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Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…
Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governor 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.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.
London: printed by Sam. Bridge for Nath. Hiller, 1697
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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 Undertaking.
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 Ʋndertaking.
May it Please Your Majesty, In your great Wisdom also, to consider the circumstances of that People, as in Your Wisdom you have considered the circumstances of England, and of Scotland. In New-England they differ from other Plantations; they are called Congregational and Presbyterian. So that such a Governor will not suit with the People of New-England, as may be very proper for other English Plantations.
May it Please Your Majesty, In your great Wisdom also, to consider the circumstances of that People, as in Your Wisdom you have considered the circumstances of England, and of Scotland. In New-England they differ from other Plantations; they are called Congregational and Presbyterian. So that such a Governour will not suit with the People of New-England, as may be very proper for other English Plantations.
Two Days after this, the King, upon what was proposed by certain Lords, was very inquisitive, whether He might without breach of Law, set a Governor over New-England; whereto the Lord Chief Justice, and some others of the Council, answered, That whatever might be the Merit of the Cause, inasmuch as the Charter of New-England, stood vacated by a Judgment against them, it was in the King's Power to put them under what Form of Government He should think best for them.
Two Days after this, the King, upon what was proposed by certain Lords, was very inquisitive, whether He might without breach of Law, set a Governour over New-England; whereto the Lord Chief Justice, and some others of the Council, answered, That whatever might be the Merit of the Cause, inasmuch as the Charter of New-England, stood vacated by a Judgment against them, it was in the King's Power to put them under what Form of Government He should think best for them.