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Rev. Samuel Whiting. 25
bers might be reasonably expected to maintain
the well-won reputation of their native city, as
opposed to the extension of royal prerogatives
or the surrender of popular rights, to serve with
earnest good wilI the interests of their fellowcitizens
who had so often bestowed on them
the highest municipal honors, and promptly to
turn their backs upon official distinctions when
they could no longer hold them consistently
with honor and fidelity? '_ However interesting
the subject, it is not the purpose of this notice
to record the history of these #lends of the
English Commonwealth, or to show how well
they did what might have been expected of
such stalwart Boston Puritans, as they were
preparing to enter upon the stormy Cromwellian
revolution.
Samuel Whiting was a pupil at the Boston
school, and was perhaps assisted by the per-
sonal instruction of his relative, Rev. John
Cotton, who settled in that city in i612, and
was his father's beloved pastor and friend. He
* At the Restoration they all withdrew from public office,
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