. The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits. -trates deemed it wise not to delay action until the bookcould be read with care. It was enough that on the title-page they saw that Christ did not suffer for us those un-utterable torments of Gods wrath, that commonly arecalled Hell-torments, and that He did not bear our sins byGods imputation. The General Court ordered the bookto be burned and an answer to be prepared. John Eliotcalled it a book full of err
. The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits. -trates deemed it wise not to delay action until the bookcould be read with care. It was enough that on the title-page they saw that Christ did not suffer for us those un-utterable torments of Gods wrath, that commonly arecalled Hell-torments, and that He did not bear our sins byGods imputation. The General Court ordered the bookto be burned and an answer to be prepared. John Eliotcalled it a book full of error & weakens & some heresies,but Sir Henry Vane and other famous men defended it inletters to the magistrates. Finally Pynchon stated to theCourt that it hath pleased God to lett me see that I havenot spoken in my booke so fully of the prize and merrit ofChrists sufferings as I should have done. He was, how-ever, deprived of further honors, placed under bonds, and,in 1652, returned to England where another book waspublished the sam^e year. The Puritan in England and New England, by Ezra H. Byington. England Historical and Genealogical Register, April, ?#894. 452. WILLIAM PYNCHON 1590-1662 (453 I THE KEA YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY TILDE N FOUNtAtaNS^ Edward Rawson, secretary of Massachusetts, wasborn, 15 April, 1615, at Gilllngham, Dorset, the son ofDavid Rawson, a citizen and merchant tailor of London,and Margaret, sister of the Rev. John Wilson, later ofBoston In New England. His father died In 1617/18,leaving to him £100 and part of his silver plate. He mar-ried Rachel, daughter of Richard and Rachel (Greene)Perne, of Gilllngham, then a convenient place, whereJudge Sewall once stopped to call upon the Pernes. Rawson came to Newbury In 1636 or 1637, and soonbecame a selectman (1638) and public notary, and had theright to perform marriages. He was a deputy from New-bury almost every year from 1638 to 1649, serving as clerktwo years. He moved In 1650 to Boston, and was chosens
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