which the best Captain in the best Army durst hardly
have thought upon, but to speak Truth his condition
was as ill as action, for he was reduced to the pleasing
choice of being hanged; or of deserving to be so.
From Rabell his Excellency went to Roches town,
where he got over the River shure in such a hick of
time, that the least protraction had metamorphosed
the Foord into a Ferry. The same night in a hideous
Tempest he came late before the Towne of Featherd,
where the Governor little dreaming of any Storm
but that of the Weather, was summond by his Excellency,
The Gentleman at first thought it had been
in jest, but the Corporation, swearing and trembling
'twas in earnest, he concluded form the last asmuch as
from the first that it was so, and by the same action
evidencing he was of the same faith like one well
verft in his Trade, called a Councel of Shakers to
know whether it was consonant to the Rules of War
to summon a Towne by Candle-light? After a smel
debate, either for the time or sence, they concluded
that wheter it were or no (for the thing was left amphibious)
it was consonant to the Rules of safety to
surrender the Place, which he did; modestly saying,
That he had lost his Government in a storme, and not
samely as other Governors had done, and that by his
then Rendition he had satisfied his engagement to the
Supreme Councell, which was, That none of then
should live to see the day, in which he should lose
Feather; no, not the Sun neither, though it shine
on all the world but woodstreet; We were more troubled
to come to, than to come by this Town, which
my Lord Lieutenant entered by the same light in