of Divinity in the beginning of December in the fame year, and inducted again according to the ceremonies of the church of England, into the Rectory of Norton, on the fourth of March following, which were all the Spiritualities he enjoyed.

"He hath written a book entitled, Exclefia Angli cane Threenodia in qua perturbatiffimus regni & ecclefia ftatus, fub Anabaptiftica tyrannide lugetur, London, 1661. Oct. Alfo a large Latin Epiftle written to Doctor Edward Simfon, fet before a book written by him, entitled, Chronicon Catholicum &c. London, 1652. Fol. He concluded his laft day in the parish of Norton before mentioned, and was buried in the chancel of the church of S. Alphage in Canterbury, on the 26th day of November, in fixteen hundred fixty and one. This perfon, who was a zealous fon of the Church of England, had an elder brother named Stephen Goffe, originally of Mert. Coll. afterwards of S. Alb. Hall. and a bigot of the Church of Rome; and another brother named William, whether elder or younger I know not, who was originally a trader in London, afterwards a Prefbyterian, Independent, one of the Judges of King Charles I. and one of Oliver's Lords; who, to fave his neck from the gallows, did, upon a forefight of the King's return, 1660, leave the nation, and died obfcurely in a strange land. The father of the faid Goffe, was Stephen Goffe, fome time Bachelor of Arts of Magd. College, a good logician and difputant, but a very fevere Puritan, eminent for his training up, while a tutor, feveral that proved afterwards very noted fcholars; among whom must not be forgotten, Robert Harris, D. D. fome time President of Trinity College, in Oxon."

Further accounts of General Goffe, and his fhare and activity in the national administration, especially during the Protectorate, are to be found in the memoirs and hiftories of thofe times. Thus we have given a fum

mary account of General Whalley and General Goffe, the parts they acted and the characters they sustained on the European theatre of life, and antecedent to their coming over to New-England. And certainly they were among the perfonages of the first eminence for great and noble actions in their day. They were both of Oliver's Houfe of Lords; and when we confider his fingular penetration and fagacious judgment in difcerning characters, and the abundance of great and meritorious characters ftrongly attached to his caufe, from among which he had to felect his counsellors, being in no neceffity of felecting inferior abilities, the prefumption is ftrong and juft, that in themfelves they were very diftinguished and meritorious characters.

They had moved in a great sphere; they had acted in a great caufe, which might have been carried through, had national inftability permitted it. But Monk, ever of dubious principles, and who had never been at heart a friend to the caufe, turning up at the head of the army in the courfe of events by a certain cafualty and fatality; and refolving on a bold ftroke for the abolition of this and the restoration of the former government; and at the fame time the nation, unhappily wearied out of the convulfions and struggles of civil war, in the very critical moment of the parturition of empire, when indeed had they been fenfible of it the die was caft, the difficulty was over, and the policy already formed; the nation, I fay, becoming prepared for a revolution, it was obvious that great havock would be made among the moft diftinguifhed and active characters, and that thefe two judges muft fall among the reft. It is very dangerous and unwife to truft fupremacy into the hands ot those who are not cordial in a great caufe, be that caufe juft or unjuft, and efpecially in a juft and glorious caufe. If opportunity prefents, inftead of its confervation and defence, it will certainly be betrayed and given up. It was fo by Monk. The great cause of liberty was loft, overwhelmed and gone. The Judges

therefore feeing their fate inevitable, found it neceffary to escape from England, exile themselves from their native country, and evanish into oblivion. Accordingly, feeing the complexion of Parliament, and that the Reftoration was in effect determined and fettled, juft before it actually took place, they fecretly withdrew themfelves, and abdicated into New-England in 1660 Here they lived fecreted together until they finished life: and therefore their remaining history must be confidered together.

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Their Exile, and living together in their various Lodg ments in New-England, to their death.

Shall now proceed to the Hiftory of the two Judges, in their exile and pilgrimages after their arrival together in New-England: and trace them in their concealments at New-Haven, Milford, Guilford and Hadley, to the last notices of them. This fhall be arranged in two fections. 1. Their history for the first eleven months after their arrival, while they appeared publicly here; and especially the dangerous period of the two laft months of their public appearance, when they entirely abdicated, and were ever after totally loft from all knowledge of the public. 2. Their various pilgrimages in total oblivion and concealment from the public. Sect. 1. The first eleven months of their public appearance, after their arrival at Boston.

The most authentic account is taken from Goffe's journal or diary, for feven years from their departure from London, 1660, to 1667. It confifted of feveral pocket volumes in Goffe's own hand writing; received

from the Ruffel family, and preferved in Dr. Cotton Mather's library in Bolton. The Doctor's only fon, Dr. Samuel Mather, married Governor Hutchinfon's fifter; by which means the Governor obtained Goffe's manufcript, and himself fhewed me, in 1766, one of these little manufcript books in Goffe 's own hand. It confifted of 55 leaves, or 110 pages, in fmall 12 mo. It began the first month of the year 1662, and was a diary of one whole year and a little more. It was written in characters, though not altogether in fhort hand, being a mixture of inverted alphabet and characters, eafily decyphered: and contained news from Europe, and private occurrences with them at New-Haven and Milford. From this I then made fome extracts. Mr. Hutchinfon, from this and the other volumes, as well as from their manuscript letters, fundry original copies of which he fhewed me, formed the fummary abstract, which he published as a marginal note in the firft volume of his Hiftory of Maffachusetts, p. 215. first printed 1764. This may be depended upon as genuine information, and is as follows:

Governor Hutchinfon's Account of Whalley and Goffe.

"In the fhip. † which arrived at Boston from London, the 27th of July, 1660, there came paffengers, Colonel Whalley and Colonel Goffe, two of the late King's Judges. Colonel Goffe brought teftimonials from Mr. John Row and Mr. Seth Wood, two minifters of a church in Westminster. Colonel Whalley had been a member of Mr. Thomas Goodwin's church. Goffe kept a journal or diary, from the day he left Westminster, May 4, until the year 1667; which together with feveral other papers belonging to him, I have in my poffeffion. Almoft the whole is in characters, or fhort hand, not difficult to decypher. The ftory of these persons has never yet been published to the world. It has never been known in New-England. Their papers, after their death, were collected, and have re† Capt. Pierss.

mained near an hundred years in a library in Boston. It must give some entertainment to the curious. They left London before the King was proclaimed. It does not appear that they were among the molt obnoxious of the Judges but as it was expected vengeance would be taken of fome of them, and a great many had fled, they did not think it fafe to remain. They did not attempt to conceal their perfons or characters when they arrived at Boston, but immediately went to the Governor, Mr. Endicot, who received thein very courte oufly. They were vifited by the principal perfons of the town; and among others, they take notice of Colonel Crown's coming to fee them. He was a noted Royalift. Although they did not difguife themselves, yet they chose to refide at Cambridge, a village about four miles distant from the town, where they went the first day they arrived. They went publicly to meetings on the Lord's day, and to occafional lectures, fafts, and thanksgivings, and were admitted to the facrament, and attended private meetings for devotion, vifited many of the principal towns, and were frequently at Bofton; and once when infulted there, the perfon who infulted them was bound to his good behaviour. They appeared grave, ferious and devout; and the rank they had fuftained commanded refpect. Whalley had been one. of Cromwell's Lieutenant-Generals, and Goffe a Major-General. It is not ftrange that they fhould meet with this favorable reception, nor was this reception any contempt of the authority in England. They were known to have been two of the King's Judges; but Charles the fecond was not proclaimed, when the fhip that brought them left London. They had the news of it in the Channel. The reports afterwards, by way of Barbadoes, were that all the Judges would be pardoned but feven. The act of indemnity was not brought over till the last of November. When it appeared that they were not excepted, fome of the principal perfons in the Government were alarmed; pity and