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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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But as Forward as the People were, under the Epidemical Vexations of the Age, yet there were very few that would not acknowledge unto the very Last, It will be hardly possible for us to see another Governor, that shall more entirely Love and serve the ⟨p. 101⟩Country: Yea, had the Country had the Choice of their own Governor, 'tis judged their Votes, more than forty to one, would have still fallen upon him to have been the Man: And the General Assembly therefore on all occasions renewed their Petitions unto the King for his Continuance.
But as Forward as the People were, under the Epedemical Vexations of the Age, yet there were very few that would not acknowledge unto the very Last, It will be hardly possible for us to see another Governour, that shall more entirely Love and serve the ⟨p. 101⟩Country: Yea, had the Country had the Choice of their own Governour, 'tis judged their Votes, more than forty to one, would have still fallen upon him to have been the Man: And the General Assembly therefore on all occasions renewed their Petitions unto the King for his Continuance.
Nevertheless, there was a little Party of Men, who thought they must not sleep till they had caused him to fall: And they so vigorously prosecuted certain Articles before the Council-board at White-hall against him, that they imagined they had gained an Order of His Majesty in Council, to suspend him immediately from his Government, and appoint a Committee of Persons nominated by his Enemies, to hear all Depositions against him; and so a Report of the whole to be made unto the King and Council.
Nevertheless, there was a little Party of Men, who thought they must not sleep till they had caused him to fall: And they so vigorously prosecuted certain Articles before the Council-board at White-hal against him, that they imagined they had gained an Order of His Majesty in Council, to suspend him immediately from his Government, and appoint a Committee of Persons nominated by his Enemies, to hear all Depositions against him; and so a Report of the whole to be made unto the King and Council.