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I shall not treat with a subject. I shall only treat with the king, my brother. When he comes, I am ready." Such was the alarming aspect of affairs at the close of the year 1674. Enthusiasm of the young Indians. John Sassamon. Betty's Neck. Private secretary of Philip. The conspiracy. Incredulity of the English. Sassamon to be murdered. Death of Sassamon. Indians arrested. Proof of the murder.
In 1674 the heirs of Mason and Gorges, in despair at the reoccupation of Maine, proposed to surrender their claim to the king, reserving one third of the product of the customs for themselves. The London merchants also had become restive under the systematic violation of the Navigation Acts.
Mackenzie prosecuted; he had been Mitchell's counsel in 1674, and it is impossible to follow the reasoning by which he justifies the condemnation and hanging of Mitchell in January 1678. Sharp was supposed to have urged Mitchell's trial, and to have perjured himself, which is far from certain.
The Patuckets, once a powerful native tribe, had their principal settlements around the falls at the time of the visit of the white men of Concord and Woburn in 1652. Gookin, the Indian historian, states that this tribe was almost wholly destroyed by the great pestilence of 1612. In 1674 they had but two hundred and fifty males in the whole tribe.
Rosa, growing not only in beauty, but in wisdom also, after two years of her married life, could read and write so well that she was able to undertake by herself the education of two beautiful children which she had borne in 1674 and 1675, both in May, the month of flowers. As a matter of course, one was a boy, the other a girl, the former being called Cornelius, the other Rosa.
His correspondence, during the years 1674, 1675, and part of 1676, was seized, and contained many extraordinary passages. In particular, he said to La Chaise, "We have here a mighty work upon our hands, no less than the conversion of three kingdoms, and by that perhaps the utter subduing of a pestilent heresy, which has a long time domineered over a great part of this northern world.
New York, on the other hand, maintained that the eastern boundary of Connecticut was meant: moreover, that the western boundary had been agreed upon for special reasons; furthermore, that her own territory, as successor to the rights granted the Duke of York in 1674, reached from the Connecticut River to Delaware Bay.
State of the Republic after the Peace of Munster State of England William II. Stadtholder His ambitious Designs and Violent Conduct Attempts to seize on Amsterdam His Death Different Sensations caused by his Death The Prerogatives of the Stadtholder assumed by the People Naval War with England English Act of Navigation Irish Hostilities Death of Tromp A Peace with England Disturbed State of the Republic War with Denmark Peace concluded Charles II. restored to the English Throne Declares War against Holland Naval Actions Charles endeavors to excite all Europe against the Dutch His Failure Renewed Hostilities De Ruyter defeated Peace of Breda Invasion of Flanders by Louis XIV. He overruns Brabant and Flanders Triple League, 1668 Perfidious Conduct of Charles II. He declares War against Holland, etc., as does Louis XIV. Unprepared State of United Provinces William III. Prince of Orange Appointed Captain-General and High Admiral Battle of Solebay The French Invade the Republic The States-General implore Peace Terms demanded by Louis XIV. and by Charles II. Desperation of the Dutch The Prince of Orange proclaimed Stadtholder Massacre of the De Witts Fine Conduct of the Prince of Orange He takes the Field Is reinforced by Spain, the Emperor, and Brandenburg Louis XIV. forced to abandon his Conquests Naval Actions with the English A Peace, 1674 Military Affairs Battle of Senef Death of De Ruyter Congress for Peace at Nimeguen Battle of Mont Cassel Marriage of the Prince of Orange Peace of Nimeguen.
And after the Restoration, in 1674, all the royal ironworks in the Forest of Dean were demolished, leaving only such to be supplied with ore as were beyond the forest limits; the reason alleged for this measure being lest the iron manufacture should endanger the supply of timber required for shipbuilding and other necessary purposes.
Charles II was forced to recede from the French alliance by his Parliament in 1674. The military massacre went on, indeed, for some years longer in Germany and the Netherlands; but the Dutch Republic was saved, and peace ratified by the treaty of Nimwegen. After the conclusion of the Dutch War the reign of Louis XIV enters on a period of manifest decline. The cost of the war had been tremendous.
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