This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...readmitted to his throne. "It is further whispered," he says, "that there are consultations about altering the frame or form of government, if so we trust your honours will-preconsider what a perplexed task it may prove for this kickish Island governed by Royalty, ever since it was an inhabited piece of earth, for aught we know, now to suffer another kind of rule to back it; we sadly fear it will try how the new riders will set a saddle through it break all its girths, yea its own neck. We profess for our parts we are of the birds or fowls minds who when they consulted about a King, would rather choose to be ruled by an Eagle, though he had the wings of a fly, than by a councel of any other fowls, armed with Eagle's tallons." The only tract that we have seen attributed to Mr. Ward which was published after the execution of the king, was issued in the spring of 1650 and entitled, Discolliminium, or A most obedient Reply to a late Book called Bounds and Bonds, So farre as concerns the first Demurrer and no further.1 The editor of Notes and Queries says of this work that it " has all the raciness and good sense" of the author; and he extracts some observations on the doctrine of divine providence as a proof of this opinion.2 The latest production of Mr. Ward that we have heard of, is the poem prefixed to Mrs. Bradstreet's volume published later in the same year, which poem will be given in the next chapter. Mr. Ward's mind seems to have been more of a conservative than a progressive cast. He venerated the old, and was wary of the new. Though favoring many of the reforms of that day, and even laboring and suffering in their behalf, it was because he considered the work in which he was engaged, to be one 1 See Appendix X. Our first ...