Simplicities defence against seven-headed policy, or, Innocency vindicated [microform] : being unjustly accused and sorely censured by that seven-headed church-government united in New-England : or, that servant so imperious in his master[']s absence revived and now thus re-acting in New-England : or, the combate of the united colonies, not onely [sic] against some fo the natives and subjects, but against the authority also of the kingdome of England, with their execution of laws in the name and authority of the servant (or of themselves) and not in the name and authority of the Lord or fountain of the government : wherein is declared an act of a great people and country of the Indians in those parts, both princes and people (unanimously) in their voluntary submission and subjection unto the protection and government of Old England (from the fame they hear thereof) together with the true manner and forme of it, as it appears under their own hands and seals, being stirred up and provoked thereto by the combate and courses above-said : throughout which treatise is secretly intermingled that great opposition which is in the goings forth of those two grand spirit that are and ever have been extant in the world (through the sons of men) from the beginning and foundation thereof /
Gorton, Samuel,1592 or 1593-1677.
London : Printed by John Macock,
1646.
Two variants exist of this ed. In the first, p. 42 has catchword "ction"; on p. 90 the last word of the first line is "dis-". In the second, p. 42 has catchword "ctioin"; on p. 90 the last word of the first line is "dsi-".
Attributed to Samuel Gorton.
Sabin 28044
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Narraganset Indians
Church polity