Man. Labadist. Sir Edmund Andros. His Tyranny. Taxes Lands. — New Registry. — Muzzling the Press. Marriages Taxed.— Puritan Churches Seized.- Episcopal Service. Revolu- King James' Flight.-William, Prince of Orange. tion, 1689. - Boys Parade with Clubs.— Massachusetts Free. — John Wise. Simon Bradstreet Governor till '92. His Death. - Felt. 32-37 CHAPTER VII. Puritan. - Pilgrim. — One Fled. — The Other Fought. - Puritans Thrived. Jesuits. Inquisition. Cromwell. Common Schools. Colleges. — Town Taxed to Support. — Education and Religion. — Puritans Ready to Fight or Pray. - Quebec. Wolfe. — Canada. — Tea Party.— Boston Massacre. — Lexington. Boston. - Bunker Hill. - Webster's Speech. . CHAPTER VIII. Editorial Miscellany.- A Fancy Picture.- A Negative. - A Witch and Ghost Story. — Edmund H. Garrett. — Artist and Author. - Ipswich and North Andover Houses, - View up High Street. Grave Unknown. - No Portrait. Salem House. Captain Gardner. - Bradstreet's Second Wife. - Dudley and Bradstreet Houses, Cambridge.-Fore-Ordination.-Portrait of Governor Bradstreet. - John Adams' Picture. – Sam'l Adams' Speech. Troops Removed. English High Street. The Puritane One. Scene from "Drunken Barnaby's Tour.”. Extravaganza. 38-41 42-49 CHAPTER IX. Selections.-Extracts from "Contemplations.” — Anne Bradstreet's CHAPTER X. Meditations, Divine and Morall.- Letter to her Sonne and Ghildren. Thirty-Seven Sections. End. 50-56 57-64 CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. HIS sketch of the life and selections from the works of THIS Anne Bradstreet does not make any pretense to brilliancy or originality; nor does it claim to be a full and exhaustive narration of her life, or of her poetical writings. The Editor, a native of Ipswich, where the greater part of her literary labors were performed, found no record of her long residence there that identified her and her poems with that old town, which was settled by not only Governor Winthrop the younger, but by LieutenantGovernor Dudley, and Governor Bradstreet, the father and husband of this lady. I could not, after diligent search, find among all my friends in Ipswich, or in any of its well-equipped libraries, very much of her history, only a line or so of her poetry; all I could learn was, that she and her family lived somewhere on High Street; but whence she came or whither she went no one seemed to know. I felt it my duty, therefore, to seek abroad for some records giving me an inkling of her life and labors. That faithful and accurate chronicler, the Rev. Joseph B. Felt, in his history of Ipswich, which is a sumptuous collection of dates, names, incidents and brief biographical sketches, and events of every kind and degree, scarcely mentions the name of our poetess. He gives a brief mention of her father, Thomas Dudley, Governor, and of her husband, Governor Simon Bradstreet. Mr. Felt does mention an exciting incident at Ipswich, wherein both Mr. Dudley and |