Memoria Wilsoniana. Or, Some dues unto the memory of the truly Reverend & renowned…

Wherein, if the Curious Relished the Piety sometimes rather than the Poetry, the Capacity of the Most, therein to be accommodated, must be Considered. But I intend no further Account of this matter, than what is given by his Worthy Son, (Reprinting at Boston in the year, 1680 the Verses of his Father, upon the Famous Deliverances of the English Nation, Printed at London, as long ago, as the year 1626) Whose Words are, What Volumes hath he Penned, for the help of Others, in their several Changes of Condition? How was his Heart full of Good Matter? And his Verses past, like to the Handkerchiefs carried from Paul, to uphold the Disconsolate, & Heal their Wounded Souls? For indeed this is the Least Thing, that we have to Relate of that Great Saint; and accordingly, ⟨p. 3⟩it is under a more Considerable Character, that I must now Exhibit him, Even, as a Father to the Infant Colonies of New-England.

Wherein, if the Curious Relished the Piety sometimes rather than the Poetry, the Capacity of the Most, therein to be accommodated, must be Considered. But I intend no further Account of this matter, than what is given by his Worthy Son, (Reprinting at Boston in the year, 1680 the Verses of his Father, upon the Famous Deliverances of the English Nation, Printed at London, as long ago, as the year 1626) Whose Words are, What Volumns hath he Penned, for the help of Others, in their several Changes of Condition? How was his Heart full of Good Matter? And his Verses past, like to the Handkerchiefs carried from Paul, to uphold the Disconsolate, & Heal their Wounded Souls? For indeed this is the Least Thing, that we have to Relate of that Great Saint; and accordingly, ⟨p. 3⟩it is under a more Considerable Character, that I must now Exhibit him, Even, as a Father to the Infant Colonies of New-England.

S. 2. Mr. John Wilson, descending from Eminent Ancestors, was Born at Windsor in the Wonderful Year 1588. The Third Son of Dr. William Wilson, a Prebend of St. Pauls, of Rochester and of Windsor, and Rector of Cliff: having for his Mother, a Niece of Dr. Edmund Grindal, the most Worthily Renowned Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. His exact Education under his Parents, which betimes Tinged him with an Aversation to Vice, and above all, to the very shadow of a Lye, fitted him to Undergo the further Education, which he received in Eaton-College, under Udall (and Langely) whom now we may Venture, after Poor Tom Tusser, to call, The Severest of Men. Here he was most Remarkably Twice Delivered from Drowning; but at his Book, he made such Proficiency, that while he was the Least Boy in the School, he was made a Propositor; and when the Duke of Biron Ambassador from the French King Henry IV, to Queen Elizabeth, Visited the School, he made a Latin Oration, for which the Duke bestowed Three Angels upon him. After four years Continuance at Eaton, he was Removed unto Cambridge, between the Fourteenth and Fifteenth year of his Age; and Admitted into Kings College