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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
ing that the worthy old man deemed essential to his greatness. Sir Ferdinand1642. Mar. 1. had travailed in the cause above forty years, and expended above twenty thousand pounds; yet all the regalia which Thomas Gorges, his trusty and wellbeloved cousin and deputy, could find in the principality, were not enough for the scanty furniture of a cottage. Agamenticus, though in truth but a poor village, Winthrop, II. 100. soon became a chartered borough; like Chap X.} 1642 Mar. 1. another Romulus, the veteran soldier resolved to perpetuate his name, and, under the name of Gorgeana, the land round York became as good a city as seals and parchment, a nominal mayor and aldermen, a chancery court and a court-leet, sergeants and white rods, can make of a town of less than three hundred inhabitants and its petty officers. Yet the nature of Gorges was generous, and his piety sincere. He sought pleasure in doing good; fame, by advancing Christianity among the heathen; a durable monument,