Excerpt from Peter Oliver's "Puritan Commonwealth" ReviewedOne hundred years later, in this year of grace, in Mayhew's own city, by a son of New England, under the imprint of one of the most respectable publishing houses, such men, under the guise of historical truth, are held up as worthy of a statue. What folly, what presumption, will greet us next?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.