The Portrait now in Circulation of Dr. Mather was engraved from a beautiful Mezzotinto, half Size, with the following Inscription underneath it:
"Cottonus Matherus S. Theologiæ Doctor Regiæ Societatis Londiniensis Socius, et Eccelsiæ apud Bostonum Nov˭Anglorum nuper Præpositus.
Ætatis Suæ LXV. MDCCXXVII.
P. Pelham ad vivum pinxit ab Origin Fecit."
Those desiring genealogical Information of the Mather Family, I must refer to the Pedigree printed in Connection with Dr. I. Mather's Brief History, &c.
FOOTNOTES:
[26] He was only 23 when the Work was published, which is indeed an Apology for its crude Style of Composition.
[27] Octavo, London, 1721. Printed for Emanuel Matthews, at the Bible in Pater-Noster-Row.
[28] Appendix Touching Prodigies to his Convention Sermon of May 23, 1689.
[29] Referring doubtless to New England Justified, published by the Author's Grandfather.
[30] It would seem from this that Mr. Mather had been prosecuted, tried and sentenced to six Months' Imprisonment, but there appears no other Intimation of it.
[31] Calef's More Wonders of the Invisible World is the Book asserted to have died long before its Author. However that might have been considered 30 Years after the More Wonders was printed, it is far from being Dead in this Age. Remarks will be more in Order when we come to introduce the Work.