LECHFORD, Thomas (ca 1590-1644?). Plain Dealing: or, Newes from New-England . London: W.E. and I.G. for Nath: Butter, 1642.
LECHFORD, Thomas (ca 1590-1644?). Plain Dealing: or, Newes from New-England . London: W.E. and I.G. for Nath: Butter, 1642. 4 o (173 x 134 mm). (A few minor discreet repairs on title-page.) Red morocco gilt extra, edges gilt, by Lorctic. Provenance : Frank C. Deering (bookplates). FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING AND AUTHENTIC EARLY FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS OF LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND. Thomas Lechford, the first lawyer in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, lived in Boston from 1638 to 1641. His account contains valuable and accurate information relating to the manners and customs of the colony. Born in England and trained as a solicitor at Clement's Inn, Lechford arrived in the colony in June 1638 and was immediately introduced to the strict Puritanism which affected all aspects of life there, including that their court system discouraged attorneys from representing clients in their courts. As the only practicing lawyer in Boston in 1639, he was hired by William and Elizabeth Cole to commence an action against her brother, a certain Francis Doughty of Taunton, whom she claimed defrauded her out of her share in their father's estate. After approaching the jury privately after they were selected, Lechford was accused by the General Court of Massachusetts of embracery and disbarred. Unable to practice his profession, and complaining of the stifling religious overtones in the new colony, he was forced to return to England in August 1641. Upon his return to England, he published this account which begins: "Having been forth of my native Countrey, almost for the space of foure yeeres last past, and now through the goodnesse of Almighty God returned, many of my friends desiring to know of me the manner of governments, and state of things, in the place from whence I came, New England; I thinke good to declare my knowledge in such things." He goes on in great detail to describe life in the colony, including Church government and administration, accounts of public worship, legal procedure, voting regulation, descriptions of the Indians, as well as the kinds of flora and fauna found in the area. Alden & Landis 642/71; Baer 24; Church 454; JCB (3) II:298; Sabin 39640; Wing L-810; Winsor III, p. 351 ("one of the most interesting and authentic of the early narratives written by an able and impartial hand").
LECHFORD, Thomas (ca 1590-1644?). Plain Dealing: or, Newes from New-England . London: W.E. and I.G. for Nath: Butter, 1642.
LECHFORD, Thomas (ca 1590-1644?). Plain Dealing: or, Newes from New-England . London: W.E. and I.G. for Nath: Butter, 1642. 4 o (173 x 134 mm). (A few minor discreet repairs on title-page.) Red morocco gilt extra, edges gilt, by Lorctic. Provenance : Frank C. Deering (bookplates). FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING AND AUTHENTIC EARLY FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS OF LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND. Thomas Lechford, the first lawyer in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, lived in Boston from 1638 to 1641. His account contains valuable and accurate information relating to the manners and customs of the colony. Born in England and trained as a solicitor at Clement's Inn, Lechford arrived in the colony in June 1638 and was immediately introduced to the strict Puritanism which affected all aspects of life there, including that their court system discouraged attorneys from representing clients in their courts. As the only practicing lawyer in Boston in 1639, he was hired by William and Elizabeth Cole to commence an action against her brother, a certain Francis Doughty of Taunton, whom she claimed defrauded her out of her share in their father's estate. After approaching the jury privately after they were selected, Lechford was accused by the General Court of Massachusetts of embracery and disbarred. Unable to practice his profession, and complaining of the stifling religious overtones in the new colony, he was forced to return to England in August 1641. Upon his return to England, he published this account which begins: "Having been forth of my native Countrey, almost for the space of foure yeeres last past, and now through the goodnesse of Almighty God returned, many of my friends desiring to know of me the manner of governments, and state of things, in the place from whence I came, New England; I thinke good to declare my knowledge in such things." He goes on in great detail to describe life in the colony, including Church government and administration, accounts of public worship, legal procedure, voting regulation, descriptions of the Indians, as well as the kinds of flora and fauna found in the area. Alden & Landis 642/71; Baer 24; Church 454; JCB (3) II:298; Sabin 39640; Wing L-810; Winsor III, p. 351 ("one of the most interesting and authentic of the early narratives written by an able and impartial hand").
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