Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

But I shall be truly guilty of Trivial Matters, if I make thus free with the Patience of the Reader; and I shall only detain him from far Better Matters, if I go on to Answer the Rest of this Mans Impotent Cavils at a Work, for which after all, I have little to say but this! That it is a well meant Essay to do some Good in the World; And, if the World will not Accept it, I am not at all Disappointed: The Essay is made, and, surely, my Judgment is with the Lord, and my Work is with my GOD!

Nevertheless, Concerning the Work of him who thus turns aside, I owe so much Duty to Truth, and Service to Men, as to let the World be Apprised of it, That as Antonius Augustinus Affirms of Guevara, who was Historiographer to the Emperor Charles V. Ea Comminiscitur quoe nec visa nec Audita mortalibus: He is always Inventing things that no Mortal but himself ever dreamed of; This I do affirm concerning this Historiographer to Sir Some body else; He is for History another Guevara And I do here publicly make this Declaration;

Nevertheless, Concerning the Work of him who thus turns aside, I owe so much Duty to Truth, and Service to Men, as to let the World be Apprised of it, That as Antonius Augustinus Affirms of Guevara, who was Historiographer to the Emperour Charles V. Ea Comminiscitur quoe nec visa nec Audita mortalibus: He is always Inventing things that no Mortal but himself ever dream't of; This I do affirm concerning this Historiographer to Sir Some body else; He is for History another Guevara And I do here publickly make this Declaration;

In Reading Eighty six Pages of what this Wretched and worse than Careless Writer has given us about New England, I noted down with my Pen, the more Gross, Evident, and Notorious Falsehoods—which I Observed in it, Omitting many lesser matters which cannot be Justified: And upon casting up the Number, of these Falsehoods I found them to be above the Number