DEDICATION. 
and when prevailed on by Friends to impart 
feme f of them to the Public, he concealed 
his Name, not being folicitous of the Repu- 
tation they might reflect on their Author : 
The fame Principle in you ftill induces you 
not to withdraw the Veil; it having always 
been a Maxim with both him and you, 
Prodejfe quant confpici. 
The Cloud that was gathering over his 
native Country, warned him and his Father 
to feek a quiet Retirement in the new 
World, 
• Sedes ubi fata quiet as 
Ofendunt ; illic fas Regna refurg&re nova. 
Where, after having fold a very plentiful 
Eftate in Old England, they conduced a 
large Body of People, and at the Expence of 
their whole Patrimony, firft * eftablifh’d the 
Colony of Maffachufets-Bay, and afterwards 
other Colonies in New-England, fo that they 
were in Reality the Founders of that now 
raoft flourishing and moft potent of all the 
+ Many more unpuhlijti d remain in MS . in your Hands . 
*, See the Magnalia Chris ti Americana. 
Eng- 
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