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[45 ] now up, and fo the dew gone, that they could not fo eafily Track them, the whole Company met together at the place where the Enemies Night fhelter was; and then Capt. Church gave them the news of Philips death \ upon which the whole Army gave Three loud Huzza's. Capt Church ordered his body to be pull'd out of the mire on to the Upland, fo fome of Capt. Churches Indians took hold of him by his Stockings, and fome by his fmall Breeches, (being otherwife naked) and drew him thro' the Mud unto the Upland, and a doleful, great, naked, dirty beaft, he look'd like. 314 Capt. Church then faid, That forafmuch as he had catifed many an Englifh-mans body to lye unburied and rot above ground, that not one of his bones JJwuld be buried. And calling his old Indian Executioner, bid him behead and quarter him. 315 314 This is the plain profe comment of an obferver upon the facts as they appeared to him. Dr. Palfrey has well referred to it, in his very juft remarks on the poetic exaggeration with which mo ft of our later literature has dealt with Philip. \_HiJl. N. E. iii : 223.] 315 The idea in New England at that time feems to have been that Philip was a rebel againft King Charles 2d, and, as fuch, deferved the State punifhment of treafon, which, in England, until the 30th year of George 3d, was 1. To be drawn (latterly, on a hurdle, fo as to avoid the extreme torment of being dragged over the ground) to the gallows ; 2. To be hanged by the neck, and cut down alive; 3. To have the entrails cut out and burned, while the 150 Accordingly, he came with fufferer ftill lived ; 4. To be beheaded ; 5. That the body be cut into four quarters ; 6. That the head and quarters be at the king's difpofal. [4, Black/tone's Comm. 92.] Church's action, in the light of the public fentiment of that daj', was far from indicating an inhuman revenge, or a cruel difpofition. It could fcarcely be expected that thefe remote and backwoods colonies were to go beyond the mother country in refinement. And it was not yet 17 years fince Parliament had voted the dijinterment of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradfhaw, and their decaying remains had been hanged at Tyburn, and their heads ftuck on poles on the top of Weftminfter Hall fronting Palace Yard while nearly 20 years later than Philip's ;
[45 ] his Hatchet and flood over him, but before he ftruck he made a fmall Speech directing it to Philip', and faid, He had been a very great Alan, and had made many a man afraid of him, butfo big as he was he would now chop his Afs for him ; and fo went to work, and did as he was ordered. Philip having one very remarkable hand being much fcarr'd, occafioned by the fplitting of a Piftol in it formerly. Capt. Church gave the head and that hand 316 to death, Evelyn entered in his Diary (10 April, 1696), "The quarters of Sir Wil- liam Perkins and Sir John Friend, lately executed on the plot, with Perkins's head, were fet up at Temple-Bar; a difmal fight." Indeed, Walpole wrote to Montague, 16 Aug., 1746, " paffed under the new heads at Temple Bar, where people make a trade of letting fpying-glaffes at a halfpenny a look"; and it is on record that Goldfmith joked Johnfon in regard to fimilar adornments of that ftrudture ; and, as late as 1 April, 1772, a news-writer fet down : " yefterday one of the rebels' heads on Temple Bar fell down. There is only one head now remaining." Thefe facts fhould have protected our fathers from Peter Oliver's malignant fneer about " orthodox vengeance." [See Diary of Sam. Pepys, ed. 1856, i : 129, 152 ; Diary of John Evelyn, ed. 1857, i' • 34°> Cunningham's Hand Book of London, 437, 542 ; Puritan Commonwealth, 145.] 316 Increafe Mather [Brief Hifl. 47] fays, "his head being cut off and carried away to Plymouth, his Hands were brought to Bojlon." Cotton Mather 151 [Magnalia, ed. 1853, ii : 576] fays, " this Agag was now cut into quarters, which were then hanged up, while his head was carried in triumph to Plymouth." Niles [Hift. Ind. and Fr. Wars, 3 Mafs. Hifl. Coll. vi : 190] fays Philip " was cut into quarters, and hanged up in the woods, and his head carried to Plymouth." The ftory, carried from this country to London by the mafter of a veffel foon failing from Rhode-Ifland [Abbott's Wars of the Colonies, 131], adds, "they quartered his body, and hung it upon four trees." By collating thefe we probably get all the fa6ts. The head was placed upon a pole at Plymouth, where it is faid to have remained expofed for more than 24 years [Felt's Pedes. Hifl. N. E. ii 638; Thacher's Plymouth, 389] rate Cotton Mather faid, in his Magnalia (firft publilbed in 1702, 26 years after), " it was not long before the hand which now writes, upon a certain occa- ; at any fion took off the jaw from the expofed fkull of that blafphemous leviathan." [ed. 1853, i : 566.] It is hardly proba- ble that there is any truth in the tradi- :
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CHURCH'S PHILIP'S WAR Part I
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Sije £)iston) King Philip's War By
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JOHN GORHAM PALFREY, D.D., LL.D., W
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Entertaining Paflages Relating to m
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TO THE READER. mofl caution to be u
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l^tltp'S WAR 1 [ I Entertaining Paf
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[ I Country, & was pleafed with it;
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[ 2 ] Activity and Induftry, he foo
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[ 3 ] Church to the Dance. Mr. Chur
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[3 ] horns, and Shot-bags at their
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[3 ] parting advifed her what ever
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[4] mw^T'-Ponds; 26 knowing himfelf
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[4] Governours. He gave them an acc
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[5 ] our defired Mr. Church to give
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[5 J from Mr. Miles'^ Garrifon. And
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[5 ] received a fhot in his knee, a
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[6] the Bridge, and Caffey, the dir
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[6] they foon found to be true. The
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; [ 7 ] ther order concerning the F
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[8] divided among the Company, whic
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[8] Woods that the Track lead them
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[9] Volly of fifty or fixty Guns ;
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[ io] the Wall, being very hungry,
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[ io] Enemy, but to heap up Stones
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[ » nefs\ and would certainly fetc
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[ 12 ] was juft come over from the
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[ 12 ] Camp. Mr. Church, one Baxter
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[ 13 ] mouths diftreffes required S
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[ 13 ] hateful to Mr. Church, that
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[ *3 ] Governour Win/low to command
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[ i4] Army made their efcape into t
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[ i6] wounded a pair of Mittins, th
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[ '7 ] would kill more Men than the
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[ i» ] But the Generals great impo
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[ i8 ] skuffle they had, but the In
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[ 19] the Moofiags made a defcent u
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[ "9 ] for to them, being o.bferved
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[ 20] out Indians, they thought it
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[ 20 ] to Capt. John Almy's houfe 1
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[ « to joyn with their Quota's. 16
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[ 21 ] furff made fuch a noife agai
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[ »* ] Son Peter, their Chief Capt
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[ *3 ] fee him fo Refolute, nor if
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[ »4] Upon which there began a con
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[ 25 ] Sogkonate according to his d
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[ *5 ] dren's faft friend. And (by
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[ 26] had nothing but a miferable b
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[ *7 ] confent and advice, he retur
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[ 27 ] round Mr. Church, (where he
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[ a*] Mr. Church obtain'd the Major
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[ *8 ] worth' they went to Sandwich
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[ 2 9 ] but when they perceived the
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