lii, [2], 40, [2] pp. 4to. Introduction and notes by W. T. R. Marvin. Sabin 12706. From the introduction: "The Tract which is reprinted in the following pages, is an evidence of the discontent which existed among certain classes of the people in New England, who were excluded from a share in the government: and the circumstances it describes, which took place in 1644-6, were the cause of great disturbance among the settlers around Massachusetts Bay. It was printed in London, in 1647, appearing, as we learn from Savage's New-England Gleanings, on or before the 15th of April..." Church 478: "'The occasion of Printing this following Relation, are the sufferings that not only my Brother Robert Child Doctor of Physick, with some Gentlemen and others have suffered in New-England in their persons and estates by Fines and imprisonments there, but here in England in their repute by false reports and fained Miracles invented and spread on purpose by some lately come from thence.' --- Preface. To this work we are indebted for the earliest contemporary reprint of The Freeman's Oath, the first issue of the Cambridge Press. No copy of the original issue has come down to us, but the original draft in the handwriting of John Winthrop is still preserved in the Boston Public Library. Reference is made in the preface of this work to the 'Capital Laws of the Massachusets Bay,' also one of the lost issues of Stephen Daye's press. The second part, or postscript, comments unfavorably on Hypocrisie Unmasked, and called out a reply the same year by Winslow in a tract entitled New Englands Salamander Discovered. These books are important as illustrating the history of Massachusetts at this period. This work was reprinted by Peter Force in his Tracts, Vol. 4, No. III."
