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The deplorable state of New-England, by reason of a covetous and treacherous governor, and…The deplorable state of New-England, by reason of a covetous and treacherous governour, and…
The deplorable state of New-England, by reason of a covetous and treacherous governor, and pusillanimous counsellors : with a vindication of the Honourable Mr. Higginson, Mr. Mason, and several other gentlemen, from the scandalous and wicked accusation of the votes, ordered by them to be published in their Botson [sic] news-letter. : To which is added, an account of the shameful miscarriage of the late expedition against Port-Royal.The deplorable state of New-England, by reason of a covetous and treacherous governour, and pusillanimous counsellors : with a vindication of the Honourable Mr. Higginson, Mr. Mason, and several other gentlemen, from the scandalous and wicked accusation of the votes, ordered by them to be published in their Botson [sic] news-letter. : To which is added, an account of the shameful miscarriage of the late expedition against Port-Royal.
Boston : London: printed in the year 1708. Reprinted by Samuel Kneeland?, 1721
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Eighty Thousand of Shingle […] Twenty Thousand, Ditto, Board. One Dozen of Black-Hafted Table Knives. One Hundred Weight of good Butter. Two Barrels of Mackerel. One Piece of good Searge. One Cask of Passado-Wine. Some Rice, &c.
Eighty Thousand of Shingle 〈…〉 Twenty Thousand, Ditto, Board. One Dozen of Black-Hafted Table Knives. One Hundred Weight of good Butter. Two Barrels of Mackerel. One Piece of good Searge. One Cask of Passado-Wine. Some Rice, &c.
I Know no Inconvenience in the Particulars above, and therefore Allow it.
J. DUDLEY.
These things were Shipped on Board a French Vessel, called, A Flag of Truce (Anglice, of Trade) Capt. D• Chafeau Commander. It was done at the very time, when the Governor and Assembly, were Fining Vetch and Company, for a Trade as little Criminal; and when an Act of the Massachuset Province had made it Capital. Some of the Council would feign have persuaded the House, that there was a Cypher (their own Name-sake In the Council,) added unto the 8, and th 2, of the Nails. But Baker's Confession had spoilt that idle Whim. The Governor's Friends, his Majors, Captains, Justices, and Feather-Caps in the House, and the meaner Slaves of the Trencher, used all imaginable Artifices to Vindicate him: And yet, when it came to a Vote on November the Nineteenth, Whether, after strict Enquiry, the House could clear his Excellency of Managing, or Countenancing a Private Trade with the French and Indian Enemies, The Vote passed in the Negative, with a very great Majority. About Forty Five Members, more than Two to One, Voted, That they could not clear him. He had, according to the New Massachuset Sense of the Word, An Unanimous Condemnation.