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

and though the Governor then in the Western Parts, had immediate Advice of it, yet he not only delayed and neglected all that was necessary for the Public Defence, but also when he at Last returned, he manifested a most Furious Displeasure against those of the Council, and all others that had forwarded any one thing for the security of the Inhabitants; while at the same time, he dispatched some of his Creatures upon secret Errands unto Canada, and set at Liberty some of the most Murderous Indians which the English had seized upon.

and though the Governour then in the Western Parts, had immediate Advice of it, yet he not only delayed and neglected all that was necessary for the Publick Defence, but also when he at Last returned, he manifested a most Furious Displeasure against those of the Council, and all others that had forwarded any one thing for the security of the Inhabitants; while at the same time, he dispatched some of his Creatures upon secret Errands unto Canada, and set at Liberty some of the most Murderous Indians which the English had seized upon.

This Conduct of the Governor, which is in a Printed Remonstrance of some of the Best Gentlemen in the Council, complained of, did extremely dissatisfy the Suspicious People: Who were doubtless more ⟨p. 24⟩extreme in some of their Suspicions, than there was any real Occasion for: But the Governor at length raised an Army of a Thousand English to Conquer this Hundred Indians; and this Army, whereof some of the chief Commanders were Papists, underwent the Fatigues of a Long, and a cold Winter, in the most Caucasaean Regions of the Territory, till, without the Killing of One Indian, there were more of the poor People Killed, than they had Enemies there Alive! This added, not a Little to the Dissatisfaction of the People, and it would much more have done so if they had seen what the World had not yet seen of the Suggestions made by the Irish Catholics unto the Late King, published in the Year 1691, In the Account of the State of the Protestants in Ireland, Licensed by the Earl of Nottingham, whereof one Article runs in these Express Terms, That if any of the Irish cannot have their Lands in Specie, but money in Lieu, some of them may Transport themselves into America, possibly near New-England, to check the Growing Independents of that Country: Or if they had seen what was afterwards seen, in a Letter from K. James to His Holiness, (as they stile His Foolishness) the Pope of Rome; That it was his Full purpose to have Set up Roman-Catholic Religion, in the English Plantations of America: Tho after all, there is cause to think, that there was more made of the Suspicions then flying like Wild-fire about the Country, than a strong Charity would have Countenanced. When the People were under these Frights, they had got by the Edges a Little Intimation of the then Prince of Orange's glorious Undertaking to deliver England, from the Feared Evils, which were already felt by New-England; but when the Person, who brought over a Copy of the Princes Declaration, was Imprisoned for bringing into the Country a Treasonable Paper, and the Governor, by his Proclamation, Required all Persons, to use their utmost-Endeavours to hinder the Landing of any whom the Prince might send thither, This put them almost out of Patience.