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

It was under the Resentments of these Things, that Sir William Phips, returned into England, in the year 1688. In which Twice-Wonderful-Year, such a Revolution was wonderfully accomplished upon the whole Government of the English Nation, that New-England, which had been a Specimen of what the whole Nation was to look for, might justly hope for a share in the General Deliverance. Upon this Occasion Sir William offered his best Assistances unto that Eminent Person, who a little before this Revolution, betook himself unto White-Hall, that he might there lay hold on all Opportunities to procure some Relief unto the Oppressions of that afflicted Country. But seeing the New-English Affairs in so able an Hand, he thought the best Stage of Action for ⟨p. 23⟩him would now be New-England it self; and so with certain Instructions from none of the least considerable Persons at White-Hall, what Service to do for his Country, in the Spring of the Year 1689 he hastened back unto it. Before he left London, a Messenger from the Abdicated King tendered him the Government of New-England, if he would accept it: But as that excellent Attorney General Sir William Jones, when it was proposed that the Plantations might be Governed without Assemblies, told the King, That he could no more Grant a Commission to levy Money on his Subjects there, without their consent by an Assembly, than they could Discharge themselves from their Allegiance to the English Crown. So Sir William Phips thought it his Duty to refuse a Government without an Assembly, as a thing that was Treason in the very Essence of it, and instead of Petitioning the succeeding Princes, that his Patent for High Sheriff might be rendered Effectual, he joined in Petitions, that New-England might have its own Old Patent so Restored, as to render Ineffectual that, and all other Grants that might cut short any of it's Ancient Privileges. But when Sir William arrived at New-England, he found a New Face of Things; For about an Hundred Indians in the Eastern parts of the Country, had unaccountably begun a War upon the English, in July, 1688.

It was under the Resentments of these Things, that Sir Williom Phips, returned into England, in the year 1688. In which Twice-Wonderful-Year, such a Revolution was wonderfully accomplished upon the whole Government of the English Nation, that New-England, which had been a Specimen of what the whole Nation was to look for, might justly hope for a share in the General Deliverance. Upon this Occasion Sir William offered his best Assistances unto that Eminent Person, who a little before this Revolution, betook himself unto White-Hall, that he might there lay hold on all Opportunities to procure some Relief unto the Oppressions of that afflicted Country. But seeing the New-English Affairs in so able an Hand, he thought the best Stage of Action for