St. Botolph's Town

this work have been many and, for the most part, are named in the text. But sweeping credit is here due to the invaluable "Memorial History of Boston" and to the "Boston Antiquities" of Samuel Drake. I have to thank also Mr. Irwin C. Cromack of the engineering department, City of Boston, for kindly aid given and the editor of the Canadian Magazine for permission to incorporate in the chapter "How Winthrop Treated With the La Tours " my article on the " Fight Between La Tour and D'Aulnay" contributed to his magazine last year.

CHARLESTOWN, 1908.

M. C. C.

T. BOTOLPH'S Town! Far over leagues of

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land

And leagues of sea looks forth its noble tower,
And far around the chiming bells are heard:
So may that sacred name forever stand

A landmark and a symbol of the power
That lies concentred in a single word."

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of the English colonists in America is the introduction of the civilization of Europe into a wilderness without bringing with it the political institutions of Europe. The arts, sciences, and literature of England came over with the settlers. . . . But the monarchy did not come, nor the aristocracy, nor the church as an estate of the realm. Political institutions were to be framed anew such as should be adapted to the state of things." - DANIEL WEBSTER.

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HE spirit of that age was sure to manifest itself in narrow cramping measures and in ugly acts of persecution; but it is, none the less, to the fortunate alliance of that fervid religious enthusiasm with the love of self-government that our modern freedom owes its existence.". JOHN FISKE.