Pietas in patriam
Subtitle: the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late captain general, and governour in chief of the province of the Massachuset-Bay, New England. : Containing the memorable changes undergone, and actions performed by him
By: Written by one intimately acquainted with him. ; [One line in Latin]
Contributors: Mather, Nathanael, 1631-1697; Bellomont, Richard Coote, Earl of, 1636-1701, dedicatee; Bridge, Samuel, printer; Hillar, Nathaniel, bookseller; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
Publisher: Printed by Sam. Bridge in Austin-Friers, for Nath. Hiller [i.e. Hillar] at the Princes-Arms in Leaden-Hall Street, over against St. Mary-Ax
Published: 1697
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: History; Histoire
Other titles: Life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt.; Life of Sir Will. Phips, late governour of New-England.
Notes: Running title: The life of Sir Will. Phips, late governour of New-England.

"The author [i.e. Cotton Mather] of the following narrative, is a person of such well known integrity, prudence and veracity, that there is not any cause to question the truth of what he here relates. ..."--Page [2], 1st count. Signed: April 27. 1697. Nath. Mather, John Howe, Matth. Mead.

Reprinted, with the attestation, in Mather's Magnalia Christi americana, London, 1702, Book ii, p. 34-75.

Epistle dedicatory "to His Excellency the Earl of Bellomont" also signed by Nathaniel Mather.

Signatures: pi² A-K⁴⁻⁸ L⁴ (pi1 recto, L4 blank). Leaf E1 unsigned; E2 signed "E."

"Upon the death of Sir William Phips, Knt.," p. [111-116], in verse.

"Books, printed for, and sold by Nath. Hiller ..."--Page [117-118].

Wing (2nd ed.) M1138

Holmes, T.J. Cotton Mather, 279-A