Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex . m. When the news came to the Massachusetts capital that thefrontier towns were being harried, drums beat to arms, andstout John Leverett summoned his council together. Hench-man, Hutchinson, Paige, Willard, and the other captains puton their buff coats and belted their heavy broadswords or ra-piers about them. The bands were mustered. In each com-pany was an ensign, who bore aloft a color of red sarsenet, a yard square, with thenumber of the companyin white thereon. An-other had a white blazein the centre. Volun-teers were demanded, andeven the profa
Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex . m. When the news came to the Massachusetts capital that thefrontier towns were being harried, drums beat to arms, andstout John Leverett summoned his council together. Hench-man, Hutchinson, Paige, Willard, and the other captains puton their buff coats and belted their heavy broadswords or ra-piers about them. The bands were mustered. In each com-pany was an ensign, who bore aloft a color of red sarsenet, a yard square, with thenumber of the companyin white thereon. An-other had a white blazein the centre. Volun-teers were demanded, andeven the profane seafar-ing men—privateers,as they were called —were enrolled. A guardof musketeers was set atthe entrance of the busy man was JohnFayerweather, the com-missary, in providing forthe levies. With drumsbeating, trumpets bray-ing, and standards dis-played, the troops de-filed through the town-gates. A few encoun-ters,and this bravery of regular war was laid aside. This wasalmost two hundred, years ago, and yet we have lately seen. KING PHILIP, FROM AN OLD PRINT. A FRAGMENT OF KING PHILIPS WAR. 415 our brave men led into an Indian ambush as unwarily as theywere in the year 1675. Some of the evils which a solemn session of the GeneralCourt, convened at Boston at this time, held to lie at the foun-dation of their misfortunes, were the proud excesses in appareland hair of which many — yea, and of the poorer sorte as wellas others — were guilty. The Quakers came in for a liberalshare of invective. Excess in drinking, and the toleration ofso many taverns, especially in Boston, which the townspeoplewere too much inclined to frequent, were glaring offences. Itwas urged that profane swearing had frequently been heard,and steps were taken to suppress and punish it. The fourthand fifth commandments were ordered to be better observedthan formerly, and it was decreed that there should be nomore such oppression by merchants or laborers as had , Philip was working a so
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