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A58148	The revolution in New England justified and the people there vindicated from the aspersions cast upon them by Mr. John Palmer in his pretended answer to the declaration published by the inhabitants of Boston and the country adjacent, on the day when they secured their late oppressors, who acted by an illegal and arbitrary commission from the late King James.	Rawson, Edward, 1615-1693.; Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1691 (1691)	Wing R376; ESTC W479499	38,176	56

them down but if the English get the day we say nothing and that in the Spring French and Irish would come to Boston as many and all won Indians for that was the first place that was to be destroyed and after that the Countrey Towns would be all won nothing And further the said Solomon said that the Governour had given him a Book which said Governour said was better than the Bible and all that would not turn to the Governours Religion and own that Book should be destroyed In which Book he the said Thomas said was the Picture of our Saviour and of the Virgin Mary and of the Twelve Apostles and the Governour said when we pray we pray to the Virgin Mary and when the Fight should be at the Eastward the Governour would sit in his Wigwam and say O brave Indians Whereupon John Rutter told the Indian that he deserv'd to be hanged for speaking such things but the Indian replied it was all true Upon the hearing this discourse we resolved to come to Boston and acquaint Authority with it but by reason of the sickness of Jos Graves we could not presently but as soon as conveniently we could we accordingly appeared at Boston with our Information which the said Joseph Graves carried to Mr. Bullivant a Justice of the Peace Joseph Graves John X Rutler signum Mary Y Graves mark Boston Jan. 28. 1689. Joseph and Mary Graves came and made Oath to the truth above-written Before me William Johnson Assistant That when the English secured some of the Indians mentioned and brought them before Sir E. A. Justices they were basely barbarously used for their pains the following Affidavits shew Sudbury in new-New-England March 22. 1688 9. Thomas Browne aged about Forty four years and John Goodenow aged about Fifty four years John Growt senior aged near Seventy years Jacob Moore aged about 44 years Jonathan Stanhope aged about 57 years and John Parmiter aged about 50 years all Inhabitants of the Town of Sudbury aforesaid do witness that we heard John James Indian of his own voluntary mind say That the Governour was a Rogue and had hired the Indians to kill the English and in particular had hired Wohawhy to kill Englishmen and that the Governour had given the said Wohawhy a gold Ring which was his Commission which gold Ring the said Wohawhy sold to Jonathan Prescott for two shillings in money Whereupon we replied Sirrah you deserve to be hanged for what you say John James the Indian replied What you Papist all one Governour I speak it before Governours very face This discourse of John James Indian was at the place and on the day above-written Thomas Browne John Goodenow Jacob Moore Jonathan Stanhope John Parmiter Thomas Browne and John Goodenow two of the Subscribers above having received this Declaration from John James the Indian we thought it our duty forthwith to inform Authority and did with the Indian presently go to Water-town to Justice Bond where the said John James did voluntarily give his Testimony before the said Justice Bond which after he had taken the said Justice Bond ordered us the said Thomas Browne and John Goodenow to make our appearance before the Governour Sir E. A. or one of the Council with the Indian which accordingly we did when we came to the Governours house after long waiting in a very wet and cold season we were admitted unto the Governours presence where we were detained until eleven or twelve a Clock at night and after a very unkind Treat we humbly prayed his Excellency he would please to discharge us of the Indian but he told us no and joaked us saying we were a couple of brave men and had the command one of a Troop of Horse and the other a Company of Foot and could we not know what to do with a poor Indian Further he asked us what money we gave the Indian to tell us such news and commanded us still to take care of the Indian till his pleasure was to call for us again and this as we would answer it Thus being severely chidden out of his presence we were forced with the Indian to seek our quarters where we could find them The next morning we were preparing to go home again to Sudbury being 20 miles or more being Saturday we were again sent for by the Governour by a Messenger to wait on the Governour with the Indian which we did and waited at the Exchange or Council-house in Boston from nine a Clock in the morning till three of the Clock in the afternoon where in the face of the Countrey we were made to wait upon the Indian with many squibs and scoffs that we met withal at last we were commanded up before the Governour and his Council where we were examined apart over and over and about the Sun-setting were granted leave to go home it being the Evening before the Sabbath Thomas Browne John Goodenow On Munday Morning following being the 25th of March 1689. Jacob Moore Joseph Graves Joseph Curtis Joseph Moore Obadiah Ward were by Thomas Larkin as a Messenger fetched down to Boston where after Examination Jacob Moore was committed to close Prison Joseph Moore Joseph Graves Joseph Curtis and Obadiah Ward were sent home again paying the said Larkin twelve shillings per Man On the next Monday Morning after being the first day of April 1689. Samuel Gookin the Sheriff of Middlesex and his Deputy came up to Sudbury and commanded Thomas Browne John Goodenow Senior John Growt Senior Jonathan Stanhope John Parmiter forthwith to appear at Boston at Collonel Page's House but it being a Wet and Cold Day we were detained at Judge Dudleys house at Roxbury where after long waiting had the kindness shewn us to have an examination every man apart before Judge Dudley Judge Stoughton Mr. Graham and others and were bound over to answer at the next Superiour Court to be held at Boston what should there be objected against us upon his Majesties account Thomas Browne John Goodenow Senior John Growt Senior were each of them bound over in three hundred pound Bonds and each man two sureties in three hundred pound Bond a piece John Parmiter and Jonathan Stanhope were bound in a hundred pound a piece besides the loss of our time and hindrance of our Business the reproach and ignominy of Bond and Imprisonment we shall only take the boldness to give a true account of what money we were forced to expend out of our own Purses as followeth to the Sheriff and other necessary Charges   l. s. d. Thomas Browne 2 00 00 J. Goodenow Senior 2 00 00 J. Growt Senior 0 10 00 J. Rutter Junior 3 05 00 Joseph Curtis 0 17 00 Jacob Moore 3 00 00 Jonathan Stanhope 0 15 00 John Parmiter 0 15 00 Joseph Graves 3 15 00 Thomas Browne John Goodenow Jacob Moore Jonathan Stanhope Joseph Curtis John Parmiter Boston the 21st of Decemb 1689. Jurat cor Isaac Addington Assistant Altho no man does accuse

Sir Edmund meerly upon Indian Testimony yet let it be duly weighed the premises considered whether it might not create suspicion and an astonishment in the People of New-England in that he did not punish the Indians who thus charged him but the English who complained of them for it And it is certain that some very good and wise men in New England do verily believe that he was deeply guilty in this matter especially considering what might pass between him and Hope Hood an Indian concerning which Mr. Thomas Dantforth the present Deputy Governour at Boston in New England in a Letter bearing date April 1. 1690. writeth thus The Commander in chief of those that made this spoil i. e. the spoil which was made in the Province of Maine on the 18th of March last is Hope Hood an Indian one that was with sundry other Indians in the summer 1688 seized by some of Sir Edmunds Justices and Commanders in the Province of Maine and sent Prisoners to Boston Sir E. being then at the Westward where he continued absent many weeks upon his return finding the Indians in Prison fell into a great rage against those Gentlemen that had acted therein declared his resolution to set them at liberty and calling his Council together was by some opposed therein and among others one Gentleman of the Council accused this Hope Hood to be a bloody Rogue and added that he the said Hope Hood had threatned his Life and therefore prayed Sir E. that he might not be enlarged but Sir E. made a flout and scorn of all that could be said At the same time some of the Council desired Sir E. that this Hope Hood might be sent for before the Council to which he replied that he never had had a quarter of an hours conference with any of them and that he scorned to discourse with any Heathen of them all yet all this notwithstanding at the same time whilst the Council was thus met did Sir Edmund privately withdraw himself and repair to the Prison where this Hope Hood was Prisoner and did there continue with him two or three hours in private the truth of what is above related is attested by sundry Gentlemen that were of Sir Edmunds Council and were then Ear Witnesses and likewise by others that saw Sir E. at the Prison and it is now verily believed that at that very time he consulted the mischief that is now acted by the said Hope Hood and Company Thus Mr. Dantforth 9. That Sir Edmund Androsse discountenanced making defence against the Indians is complained of by five Gentlemen who were of his Council and much concerned at his strange actings in that matter as in the account annext to this Apology is to be seen It is also confirmed by the Affidavits of two honest men Henry Kerley aged about fifty seven years and Thomas How aged thirty five years or thereabouts both Inhabitants of the Town of Malborough do both testifie that in the Fall of the year 1688. When Sir Edmund Androsse came from New-York to Boston sometime after the Indians had killed some English men at North-field in New England coming through our Town of Malborough the said Sir E. A. examined this Deponent Henry Kerley by what Order we did Fortify and Garrison our Houses I answered it was by order of Captain Nicholson the said Sir E. then said he had no power so to do He the said Sir E. examined what Arms we made use of and carried with us on the Watch and what charge was given us answer was made by the Deponent they carried Fire Arms and the charge was to keep a true Watch to examine all we met with and secure suspicious persons that we met with the said Sir E. said what if they will not be secured and what if you should kill them answer was made by the Deponent that if we should kill them we were in our way then Mr. Randolph being there in the company said you are in the way to be hanged Sir E. A. said further that those persons that had left their Houses to dwell in Garrisons if they would not return others should be put in that would live there Henry Kerley Thomas How Boston the 27th of Decemb. 1689. Jur. Henry Kerley and the 2d of Janu. 1689. Jur. Thomas How Cor. Is Addington Assistant That Sir Edmunds High Sheriff was a Stranger in the Country and one that had no Estate there needs no proof and that Strangers who had no Freehold were Impannelled for Jurors is notoriously known So it was in the case of the Ipswich-men as hath been noted and when that Reverend person Mr. Charles Morton was causelesly and maliciously prosecuted he was not only compelled to answer contrary to Law in another County and not in that wherein the good Sermon they found fault with was Preached but that if possible they might give him a blow there was summoned to serve as a Jury man one John Gibson no Householder nor of any Estate or Credit and one John Levingsworth a Bricklayer who lived in another Colony two hundred Miles distance When those in Government will use such base Artifices as these to accomplish their pernicious designs how should any mans Estate or Life be secure under them 11. That the persons objected against were some of them guilty of great extortion is manifest from what hath been related and may yet be further proved for as by some instances we have already seen and shall now hear more they compelled men to take Patents for their own Lands which they and their Fathers before them had quietly possessed till these covetous Creatures became a Nusance to the Country and it may be none more Criminal as to this particular than Mr. Palmer and Mr. West A Friend of their own viz. Mr. Randolph does in several of his Letters bitterly complain of them upon this account In a Letter of his of August the 25th 1687. he writeth thus I believe all the Inhabitants in Boston will be forced to take Grants and Confirmations of their Lands as now intended the Inhabitants of the Province of Maine which will bring in vast profits to Mr. West he taking what Fees he pleases to demand I shall always have a due Honour and Respect for his Excellency but I must buy his Favour at three or four hundred pound a year loss And in another to the same June 21. 1688. he hath these words I went to one Shurte Town-Clerk of Pemyquid to know what Leases were made lately and by whom and for what quit Rent he told me that above a year ago Captain Palmer and Mr. West produced to them a Commission from Collonel Dungar to dispose of all their Lands to whoever would take leases at five shillings the hundred Acres quit Rent They let there and at a place called Dartmouth twelve or sixteen Miles distant from Pemyquid about one hundred and forty Leases some had eight hundred or ten hundred Acres few less than a hundred

Principal men there shall keep them from Ravening that this is the Sin of Rebellion condemned in the Scripture How or by whose Authority our Lawyer comes to play the Divine we know not But since he hath thought meet to take a Spiritual Weapon into his hand let him know that the Scripture speaks of a lawful and good Rebellion as well as of that which is unlawful It is said of good Hezekiah that he Rebelled against the King of Assyria and served him not 2 Kings 18.7 Indeed reviling Rabshakch upbraided him and said as in verse 20. thou Rebellest not unlike to Captain Palmer saying to N. E. thou rebellest Hezekiahs predecessours had basely given away the Liberties of the people and submitted to the Arbitrary Power of the Assyrians and therefore Hezekiah did like a worthy Prince in casting off a Tyrannical Government and asserting the Liberty of them that were the Lords People and God did signally own and prosper him in what he did and would never permit the Assyrian to regain his Tyrannical Power over Jerusalem or the Land of Judah though for their tryal he permitted their Enemies to make some Devastations among them The like we hope may be the happy case of New England Mr. Palmer tells us that N. E. hath valued it self for the true profession and pure exercise of the Protestant Religion but he intimates that they will be termed a Land full of Hypocrisie and Rebellion Irreligion and a degenerate wicked people p. 39. And is this the Sincerity and Christian Moderation which he boasts himself of in his Preface Surely these are the Hissings of the Old Serpent and do sufficiently indicate whose Children the men are that use them Since he will be at Divinity let him if he can read the Apologies written by Justin Martyr and Tertullian and there see if Pagans did not accuse Christians of Old just after the same manner and with the same Crimes that he wickedly upbraids that Good and Loyal People with Who are they that use to call the Holiest and most Conscientious men in the World Hypocrites Liars Rebels and what not but they that are themselves the greatest Hypocrites Liars and Rebels against Heaven that the Earth does bear It is hard to believe that Captain Palmer does not rebel against the light of his own Conscience when he affirms as in Page 38 that in N. E. every thing that hath any relations to their Majesties is neglected and unregarded without any recognition of their Authority over those dominions He cannot be ignorant of the humble Addresses which the people in N. E. have from time to time made to their present Majesties acknowledging their Authority He knows that on the first notice of their Majesties being proclaimed King and Queen in England both those now in Government in N. E. and the body of the people with them did without any command of their own accord with the greatest Joy proclaim their Majesties in N. E. he knows that their Majesties have no subjects more cordially and zealously devoted to them than those in N.E. are or that do with greater fervour pray for their long and happy Reigns or that are more willing to expose themselves to the utmost hazards in their service and yet this man that knoweth all this to cast an Odium on that Loyal and Good people insinuates as if they were Rebels and disaffected to the Present Government and designed to set up an Independant Common Wealth and had no regard to the Laws of God or Men. After this lying and malicious rate hath he exprest himself What Rational Charity can be extended so far as to believe that 't is possible for him to think that what himself hath written is true When Sanballat wrote that Nehemiah and the Jews with him intended to Rebel did he believe what he had written no he did not but feigned those things out of his own heart The like is to be said of those Sanballats that accuse the people of N. E. with thoughts of Rebellion And so we have done with Mr. Palmer What hath been said is sufficient to justify the Revolution in N. E. and to vindicate the People there from the Aspersions cast upon them by their Enemies Several Worthy Gentlemen have under their hands given an account concerning some of Sir Edmund's Arbitrary proceedings which is subscribed by five and more would have concurred with them had there been time to have communicated it of those who were of Sir Edmunds Council during his Government there and for that cause their complaints carry the more weight with them which shall therefore as a Conclusion be here subjoined Reader THere is such Notoriety as to Matter of Fact in the preceding Relation that they who Live in new-New-England are satify'd concerning the Particulars contained therein If any in England should Hesitate they may please to understand that Mr. Elisha Cooke and Mr. Thomas Oakes who were the last Year sent from Boston to appear as Agents in behalf of the Massachusetts Colony have by them Attested Copies of the Affidavits at least wise of most of them which are in this Vindication published and are ready if occasion serve to produce them FINIS