New-England's ensigne
Subtitle: it being the account of cruelty, the professors pride, and the articles of their faith; signified in characters written in blood, wickedly begun, barbarously continued, and inhumanly finished (so far as they have gone) by the present power of darkness possest in the priests and rulers in New-England, with the Dutch also inhabiting the same land; in a bloody and cruel birth, which the husband to the whore of Babylon, hath brought forth, by ravishing and torturing the seed of the Virgin of Israel. Happy are they who are blest out of the bands of hypocrites, by whom my saviour suffered. As it is said in David, behold, and see, our hands, our sides, and our ears, if we be not the people Chrst Iesus suffers in. This being an account of the sufferings sustained by us in New-England, (with the Dutch) the most part of it in these two last yeers, 1657, 1658. With a letter to Iohn Indicot, and Iohn Norton, governor, and chief priest of Boston, and another to the town of Boston. Also, the several late conditions of a friend upon Road-Iland, before, in, and after distraction; with some quaeries unto all sorts of people, who want that which we have, &c
By: Written at sea, by us whom the vvicked in scorn calls Quakers, in the second month of the yeer 1659. This being a confirmation of so much as Francis Howgill truly published in his book titled, The popish inquisition newly erected in New-England, &c
Contributors: Rous, John, -1695; Copeland, John, active 17th century
Publisher: printed by T. L[each?]. for G. Calvert, at the Black-Spread-Eagle, neer the west-end of Pauls
Published: 1659
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Quakers; Persecutions
Other titles: New England's ensigne.
Notes: Attributed by Smith to Humphrey Norton, John Rous, and John Copeland.

Last name of printer suggested by Alden.

The words "so far as they have gone" and "with the Dutch" are enclosed in parentheses on the title page.

Signatures: pi1 A-P⁴ (A1 verso blank) Q² (Q2 verso blank)

Errata: p. [2], 1st count.

Text printed in Roman and Black letter type; woodcut head pieces; initials.

Smith, J. Descriptive catalogue of Friends’ books, II:242.

Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 561.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), N636.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island III:18.

European Americana 659/124.

English short title catalogue R3600.

Purchase; 1846; 0465.