New-Englands vindidation [sic]
Subtitle: Shewing the mis-understanding of the apprehension to take all that vast countrey under the notion of a particular place of one pattent of Boston, the metropolitan of the Machechusets there, who in these late times have acted as a free state and illegal proceeding, as by the many books and complaints by petition have caused an odium on the countrey in general, in vindication to manifest the worth of the countrey in general, it is as hopeful to enlarge His Majesties dominions, as if all the Baltick seas were annexed to his empire
By: By Henry Gardener merchant, whose father was one of the first adventurers thither, and into other parts of America
Contributors: Godfrey, Edward, 1584?-1664?
Publisher: Printed for the authour
Published: 1660
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: History
Other titles: New Englands vindidation.; New-Englands vindication.; New Englands vindication.
Notes: According to Charles Edward Banks, in the Gorges Society publications, Portland, Maine, 1884, internal evidence suggests that the pamphlet was inspired, if not actually written by, Edward Godfrey, the petitioner from the provinces of Mayne and Linconia. Pamphlet is a protest against the absorbtion by Massachusetts of Maine and other New England colonies.

Signatures: A⁴ (A1 verso blank) B²

Woodcut head piece; initial.

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), G222.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island III:35.

European Americana 660/69.

English short title catalogue R215694.

Purchase; 1846; 0470.