I then remembered how careless I had been of God’s holy time; how many Sabbaths I had lost and misspent, and how evilly I had walked in God’s sight

now merciless enemies)

from Wednesday night to Saturday night, except only a little cold water.

One of the Indians got up upon a horse, and they set me up behind him, with my poor sick babe in my lap

I may see the wonderful power of God

and having no Christian friend near me, either to comfort or help me.

there being no furniture upon the horse’s back,

“I shall die, I shall die.”

It is not my tongue, or pen, can express the sorrows of my heart, and bitterness of my spirit that I had at this departure: but God was with me in a wonderful manner,

There remained nothing to me but one poor wounded babe, and it seemed at present worse than death that it was in such a pitiful condition, bespeaking compassion, and I had no refreshing for it, nor suitable things to revive it.

a lively resemblance of hell.

Platoes Commonwealth

From this place for England failed mine Host in a Plimmouth ship, (that came into the Land to fish upon the Coast,) that landed him safe in England at Plimmouth : and he stayed in England until the ordinary time for shipping to set forth for these parts, and then returned

and would bring bottles of strong liquor to him

But when he was brought to the ships for that purpose, no man durst be so foolhardy as to undertake carry him.

for they were now to fit in Counsel on the cause

some of them were so violent that they would have a slice with scabbard and all for haste

Yet, to save the effusion of so much worthy blood, as would have issued out of the veins of these nine worthies of New Canaan, if mine Host should have played upon them out at his port holes

this Supposed Monster, (this seven headed hydra, as they termed him,

there he prepared powder, three pounds dried, for his present employment, and four good guns for him and the two affirmants left at his house. He provides bullets of several sizes, three hundred or there- Zs. ume ‘ about, to be used if the conspirators should pursue him there

Captain Shrimp

up gets mine Hoft and got to the fecond dore that hee was to paffe, which, notwithstanding the lock, hee got open, and fliut it after him with fuch violence that it affrighted fome of the confpirators. The word, which was given with an alarme, was, he ‘s gon, he ‘s gon, what fhall wee doe, he ‘s gon !

feafted their bodies

mine hoft muft indure to be their prifoner untill they could contrive it fo that they might fend him for England,

become Mailers

that he would not say whether he had, or he had not done as they had been informed.

who it was that was author of that information, that seemed to be their ground for what they now intended.

which they divulged should be consumed with fire

accounting of him as of a great monster.

envying the prosperity and hope of the Plantation at Ma-re Mount,

of the precise Separatists

that lived in hope to have wifes brought over to them, that would save them a labour to make a voyage to fetch any over,

To cure the hart opprejl with greife,

Make greene garlons, bring bottles out And fill fweet Neclar freely about. Vncover thy head and feare no harme, For hers good liquor to kccpe it warme.

knowinge the wine would make them Proteftants

hee would put in to an Ifland neere, and make fome flay where hee thought to tempt his Mafter to walke the woods, and fo be gone

he illiterate multitude,

give me a man hath the guiftes of the fpirit, not a booke in hand

Facilis defcenfus avemi

stabbers, or Cutthroats: and this name was received by those that came thereafter for good, being then unacquainted with the signification of it, for many years following…

are therein fo compaffionate that, rather than one mould ftarve through want, they would ftarve all.

will not be troubled with fuperfluous commodities. Such things as they finde they are taught by neceffity to make ufe of, they will make choife of, and feeke to purchafe with induftry

They leade a life, being voyde of care

A bifket cake given to one, that one breakes it equally into fo many parts as there be perfons in his com- pany, and diftributes it.

they buy many commodities of our Nation

are all the capital crimes that can be imagined; all other are nothing in respect; of those

become an Englishman ; and then he would be a good man.

Kytan

house of Kytan,

get children

they are not altogether without the knowledge of God

to my own Religion again

That admitt this bee the true God whom we worship, and that be his word, yet why may not the Popish Religion bee the right? They have the same God, the same Christ, the same word; they only interprett it one way, wee another. This hath sometimes stuck with me, and more it would, but the vain fooleries that are in their Religion,

Have I not found that operation by it that no humane Invention can work upon the Soul?

for in Truth, it is the absence and presence of God that makes Heaven or Hell.

either in granting the thing I prayed for, or else in satisfying my mind without it; and I have been confident it hath been from him, because I have found my heart through his goodnes enlarged in thankfullnes to him.

If at any time you are chastened of God, take it as thankfully and Joyfully as in greatest mercyes, for if yee bee his yee shall reap the greatest benefit by it.

sometimes he hath smott a child with sicknes

he hath never suffered me long to sitt loose from him, but by one affliction or other hath made me look home, and search what was amisse

ost mee many prayers and tears before I obtained one

into this Contry

I changed my condition and was marryed

my Condition

I could not be at rest till by prayer I had confest it unto God

but that you may gain some spiritual Advantage by my experience. I have not studied in this you read to show my skill, but to declare the Truth — not to sett forth myself, but the Glory of God.

much lesse to All

Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is't gone?

Ph{oe}nix Queen

Yet for our Queen is no fit parallel

(Pallas)

The rude untamed Irish

Protectrix

Was ever people better rul'd than hers? Was ever Land more happy, freed from stirs? Did ever wealth in England so abound? Her Victories in foreign Coasts resound?

The Salic Law

She hath wip'd off th' aspersion of her Sex, That women wisdom lack to play the Rex.

No memories, nor volumes can contain, The nine Olymp'ades of her happy reign, Who was so good, so just, so learn'd, so wise, From all the Kings on earth she won the prize.

Eliza's

So great's thy glory, and thine excellence, The sound thereof raps every human sense That men account it no impiety To say thou wert a fleshly Deity.

Earth hath enough of what you will. Then let not go what thou maist find For things unknown only in mind."

Doth Contemplation feed thee so Regardlessly to let earth go? Can Speculation satisfy Notion without Reality?

One Flesh was call'd, who had her eye On worldly wealth and vanity; The other Spirit, who did rear Her thoughts unto a higher sphere.

If for thy Father askt, say, thou hadst none;

I wash'd thy face, but more defects I saw, And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw.

My rambling brat (in print)

At thy return my blushing was not small,

Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain,

For such despite they cast on female wits, If what I do prove well, it won't advance-- They'll say it was stolen, or else it was by chance.

Who says my hand a needle better fits.

A weak or wounded brain admits no cure

But simple I according to my skill.

long used it in old England

for first the mare, and then ye cowe, and ye rest of ye lesser catle, were kild before his face, according to ye law, Levit: 20. 15. and then he him selfe was executed.

others with them were brought before him, and he declared which were they, and which were not.

but sundrie times before, and at severall times with all ye rest of ye forenamed in his indictmente; and this his free-confession was not only in private to ye magistrats, (though at first he strived to deney it,) but to sundrie, both ministers & others, and afterwards, upon his indictmente, to ye whole court & jury

I forbear perticulers.

He was this year detected of buggery (and indicted for ye same) with a mare, a cowe, tow goats, five sheep, 2. calves, and a turkey.

And yet all this could not suppress ye breaking out of sundrie notorious sins, (as this year, besids other, gives us too many sad presidents and instances,) espetially drunkennes and unclainnes; not only incontinencie betweene persons unmaried, for which many both men & women have been punished sharply enough, but some maried persons allso. But that which is worse, even sodomie and bugerie, (things fearfull to name,) have broak forth in this land, oftener then once.

them thus frying in ye fyer, and ye streams of blood [426]quenching ye same, and horrible was ye stinck & sente ther of; but ye victory seemed a sweete sacrifice,

some hewed to peeces, others rune throw with their rapiers, so as they were quickly dispatchte, and very few escaped. It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400

others rane into their howses, & brought out fire, and sett them on fire, which soone tooke in their matts, &, standing close togeather, with ye wind, all was quickly on a flame, and therby more were burnte to death then was otherwise slain;

It should seeme their desire was to come upon ye enemie sudenly, & undiscovered

revenge was so sweete unto them, as it prevailed above all ye rest; so as they resolved to joyne with ye English against them, & did

for they would not come to open battle with them

as that ye English were stranegers and begane to overspred their countrie, and would deprive them therof in time, if they were suffered to grow & increse; and if ye Narigansets did assist ye English to subdue them, they did but make way for their owne overthrow, for if they were rooted out, the English would soone take occasion to subjugate them

and ernestly to solissite their freinds and confederats in ye Bay of Massachusets to send them speedy aide, for they looked for more forcible assaults

yet nothing was done to him

Ile of Shols

but they were so steeld with drinke as their peeces were to heavie for them;

if they had not been over armed with drinke, more hurt might have been done.

said ye king was dead

So, to be short, they first resolved joyntly to write to him, and in a freindly & neigborly way to admonish him to forbear these courses, & sent a messenger with their letters to bring his answer.

to prevente ye further grouth of this mischeefe, and suppress Morton & his consortes before yey grewe to further head and strength.

they should stand in more fear of their lives & goods (in short time) from this wicked & deboste crue, then from ye salvages them selves.

Oh! that princes & parlements would take some timly order to prevente this mischeefe, and at length to suppress it, by some exemplerie punishmente upon some of these gaine thirstie murderers, (for they deserve no better title,) before their collonies in these parts be over throwne by these barbarous savages, thus armed with their owne weapons, by these evill instruments, and traytors to their neigbors and cuntrie.

when some of their neigbours & freinds are daly killed by ye Indeans, or are in deanger therof, and live but at ye Indeans mercie.

And having thus instructed them, he imployed some of them to hunte & fowle for him

begane ye practise of ye same in these parts;

Bacchinalians

Roman Goddes Flora,

drinking both wine & strong waters in great exsess,

till he could gett passages for England.

Therfore I would [285]advise you to thruste out this Levetenant Fitcher; and I, having a parte in the plantation, will receive you as my partners and consociats; so may you be free from service, and we will converse, trad, plante, & live togeather as equalls, & supporte & protecte one another, or to like effecte.

who had been a kind of petie-fogger, of Furnefells Inne,

pretie parts

every man for his owne perticuler

So they begane to thinke how they might raise as much corne as they could, and obtaine a beter crope then they had done, that they might not still thus languish in miserie

became servants to ye Indeans, and would cutt them woode & fetch them water, for a cap full of corne; others fell to plaine stealing, both night & day, from ye Indeans, of which they greevosly complained. In ye end, they came to that misery, that some starved & dyed with could & hunger

or he yt was their cheef [157]was taxed by some amongst them for keeping Indean women,

being left competently provided when ye ship left them

scarce any left alive besids him selfe.

spetiall instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation.

That when ther men came to them, they should leave their bows & arrows behind them.

That if any of his did any hurte to any of theirs, he should send ye offender, that they might punish him.

they brought againe all ye tooles that were stolen away before

sundrie

begane now to deserte one another in this calamitie, saing they would not hasard ther lives for them, t

as in this generall calamity they were not at all infected either with sicknes, or lamnes…

ther was but 6. or 7. sound persons, who, to their great comendations be it spoken, spared no pains, night nor day, but with abundance of toyle and hazard of their owne health, fetched them woode, made them fires, drest them meat, made their beads, washed their lothsome cloaths, cloathed & uncloathed them

that of 100. & odd persons, scarce 50. remained.

But that which was most sadd & lamentable was, that in 2. or 3. moneths time halfe of their company dyed

covenant & combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick, for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of ye ends aforesaid; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye generall good of ye Coloni

Northerne parts of Virginia,

Anno

both hungrie, & thirstie, their sowle was overwhelmed in them.

delivered them from ye hand of ye oppressour.

what could they see but a hidious & desolate wildernes, full of wild beasts & willd men?

, and they that know ye winters of yt cuntrie know them to be sharp & violent, & subjecte to cruell & feirce stormes, deangerous to travill to known places, much more to serch an unknown coast.

savage barbarians,

this poore peoples presente condition

Seneca

the which being made & certainly knowne to be it, they were not a litle joyfull.

yet he lived many years after, and became a profitable member both in church & com̅one wealthe.

a lustie

com̅ited them selves to ye will of God, & resolved to proseede.

ther was a great iron scrue ye passengers brought out of Holland, which would raise ye beame into his place; ye which being done, the carpenter & mr. affirmed that with a post put under it, set firme in ye lower deck, & otherways bounde, he would make it sufficiente.

to consider in time of ye danger; and rather to returne then to cast them selves into a [92]desperate & inevitable perill. And truly ther was great distraction & differance of opinion amongst ye mariners them selves

ne of the maine beames in ye midd ships was bowed & craked, which put them in some fear that ye shipe could not be able to performe ye vioage

to smite this yong man with a greeveous disease, of which he dyed in a desperate maner, and so was him selfe ye first yt was throwne overbord

that he hoped to help to cast halfe of them over board before they came to their jurneys en

which was some incouragmente unto them; yet according to ye usuall maner many were afflicted with sea-sicknes.

incouragmente

one shipe

Of their vioage, & how they passed ye sea, and of their safe arrivall at Cape Codd.

at least as near as my slender judgmente can attaine the same.

“If you have this power, then blow me out into the air; my gods have more power than you have. My gods have put a heart into me to enter your home.

“I have come to kill you.”

So that was how they got all the evidence against the priest.

wanted all the young girls to be brought to him when they were about thirteen or fourteen years old. They had to live with the priest. He told the people they would become better women if they lived with him for about three years.

Then, the priest, thinking the man was away, would come to visit his wife,

He was not doing the people any good and he was always figuring what he could do to harm them.

Now during this time the men would go out pretending they were going on a hunting trip and they would go to some hiding place, to make their prayer offerings.

all the people in the village had to come there to worship, and those that did not come were punished severely

If any man gave out on the way he was simply left to die.

He did not like the Kachinas and he destroyed the altars and the customs. He called it idol worship and burned up all the ceremonial things in the plaza.

which means a grouchy person that will not do anything himself, like a child

told the people that they had much more power than all their chiefs and a whole lot more power than the witches. The people were very much afraid of them, particularly if they had much more power than the witches. They were so scared that they could do nothing but allow themselves to be made slaves.

The people of Shung-opovi were at first afraid of the priests but later they decided he was really the Bahana, the savior, and let him build a mission at Shung-opovi.

every place was pretty well settled down when the Spanish came.

I trusted in divine providence, for I left without a crust of bread or a grain of wheat or maize, and with no other provision

seeing that they were being set afire and that they would be burned to death,

they also were put to flight with little resistance.

some Indians who were in our service with their bows and arrows,

I determined to take the resolution of going out in the morning to fight with the enemy until dying or conquering.

Instantly all the said Indian rebels began a chant of victory and raised war whoops, burning all the houses of the villa, and they kept us in this position the entire night,

suffered greatly from thirst because of the scarcity of water.

but the height of the places in which they were, so favorable to them and on the contrary so unfavorable to us

There they took up their position, and this day passed without our having any further engagements or skirmishes than had already occurred,

there appeared on the road from Tesuque a band of the people whom they were awaiting,

Whereupon he went back, and his people received him with peals of bells and trumpets, giving loud shouts in sign of war.

He came back from thee after a short time, saying that his people asked that all classes of Indians who were in our power be given up to them,

he and the rest of his followers were Catholic Christians,

Thus if we wished to choose the white it must be upon our agreeing to leave the country, and if we chose the red, we must perish

I asked him how it was that he had gone crazy too-being an Indian who spoke our language, was so intelligent, and had lived all his life in the villa among the Spaniards, where I had placed such confidence in him-and was now coming as a leader of the Indian rebels.

I sent some soldiers to summon him and tell him on my behalf that he could come to see me in entire safety, so that I might ascertain from him the purpose for which they were coming.

we might endeavor to defend ourselves against the enemy’s invasions.

such untimely deaths

and that they [the governors] came to tell me of it and of how they were unwilling to participate in such wickedness and treason, saying that they now regarded the Spaniards as their brothers

The first messenger was killed and the others did not pass beyond Santo Domingo, because of their having encountered on the road the certain notice of the deaths of the religious who were in that convent, and of the alcalde mayor, some other guards, and six more Spaniards whom they captured on that road.

To this was added a certain degree of negligence by reason of the report of the uprising not having been given entire credence, as is apparent from the ease with which they captured and killed both those who were escorting some of the religious, as well as some citizens in their houses

part of the heathen enemy,