“He was descended of an Honourable Family in Bedfordshire.—­He was
    born at Woodhil (or Odel) in Bedfordshire, January 31st,
    1582.

“His Education was answerable unto his Original; it was Learned, it was Genteel, and, which was the top of all, it was very Pious:  At length it made him a Batchellor of Divinity, and a Fellow of Saint John’s Colledge in Cambridge.—­

“When he came abroad into the World, a good benefice befel him, added unto the estate of a Gentleman, left him by his Father; whom he succeeded in his Ministry, at the place of his Nativity:  Which one would imagine Temptations enough to keep him out of a Wilderness.”

But he could not conscientiously conform to the ceremonies of the English Church, and so,—­

    “When Sir Nathaniel Brent was Arch-Bishop Laud’s General, as
    Arch-Bishop Laud was another’s, Complaints were made against Mr.
    Bulkly, for his Non-Conformity, and he was therefore Silenced.

“To New-England he therefore came, in the Year 1635; and there having been for a while, at Cambridge, he carried a good Number of Planters with him, up further into the Woods, where they gathered the Twelfth Church, then formed in the Colony, and call’d the Town by the Name of Concord.

    “Here he buried a great Estate, while he raised one still,
    for almost every Person whom he employed in the Affairs of his
    Husbandry.—­

“He was a most excellent Scholar, a very-well read Person, and one, who in his advice to young Students, gave Demonstrations, that he knew what would go to make a Scholar.  But it being essential unto a Scholar to love a Scholar, so did he; and in Token thereof, endowed the Library of Harvard-Colledge with no small part of his own.

“And he was therewithal a most exalted Christian—­In his Ministry he was another Farel, Quo nemo tonuit fortius—­And the observance which his own People had for him, was also paid him from all sorts of People throughout the Land; but especially from the Ministers of the Country, who would still address him as a Father, a Prophet, a Counsellor, on all occasions.”

These extracts may not quite satisfy the exacting reader, who must be referred to the old folio from which they were taken, where he will receive the following counsel:—­

“If then any Person would know what Mr. Peter Bulkly was, let him read his Judicious and Savory Treatise of the Gospel Covenant, which has passed through several Editions, with much Acceptance among the People of God.”  It must be added that “he had a competently good Stroke at Latin Poetry; and even in his Old Age, affected sometimes to improve it.  Many of his Composure are yet in our Hands.”