C OF NEW ENGLAND. BY JOHN GORHAM PALFREY. VOLUME I. Nec mihi materiam [natalis terra] negabat, BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1858. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by JOHN GORHAM PALFREY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. OF NEW ENGLAND DURING THE STUART DYNASTY. BY JOHN GORHAM PALFREY. VOLUME I. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1893 From the library of Prof. A. P. PEABODY (82) Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by JOHN GORHAM PALFREY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED BY METCALF AND COMPANY. To JARED SPARKS. MY DEAR SPARKS; Seven times seven years ago this day, you, coming from Connecticut, and I, from Massachusetts, arrived at the Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. For two years we were lodged beneath the same roof, and recited our lessons from the same form. Next we were classmates through the undergraduate course at Cambridge. Next we there pursued together our studies for the profession to which we expected to devote our lives. You went to a distant city; we kept up a constant intercourse of letters and visits. You came to live in Boston, and we met almost every day. I removed to Cambridge; you followed soon; and, since that time, our homes have been side by side. Friendships of such intimacy and duration are rare. It is not chiefly because the reading world so honors you,—still less is it from a wish to involve you in responsibility for any of my defects, that, in coming before the public with an essay in a department of writing in which you have won a wide renown, I desire to associate your name with that of Cambridge, Massachusetts; September 7, 1858. JOHN GORHAM PALFREY. |