The poem has appealed to twentieth century composers and has been set to music by Frederic Austin for chorus and orchestra ( first performance, Leeds Festival, 1931 ); by Timothy Mather Spelman, for soprano and baritone solo, chorus and orchestra ( 1931 ); by Virgil Thompson as " The Feast of Love ", for baritone and chamber orchestra, text translated by himself ( 1964 ); and by George Lloyd for soprano, tenor, chorus, and orchestra ( 1980 ).

The product was sold in a glass bottle with a Cellophane wrap until 1983, when the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather set about rebranding Lucozade as an energy drink.

Of the second generation of New England settlers, Cotton Mather stands out as a theologian and historian, who wrote the history of the colonies with a view to God's activity in their midst and to connecting the Puritan leaders with the great heroes of the Christian faith.

Agents for both colonies worked in England to rectify the charter issues, with Increase Mather petitioning the Lords of Trade for a restoration of the old Massachusetts charter.

As he prepared to depart from Boston for a position in England, he received a call from Northampton Church to stand in for the recently deceased Eleazar Mather.

There, he meets Cotton Mather of the Salem Witch Trials, Tomas de Torquemada of the Spanish Inquisition, and other famous inquisitors from history, who, despite their reputations as shrewd and conniving characters, call themselves " mere untutored novices " compared to the Senator.

From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history — linking, for instance, the Biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of such eminent leaders as John Eliot ; John Winthrop ; and his own father, Increase Mather.

Cotton Mather was not known for writing in a neutral, unbiased perspective.

Mather for not being able to reference an inoculation edict directly from the Bible.

While Cotton Mather was experimenting with the procedure, prominent Puritan pastors Benjamin Colman and William Cooper expressed public and theological support for them.

Mather was influential in the construction of the court for the trials from the beginning.

“ Intercession had been made by Cotton Mather for the advancement of William Stoughton, a man of cold affections, proud, self-willed and covetous of distinction .” Apparently Mather saw in Stoughton an ally for church-related matters.

Mather began to publicize and celebrate the trials well before they were put to an end: " If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified ..." ( Wonders of the Invisible World ).

An opinion on the matter was sought from the most esteemed ministers of the area and Cotton Mather took credit for their response when anonymously celebrating himself years later: " drawn up at their desire, by Cotton Mather the younger, as I have been informed.

" ( Book of The Life of Sir William Phips first published anonymously in London in 1697 ) And Mather then included the letter, but, for his own reasons ( surely not brevity, Magnalia is huge ) left out the first, second, and eight sections, which would seem most encouraging to the judges to carry-on with their work.

In the years after the trials, Cotton Mather remained unrepentant for his role.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

Hansen claimed Mather acted as a moderating influence in the trials by opposing the death penalty for those who confessed — or feigned confession — such as Tituba and Dorcas Good.

Some historians who have examined the life of Cotton Mather after Chadwick Hansen ’ s book also seem to yearn for a positive view of Cotton Mather.

Edmund Calamy recorded his liberal treatment of Puritans such as John Hieron, Richard Mather, and John Shawe of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Of the principal actors in the trial, whose lives are recorded after, only Cotton Mather and his ally William Stoughton never admitted any guilt.

Cotton Mather wrote of Leverett that he was " one to whom the affections of the freemen were signalised his quick advances through the lesser stages of honor and office, unto the highest in the country ; and one whose courage had been as much recommended by martial actions abroad in his younger years, as his wisdom and justice were now at home in his elder.

The hardliners, whose leadership included the influential Reverend Increase Mather, in particular castigated moderates like Dudley and Bradstreet as enemies of the colony.

He was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards ( 23 March 1940 ), before joining No. 8 ( Guards ) Commando with whom he sailed ( 31 January 1941 ) to the Middle East with Colonel Bob Laycock's Layforce, ( whose Commando officers included Evelyn Waugh, Randolph Churchill, Philip Dunne, Carol Mather, David Stirling and many distinguished others ).

According to the ship's log and the journal of Increase Mather, whose father Richard Mather and family were on the James, the following was recorded ;

Stephen Tyng Mather was born July 4, 1867 in San Francisco, and named for the prominent Episcopal minister Stephen Tyng of New York, who was admired by his parents, Joseph W. Mather and Bertha Jemima Walker.

He had his first lessons in drawing and watercolor while attending The Mather School, but his parents took little notice of his nascent talent.

In 1706 a slave, Onesimus, explained to Cotton Mather how he had been inoculated as a child in Africa.

By July 1716, Mather had read an endorsement of inoculation by Dr. Emanuel Timonius of Constantinople in the Philosophical Transactions.

The only reason Cotton Mather had success in it, he said, was because Mather had used it on children, who are naturally more resilient.

According to Bancroft, Mather had been influential in gaining politically unpopular Stoughton his appointment as lieutenant governor under Phips by appealing to his politically powerful father, Increase Mather.

Mather somewhat clarified the contradictory advice he had given in Return of the Several Ministers, by defending the use of spectral evidence.

After others had lamented the roles they played in the executions of nineteen and imprisonment of hundreds, Mather remained the chief defender of the trials, which diminishes the view of him as a moderate influence.

Rosenthal suggests that Mather might have had guilty feelings — feigned or not — for choosing not to restrain the judges during the trial, though he was in the best position to do so.

This was particularly important because it shows that Cotton Mather had influence in mathematics during the time of Puritan New England.

It also included “ information such as weather forecasts, farmers ' planting dates, astronomical information, and tide tables, Astronomical data and various statistics, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, lists of all types, timelines, and more .” Mather had within the text of the Almanac the positions and motions of these celestial bodies, which he must have calculated by hand.

When Cotton Mather died, he had an abundance of unfinished writings left behind, including one entitled The Biblia Americana.

Mather believed that Biblia Americana was the best thing he had ever written, believing it to be his masterwork ( Hovey 533 ).

Mather represented a small institution of learning that had been founded as the Collegiate School of Connecticut in 1701, and it needed money for a new building in New Haven, Connecticut.

Mather, a prominent Boston minister, had heard a description of the African practice of inoculation from his Sudanese slave, Onesimus, in 1706, but had been previously unable to convince local physicians to attempt the procedure.

The practice had been known in Boston since 1706, when Cotton Mather ( of Salem witch trial fame ) discovered that his slave, Onesimus had been inoculated while still in Africa and that many slaves imported to Boston had also received inoculations.