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1631, H. C. 1650; according to cetif. from the present vicar of the
parish to my young friend Weld, that the rec. is made and sign. by the
f. and obs. his handwrit. was so obscure, that the day and mo. of the
bapt. of sec. s. could not be made out. Perhaps the third s. did not live
long, at least we hear nothing of any other ch. than the three brot. by
him, with their mo. in the William and Francis, leav. London 9 Mar.
and arr. at Boston 5 June 1632, he hav. enjoy. the benefit of being
excommun. the yr. bef. by the driveling malevolence of archbp. Laud,
then only bp. of London. Next mo. he was sett. at Roxbury, and 6
Nov. foll. made freem. but whether he had more ch. or when his w.
Margaret d. and a sec. w. Judith was tak. as the Roxbury ch. rec. proves,
and other details, are not found.
He was earnest in the synod of 30 Aug. 1637 against the antinom.
doctrines of Mr. Wheelwright, in stat. the eighty-two errors, and their
confutat. with some unsound axioms as decid. by that grave Assemb. with
wh. the first twenty pages of the work, call. a Short Story of the Rise,
Reign, and Ruin of the Antinominian's Familists, &c,. publish. by him
in London, 1644, are fill. and the authorship of that part would do no
discredit to him or any other divine of the land. Of the next twenty-three
pages, the proceedings of the Gen. Ct. 2 Oct. (should be Nov.)
1637, another hand may have been the reporter; but no more blame
attaches to any other portion, than to the copy of the petition, writ.
as Winthrop tells, by William Aspinwall, in favor of Wheelwright, with
wh. these proceedings are appropriat. introd. Whatever hand report.
these proceed. it could not well have been Gov. Winthrop at least in
the full transcr. for on p. 27 it is alleg. that Wheelwright was requir. if
he did not in 14 days depart from our jurisdict. "to render hims. at the
ho. of Mr. Stanton, one of the magistr. there to abide as a prisoner, till
the Ct. should dispose of him." Now this could not have fallen from
the Gov. whose narrative in sev. items, p. 246 of Vol. I. varies from
this report, and does not name the magistr. but uses the phrase, "one of
the magistr." wh. where then only seven, beside hims. and the Dept.
But Col. Rec. I. 207 has the name of Stoughton; and no Stanton was
ever one of the magistr.
Next comes, strange interject. betw. the report of the judicial proceeding
of the Nov. 1637 Court and the Apology for the proceedings of the
Gen. Ct. 9 Mar. preced. i. e. Mar. 1636-7, the nauscous detail of the
monstrous birth 17 Oct. 1637, by Mrs. Dyer, one of Wheelwright's adherents,
as the same was popular, circulat. in Boston, and in almost the
same language as Winthrop I. 261-3, has giv. it. A briefer narrat. of her
misery in that untimely birth, was print. at London 1642, with other
similar cases of misfortune, as I saw in the British Museum. This acco.
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