Norton, John. A Funeral elegy upon the Death of the truly Reverend Mr. John Cotton, etc. 4 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. iv, 331.
Parkman, Francis. Review of Pond's Memoirs. North Amer. Review. Vol. 38.
Thornton, J. W. The Cotton Family. A genealogical table. N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg. I, 164.
Waterston, R. C. George Herbert and John Cotton. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. IX.
Walker, Williston. Ten New England Leaders. 1901.
Whiting, Rev. Samuel. Materials in Young's Chronicles of Mass. 419-430. [One of the chief sources of C. Mather's and J. Norton's accounts. Whiting was Cotton's parishioner in Boston, Eng., and later settled at Lynn, Mass.]
Young, A. John Cotton's Life and Letters. Chronicles of the First Planters, etc. Boston, 1846.
II. Nathaniel Ward (1578 [?]-1652)
A. Separate Works
(1) The Liberties of the Massachusets Colonie in New England. [Cambridge, 1641?] The celebrated Body of Liberties. Probably not originally published. A facsimile reproduction of the Hutchinson MS, with printed version, ed. by W. H. Whitmore, was published by the City of Boston, 1889. Frequently reprinted. (2) The Simple Cobler of Aggawamm in America. Willing to help 'mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-Leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take. Etc. London, 1647. 4th ed. the same year. First reprinted in America, Boston, 1713. Several later editions, the latest by the Ipswich Hist. Soc. Salem, 1906. From 4th ed. (3) A Religious Retreat sounded to a Religious Army. [London?], 1647. (4) A Word to Mr. Peters, and Two Words to the Parliament and Kingdom, [London], 1647 [?] (5) Mercurius Antimechanicus, or the Simple Cobbler's Boy, with his Lap full of Caveats. London, 1648. [Ascribed to Ward, but probably wrongfully.] (6) The Pulpit Incendiary [?] (7) Five letters to John Winthrop. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. 4th ser. vii, 23. (8) Letter to the Rev. Mr. Sancroft. New Eng. Hist, and Gen. Reg. Jan., 1883.
B. Biography and Criticism
Dean, John Ward. A Memoir of Nathaniel Ward. Albany, 1868.
Gray, F. C. Remarks on the Early Laws of Mass. Bay; with the Code adopted in 1641, etc. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. 3d ser. VIII, 191. The Body of Liberties reprinted, pp. 216-237.
Phillips, Stephen H. Sketch of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, of Ipswich. Essex Institute Hist. Col. Vol. vi. Salem, 1864.
III. John Eliot (1604-1690)
A. Separate Works
Much uncertainty exists in regard to the authorship of some of the Indian tracts commonly attributed to Eliot. As the best known of the Indian missionaries, he was doubtless asked to contribute to various propagandist tracts, and to some he contributed letters, even though the body of the text was the work of other hands. The subject is considered in Francis's Life of Eliot, 345-350.
(1) The Bay Psalm Book. [Cambridge], 1640. [See Richard Mather.] (2) The Day Breaking, if not The Sun-Rising of the Gospell with the Indians in New-
