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

Wherefore in Obedience unto the Kings Commands, he took his leave of Boston on the seventeenth of November, 1694. attended with all proper Testimonies of Respect and Honour from the Body of the People, which he had been the Head unto; and with Addresses unto their Majesties, and the Chief Ministers of State from the General Assembly, humbly imploring, that they might not be deprived of the Happiness which they had in such an Head.

Arriving at White-Hall, he found in a few Days, that notwithstanding all the Impotent Rage of his Adversaries particularly vented and Printed in a Villainous Libel, as well as almost in as many other ways, as there are Mouths, at which Fayal sometimes has vomited out its Infernal Fires, he had all Humane Assurance of his returning in a very few Weeks again, the Governor of New-England.

Arriving at White-Hall, he found in a few Days, that notwithstanding all the Impotent Rage of his Adversaries particularly vented and Printed in a Villanous Libel, as well as almost in as many other ways, as there are Mouths, at which Fyal sometimes has vomited out its Insernal Fires, he had all Humane Assurance of his returning in a very few Weeks again, the Governour of New-England.

Wherefore, there were especially two Designs, full of Service to the whole English Nation, as well as his own particular Country of New-England, which he applied his Thoughts unto. First, He had a new Scene of Action opened unto him, in an opportunity to supply the Crown with all Naval Stores at most easy Rates, from those Eastern Parts of the Massachuset Province, which through the Conquest that He ⟨p. 103⟩had made thereof, came to be Inserted in the Massachuset-Charter. As no Man was more capable than He, to improve this opportunity unto a vast Advantage, so his Inclination to it, was according to his Capacity.