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56 Memoir of
(born 25th March, I633 ). His attachment to
the place where his family had lived for centuries,
his connection with the learned and ac-
complished scholars of Boston and its vicinity,
the magnificent libraries of Cambridge, Ox-
ford, and London, even the grand old St.
Botolph itself, where he had worshipped in his
youth, a church of magnificent proportions,
which had become doubly dear to him as it had
witnessed the labors of the heroic Cotton, and
now rang with the voice of the more prudent
but not less radical Tuckney, his schoohnate
and cousin, all plead with him to remain where
he was, and by some politic modification of his
views, or by some evasion of the difficulty, to
avoid giving too grave offence to a bishop who
had every inducement to treat him with forbearance.
But he was an honest, brave, and
conscientious man. He could not stoop so far
as to disguise or give up his opinions, or to
remain where toleration was a favor and not
a right.
" His virtuous consort," says Dr. Mather,*
Magnalia, i., p. 505.