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

Nor need I to produce any more about the Articles which these Men exhibited against him, than This; that it was by most Men believed, that if he would have connived at some Arbitrary Oppressions too much used by some kind of Officers, on the Kings ⟨p. 102⟩Subjects, Few perhaps, or None of those Articles, had ever been formed; and that he apprehended himself to be provided with a full Defence against them all.

Nor need I to preduce any more about the Articles which these Men exhibited against him, than This; that it was by most Men believed, that if he would have connived at some Arbitrary Oppressions too much used by some kind of Officers, on the Kings ⟨p. 102⟩Subjects, Few perhaps, or None of those Articles, had ever been formed; and that he apprehended himself to be provided with a full Defence against them all.

Nor did His Excellency seem loath to have had his Case Tried under the Brazen Tree of Gariac, if there had been such an one, as that mentioned by the Fabulous Murtadi, in his Prodigies of Egypt, a Tree which had Iron Branches with sharp Hooks at the End of them, that when any false Accuser approached, as the Fable says, immediately flew at him, and stuck in him, until he had ceased Injuring his Adversary.

Nor did His Excellency seem loath to have had his Case Tried under the Brazen Tree of Gariac, if there had been such an one, as that mentioned by the Fabulous Murtadi, in his Prodigies of Aegypt, a Tree which had Iron Branches with sharp Hooks at the End of them, that when any false Accuser approached, as the Fable says, immediately flew at him, and stuck in him, until he had ceased Injuring his Adversary.