lor from New England. At Windsor
Castle he was knighted and now it was Sir William Phips, if you please.

Judge Sewall's diary contains this entry, Friday, October 21, 1687:

"I went to offer my Lady Phips my House by Mr. Moody's and to
congratulate her preferment. As to the former, she had bought Sam'
Wakefield's House and Ground last night for L350. I gave her a Gazette
that related her Husband's Knighthood, which she had not seen before;
and wish'd this success might not hinder her passage to a greater and
better estate. She gave me a cup of good Beer and thank'd me for my
visit."

Sir William would have still another try at the wreck, and this time
there was no lack of ships and patronage. A squadron was fitted out in
command of Sir John Narborough, and one of the company was the Duke of
Albemarle. They made their way to the reef, but the remainder of the
treasure had been lifted, and the expedition sailed home empty-handed.
Adderley of New Providence had babbled in his cups and one of his men
had been bribed to take a party of Bermuda wreckers to the reef. The
place was soon swarming with all sorts of craft, some of them from
Jamaica and Hispaniola, and they found a large amount of silver before
they stripped the wreck clean.

The King offered Sir William a place as one of the Commissioners of the
Royal Navy, but he was homesick for New England and desired to be a
person of consequence in his own land. His friends obtained for him a
patent as High Sheriff of Massachusetts and he returned to Boston after
five years' absence "to entertain his Lady with some accomplishment of
his predictions; and then built himself a fair brick house in the very
place which was foretold."

The "fair brick house" was of two stories with a portico and columns.
It stood on the corner of the present Salem Street (then the Green
Lane) and Charter Street, so named by Sir William Phips in honor of the
new charter under which he became the first provincial or royal
governor. There was a lawn and gardens, a watch-house and stables, and
a stately row of butternuts. "North Boston" was then the fashionable
or "Court end" of the town.

The Puritans and Pilgrims were seething with indignation against the
royal government overseas. The original charter under which the Colony
of Massachusetts Bay exercised self-government had been annulled, and
Charles II was determined to bring all the New England Colonies under
the sway of a royal