[193] This was printed in 1702, together with the House’s answer, and the address of the ministers to Dudley. (Haven in Thomas, ii. p. 349.)
[194] Col. Quarry, who was reporting on the colonies to the home government, said of New England: “A governor depending on the people’s humors cannot serve the Crown.” Mass. Hist. Coll., iii. p. 229.
[195] Falmouth (Portland) was the most easterly seaboard port of the English at this time.
[196] Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., ix. 502.
[197] These letters are in the Mass. Hist. Coll., iii. 126, etc. Cotton Mather took his accustomed satisfaction in calling the governor “the venom of Roxbury.” Mass. Hist. Coll., xxxviii. 418.
[198] See post, ch. vii.
[199] Referring to one source of information, common enough in New England, Palfrey (iv. 342), says: “Funeral sermons are a grievous snare to the historian.”
[200] Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 389; Palfrey, iv. 304.
[201] 1709, May. “About the tenth of this month a general impress for soldiers ran through the Colony. Some say every tenth man was taken to serve in this expedition.” John Marshall’s diary in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., April, 1884, p. 160.
[202] Phototypes of contemporary prints of the Four Maquas are annexed. They are reduced from originals (engraved by J. Simon after J. Veulst) in the Amer. Antiq. Society’s Gallery. Cf. Catal. Cab. Ms. Hist. Soc., p. 59; Smith’s Brit. Mezzotint Portraits, iii. 1,095, 1692; Gay, Pop. Hist. U. S., iii. 44, etc. Cf. also Carter-Brown, iii. 136; Brinley, no. 5,395; Field, Indian Bibliog., no. 553; Mag. of Amer. Hist., ii. 151, 313, 372; Sabin’s Dictionary, vi. p. 543; Colden’s letters in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1868; Addison’s Spectator, April 27, 1711. There was published in London at the time The Four Indian Kings’ Speech to her Majesty on the 20th April, translated into verse, with their effigies, taken from the life. In Mass. Archives, xxxi., are various papers concerning these Indians,—an order for £30 for their use, the charges of a dinner given to them August 6, 1709, and other accounts (nos. 62, 76, 80-83, 87).