102. [Colony seal.] By the Governour and Council Assembled at Boston the 2d. of April, 1685. (Forbidding intercourse with a vessel cruising in the neighborhood, believed to have been taken by pirates.) [Cambridge: Printed by Samuel Green. 1685. BA Reproduced in Whitmore's reprint of the General Laws and Liberties, 1672, 355. Evans, 391. 1686 103. Advertisement | Forasmuch as by His Majesty's Gracious Care, His immediate Goverment is now Settled, and such Regulations like to be speedily made in the Narraganset Countrey or Kings-Province . . . (Calling a meeting of proprietors.) Dated, Boston, June 9, 1686. 2 Proceedings, IX. 469. HARVARD College. 104. Theses. Evans, 406. MASSACHUSETTS BAY, COLONY. MHS HC 105. [Colony seal.] A Proclamation By the President and 106. [Colony seal.] A Proclamation | By the President and Council of His Majestiys Territory and Dominion of NewEngland in America. Dated, May 28, 1686. (Announcing that a President and Council had been constituted over NewEngland and the appointment of Joseph Dudley, governor.) Boston, in N. E. Printed by Richard Pierce, Printer to the Honourable his Majesties President and Council of this Government. 2 Proceedings, IX. 471. Evans, 409. MHS 107. [Colony seal.] A | Proclamation | by the | President and Council for the Orderly Solemnization of Marriage. Dated, May 29, 1686. Boston. Printed by Richard Pierce, Printer to the Honourable His Majesty's | President & Council of this His Majesties Teritory & Dominion of N-England. 2 Proceedings, Ix. 472. Evans, 411. MHS 108. By the President and Council of his Majesties Territory and Dominion of New-England in America. (Notice of a court in the Narragansett Country.) Dated, June 8, 1686. Boston. Printed by Richard Pierce, Printer to the Honourable His Majesty's President & Council in this His Territory and Do- minion of New-England. The text is given in 5 Collections, IX. 152. Evans, 410. MHS 109. The General Courts Answer to | Joseph Dudley Esqr &c. | This was pass'd by the whole Court, nemine non consentiente. (Refusing assent to his commission as governor.) [Boston: Printed by Richard Pierce. 1686.] † MA Archives, CCXLII. 334. Evans, 412. TOMPSON. EDWARD. 110. An Elegiack Tribute to the Sacred Dust of the Reverend and Worthy Mr. Seaborn Cotton | Pastour of the Church of Christ at Hampton in New-England: who was discharged from his Work and Office, to be admitted into Heaven, April 20th 1686. [Boston: Printed by Samuel Green.] MHS 111. Upon the Death of that Aged, Pious, Sincere-hearted Christian, John Alden Esq: Late Magistrate of New-Plimouth Colony, who dyed Sept. 12th, 1687, | being about eighty nine years of age. BA. MHS It may have been printed in 1714 (Proceedings, XLI. 208) and it was reprinted, in 1806, by Timothy Alden, Jun. Evans, 426. HARVARD College. 112. Quaestiones. [Boston: Printed by Samuel Green.] Evans, 428. HC 113. Theses. HC 2 Proceedings, XVII. 58. They are reproduced in Am. Antiq. Soc., Proceedings, October, 1914, 282. WALTER, NEHEMIAH. 114. An Elegiack verse, on the Death of the Pious and Profound Grammarian and Rhetorician, Mr. Elijah Corlet, Schoolmaster of Cambridge, who Deceased Anno Aetatis 77, Feb. 24, 1687. HC M ANGLIA A PROCLAMATION The PRESIDENT and COUNCIL-of His Majestiy's Territory & Dominion of NEW-ENGLAND in AMERICA Br T W HEREAS His-Most Excellent Majefty our Soveraign LORD JAMES the Second, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith &c. by COMMISSION or Letters Patents under His Great Seal of England, bearing Date the Eight day of October in the first of His Reign hath been graciously pleased to erect and contitute a PRESIDENT and COUNCIL to take Care of all that His Territory and Dominion of New-England called the Massachusets Bay, the Provinces of New-Hampshire & Main, and the Narraganset Countrey, otherwife called the Kings-Province, with all the lands, Rights and Members thereunto appertaining; and to Order Rute and GOVERN the fame according to the Rules Methods and Regulations specified in the faid Commiffion: Together with His Majefties Gracious Indulgence in matters of Religion. And for the Execution of His Royal pleasure in that behalf, His Majefty hath been pleased to appoint Jofeph Dudley Efq to be the firft PRESIDENT of His Majefties faid Council, & VICE-ADMIRAL of thefe Seas. And to Continue in the faid Offices until his Majefty fhall otherwise direct, & alfo to nominate & appoint William Stoughton, Efq; now Deputy-Prefident, Sumon Bradstreet, Robert Mafon, John Fuz-Winthrope, John Pynchon, Peter Bulkley, Edward Randolph, Wait Winthrope, Richard Wharton, John Usher, Nathaniel Saltonftal, Bartholomew Gidney, Jonathan Tyng, Dudley Bradstreet, John Hinks," and Edward Tyng, Elq's: 40, be His Majetties Council in the faid Colony and Territories. The President & Council therefore being convened and having according to the Direction & Form of the faid Commiffion, taken their Oathes and Entered the GOVERNMENT aforefaid; and finding it needful, that speedy & effectual Care be taken for the Obfervati on of His Majefties Commands, and particularly for the Regulation and good Government of the Narraganfer Countrey or Kings-Prowince, which hath hitherto been unfettled. They the laid Prefident & Council have refolved speedily to erect and fettle a conftant Court of Record upon the place; and that the Prefident, Deputy-Frefident, or fome others of the Members of His Majefties Council fhall be prefent to give all neceflary Power and Directions for Eftablishing His Majefties Government there, and Administration of Justice to All His Majefties Subjects within the faid Narraganfet Countrey or Kings-Province, and all the Ilands, Rights, and Members thereof. And the faid Prefident & Council have in the interin affigned Richard Smith Efq: James Pendleton, and John Foxes Gentlemen, Justices to keep the Peace of our Soveraign Lord the KING and all His Subjects: And alfo given Commiffion to the faid Richard Smuh to be Sergeant Major, and Chief Commander of His Majefties Militia, both of Horfe & Foot within the Narraganset Countrey or Province, and all the Islands Rights and Members thereof. THEREFORE the faid Prefident & Council doe hereby in His Majefties Name and by virtue of His faid Commillion ftrictly Require & Command all other perfons being or coming upon the place, to forbear the Excercife of all manner of Jurisdiction, Authority, and Power, and to ceafe all further Proceedings for the Allotments or Divifions of Land, or making any Strip or Wafte upon any part of the faid Province, fave only on each man's stated Propriety, except by Licence obtained from the faid Court, or the President & Council, until there fhall be fuch effectual Regulation and Government established as is directed by His Majefty. And the faid Prefident & Council doe hereby henceforth discharge all His Majesties Subjects within the said Narraganset Countrey or Kings Province and all the Islands, Rights & Members thereof from the Government of the Governour & Com➡ pany of Connecticut & Rhode-Ifland and Providence Plantation, & all others pretending any Power or Jurisdiction. Hereby Charging & Commanding all His Majefties Subjects to yeild ready & due Obedience to the faid Tuftices of the Peace, the Sergeant Major or Cheif Commander of His Majefties Militia. And George Weightman, Thomas Eldridge, Thomas Monford and Wiliam Chaplin are hereby appointed & authorized prefent Constables: and Liberty given to the aforefaid Juftices to appoint fo many more as they fhall fee needful to them, and to administer Oathes unto the aforefaid Constables & fuch as are to be Ordeined. And all other perfons are to be aiding & affift. ing unto them the faid Justices and Constables in the Execution and Difcharge of their refpective Offices, Charges and Trufts, as they will answer the contrary at their utmost Peril. Given from the Council-house in Boston this 28th Day of May Anno Domini 1686. Annoq: Regni Regis Jacobi Secundi fecundo. Edward Randolph Secr': By the President and Council, GOD SAVE THE KING BOSTON, in N. E. Printed by Richard Pierce, Printer to the Honourable His Majefties Prefident and Council of this Government. No. 106. THE Little-Compton Scot Or, The Anti-Courant. HE of qually mong Witty Hand, is fo dit Bured ** as the Intelle@ual Souls are Mr. Grußßreet been plagued for Want of ding. And now the poor hey put Confidence in your delity. Soar now, and these o not be two frequent in your Take Courage, poor Couranto, and don't difturb your felf with Foolish Fears, of creating Impatience in your Gentle Readers. It would be hard to make Gentleness become Impatient. Never fear, you will find good Quarter from the Gentle, and till you poffels the Talent of Satire ( which such an innocent Creature as ou can never be guilty of) you may keep in with the Men of Pallon and Relentment. Your harmless Lathes, which rather tickle them into a Laugh at the awkward Flogger, than gaul them in the fore Place, will never difplease them, Talent. The Distribution is univer- Flights, and they'll promife to Keep you in Sight. fally well-liked of; you never hear any Man murmur and repine at the Fates, for his own fcanty Allowance. Every Man bleffes himself that he is nó Fool, and thanks his Stars, that he does not want Wit. So that this one Inflance must forever stand as a grand Exception to the general Maxim, No Men is content with his own Condition. Self-conceit fupplies the Want of Senfe ; and fancied Wit yields a Man as full Confolation as a true confeioufhefs of real and extraordinary Underftanding. It is well, This is the Cafe of the miferable and dull Couranto, who, had hex true fight of himself, and what a wretched Figure he makes in writing, would quarrel with all Mankind for having more Wit than himself. Will what is that? Pray, from whones Camt it? What Age may it be of? Was it bred at College, or in an Apothecary's Shop, Sir. Pray, Sir, don't be an gry at thefe Enquiries; for it is none of yours of your Families Pedigree or Education we are enquiring for. You have no acquaintance with it yet; you snuft live near twice twenty and three Years more, e'er you can court fo mortal an Enemy into your favour, and win fo delicate and coy a Queft into your rude and mortal Embraces. But yet that you may know the Stranger when you have (if it be poffible, which I much doubt) a chance fight of her, Let me tell you in the Name of an Apothecary, the is cloathed in a Latin Drefs, and that the is much for a pertinent and nice Patching her unfortunately tattered Cloaths, with the best and brighteft Pieces from your true Roman Authors. As for Example, Barba non Facit Philofophum. Que genus aut fexum variant, quacunque novato, &c. Propria qua Maribus tribuuntur MAŠCULA dicas. And further, if ever it should be your good, though doubtful Fate to have a glance View of her, obferve But to be fure get your felf Diffected (according to your Promile) that the World may have a full View of your Outward Man, for you are a Mifterious Piece of Skin, that cannot difciofe your Exteriors without the Help of Anatomy. And, Sir, as for the Diffection for the Discovery of the inward Man, the World thinks it needlefs, for that your Works declare, your Guer are in your Brains, However, not to make you STOP SHORT three Times (as in your late Advertifement ) we will permit you to let us have every Fortnight an Account of your Robuit Body, and your Cloudy Mind. And do not fail to give an elaborate and impartial Account of the good Company of a certain Set of Men otherwife your Silence in this Matter, may give the World fhrewd Grounds of Sufpicion, of what the excellent, immortal, and profoundly learned Dugard (for we muft quote, you know, the best Latin Authors) once faid of the Goat, which here is no Carecbreft, Vir Gregit, ipfe CAPER decrraverat. Go on, Monfieur Courant, and profper; Fear not to please your stupid Admirers, which will be an ealy Task, if you will but confult your own heavy Geniu and write in your native Stile, of which you have been so sharp and difcerning as to give us the ape her Gate, watch her Motionis, till the is out of Sight, and proper Character, VERY, VERY DULL!ty ten to one She'll tread in Metre, (for the is a pretty Antick Dame too) and you fhall find pieces of Hexa meters and Pentameters beat out in Time. Both of them; Vox pratereaque nibil, and, Vex praterea mbil. As foon as ever you have arrived at so much Knowledge of her, if the flies from you after all, hallow out for your Life, and tell her that you know Mr. Bicker(for you are a Man used a Lie) and that he was a pure Canning But, Sir, what did you fay your Age was? Some old Tears, and a few Days under twice try three. Good Sir, your writing betrays you in fome Odd Year of your Age. Others will mare ready think, by your Row Scribbling, that Years had not much to do here and that Days better became your Reckoning, You are confident of Readers and good Succefs with hem. Never a Jack without * Jill. To your comfort you have a dull Parity of Readers teady to your I should, Sir, be unjust and defraud you of your due, if I did not fend you little Rythme (with fmall Variation, from a candid, fagacious, and calebrated Author) in Recompence of your wondrous witty Triplet. Little-ton Labour in Spite bariah Touchstone P. S. It were to dished the Stled Men, for the Peace of the Publick, would oblige Mr. Couranto to be, Home unius Negatii. Quare, Whether the Term [ Extrafundamental] may be allowed. The younger Scaliger is of Opini on, Extragrounded, is a word of better Import. Take Notice, the candid Concombiur, and the celebrited Scornfenfus do not scruple to declare that both the former Criticisms are EXTRAGROUNDLESS. Mỹ, BOSTON Printed and Sold by F4Franklin, over against Me, Sheaf'a Bilibol in Queen-Street. No. 469. 婴 1688 115. Custome House, Boston | in New England. | These may Certifie (clearance paper, signed by Ed. Randolph.) Archives, CXXIX. 308. HARVARD COLLEGE. † MA 116. Quaestiones. [Cambridge: Printed by Samuel Green. 1688.] Evans, 443. MASSACHUSETTS BAY, COLONY. HC 117. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | A | Proclamation. | (On advice from England of a great and sudden invasion from Holland, enjoining care and vigilance to ward off any landing or invasion.) Dated at Fort Charles, Pemaquid, January 10, 1688. Printed at Boston in New-England by R. P. 2 Proceedings, Ix. 475. Signed, E. Andros. Evans, 449. MHS No. 117. Royal arms, believed to have been brought over by Sir 118. Summons. Edmund Andros BPL 119. The Plain Case stated Of Old- but especially of NewEngland, in an Address to His Highness | The Prince of Orange. Boston, Printed for and Sold by [ Benjamin Harris at the London-Coffee-house. Evans, 453. MHS |