Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…

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SO obscure was the Original of that Memorable Person, whose Actions I am going to relate, that I must, in a way of Writing, like that of Plutarch, prepare my Reader for the Intended Relation, by first searching the Archives of Antiquity for a Parallel. Now, because we will not Parallel him with Eumenes, who, though he were the Son of a poor Carrier, became a Governor of Mighty Provinces; Nor with Marius, whose mean Parentage did not hinder his becoming a Glorious Defender of his Country, and Seven Times the chief Magistrate of the chiefest City in the Universe: Nor with Iphicrates, who became a Successful and Renowned General of a Great People, though his Father were a Cobbler: Nor with Diocletian, the Son of a poor Scrivener: Nor with Bonosus, the Son of a poor School-Master, who yet came to sway the Sceptre of the Roman Empire: Nor lastly, will I compare him to the more late Example of the Celebrated Mazarini, who though no Gentleman by his Extraction, and one so sorrily Educated, that he might have wrote Man, before he could write at all; yet ascended unto that Grandeur, in the Memory of many yet living, as to Umpire the most Important Affairs of Christendom: We will decline looking any further in that Hemisphere of the World, and make the Hue and Cry throughout the Regions of America, the ⟨p. 4⟩New World, which He, that is becoming the subject of our History, by his Nativity, belonged unto. And in America, the first that meets me, is Francisco Pizarro, who, though a Spurious Offspring, exposed when a Babe, in a Church-Porch, at a sorry Village of Navarre, and afterwards employed while he was a Boy, in keeping of Cattle, yet, at length, stealing into America, he so thrived upon his Adventures there, that upon some Discoveries, which with an handful of Men, he had in a Desperate Expedition made of Peru, he obtained the King of Spain's Commission for the Conquest of it, and at last, so incredibly enriched himself by the Conquest, that he was made the first Vice-Roy of Peru, and created Marquess of Anatilla.

SO obscure was the Original of that Memorable Person, whose Actions I am going to relate, that I must, in a way of Writing, like that of Plutarch, prepare my Reader for the Intended Relation, by first searching the Archives of Antiquity for a Parallel. Now, because we will not Parallel him with Eumenes, who, though he were the Son of a poor Carrier, became a Governour of Mighty Provinces; Nor with Marius, whose mean Parentage did not hinder his becoming a Glorious Defender of his Country, and Seven Times the chief Magistrate of the chiefest City in the Universe: Nor with Iphicrates, who became a Successful and Renwoned General of a Great People, though his Father were a Cobler: Nor with Dioclesian, the Son of a poor Scrivener: Nor with Bonosus, the Son of a poor School-Master, who yet came to sway the Scepter of the Roman Empire: Nor lastly, will I compare him to the more late Example of the Celebrated Mazarini, who though no Gentleman by his Extraction, and one so sorily Educated, that he might have wrote Man, before he could write at all; yet asended unto that Grandeur, in the Memory of many yet living, as to Umpire the most Important Affairs of Christendom: We will decline looking any further in that Haemisphere of the World, and make the Hue and Cry throughout the Regions of America, the