New-Englands vindidation [sic]. : Shewing the mis-understanding of the apprehension to take all that vast countrey under the notion of a particular place of one pattent of Boston, the metropolitan of the Machechusets there, who in these late times have acted as a free state and illegal proceeding, as by the many books and complaints by petition have caused an odium on the countrey in general, in vindication to manifest the worth of the countrey in general, it is as hopeful to enlarge His Majesties dominions, as if all the Baltick seas were annexed to his empire.
A 1660 London pamphlet printed for its author, Henry Gardener, defending the New England colonies against Boston's claim to the whole region and written for a English readership concerned with the Crown's dominions. The two pictures are typeset printer's ornaments rather than illustrations: a large decorative initial A with foliage and a flower, and a horizontal strip of dense scrolling foliage with a central cartouche. A designer could draw on their dense woodcut scrollwork and the contrast between a boxed capital and a continuous border band.
![Picture 1 of 2 from New-Englands vindidation [sic]. : Shewing the mis-understanding of the apprehension to take all that vast countrey under the notion of a particular place of one pattent of Boston, the metropolitan of the Machechusets there, who in these late times have acted as a free state and illegal proceeding, as by the many books and complaints by petition have caused an odium on the countrey in general, in vindication to manifest the worth of the countrey in general, it is as hopeful to enlarge His Majesties dominions, as if all the Baltick seas were annexed to his empire. (1660), leaf 9](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-newenglandsvindi00gard-9-0.webp)
![Picture 2 of 2 from New-Englands vindidation [sic]. : Shewing the mis-understanding of the apprehension to take all that vast countrey under the notion of a particular place of one pattent of Boston, the metropolitan of the Machechusets there, who in these late times have acted as a free state and illegal proceeding, as by the many books and complaints by petition have caused an odium on the countrey in general, in vindication to manifest the worth of the countrey in general, it is as hopeful to enlarge His Majesties dominions, as if all the Baltick seas were annexed to his empire. (1660), leaf 9](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-newenglandsvindi00gard-9-1.webp)