A late and further manifestation of the progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in Nevv-England. : Declaring their constant love and zeal to the truth: with a readinesse to give accompt of their faith and hope; as of their desires in church communion to be partakers of the ordinances of Christ. Being a narrative of the examinations of the Indians, about their knowledge in religion, by the elders of the churches.
A 1655 London printing by Mary Simmons of a missionary report by John Eliot, a Puritan minister, on Native American converts in New England, written for an English Protestant readership. The four pictures are small woodcut initials and a printer's ornament, along with a heraldic armorial device, and they show the decorative vocabulary of seventeenth-century English type: a foliage-framed capital W, a strapwork tailpiece with scrolls and masks, a historiated A with two figures in a landscape, and an engraved coat of arms with a helm, crest, and motto band. A designer could draw on the interlacing borders and the figure-filled initial for period-appropriate display type and frames.
