170 



BIBLIOGRAPHY Ot' THE 



Eliot (J.) — Continued. 



dians' Language : Such a Work and Fruit of a 

 Plantation, as was never before presented to a 

 King. And he sent word, that next he would 

 print my Call to the Unconverted, and then The 

 Practice of Piety : But Mr. Boyle sent him word 

 it would be better taken here, if the Practice 

 of Piety were printed before any thing of mine. " 

 In another place he writes : ' ' "When Mr. Eliot 

 had printed all the Bible in the Indians' lan- 

 guage, he next translated this, my Call to the 

 Unconverted, as he wrote to us here: and 

 though it was here thought prudent to begin 

 with the Practice of Piety, because of the envy 

 and distaste of the times againat me, he had 

 finished it before that advice came to him." 



Mr. Eliot finished this translation on the last 

 day of the year, as appears from the date at 

 the end of the reprint: "Fiuitur, 1663, Decem- 

 ber 31." It went to the press early in 1664, and 

 was finished in or before August of the same 

 year. On the 7th of March, 1664, the Corpora- 

 tion in London wrote to the Commissioners in 

 New England: "wee can not but take notice 

 of Mr. Elliots great paines and labour amongst 

 the poor Indians and the good Efi'ect that hath 

 followed thervpon ; and alsoe his care in trans- 

 lat^iug the bible into the Indian Language and 

 attending vpon the Correcting of the presse 

 whiles the said bible was printing ; and now 

 his translateing a treatise of Mr. Baxters into 

 the said Language ; which althoe att present 

 wee can not gratefully acknowlidge: yet when 

 enabled thervnto shall indeauor to make a pro- 

 portionable Kequitall." 



After the book had been printed, Mr. Eliot 

 wrote to the Commissioners at Hartford, on 

 the " 25 of the 6th [August 25th, 16] 64," as fol- 

 lows: "Touching the Presse, I thank God & 

 yourselves for the good succes8e of the work in 

 it. Mr. Baxter's Call is printed and dispi^ced. 

 . . . My request also, in respect to Mr. 

 Johnson, is, that seing the Lord hath made 

 him instrumentall to finish the Bible, and Bax- 

 ter, and is now returning for Engl*, you would 

 please to give him his due incouragm', and 

 such further countenance and comendation, as 

 your wisdo's shall see meet to afford him." 

 "When the Commissioners met at Hartford in 

 September, 1664, they wrote to the Corpora- 

 tion in England : "weedismised Marmeduke 

 Johnson the Printer att the end of his tearme 

 agreed for hauing Iraproued him as well as wee 

 could for the yeare past by imploying him with 

 our owne printer to print such Indian workes 

 as could be prepared which hee was not able 

 to doe alone with such other English Treatises 

 which did present ; for which allowance hath 

 bine made proportionable to his laboure." 

 They also added, in the same letter: "the 

 number of Bibles with Psalm books printed 

 were vpwards of a thousand ; of Baxters Call 

 1000 and of Psalters 500 diners wherof all soits 

 are disposed to the Indians and the rest reddy 

 for theire vse as they can be bound vp and 

 there may bee occation." In the account of 



Eliot (J.) — Continued. 



expenditures which was presented to the Com- 

 missioners in September, 1664, was one charge: 

 "To printing Mr. Baxters Call 8 sheets at 508. 

 per sheet," 201. Under the date of September 

 13th, 1667, the records of the Commissioners 

 contain the following charge : " To 4 hundred 

 Mr. Baxters call bound at 3s. per hundred," 

 12s. 



jSTo copy of this edition is known to be ex- 

 tant. It was reprinted in 1688, as follows: 



[ ] Wehkomaon^anoo \ asquam ) pe- 



antogig I Kah asquam Quiunuppegig, { 

 Tokonogque mahche woskeche Pean- | 

 tamwog. Onk woh sampwuttea- | hae 

 Peantamwog. | Wutanakausuonk wun- 

 neetou noh | nohtompeantog. | Usso- 

 wesu I Mr. Richard Baxter. | Kah | 

 Yeuyeu qushkinnumun en Indiane j 

 Wuttinuontoowaonganit. | "VVussohsu- 

 moowoutamunat oowesuonk | God ut 

 Christ Jesus ut, kah j ooneueheonat 

 Indiansog. | Ezek. 33. 11. | Qushkek, 

 qushkek, tohwhutch woh nuppok, woi 

 Israelle wek ? | 



Cambridge : | Printed by S. G. for the 

 Corporation in London | for the In- 

 dians in New England 1688. 



Title 1 leaf within a border of small orna- 

 ments verso blank, text entirely in Indian pp. 

 3-188, 16°. Signatures A to M in eights, in- 

 cluding two blank leaves at the end. 



The second edition of Eliot's translation into 

 the Massachusetts Indian language of Baxter's 

 Call to the Unconverted. It ends on page 188 

 with a brief prayer,- below which are the words : 

 "Finitur, 1663, December 31." See the fac- 

 simile of the title-page. 



Copies seen: American Antiquarian Society, 

 Harvard, Massachusetts Historical Society, 

 Prince, Yale. 



The copy owned by the Kev. "William Jenks 

 was sold in Boston, December, 1867, for $27; 

 Mr. Brinley's, which is perhaps the same copy, 

 bound in brown levant morocco by Bedford, 

 was sold in New York, March, 1879 (no. 782), 

 for $135, and was purchased for Yale College. 



[ ] Manitowompae | pomantamoonk: [ 



Sampwshanau | Christianoh | Uttoh 

 woh an | pomantog | Wussikkitteaho- 

 nat J God, | I Tim 4 8. | Manittooonk 

 ohtooomoo quoshodtaongash yeuyeu ut 

 poman- | tamooonganit kah ne paom- 



CX)Ug. I 



Cambridge: | Printed in the Year 

 1665. 



Translation : G-odly | living : | Directs | a- 

 Christian | how he may | live | to-please | God. 



Title 1 leat" within a border of small orna- 

 ments verso blank, text entirely in Indian pp. 



