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Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…
Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr. Increase Mather. Who expired, August 23. 1723. : [One line from II Kings]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Nathaniel Belknap, 1724
Title page typeset from the transcription.
REMARKABLES OF Dr. Increase Mather. › Article 26: ARTICLE XXVI. The History of the NEW CHARTER.
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.
§. 6. But a Greater than any of these, must not be left Unsolicited. Mr. Mather was by Madam Lockart Introduced unto the QUEEN, on Apr. 9. 1691. and she left him alone with her Majesty, that he might the more freely represent the case of New-England unto her.
§. 6. But a Greater than any of these, must not be left Unsollicited. Mr. Mather was by Madam Lockart Introduced unto the QUEEN, on Apr. 9. 1691. and she left him alone with her Majesty, that he might the more freely represent the case of New-England unto her.
The Discourse was, as followeth,
Ma. I do most Humbly pray Your Majesties Favour to your Good Subjects in New-England. There are none in the World more in Your Interest than they; nor any that do with greater Devotion Pray for Your Long and Happy Reign. They have indeed been Exposed unto great Troubles on the account of their Loyalty unto your Majesty. For the French at Canada, who have invaded them, and have Destroyed several of their Plantations, gave that as the Reason of what they did; Because ⟨p. 128⟩the People there have Declared for King William and Queen Mary. They now only Pray, that they may be Resettled in the Enjoyment o• those Privileges, which they were Possessed of, until the last Year of King Charles II.