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

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.

It was but a few Months ago, that a considerable Fleet, under Sir Francis Wheeler, which had been sent into the West-Indies, to subdue Martineco, was ordered then to call at New-England, that being recruited there, they might make a further Descent upon Canada; but Heaven frowned upon that Expedition, especially by a terrible Sickness, the most like the Plague of any thing that has been ever seen in America, whereof there Died, ere they could reach to Boston, as I was told by Sir Francis himself, no less than Thirteen Hundred Sailors out of Twenty One, and no less than Eighteen Hundred Soldiers out of Twenty four.

It was but a few Months ago, that a considerable Fleet, under Sir Francis Wheeler, which had been sent into the West-Indies, to subdue Martineco, was ordered then to call at New-England, that being recruited there, they might make a further Descent upon Canada; but Heaven frowned upon that Expedition, especially by a terrible Sickness, the most like the Plague of any thing that has been ever seen in America, whereof there Died, e're they could reach to Boston, as I was told by Sir Francis himself, no less than Thirteen Hundred Sailers out of Twenty One, and no less than Eighteen Hundred Souldiers out of Twenty four.