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

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 ⟨p. xiii⟩of Eighty-seven. These Falsehoods are many of them the more Inexcusable, because the History of New-England which he decries with so much Foolish Malignity, had in those very points given him a Truer Information. And for many of them, tis Impossible for him to find any Author, but his own Romantic Brain. O Paloephatus, Thou hast nothing so Incredible. Unhappy Collection! In which there are so often more Lies than Pages! Miserable Age! How do thy Historians put upon thee!

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 Falshoods—which I Observed in it, Omitting many lesser matters which cannot be Justified: And upon casting up the Number, of these Falshoods I found them to be above the Number