quarrel with and murder of Clei- tus, Mrs. Bradstreet's account of, taken from Raleigh, and from North's Plutarch's Lives," xlvi- vii, xlix-1. Mrs. Bradstreet's de- scription of the state of things after his death, taken from Ra- leigh, xlix.
Alexander (Aegus), 297, 309, 310. Alexander of Epire, 316. Alexander, Ptolemy, 319. Alexandria, 295. Building of, 262. Built on the Jaxartes, 275. Library at, 318.
Algiers (Algere), Charles the Fifth before, 121.
Allibone, Mr., as to the publication of the first edition of the "Poems," xli n.
Ambrose," the, xxvii. Amestris, 231.
Amiens, Gov. T. Dudley at the siege of, xii.
Amraphel, Ninias supposed to be,
Amulius (Emulus), 323. Amyntas, 251.
Anagrams on the author's name, 92. Ancus Marcius, 326.
Andover, Ixiii, Ixvii n., 88 n., 89. Land reserved for planting the town of, xxxvi. Gathering of Church at, ib. Land for, bought of Cutshamache, xxxvii. Situa- tion of first settlements, ib. Burn- ing of the Bradstreet house at, lxi- Mrs. Bradstreet's burial-place not to be found in, lxv. Andrews, Bishop, xx.
Baladan, Merodach, 207. Bancroft, Archbishop, his treatment of the Nonconformists, xxii. Bartas. See Du Bartas. Bastwick, 336 n.
Bay Psalm Book, 21 n., 35 n. Beaumont and Fletcher, xvi. Bedlam, 156.
Beelzebub, 182, 334.
Before the Birth of one of her Chil- dren, Verses, 393-4.
Bel, Temple of, 185. Belochus, 193-4.
Belosus, 193-4.
Belshazzar, 205-7, 210. Belus, 182.
Ben Merodach, 198.
Berosus, 188 and #., 317.
Bessus, 250, 268, 269, 272, 273, 274.
Beverwyck, Jean Van (Beverovicius), Ixvi.
Bias, 160. His saying, 160 n. Bible, publication of the common version of, xvii. Mrs. Bradstreet's familiarity with the, 1.
lation of, into Greek, 319 and #. See Genevan version and Septua gint.
Blaxton, William, first white settler of Boston, xxxii.
Blood, xli, 129-36.
Bohemia, 163 n. Reformed Religion in, ib.
Book, The Author to her, 389-90. Books written by Women, Ixii, 83-
Boston, First Church at, xv, xxxi, 5. 413 n. First signers of the Covenant, xxxi. Removal of Winthrop's company to. xxxii. Winthrop's company leave, ib. Rising in, in April, 1689, 1xx. First book printed in, lxvi-vii.
In Lincolnshire, Dudley's resi- dence at, xiii.
Bowtell, Stephen, publisher of the first edition of the "Poems," 79. Bradstreet, Anna, a modern poet, kxix n.
Bradstreet, Anne, v-x, 2, 3, 21, 24, 30 ., 39, 44 m., 46, 73, 74, 78, 79, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, S8 and n..90, 91, 92, 93, 96, 99, 165, 180, 346 n., 391, 394, 395, 398, 399, 401 n., 403, 406, 408, 413 n.
Earliest poet of her sex in Amer- ica. xi. Daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley, ib. Wife of Gov. Simon Bradstreet, ib. Her ancestry, xi- ii. Her father, xi-iv. Her mother, xii-iii, xxxi, lii-iii. Her birth, xiv. Her education, xiv. Her youth and religious experiences, xiv-v, 3-10. Her reminiscence of an English fair, xv, 354 Opportu- nities for improving her literary tastes, xv-xxi. Comfort she took in reading the Bible, xiv, xvii, 4. Literary age in which she was brought up, xv-xxi. Her mar- riage, xv, xxi, liii n., 5. Goes to America, xv, 5. Embarks, prob- ably on the " Arbella," xxvii. The passage, xxvii-viii. Lands at Sa- lem, xxix. Goes to Charlestown, xxxi. Signs the covenant of the First Church, xv, xxxi-ii, 5. Life at Charlestown, xxxii Moves to Boston, ib. Moves to Cambridge, xxxiii. House at Cambridge, ib. Life at Cambridge, xxxiii - iv. Moves to Ipswich, xxxv. Her residence at Ipswich, xxxvi, 85 n., 394. Moves to Andover, xxxvi. Her house there, xxxvii-viii. Its burning, xxxvii, lxiii, 40, 329. Publication of her "Poems" with- out her knowledge, by her brother- in-law, the Rev. John Woodbridge, xxxix-xl. Her character, xl. Com- mended in verse by the Rev. N. Ward and others, xl-xli. Ana- grams on her name. xli, 98. Ar- rangement and plan of her • Poems," xli - ii. Their merit, xlii How far original, xlii-lii. Her knowledge of the Greek and Latin writers, xliii-iv. Her in- debtedness to Sir Walter Raleigh's "History of the World,” xliii-ix; to Archbishop Usher's Annals," xliii-iv; to the Hebrew Writings,
xliii; to Pemble's Treatise, ib.; to North's Plutarch, xlix-1; to Crooke's Anatomy, 1. Her famili- arity with the Bible and use of the Genevan version, ib. Her obliga- tion to Sylvester's translation of Du Bartas, li. Her fondness for Sidney's works and her criticisms on them, lii. Her knowledge of the works of Speed, Camden, and Spenser, ib. Time when her earlier Poems" were written, ib. Her mother's death and her epitaph on her, lii-iii. Her father's death, liii-iv. Her father her teacher, lv. Her eight children, lvii. Her verses on them, ib. Writes her religious experiences for them, ib. Her delicate constitution and fre- quent sicknesses, ib. Her Chris- tian resignation, lvii - viii. religious doubts, lviii. Her love for her children, ib. Her morbid views of life, ib. Her belief in the efficacy of prayer, ib. Her son Samuel's visit to England, lviii-ix. Had no child for a long time af- ter marriage, lix. Her husband's mission to England in January, 1661-2, lix-lxi. Her verses to him during his absence, 32-9. Writes the Meditations," Ixi. Dedicates them to her son Simon, ib., 47. Their originality. Ixi. Loss of her papers by the burning of her house, Ixi-ii, 40, 329. Her daily life, lxii. Her position as a woman writer, Her rambles in the woods and along the Merrimac, lxiii. Writes the Contemplations," ib. Their excellence, ib. Revision of her Poems," Ixiv. Nature of her alterations, ib. A Puritan and yet a Monarchist, ib Her hatred of Papists, ib., 9. 340-1. Longing for death, ib. Her last sickness and death, Ixiv-v, 409. Her burial- place unknown, lxv. No portrait of her in existence, ib. Edward Phillips's notice of her, ib. Cotton Mather's eulogy on her, lxv-vi. Rev. John Norton's Funeral Elegy on her, 409-13. Her handwriting, viii. Fac-simile of it, between 46 and 47, first edition of her • Poems.' v, vii-viii, x, xliii, xlix, lii, 79. Second edition, v, vii-viii, xli n., xlix-l, lii, lxiii, lxiv, Ixvi, 81, 413. Third edition, v-vii.
Her children all survived her ex- cept Dorothy, lxvii-viii. Notices of, lxviin. Her verses concerning them, 400-3. Her descendants, lxviii-ix.
Bradstreet, Anne, daughter of Sam- uel, verses on the death of, 405. Bradstreet, Anne, another daughter of Samuel, her death in infancy, 407 n. and 408.
Bradstreet, Anne, second wife of Gov. Bradstreet, daughter of Emanuel Downing, Ixix.
Bradstreet, Dorothy, daughter of Mrs. Anne, death of, lxvii. No- tice of, lxvii n. Marries Rev. Seaborn Cotton, 400-1, and 401 n. Bradstreet, Dudley, son of Mrs. Anne, sketch of, lxvii n. Refuses to act as Counsellor under the Provisional Government, Ixx. Bradstreet, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel, verses on the death of, 404.
Bradstreet, Hannah, sketch of, lxvii n. Marries Andrew Wiggin,
Bradstreet, John, son of Mrs. Anne, notice of, lxvii n.
Bradstreet, Mercy, daughter of Mrs. Anne, sketch of, lxvii n. Bradstreet, Mercy, wife of Samuel, verses on the death of, 407-8. Bradstreet, Mercy, daughter of Sam- uel, 408 and n.
Bradstreet, Pedigree of the Family, lxix n.
Bradstreet, Samuel, son of Mrs.
Anne, notice of, lxvii n. His birth, 5. Some time after the marriage of his parents, lix, 5, 24. Graduates at Harvard Col- lege, lviii-ix. His age, lix. Goes to England, lviii-ix, lxvii », 400 His mother's verses on his departure, 24. Returns, lix, lxvii n. His mother's verses on that event, 28. Death of his eld- est child, Elizabeth, 404, 405 #.; of his daughter Anne, 405 and n.; of his fourth child, Simon, 406; of his wife, 407-8, and 407 n.; of Anne, an infant child of, 407 n., 408. His daughter, Mercy Bradstreet, 408 and n. Bradstreet, Samuel, of Dorchester, x. Bradstreet. Sarah, notice of, lxvii n. Marries Richard Hubbard, of Ips- wich, 401 and 2.
Company, xxvi. His important position afterwards in the Massa- chusetts Colony, ib. Embarks for America, xxvii. Probably on the "Arbella," ib. The passage, xxviii. Arrives in Salem, xxviii- ix. Goes to Charlestown. xxx- xxxi. Signs the covenant of the First Church, xxxi. Moves to Boston, xxxii. To Newtown (Cambridge), xxxiii. His house and lot there, ib. Moves to Ips- wich, xxxv. One of those allowed to begin a plantation at Merri- mack," xxxvi. Establishes him- self at Andover, xxxvi-vii. De- scription of his house there, xxxvii-viii. His mission to Eng- land with the Rev. John Norton, lix-lxi, 32-9. His wife's verses to him during that time, 32-9. Burn- ing of his house at Andover, xxxvii, lxi-ii, 40, 329. His loss thereby, lxi – ii. His children, Ixvii n., 400-3. His descendants, lxviii-ix. His second wife, Ixix. Becomes Deputy Governor, lxx. Governor, ib. Refuses to act as Counsellor under Joseph Dudley, ib. Head of the "Council of Safe- tv," ib. Acts as Governor until the receipt of the New Charter, lxx-i. A Counsellor under that, lxxi. His death, ib. His tomb, lxxi n. Its desecration, ib. His epitaph, ib. Supports his son Samuel's children, lxvii ., 408 n. Verses on his restoration from an ague, 27. Verses on his going to England, 32. Verses in solitary hours during his absence, 34. Verses in acknowledgment of let- ters received from him, 37. Verses
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