and a Memoir by the editor, Charles H. Bell, A.M.
VOYAGES OF THE NORTHMEN TO AMERICA.
Including extracts from Icelandic Sagas relating to Western voyages by
Northmen in the tenth and eleventh centuries, in an English translation
by North Ludlow Beamish; with a Synopsis of the historical evidence
and the opinion of Professor Rafn as to the places visited by the
Scandinavians on the coast of America. Edited, with an Introduction, by
the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A.M.
THE VOYAGES OF SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN.
Including the Voyage of 1603, and all contained in the edition of 1613,
and in that of 1619; translated from the French by Charles P. Otis,
Ph.D. Edited, with a Memoir and historical illustrations, by the Rev.
Edmund F. Slafter, A.M. 3 vols.
NEW ENGLISH CANAAN, OR NEW CANAAN.
Containing an abstract of New England, composed in three books. I. The
first setting forth the Originall of the Natives, their Manners and
Customes, together with their tractable Nature and Love towards the
English. II. The Natural Indowments of the Countrie, and what Staple
Commodities it yieldeth. III. What People are planted there, their
Prosperity, what remarkable Accidents have happened since the first
planting of it, together with their Tenents and practice of their
Church. Written by Thomas Morton of Cliffords Inne, Gent, upon ten
Years Knowledge and Experiment of the Country, 1632. Edited, with an
Introduction and historical illustrations, by Charles Francis Adams,
Jr., A.B.
VOLUMES IN PREPARATION.
1. CAPTAIN JOHN MASON, the founder of New Hampshire, including his
Tract on Newfoundland, 1620, the several American Charters in which he
was a Grantee, and other papers; and a Memoir by the late Charles W.
Tuttle, Ph.D. Edited, with historical illustrations, by John Ward Dean,
A.M.
2. SIR FERDINANDO GORGES, including his Tract entitled A Brief
Narration, 1658, American Charters granted to him, and other papers;
with historical Illustrations and a Memoir by the Rev. Edmund F.
Slafter, A.M.
3. SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT, including his Discourse to prove a Passage
by the North-West to Cathaia and the East Indies; his Letters Patent
to discover and possess lands in North America, granted by Queen
Elizabeth, June 11, 1578. With historical Illustrations and a Memoir.
4. SIR WALTER RALEGH AND HIS COLONY IN AMERICA. Containing the Royal
Charter of Queen Elizabeth to Sir Walter Ralegh for discovering and
planting of new lands and countries, March 25, 1584, with letters,
discourses, and narratives of the Voyages made to Virginia at his
charges, with original descriptions of the country, commodities, and
inhabitants. Edited, with a Memoir and historical illustrations, by the
Rev. Increase N. Tarbox, D.D.
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INDEX.
A.
Aberdecest, 130, _n._
Acomenticus:
charter granted to, by Gorges, 81;
Morton dies at, 91.
Adams, John:
on name of Merry-Mount, 14, _n._;
on fate of Wollaston, 15;
on Thomas Morton, 95, _n._;
injuries to library of, 101, _n._
Adams, John Q., 101.
Adders, 213.
Ælianus, 345, _n._
Air of New England, 121, 137, 177, 190.
Alcides, 292.
Alecto, 275.
Alexander, Sir William, quoted, 140, 167.
Alder, the, 186.
Allen, J. A., notes on wild animals of New England by, 199-215.
Allerton, Isaac:
his course toward Morton in England, 35, 303;
his mission to England in 1629, 36;
carries Morton back to Plymouth, 36;
tries to obtain charter for Plymouth, 52;
brings over goods, 289, _n._
Allize, 225.
Alsatian Squire, the, 92.
Amphitrite, 277, 281.
Animals, wild of New England, chapter on, 199-215.
Antinomian controversy, 81, 323, _n._
Antonomasia, 316.
_Anúnime_, 123, _n._
Arbor-vitæ, 185, _n._
Archimedes, 291.
Argus eyes, 303.
Aristotle, cited, 117, 118.
Armoniack, 219.
Arms. (_See_ Fire-arms.)
Arthur’s Table, King, 290.
Arundel, Earl of, 60, 70.
_Ascowke_, 213.
Ash, the, 183.
Aspinwall, William, 319, _n._
Audubon, John James, quoted, 131, _n._, 192, _n._
Auk, the great, formerly found in Boston Bay, 131, _n._
B.
Bacchanal Triumph, poem, 290-4.
Bagnall, Walter, 22, 206, _n._, 218, _n._
Baptism, 331, _n._
“Barren doe, the,” 94, 264-6, 272-7.
Barrowe, Henry, on Common Prayer, 332, _n._
Bass, 222.
Beach, the, 183.
Bears: used by Indians, 142-4;
value of skins of, 205;
description of, 209;
Indian methods of hunting, 210;
flesh of, 210.
Beaver: value of skins of, 22, 205, 295;
gain in, 32, 282;
regulation of trade in, 39, 306;
virtues of tails of, 162, 205;
description of, 204;
muskrats passed for, 211;
Dutch trade in, 239, _n._;
a theft compounded in, 269;
plenty of, at Nipnet, 270;
compared to Jason’s Fleece, 295.
Bible, the, 94, 212, 260.
Bibliography of _New Canaan_, 99.
Billington, John, 217.
Birch, the, 186.
Birds, chapter on, 189-99.
Black-lead, 219.
Blackstone, William: moves from Wessagusset to Boston, 24;
contributes to Morton’s arrest, 30;
an Episcopalian, 94.
Bluefish, 222.
Bole Armoniack, 219.
Book of Common Prayer, 22, 68, 82, 168, 260, 283, 311;
an idol, 69, 332;
Morton persecuted for using, 92-5.
_Book of Sports_, 260, _n._
Boston Bay: savages about in 1625, 11;
settlers about in 1628, 24;
description of in 1630, 122;
great auks seen in, 131, _n._;
French vessel wrecked in, 131, _n._
Bradford, John, on Common Prayer, 332, _n._
Bradford, Governor William: cited, 1, 6, 13, 18, 20, 22, 25, 27,
31, 35, 36, 37, 46, 49, 52, 79, 92, 133, _n._, 205, _n._,
217, _n._, 323, _n._, 325, _n._, 330, _n._, 332, _n._;
letters of, on arrest of Morton, 30;
generally correct, 49;
literary skill of, 96;
absence of humor in, 97, 98;
referred to as Rhadamant, 291, _n._
Brant, 189, 268.
Breames, 227.
Brereton, Sir William, grant to, from John Gorges, 34.
Brewster, William, notes on birds by, 189-99, _n._, 226, _n._
Briareus, 288.
Bridges, Robert, 90.
Bright, Rev. Francis, 300, _n._, 325, _n._
Brimstone, 220.
Bristol, 2.
Brown, Peter, 214.
Browne, Robert, 323, _n._
Brutus, supposed descent of Indians from, 126, 127, 129.
Bubble, 266-8, 270-3.
Buckingham, Duke of, 178, _n._
Burdet, Rev. George, corresponds with Laud, 83, 88.
Burglary, 319, _n._
Burning undergrowth: Indian custom of, 172, 184, 186;
protection against, 173.
Bursley, John, at Wessagusset, 24, 31, 162, _n._
Buzzard’s Bay, 266.
Butler, Samuel, 96, 98, 251, _n._
C.
Caen, William and Emery de, 235, _n._
Caiaphas, 300, 302, _n._
Cain, 312.
Campbell, Lord: on royal proclamations, 26;
cited, 35.
Canada: derivation of name, 235;
first conquest of, 235, _n._
Canary Islands: as a market, 182, 222;
Morton at, 342-3.
Cane, 275.
Caunoŭnicus, funeral rites of his son, 170, _n._
Cape Ann: Lyford moves to, 24;
Morton at, 261.
Cape Cod, 21, 23, 226;
French vessel wrecked on, 131, _n._
Cape Verde Islands, 116, 117, _n._
Carheil, Father, cited, 17.
Caribdis, 277, 280.
_Cattup Keen_, 137, _n._
Carlisle, Earl of, 70.
Casco Bay, 221;
royalists about, 85.
_Cau-ompsk_, 124, _n._
Cecrops, 293.
Cedars: at Mount Wollaston, 10;
where to be found large, 173;
abundance and size of, 184;
white, 185, _n._
Cerberus, 294.
Chalk-stones, 216.
Champlain, lake: protection for discovery of, 77;
Morton on, 78;
Josselyn’s expedition to discover, 79;
when named, 234, _n._ (_See_ Erocoise.)
Champlain: his _Voyages_ quoted, 149, _n._, 150, _n._;
his map, 236, _n._
Charity of the Separatists, 320.
_Charity_, the, comes to New England in June, 1622, 7, 130.
_Chauquaqock_, 254, _n._
Charles I.: corruption of court of, 52;
character and government of, 54;
financial straits of, in 1635, 73;
turning point in fortunes of, 78.
Charlestown: settlement of, 34, 300, _n._;
deacons of church of, 319.
Charon, 274.
Charter party, 304, 316, 317. (_See_ Cradock, Matthew.)
Chastity, absence of, among Indians, 16, 17, 145, _n._
Chelsea, 229, 300.
_Cheshetue_, 148.
Chestnut, the, 183.
Chickatawbut, dwelling-place of, 11;
cunning of, 162, _n._;
his mother’s grave despoiled, 170, 247;
speech of, 247-9;
Weston’s men living with, 252.
Chingachgook, 213, _n._
Christmas, 18, 97;
“brave gambols,” 294.
Church practices in New England, 69, 260, 262, 322-34.
Church of England: Winthrop’s detestation of, 63;
and Morton, 92;
and Lyford, 263;
dignity of, advanced in New England by Morton, 283;
Ratcliff a member of, 317.
Churching of women, 331, _n._
Cicero, quoted, 139, 181, 312.
Cithyrea, 278.
Clams, 227.
Clarendon, Lord, cited, 52.
Clayton’s _Virginia_, cited, 199, _n._, 208, _n._, 210, _n._,
214, _n._
Cleaves, George: Morton in employ of, 77;
in employ of Rigby, 84;
“a fire-brand of dissension,” 85.
Clerk, Roger, 300, _n._
Cockles, 227.
Coddington, Governor William, writes to Winthrop about Morton, 85.
Cod-fish, 221;
markets for, 222;
superiority of New England, _ib._
Cod-liver oil, 222.
Coins, old, found at Richmond Island, 218, _n._
Coke, Sir Edward, on proclamations, 26, 35.
Colchos, 292.
Commissions, system of, in favor at court of Charles I., 57.
Conies, 204, 210, 211.
Common Prayer: Book of, treatment of in Massachusetts, 69;
trouble occasioned by in Scotland, 82;
Morton’s use of, cause of his persecution, 92, 260, 283;
reference to in _New Canaan_, 93, 169;
an idol, 332, _n._
Connecticut, Blue Laws of, 252, _n._
Copper, 220.
Cormorants, 226.
_Cos_, 124, 217.
Cottington, Lord, 60.
Cotton, John, 98.
Council for New England: efforts of to settle the Massachusetts, 2;
grant to Robert Gorges, 3;
secures proclamation about sale of fire-arms to Indians, 20;
gives patent to Company of Massachusetts Bay, 31;
quarrel of with Massachusetts Company, 33;
unequal to the emergency in 1634, 59;
plan for dividing territory of, 59;
divides New England, 70;
surrender of patent by, 72;
records of quoted, 130, _n._, 196, _n._;
issues patent to Walter Bagnall, 219, _n._
Court: held at Salem, 306;
at Boston, to try Morton, 311.
Cradock, Governor Matthew, 298, _n._;
before Privy Council, 51, 56;
“an imposterous knave,” 62;
default of in _quo warranto_ proceedings, 75;
on Morton, 77;
Master Charterparty 304, _n._, 316, 317.
Cranes, 192.
Cromwell, Oliver, 83.
Crows, 195.
Crow-blackbirds, 198.
Cupid, 278.
Cypress-trees, 185.
Cynthius, 345.
D.
Dagon, 32, _n._
Davis, Captain John, 104, 118, _n._
Deaconess, 323.
Deacons, 322.
Deane, Charles: cited, 30, 56;
accuracy of, 56.
_Decameron_, 94.
De Costa, B. F.: quoted, 92-4;
referred to, 100.
Deer: skins of, 135, 142-3, 202;
killed by Indians, 162;
followed by scent, 166;
kinds of, 200-2;
preyed on by wolves, 204, 208;
and luzerans, 206.
Deer-traps, 202.
Deer Island, 155, _n._, 204, _n._
Delilah, 281.
Demas, part of, 302, _n._
Demophoön, 273.
Dermer, Captain Thomas: redeems captives, 131, _n._;
quoted concerning pestilence of 1616, 133, _n._
Devil, the: estimation of among Indians, 139, _n._, 150, _n._,
165, 167;
rules the Powows, 178.
Dexter, Rev. H. M., 244, _n._
Diogenes, 178;
tub of, 286.
Dodge, General, cited, 169, _n._, 174, _n._
“Doe, the barren,” 94, 264-6, 272-7.
Dog-fish, 223, _n._
_Don Quixote_, 94, 272, 286.
Dorchester, Lord, 53.
Dorset, Earl of, 60.
Dover, N. H., Hiltons at, 30.
Downing, Emanuel: before Privy Council, 51;
account of, 52;
instructed to find evidence against Morton, 88;
on humming-bird, 198, _n._
Drails, 223.
Drunkenness, Indian tendency to, 174.
Ducks: kinds of, 190;
preyed on by luzeran, 206, _n._
Dudley, Governor Thomas, 43, 80, 90;
cited, 4, 46.
Duxbury, 84.
E.
Eacus, 288, 293, 294, 309.
Eager, Pastor Master. (_See_ Skelton.)
East Indies, 239.
Edmunds, Sir Thomas, 60.
Eels, 224.
Egypt, 240.
Elder-tree, the, 186.
Elders of church, 313, 322.
Elephants, their supposed religion, 141, _n._
Elias house, 310.
Eliot, Dr. John, 326, _n._
Eliot, John, quoted, 124, 129, _n._
Elk, 200, _n._
Ellis, Rev. Dr. G. E., quoted, 145, _n._
Elm, the, 183.
_En animia_, 123.
Endicott, John: arrival of, at Salem, 31;
visits Mt. Wollaston, 32;
occupies the Gorges grant, 34;
his instructions, 38, 40, 45;
meets “old planters,” 39, 306;
attempts to reärrest Morton, 43;
derided by Morton, 45;
mutilates royal standard, 66;
issues warrant to arrest Morton, 86;
governor, 88;
libelled in _New Canaan_, 88, 304;
called Littleworth, 220, 298-9, 304, 306, 308, 318;
Morton’s animosity to, 220, _n._;
cured of a wife, 298, _n._;
sends settlers to Charlestown, 300, _n._;
at Salem, 303-7;
and the charter case, 305;
fraud imputed to, 308;
punishes Ratcliff, 316;
second marriage of, 330, _n._
Epictetus, 312, _n._
Episcopalians: take up Morton’s cause, 92;
in early Massachusetts, 95, 218, _n._
Erocoise, lake of, 78, 234-7, 240, 241. (_See_ Champlain.)
Esculapius, 278.
Executions. (_See_ Hanging.)
Exercising in church, by lay members, 262, _n._, 322-30.
F.
Faircloath, Innocence (_See_ Ratcliff.)
Fairfax, Lord, 83.
Falcons and falconry, 6, 196.
Falkland, Lord, 83.
Falstaff, 278, _n._
Faustus, Dr., 319.
Fire-arms: supplied to Indians, 20, 95;
trade in forbidden, 21;
in hands of Indians in 1628, 25.
Firing the country. (_See_ Burning.)
Fish, poisonous in the tropics, 116, _n._;
kinds of in New England, 221-8.
Fisheries, vessels engaged in, 221.
Fitcher: a partner of Wollaston, 4;
left in charge at Mt. Wollaston and expelled by Morton, 13.
Finch, Sir John, 35.
Flora, patroness of May-day, 19, 281.
Flounders, 226.
Flowers in New England, 228.
Footmen, running, 329.
Force’s _Tracts_, 99.
Foxes, 206-8.
Fox-skins, value of, 205, _n._, 207, _n._
Franchise, the, in Massachusetts, 331, _n._
Freeles, 227.
French authority, on Indians’ senses, 166.
Frenchmen, captured, among Indians, 131, _n._
“Froth, Nick and,” 328, _n._
Fuller, Dr. Samuel: dies of pestilence, 133, _n._;
supposed to be alluded to as Eacus, 288, 291, _n._, 309;
note on, 297;
at Salem, 298.
Furmety, 163, _n._; 296.
Furs: profit of trade in, 22, 32;
regulation of trade in, 39;
Indian use of, 141-4;
prices of, 205, _n._, 207, _n._, 209. (_See_ Beaver, Deer, Bear.)
G.
Galena, found in Woburn, 219, _n._
Ganymede, 279.
Gardiner, Sir Christopher: before Privy Council, 50, 86;
his prefatory verses to _New English Canaan_, 112;
on descent of Indians, 128;
intercedes for Ratcliff, 320;
note on, 338;
adventures of, 338-42;
sonnet by, 341.
Geese: descriptions of, 189-90;
preyed on by luzeran, 206, _n._
Gellius, Aulus, quoted, 312, _n._
Gentry, created and degraded by Winthrop, 313.
Gerard’s _Herbal_, referred to, 185.
Ghent, 236.
Gibbons, Major Edward, 90-1.
_Gifte_, the, 44, 289.
Gloucester, Morton at, 86.
Golgotha, a new-found, 133.
Goodman, John: adventure of, with a wolf, 208, _n._;
hears lions roar, 214, _n._
Gookin, Daniel, quoted, 160, 174.
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 2, 3, 36, 47, 95;
procures issues of proclamation on fire-arms, 21;
his curiosity as to New England, 32;
Morton ingratiates himself with, 36;
in correspondence with Morton, 41, 47;
intrigues against Massachusetts, 49;
failure in, 53;
works through Court influences, 54;
renews complaints against Massachusetts, 56;
shapes Laud’s policy to New England, 58;
his plan, 58;
to be governor-general, 59;
his influence with Lords Commissioners, 60;
represents “thorough” in New England, 60, 74;
thought to be on the New England coast in 1635, 66;
his plans in 1635, 67;
circumvents Winslow, 68;
grantee of Maine from Council for New England, 71;
appointed by King, governor-general, 71;
failure of, caused by want of money, 72;
age of, 75, _n._;
death of Mason fatal to plans of, 76;
publication of _New Canaan_ not agreeable to, 80;
pretends to be friendly to Massachusetts, 80;
“casheers” Morton, 80;
grants charter to Acomenticus, 81;
career of, 119, _n._;
eulogized, 189;
Sir C. Gardiner, an agent of, 338, _n._
Gorges, John: succeeds to R. Gorges’s grant, 33;
deeds land to Brereton and Oldham, 34, 40.
Gorges, Lord, 71.
Gorges, Captain Robert, 2, 33, 143, 162;
arrives in Boston Bay, 3;
extent of his grant, 3;
returns to England, 4;
validity of grant to, denied, 34;
arrests Weston, 257, _n._
Goshawks, 197.
Gover, Anna, 298.
Grant, John, 62.
Grapes in New England, 186.
Gray, Professor Asa, 182, 188.
Greek, supposed resemblance of Indian words to, 123, 126.
Greene, Charles, 99-101.
Greene, Richard, in charge of Wessagusset settlement, 7.
Greenland, excessive cold of, 118.
Grouse in New England, 194, _n._
H.
“Habbe or nabbe,” 335.
Hacche, Roger atte, 300, _n._
Hake, 226.
Hale, Robert, 319, _n._
Halibut, 225.
_Hame_, 124.
Hamilton, Marquis of, 70.
Hampden, John, 83.
_Handmaid_, the, Morton’s voyage in, 45, 342-5.
Hanging: the Weymouth, 217, 249-52;
early in Massachusetts, 217, _n._;
in Virginia, 342.
Hannibal, 263.
Hares, 204.
Harris, Rev. Thaddeus Mason, 101, _n._
Harvard University: Library bulletin referred to, 99-100;
students at, whipped, 319, _n._
Hawks and falcons in New England, 195-7.
“Hawk and buzzard,” 336.
Hawthorn-trees, 186.
Heath-hen, 194, _n._
Hebrew tribes, 310;
origin of Indians traced to, 129, _n._
Hedgehogs, 211.
Hemlock-trees, 185, _n._
Hemp in New England, 187, 202, 231.
Herbs of New England, 188, 228.
Herons, 192.
Herring, 224.
Hickory, 183, _n._
Higginson, Rev. F., quoted, 213, _n._, 221, _n._, 232, _n._, 300, _n._
Higginson, T. W., quoted, 312, _n._
Hiltons, the: at Piscataqua, 23;
contribute to Morton’s arrest, 30.
“Hippeus pine-tree horse,” 284.
Holbein, Hans, 253, _n._
Holland, 70, 288.
Hollis, Sir William, 253, _n._
Horace, quoted, 119.
Horeb, the calf of, 278.
Horse-mackerel, 223, _n._
Howes, Edward, 317, _n._
Howes, Edward, Jr., 334, _n._
_Hudibras_, 96, 251, _n._, 339, _n._
Hudson, Hendrick, voyages and fate of, 118, _n._
Hudson, the, 236, _n._, 238.
Hull, so called in 1628, 24, 337, _n._
Hume, David, on royal proclamations, 26.
Humfrey, John: before Privy Council, 51;
“an imposterous knave,” 62, 64;
goes to New England, 64;
Gorges refers to patience of, 80.
Humming-bird, 102, _n._, 198.
Hunt, Captain Thomas, 244, _n._
Hutchinson, Mrs. Ann, 81, 323, _n._
Hyde, Sir Nicholas, 35.
Hydra, 286, 287, 292, 293.
I.
Indians: Morton’s popularity with, 10;
number in Massachusetts, 11;
modesty of women, 16;
desire for guns and spirits, 20;
fire-arms among, 20, 25;
pestilence of 1616 among, 120, 133, _n._;
origin of, 123-9;
language of, 123;
descendants of Hebrew tribes, 129, _n._;
Frenchmen captives among, 131;
their wigwams, 134-8;
their eating, 137, _n._;
their hospitality, 137, _n._;
their games and removals, 138;
their religion, 139-41, 167;
their dress, 141-5;
their trade, 141, 157-9;
their modesty, 142;
their children born white, 147, _n._;
their bodies well shaped, 147;
color of their eyes, 148, 165;
their respect to age, 148-50;
their conjuring tricks, 150-3;
their duels, 153-4;
their money, 157-9;
their manufactures, 159;
their storehouses, 160;
their baskets, 160;
did not use salt, 161;
their cunning, 161-5;
acuteness of their senses, 165-6;
distinguish French from Spanish by smell, 166;
crimes among, 169;
their funerals, 169-71;
thievery among, 169;
their custom of firing the country, 172;
distant commerce of, 172, 220, _n._, 237;
contented life of, 175;
superiority to English beggars, 175-6;
utensils and method of drinking, 177;
deer-traps of, 202;
method of hunting bears, 209-10;
lobster-feasts of, 226;
belied by Plymouth people, 256;
compound theft at Wessagusset, 269;
accompany Bubble to Nipnet, 270;
return his property, 272;
witness Morton’s punishment, 312;
reprove punishment of Morton, 312. (_See_ Massachusetts.)
Indian women: absence of chastity among, 16, 17, 145;
Morton’s relations with, 94;
their dress, 144;
their modesty, 145;
their child-bearing, 145-8;
their care of their infants, 147.
Ireland, no venomous beasts in, 48.
Irocoise, the great lake. (_See_ Champlain.)
Iron-stones, 219.
Iroquois, 234.
Isles of Shoals, Morton at, 29, 296, 302.
Israelites, 310;
origin of Indians traced to, 129, _n._, 160, _n._
J.
Jackals, 207, _n._, 214, _n._
James I., 16, 35;
sends snake-stones to Virginia, 214, _n._
Jason, 292;
Golden Fleece of, 295.
Jeffreys, William: at Wessagusset, 24, 31, 162, _n._;
corresponds with Gorges, 60, _n._;
letters of Morton to, 61, 86;
carries letters to Winthrop, 65;
letters from quoted, 102.
Jews, origin of Indians traced to, 129, _n._
Job, 281.
Johnson, Edward, 250.
Jonah, 103, 302, 327, 342-5.
Jonson, Ben, 98;
may have met Morton, 96;
note on “poem,” 290, 312, _n._;
quoted, 335, _n._
Jordan, 310.
Josselyn, Captain John, quoted, 16, _n._, 133, _n._, 136, _n._,
137, _n._, 147, _n._, 158, _n._, 160, _n._, 171, _n._,
182, _n._, 185, _n._, 189, _n._, 191, _n._, 198, _n._,
201, _n._, 205, _n._, 206, _n._, 210, _n._, 212, _n._,
214, _n._, 217, _n._, 221, _n._, 232, _n._, 235, _n._
Josselyn, Henry, 237;
date of expedition of, to New Hampshire, 79, 238.
“Jove, let, vouchsafe to thunder,” 62, 103, 113, 345.
Jupiter, 279.
K.
_Kantántowwit_, 168, _n._
Kennebec: Morton follows Plymouth people to the, 23, 295;
Plymouth grant on the, 36.
Kennet, White, 99.
Kytan, an Indian god, 139, _n._, 167, _n._, 168, 169.
Killock, 262.
King’s Bench, warrant did not run in Massachusetts, 47.
Kirk, David, Louis and Thomas, conquest of Canada by, 235, _n._
_Kodtup Kēn_, 137, _n._
_Koüs_, 124, _n._
L.
Laconia, 235, 238, _n._
Lannerets, 196, 198.
Larks, 195.
Latin, supposed similarity with Indian tongue, 123-6.
Laud, Archbishop William: becomes Primate, 55;
influence of, 57;
head of Lords Commissioners, 58, 60, 93, 322;
played upon by Gorges, 64;
and Morton, 68, 93, 322-34;
New England not to be suffered to languish, 71;
supreme in England in 1635, 74;
his fortunes turn, 78;
corresponds with Burdet, 83;
orders Common Prayer to be used, 333, _n._
Lazarus, 344.
Lead ore, 219.
Leadstones, 219.
Learning, vilified in New England, 282.
Leather, made by Indians, 142, 201.
Lechford’s _Plaine Dealing_ quoted, 147, 322-34.
Lenox, Duke of, 70.
Lerna, lake, 292.
Lewis, Alonzo, quoted, 129.
Libertines, New England will not brook, 48.
Lime, 215.
Limestone in Weymouth, 216, _n._
Lions in New England, 214.
Littleworth. (_See_ Endicott.)
Lobsters, 209, 226, 265.
Lords Commissioners of Plantations: appointment of board of, 58, 100;
who composed, 60;
powers of, 60;
news of appointment of, in Massachusetts, 65;
last meeting of, 81;
Morton’s dependence on, 93;
dedication of _New Canaan_ to, 109, 322.
Louis XI., 326.
Lowndes’s _Manual_, 100.
Lucan, 141.
Luscus, 263.
Luzerans: description of, 206;
value of furs of, 205, _n._
Lyford, Rev. John:
at Hull, 24, 264;
moves to Cape Ann, 24;
at Plymouth, 262-4, 332, _n._
Lyman, Theodore, notes on fish, 221-8.
M.
Machiavelli, 339.
_Macháug_, 237, _n._
Mackerel, 223.
Mackerel-shark, 223, _n._
Maine: trading-stations in, 23, 218, 221;
royalists in, 85.
Maja, 281.
Manchester, Earl of, 60.
_Manittóoes_, 207, _n._
Maple, 186.
Marble in New England, 215.
Marblehead, quality of stone at, 215, _n._
Ma-re-Mount, 14. (_See_ Merry Mount.)
Marlins, 198.
Marriage in Massachusetts, a civil contract, 69, 330.
Mars, 292.
Martens: value of furs of, 205, _n._;
described, 206.
_Mary & John_, arrival of at Hull, 42.
_Maske_, the North Star, 125.
Mason, Captain John: hostile to Massachusetts, 49;
grantee of New Hampshire from Council of New England, 71;
builds ships to take governor-general to New England, 73;
financial needs of, 74;
death of, and note on, 76, 238.
Massachusetts: latent spirit of rebellion in, in 1632, 51, 66;
emigration to, in 1634, 55;
panic in, in 1635, 66, 71;
preparations against, in 1635, 67;
church practices in, 69, 322-34;
complaints against, in 1638, 81;
appeals to king a misdemeanor in, 87;
location and advantages of, 112;
elk seen in, 200, _n._;
population of, in 1632-7, 230;
baptism limited to franchise in, 331, _n._;
description of community in, 334, _n._;
justice in, 334-6.
Massachusetts Charter: attack on in Privy Council, in 1632, 49;
obtained by influence, 52;
sent for by Privy Council, 56;
second attack on, 58, 61;
not returned to England, 64;
plan for vacating, 67;
_quo warranto_ proceedings to set aside, 75;
demand for return of, in 1638, 82.
Massachusetts Company: grant to, 31;
difficulty of, with Council of New England, 33;
procures charter, 34;
“old planters,” jealousy of, 38;
instructions of, to Endicott, 38, 40, 45;
policy of, to, 39;
regulates trade in furs, 39;
complaints against, 50;
treasurer of, 305;
patent-case of, 305.
Massachusetts Indians: number of, 11;
Weston’s men killed by, 252, _n._;
humanity of, 256.
Massasoit: a night in his lodge, 136, _n._;
detains Samoset, 244, _n._
Mather, Cotton, quoted, 129, _n._, 132, _n._, 150, _n._, 152, _n._,
160, _n._, 175, _n._, 331, _n._
_Matta_, 237.
_Mattapan_, 12, 124.
Maverick, Rev. John, 325, _n._
Maverick, Samuel: says that Morton had a patent, 8;
moves from Wessagusset to Noddle’s Island, 24;
in connection with Morton’s arrest, 30;
his assessment for charge of Morton’s arrest, 30;
cited, 46;
refers to Morton’s arraignment at Boston, 88;
an Episcopalian, 94.
May, Thomas, quoted, 141, _n._
Mayberry, S. P., on Walter Bagnall, 218, _n._
May-day festivities: immorality of, 18;
at Mount Wollaston, 18, 276-82.
May-pole, the: of Merry-Mount, 17, 270, 295;
custom of erecting, 17;
cut down by Endicott, 32.
Medusa, 292.
_Meechin_, 137.
Melpomene, 275.
Menhaden, 225, _n._, 226, _n._
Mephistopheles, 319.
Mermaid, the, 97.
Merriam, Mr., identifies simpes as woodcock, 191, _n._
Merry-Mount: fountain at, 276;
Mayday at, 276-84;
to be made a woeful mount, 278;
monster at, 282. (_See_ Mt. Wollaston.)
_Metawna_, 194, _n._
Mice, 214.
Milo, 270.
Milton, John, quoted, 129.
Minerals of New England, 215-21.
Ministers: ordination of, at Plymouth, 262;
at Salem, 300, _n._, 306;
use of notes by, 322, _n._;
ordination of, in New England, 324;
superior to magistrates in New England, _ib._;
first in New England, 325, _n._;
absent-mindedness of a, _ib._;
did not marry in New England, 330.
Ministers’ sons, whipped, 319, _n._
Minos, 275, 293, 294, 309.
Mint and Cummin, tithes of, 102, 111, 280, 333.
_Mittànnug_, 193, _n._
_Mona_, 124.
Monatoquit, 9, 28, 285;
limestone near to, 216.
Money, Indian. (_See_ Wampum.)
Monsall, Ralph, 319, _n._
_Monthly Anthology_, 101, 320.
Moose, description and uses of, 142, 200.
Morell, Rev. William, quoted, 143, _n._
Morton, Nathaniel, cited, 5.
Morton, Thomas: comes to Massachusetts with Wollaston, 1;
suspected of murder, 2, 15, 46;
his previous life, 4-5;
his acquaintance with classics, 4, 345, _n._;
his first coming to New England, 6;
his silence about Wollaston, 13;
inaccuracy of, 14, 63, 96, 123, _n._, 335, _n._;
his fondness for field sports, 15;
his treatment of Indians, 16, 256;
relations of, with Indian women, 16;
his verses, 19;
supplies Indians with guns, 20;
silence of, on subject, 21;
trades in Maine, 23;
visits Wessagusset, 24;
number of his neighbors, 25;
remonstrated with for sale of fire-arms, 25;
on proclamations, 26;
arrest of, by Standish, 27, 282-6;
escape of, 28, 283;
taken to Plymouth, 29, 296;
sent to England, 29, 289;
cost of arrest of, 30, 302;
reaches England, 31;
not proceeded against, 35, 303;
could have been proceeded against in Star Chamber, 35;
ingratiates himself with Gorges, 36;
and Allerton, 36, 325;
good results of, 37;
returns to Plymouth, 37, 304;
to Mount Wollaston, 38;
refuses to sign agreement, 39, 307;
disregards trade regulations, 40, 308;
an agent of Gorges, 41;
profits of, 41, 308;
attempt to re-arrest, 41, 308;
re-arrest of, 43;
trial and sentence of, 44;
sent back to England, 45;
charges against him, 46;
punishment of, 46-8, 311, 312;
a warrant for his arrest from King’s Bench, 47, 311;
a “libertine,” 48;
driven away from Massachusetts, 49, 336-7;
in Exeter jail, 49;
allies himself to enemies of Massachusetts Charter, 50;
makes complaint before Privy Council, 50;
gives reason of failure of complaint, 54;
forwards more complaints, 56;
elation of, in 1634, 60;
his letters to William Jeffreys, 61;
crying as Jonas, 61, 103, 344;
plays on Laud’s foibles, 64, 93, 322-34, _n._, _n._;
has Winslow put in Fleet prison, 69;
Solicitor of Council for New England, 72;
promptness of, in legal proceedings, 75;
on Captain John Mason, 76;
Cradock on, 77;
in pay of Cleaves, 77;
in disgrace with Gorges, 80;
witnesses Acomenticus charter, 81;
starved out of England, 83;
at Plymouth in 1643, 84;
pretends to be a Commonwealth’s man, 85;
goes to Maine, 85;
to Rhode Island, 85;
to Boston, 86;
arraigned, 86;
extraordinary proceedings against, 87;
petition of, 88-90;
imprisonment, release and death of, 91;
a man out of place, 92;
Episcopalian defenders of, 92;
“his faults,” 93;
oppressively dealt with in Massachusetts, 94;
small literary merit of, 95;
may have met Butler and Jonson, 96;
sense of humor of, 97;
style of, 103;
at Richmond Island, 218;
uses Common Prayer, 260, 311;
at Cape Ann, 261;
at Nut Island, 268;
date of arrest, 295;
references of, to Winthrop, 310, _n._, 321;
gets game for settlers, 321;
at Salem, 325, _n._;
at Canary Islands, 342;
his voyage to England, 342-5.
Mount Dagon, 32, 278.
Mount Wollaston: why so called, 1;
character and number of settlers at, 8, 286, 294;
description and sketch of, 9-10;
view from, 12;
location of, 15;
morals at, 17;
May-day festivities at, 18;
a refuge of runaways, 22, 23;
within grant to Massachusetts Company, 31;
destruction of house at, 45;
Common Prayer at, 94, 283;
fountain at, 229;
monster at, 282.
Muskrats, 204;
value of skins of, 205, _n._;
description of, 210.
Muscles, 227.
_Munnoh_, 124, _n._
N.
_Nan weeteo_, 148, _n._
Nantasket, 24, 25, 30, 325, _n._, 337, _n._
Nanepashemet, 155.
Naumkeag, 25, 30.
Nebuchadnezzar, 116.
_Necut_, 193, _n._
_Neent_, 194, _n._
Neptune, 277.
Netherlands, 293.