arts; and of Sarocchia, who more lately was very often the moderatrix in the disputations of the learned men of Rome: she has been told of the three Corinnæs, which equalled, if not excelled, the most celebrated poets of their time: she has been told of the Empress Endocia, who composed poetical paraphrases on divers parts of the Bible; and of Rosuida, who wrote the lives of holy men; and of Pamphilia, who wrote other histories unto the life: the writings of the most renowned Anna Maria Schurnian have come over unto her. But she now prays, that into such catalogues of authoresses as Beverovicius, Hottinger, and Voetius have given unto the world, there may be a room now given unto Madam ANN BRADSTREET, the daughter of our Governour Dudley, and the consort of our Governour Bradstreet, whose poems, divers times printed, have afforded a grateful entertainment unto the ingenious, and a monument for her memory beyond the stateliest marbles. It was upon these poems that an ingenious person bestowed this epigram:

Now I believe tradition, which doth call
The Muses, Virtues, Graces, females all.
Only they are not nine, eleven, or three;
Our auth'ress proves them but an unity.
Mankind, take up some blushes on the score;
Monopolize perfection hence no more.

In your own arts contess your selves outdone;
The moon hath totally eclips'd the sun :
Not with her sable mantle muffling him,
But her bright silver makes his gold look dim:
Just as his beams force our pale lamps to wink,
And earthly fires within their ashes shrink.

What else might be said of Mr. Dudley, the reader shall construe from the ensuing

Helluo Librorum, Lectorum Bibliotheca
Communis, Sacræ Syllabus Historie.

EPITAPH.

Ad Mensam Comes, hinc facundus, Rostra disertus, (Non Cumulus verbis, pondus, Acumen erat,)

Morum acris Censor, validus Defensor amansque
Et Sane et Cane Catholicæ fidei.
Angli-novi Columen Summum Decus atque Senatus;
Thomas Dudleius, conditur hoc Tumulo.*-E. R.

§ 2. In the year 1635, at the anniversary election, the freemen of the colony testified their grateful esteem of Mr John Haines, a worthy gentleman, who had been very serviceable to the interests of the colony, by chusing him their governour. Of him in an ancient manuscript I find this testimony given: "To him is New-England many ways beholden; had he done no more but stilled a storm of dissention, which broke forth in the beginning of his government, he had done enough to endear our hearts unto him, and account that day happy when he took the reins of government into his hands." But this pious, humble, well-bred gentleman, removing afterwards into Connecticut, he took his turn with Mr. Edward Hopkins in being every other year the governour of that colony. And as he was a great friend of peace while he lived, so at his death he entered into that

peace which attends the end of the perfect and upright man, leaving behind him the character sometimes given of a greater, though not a better man, (Vespasian) Bonis Legibus multa correxit, sed exemplo probæ vitæ plus effecit apud populum.*

§ 3. Near twenty ships from Europe visited New-England in the year 1635, and in one of them was Mr. Henry Vane, (afterwards Sir Henry Vane,) an accomplished young gentleman, whose father was much against his coming to New-England; but the King, upon information of his disposition, commanded him to allow his son's voyage hither, with a consent for his continuing three years in this part of the world. Although his business had some relation to the plantation of Connecticut, yet in the year 1636, the Massachuset colony chose him their governour. And now, reader, I am as much a seeker for his character as many have taken him to be a seeker in religion, while no less persons than Dr. Manton have not been to seek for the censure of a wicked book, with which they have noted the Mystical Divinity, in the book of this knight, entituled, "The retired man's Meditations." There has been a strange variety of translations bestowed upon the Hebrew names of some animals mentioned in the Bible: Kippod, for instance, which we translate a bittern, R. Salomon will have to be an owl, but Luther will have it be an eagle, while Paynin will have it be an hedge-hog, but R. Kimchi will have it a snail; such a variety of opinions and resentments has the name of this gentleman fallen under; while some have counted him an eminent Christian, and others have counted him almost an heretick; some have counted him a renowned patriot, and others an infamous traitor. If Barak signifie both to bless and to curse; and Ευλογειν† be of the same significancy with Βλασφεμειν, in such philology as that of Suidas and Hesychias; the usage which the memory of this gentleman has met withal, seems to have been accommodated unto that indifferency of signification in the terms for such an usage.

On the one side, I find an old New-English manuscript thus reflecting: "His election will remain as a blemish to their judgments who did elect him, while NewEngland remains a nation; for he coming from Old-England, a young unexperienced gentleman, (and as young in judgment as he was in years,) by the industry of some that could do much, and thought by him to play their own game, was presently elected governour; and before he was scarce warm in his seat, began to broach new tenets; and these were agitated with as much violence, as if the welfare of New-England must have been sacrificed rather than these not take place. But the wisdom of the state put a period to his government; necessity caused them to undo the works of their own hands, and leave us a caveat, that all good men are not fit for government."

But on the other side, the historian who has printed, "The Trial of Sir Henry Vane, Knt. at the King's Bench, Westminster, June 2, and 6, 1662, with other Occasional Speeches; also his Speech and Prayer on the scaf

* Reformed many abuses by means of wise laws, but accomplished much more for his people by setting them an example of extraordinary virtue.