The Historie Booke; Done to Keep in Lasting Remembrance the Joyous Meeting of the Honourable Artillery Company of London and the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of the Massachusetts in the Towne of Boston, A.D., 1903 (9781130303605)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... At Boston, when the message from Winslow passed around, buff-coats and muskets left their hooks at once. The town was no longer that rude settlement which gazed in wonder on the first parade of Keayne's little band. The " Wonder-working Providence" of Captain Johnson, one of the Company, says: "The Lord hath been pleased to turn all the wigwams, huts, and hovels the English dwelt in at their first coming into orderly, fair, and well-built houses, well furnished many of them, together with Orchards filled with goodly fruit trees, and gardens with variety of flowers.... The chiefe Edifice of this City-like Towne is crowded on the Sea-bankes, and wharfed out with great industry and cost, the buildings beautifull and large, some fairely set forth with Brick, Tile, Stone, and Slate, and orderly placed with comly streets, whose continuall inlargement presages some sumptuous City." And this had been written about 1650, twenty-five years before the frightened people of Swansea hurried to their blockhouse. The spirit of the citizens was now bolder and stronger than ever, and though Governor Winslow had only asked the Massachusetts to see that the Narragansetts and the Nipmucks did not paint their faces in this quarrel, the men of Boston hurried to arms. At such a crisis the comrades of the Military Company were sure to be heard from. Colonel Rainsburrow would have made the bravest of leaders; but, after fighting under Cromwell at the head of a regiment unharmed, he had fallen beneath an assassin's hand in Ireland. Benjamin Keayne, son of the Founder, could have done as well; but he, too, after plucking laurels on English battlefields, had gone forward. Captain Fisher, who had been sent as a commissioner to Philip, would gladly have buckled on ar...

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• Format Paperback | 62 pages
• Dimensions 189 x 246 x 3mm | 127g
• Publication date 01 Mar 2012
• Publisher Rarebooksclub.com
• Publication City/Country Miami Fl, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note black & white illustrations
• ISBN10 1130303608
• ISBN13 9781130303605

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