N00452:78
The Revolution in New England justified, and the people there vindicated from the aspersions…
The Revolution in New England justified, and the people there vindicated from the aspersions cast upon them by Mr. John Palmer, in his pretended answer to the declaration, published by the inhabitants of Boston, and the country adjacent, on the day when they secured their late oppressors, who acted by an illegal and arbitrary commission from the late King James.
Boston: printed for Joseph Brunning, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If an unaccountable Instinct and Resolution had not animated the Inhabitants in and about Boston,to seize on those few men, the People there believe N. E. would have been in the hands not of King William but King Lewis ere this day: For in Sept. 1689. several Vessels belonging to N. E. were taken near Cansir in America by some French Men of War. The Prisoners since at liberty, inform, that the French told them, that there was a Fleet of Ships bound from France directly for Boston in N. E. but some of them were taken by the English Ships of War, ⟨p. 38⟩and three or four of them lost at New-found-land, and that Sir E. A. had sent to the French King for them to come over, and the Country should be delivered up. And the Lieutenant of a French-man of War professed, that if Sir E. A. had not been imprisoned, they would then have gone to Boston. This shows what a good Opinion the French had of him, and such reports so testified made a stranger impression on the spirits of the People throughout the Country: And that the World may see we do not write Fictions of our own, the subsequent Affidavits are produced and here inserted.
If an unaccountable Instinct and Resolution had not animated the Inhabitants in and about Boston,to seize on those few men, the People there believe N. E. would have been in the hands not of King William but King Lewis e're this day: For in Sept. 1689. several Vessels belonging to N. E. were taken near Cansir in America by some French Men of War. The Prisoners since at liberty, inform, that the French told them, that there was a Fleet of Ships bound from France directly for Boston in N. E. but some of them were taken by the English Ships of War, ⟨p. 38⟩and three or four of them lost at New-found-land, and that Sir E. A. had sent to the French King for them to come over, and the Countrey should be delivered up. And the Lieutenant of a French-man of War professed, that if Sir E. A. had not been imprisoned, they would then have gone to Boston. This shews what a good Opinion the French had of him, and such reports so testified made a stranger impression on the spirits of the People throughout the Countrey: And that the World may see we do not write Fictions of our own, the subsequent Affidavits are produced and here inserted.