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Title Page
Notice of the Author
Note
The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in_America
A Word of IRELAND.
A Word of Love to the Common People of England.
A most humble heel-piece to the Most Honourable Head-piece the Parliament of England
A respective word to the Ministers of England.
ERRATA AT NON CORRIGENDA
Postscript.
APPENDIX.
willing
To help 'mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered, both
in the upper-Leather and sole, with all the
honest stitches he can take.
And as willing never to be paid for his work, by Old English
wonted pay.
It is his trade to patch all the year long, gratis.
Therefore I pray Gentlemen keep your purses.
By Theodore de la Guard.
In rebus arduis ac tenui spe, fortissima
quœque consilia tutissima sunt. Cic.
In English,
When bootes and shoes are torne up to the lefts,
Coblers must thrust their awles up to the hefts.
This is no time to feare Apelles gramm:
Ne Sutor quidem ultra crepidam.
LONDON,
Printed by J. D. & R. I. for Stephen Bowtell, at the signe ofthe Bible in Popes Head-Alley, 1647.
The Reverend Nathaniel Ward, the writer of the followingwork, was born at Haverhill, England, in 1570. Ofthis town his father was a clergyman. He was educated atCambridge, studied and practised law, travelled on the Continent,afterwards commenced the study of divinity, becamea preacher of the Gospel, and was settled at Standon, inHertfordshire. He was a strong friend of the early settlersof New England before the elder Winthrop's coming over.At a General Court of the Massachusetts Company, heldin London, on Wednesday the 25th of November, 1629,"Mr. Whyte did recom̅end Mr. Nathaniel Ward of Standon"to be admitted to the freedom of the Company. Hewas ordered before the Bishop, Dec. 12, 1631, to answerfor his non-con