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

The Diver, bringing up the Feather, brought therewithal a surprising story, That he perceived a Number of Great Guns in the Watery World where he had found his Feather; the Report of which Great Guns exceedingly astonished the whole Company; and at once, turned their Despondencies for their ill success, into Assurances, that they had now lit upon the True spot of Ground which they had been looking for; and they were further confirmed in these Assurances, when upon further Diving, the Indian fetched up a Sow, as they styled it, or a Lump of Silver, worth perhaps, Two or Three Hundred Pounds. Upon this they prudently Buoyed the place, that they might readily find it again; And they went back unto their Captain, whom for some while, they distressed with nothing but such Bad News, as they formerly thought they must have carried him: Nevertheless they so slipped in the Sow of Silver, on one side under the Table, where they were now sitting with the Captain, and hearing him express his Resolutions to wait still patiently upon the Providence of God under these Disappointments, that when he should look on one side, he might see that Odd Thing before him. At last he saw it; seeing it, he cried out with some Agony, Why? What is this? Whence comes this? And then, with changed Countenances, they told him how, and where they got it: Then, said he, Thanks be to God! We are made; And so, away they went, all hands to Work; wherein they had this one further piece of Remarkable Prosperity, that whereas, if they had first fallen upon that part of the Spanish Wreck, where the Pieces of Eight had been stowed in Bags among the Ballast, they had seen a more laborious, and less enriching time of it: Now, most happily, they first fell upon that Room in the Wreck, where the Bullion had been stored up; and they so prospered in this New Fishery, that in a little while they had, without the loss of any Man's Life, brought up Thirty Two Tuns of Silver; for it was now come to measuring of Silver by Tuns. Besides which, one Adderly ⟨p. 13⟩of Providence, who had formerly been very helpful to Captain Phips in the Search of this Wreck, did upon former Agreement meet him now, with a little Vessel here; and he, with his few hands, took up about Six Tuns of Silver;

The Diver, bringing up the Feather, brought therewithal a surprizing story, That he perceived a Number of Great Guns in the Watry World where he had found his Feather; the Report of which Great Guns exceedingly astonished the whole Company; and at once, turned their Despondencies for their ill success, into Assurances, that they had now lit upon the True spot of Ground which they had been looking for; and they were further confirmed in these Assurances, when upon further Diving, the Indian fetcht up a Sow, as they stil'd it, or a Lump of Silver, worth perhaps, Two or Three Hundred Pounds. Upon this they prudently Buoy'd the place, that they might readily find it again; And they went back unto their Captain, whom for some while, they distressed with nothing but such Bad News, as they formerly thought they must have carried him: Nevertheless they so slipt in the Sow of Silver, on one side under the Table, where they were now sitting with the Captain, and hearing him express his Resolutions to wait still patiently upon the Providence of God under these Disappointments, that when he should look on one side, he might see that Odd Thing before him. At last he saw it; seeing it, he cryed out with some Agony, Why? What is this? Whence comes this? And then, with changed Countenances, they told him how, and where they got it: Then, said he, Thanks be to God! We are made; And so, away they went, all hands to Work; wherein they had this one further piece of Remarkable Prosperity, that whereas, if they had first fallen upon that part of the Spanish Wreck, where the Pieces of Eight had been stowed in Bags among the Ballast, they had seen a more laborious, and less enriching time of it: Now, most happily, they first fell upon that Room in the Wreck, where the Bullion had been stored up; and they so prospered in this New Fishery, that in a little while they had, without the loss of any Man's Life, brought up Thirty Two Tuns of Silver; for it was now come to measuring of Silver by Tuns. Besides which, one Adderly