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

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.

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 easie 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.

And he longed with some Impatience, to see the King furnished from his own Dominions, with such floating and stately Castles, those Wooden-Walls of Great Britain, for much of which He has hitherto Traded with Foreign Kingdoms. Next, if I may say next unto this, he had an Eye upon Canada; all attempts for the reducing whereof had hitherto proved Abortive.

And he longed with some Impatience, to see the King furnished from his own Dominions, with such floating and stately Castles, those Wooden-Walls of Great Britain, for much of which He has hitherto Traded with Forreign Kingdoms. Next, if I may say next unto this, he had an Eye upon Canada; all attempts for the reducing whereof had hitherto proved Abortive.