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

It was now therefore his desire to have satisfied the King, that his whole Interest in America lay at Stake, while Canada was in French Hands: And therewithal to have laid before several Noblemen, and Gentlemen, how beneficial an Undertaking it would have been for them to have pursued the Canadien-Business, for which the New-Englanders were now grown too Feeble; their Country being too far now, as Bede says England once was, Omni Milite & floridae Juventutis Alacritate spoliata.

Besides these two Designs in the Thoughts of Sir William, there was a Third, which he had Hopes that ⟨p. 104⟩the King would have given him leave to have pursued, after he had continued so long in his Government, as to have obtained the more General welfare which he designed in the former Instances. I do not mean the making of New-England the Seat of a Spanish Trade, though so vastly profitable a Thing was likely to have been brought about, by his being one of an Honourable Company engaged in such a Project.

But the Spanish Wreck, where Sir William had made his first good Voyage, was not the only, nor the Richest Wreck, that he knew to be lying under the Water. He knew particularly that when the Ship, which had Governor Boadilla Aboard, was cast away, there was, as Peter Martyr says, an entire Table of Gold of Three Thousand, Three Hundred and ten Pound Weight.

But the Spanish Wreck, where Sir William had made his first good Voyage, was not the only, nor the Richest Wreck, that he knew to be lying under the Water. He knew particularly that when the Ship, which had Governour Boadilla Aboard, was cast away, there was, as Peter Martyr says, an entire Table of Gold of Three Thousand, Three Hundred and ten Pound Weight.