a man of profound learning, his son and grandson succeeding him at
Ipswich, and the son, who had accompanied him from England
becoming the President of Harvard College. His sympathy with Simon
Bradstreet's moderate and tolerant views, at once brought them
together, and undoubtedly made him occasionally a thorn in the
side of Governor Dudley, who felt then, precisely the same
emotions as in later life were chronicled in his one attempt at
verse:

"Let men of God in Courts and Churches watch,
O'er such as do a Toleration hatch,
Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice
To poison all with Heresie and Vice."

Nathaniel Rogers has left no written memorial save a tract in the
interest of this most objectionable toleration, in which, while
favoring liberty and reformation, he censured those who had
brought false charges against the king, and as a result, was
accused of being one of the king's agents in New England. Anne
Bradstreet's sympathies were even more strongly with him than
those of her husband, and in the quiet listening to the arguments
which went on, she had rarest opportunity for that gradual
accumulation of real worldly wisdom to be found in many of her
"Reflections" in prose.

At present there was more room for apprehension than reflection.
Indian difficulties were more and more pressing, and in Sept.,
1635, the General Court had included Ipswich in the order that no
dwelling-house should be more than half a mile from the meeting-
house, it being impossible to guard against the danger of coming