in Massachusetts, speaks of him as "learned without ostentation," and as "a man of singular modesty; of strict morals," and as having done "as much for the conversion of the Indians as most men in New England." His History of New England lay in manuscript till 1815, when it was published by the Massachusetts Historical Society, and constitutes two volumes of their Collections."[Farmer's Hist. Coll. II. p. 185.] [Hubbard's New England, though once considered highly important as an original, independent authority in our colonial history, has lost its former value since the discovery first announced by our very learned historiographer, Mr. Savage, that it is in substance a copy of Winthrop's History of New England. See his valuable and interesting note to Winthrop's work, Vol. I. pp. 296, &c. and his Preface to the same volume. EDIT.]

5. Samuel Bellingham. He received the degree of Doctor of Physic at Leyden. He appears to have been living when the Catalogue of Graduates in Mather's Magnalia was made, or about 1697; and survived all his classmates, except the Rev. Mr. Hubbard. He was of Rowley. - [Hutchinson's Hist. I. p. 112, note ; Farmer's Hist. Collections, II. p. 185; and Genealogical Register, art. Bellingham.]

6. John Wilson. He was son of the first minister of Boston (of the same name), and was born in England, in July, 1621; was ordained as colleague with the Rev. Richard Mather at Dorchester, and after two years was settled in Medfield, where he was pastor forty years, and died, August 23, 1691, aged 70. Dr. Mather says, that when "he was a child he fell upon his head from a loft four stories high into the street, from whence he was taken up for dead, and so battered and bruised and bloody with his fall, that it struck horror into the beholders." After he graduated he settled at Medfield, and, says Dr. Mather, "continued unto old age a faithful, painful, useful minister of the gospel." — [Hutchinson's Hist. I. p. 112, note; Farmer's Histor. Coll. II. p. 185; and Genealogical Register, art. Wilson.]

7. Henry Saltonstall. He is supposed by Governor Hutchinson to have been a grandson of Sir Richard Saltonstall; he was a doctor of physic, and a fellow of New College, Oxford. - [Hutch. Hist. I. p. 112,note.] – Like several of the early graduates, he went home after leaving college, and received a degree of Doctor of Medicine from Padua, and also from Oxford. - [Sketch of Ha

verhill, Massachusetts, by a descendant of the family, the Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, of Salem; published in the Mass. Hist. Coll. IV. p. 159, Second Series.] - Our accurate American antiquarian, Mr. Farmer, in his last work states Henry Saltonstall to have been a son of Sir Richard; and adds, that his degree at Padua was conferred in October, 1649, and at Oxford on the 24th of June, 1652. [Farmer's Genealog. Reg. art. Sultonstall.]

8. Tobias Barnard. Nothing is said of him by Hutchinson; and all the information which has been collected respecting him by the very careful inquirer last mentioned, is, that he went from this country to England. — [Ibid. art. Barnard.]

9. Nathaniel Brewster. Hutchinson says, he was a settled minister in Norfolk, and of good report. [Hist. Mass. I. p. 112, note.] It appears by the Cambridge Catalogue, that he received from Dublin the degree of Bachelor of Divinity; and Mr. Farmer states, on the authority of the Hon. Silas Wood, that he returned to America, settled in 1656, at Brookhaven, Long Island, and died in 1690.[Genealogical Register, art. Brewster.] — Mr. Wood, in the new edition of his history of Long Island, states Mr. Brewster's settlement to have been in 1665. [Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island. By Silas Wood. Brooklyn, New York, 1828; p. 33.]

No. XIV. (p. 10.)

THE College at Cambridge (says Hutchinson, I. p. 171,) became more and more an object of attention, and in the year 1650 was made a body corporate by Act of the General Court, and received a charter under the seal of the Colony.

Under this Charter the College was governed until the year 1685, when the Colony Charter was vacated, saving that in 1673, by an order of the General Court, some addition was made to the number of the Corporation. Mr. Dudley (who was a son of the College) when he received a commission for President of the Colony altered the title of the President of the College for that of Rector, but no attempts were made to take away the estate or stock of the College or to impose officers disagreeable to the country in general, but the government continued, in name at least, under the former Corporation, who were Increase Mather, Rector, John Sherman, Nehemiah Hubbard, John Cotton, John Leverett, and William Brattle as Fellows (the last two were Tutors also) and John Richards, Treasurer. When Mr. Mather, the Rector, went to England in 1688, in his minutes of an intended petition to the King, he says, "that when the civil government was changed, the College was under the inspection of these persons, and he supposed it continued so, except that Mr. Sherman was dead, in whose room he prayed Mr. Samuel Sewall might be appointed, and that the King would confirm the government in their hands; but although these were in name the Governors, they were not always so in fact." I find the following original order, dated December the 9th, 1686.

"WHEREAS the monies and other estate belonging to Harvard College in Cambridge, has been by us committed to the care and management of John Richards, Esq. for the benefit of the said College, it is ordered, that the produce thereof shall for this year, 1686, be disposed of as followeth.

"Ist. There shall be allowed to the present Rector of the College, as some acknowledgment of the services which he has done for that Society, the remainder of the income not disposed underneath.

"2d. The present Tutors, Mr. John Leverett and Mr. William Brattle, shall for this year, beginning the last Commencement, be

allowed each of them £40 beside what shall be due to them from their several pupils.

"3d. The scholars of the house (for this year) shall be Sir Gibbs, Rogers, Mitchel, and Dudley, who shall be allowed each of them at least £5. Sir Gibbs's pension to be paid out of Mr. Webb's legacy, and Rogers's out of Capt. Keyn's legacy.

4th. Major Richards shall be allowed for his care, in improving the College stock, after the proportion of £1 for £100.

"J. Dudley,
"William Stoughton."

The President of the Colony, and afterwards the Governor, assumed the whole authority when they thought fit. The rights of Magdalen College Oxford invaded, justly might alarm the whole nation, but Harvard College was too inconsiderable, had the proceedings been ever so arbitrary and oppressive, to occasion any great notice. Mr. Mather, the Rector, went to England in 1688. No person was appointed in his stead. Sir E. Andros, the Governor, wrote to Mr. Samuel Lee, the minister of Bristol in NewPlymouth colony, to desire him to officiate at the Commencement; but not receiving an answer in proper season (it seems the letter was delayed) Mr. William Hubbard was appointed, and officiated accordingly. In 1692, upon the arrival of the Province Charter, although by a clause in the Charter with a special view to the College, it was provided, that no grants, &c. to any towns, colleges, schools of learning, &c. should be prejudiced through defect of form, &c. but should remain in force as at the time of vacating the Colony Charter; yet the President, and many others with him, were desirous of a new Charter, with additional powers and privileges. An Act, of the General Court, passed for that purpose in 1692, incorporating the College on a larger foundation than the former Charter. Among other things, the College was enabled to confer such degrees as are conferred by the Universities in Europe, whereas under the former Charter no higher degrees had been given than those of Bachelors and Masters of Arts. This privilege was exercised in one instance only, a diploma for a doctorate, under the College seal, being presented to Mr. Mather the President. Before the expiration of three years the Act of Incorporation was disallowed. Those who interested themselves for the College were resolved upon further attempts; another Provincial Act, passed in 1697, with some variations, which before 1700 was likewise disapproved; for at a session of the Court, that

year, a vote passed the Council and House of Representatives approving the form of a Charter which they were willing the College should accept from the King, and I make no doubt the agents were instructed to endeavour to obtain a Charter in such form. By this Charter, the Corporation was to consist of a President, Vice-President, and fifteen Fellows. It may not be unacceptable to some to have their names preserved. Increase Mather, President, Samuel Willard, Vice-President, James Allen, Michael Wigglesworth, Samuel Torrey, Nehemiah Hobart, Peter Thacher, Samuel Angier, John Danforth, Cotton Mather, Nehemiah Walter, Henry Gibbs, John White, Jonathan Pierpoint, and Benjamin Wadsworth, together with the two senior Tutors resident at College, were the first Corporation named in the Charter. The College was impowered to hold real estate to the amount of three thousand pounds per annum. The Governor and the Council were made the visitors. This application proved as ineffectual as the former. The true reason, of the several failures, appears from a letter of Mr. Blaithwaite to the President, dated 1st June 1704, which says, "that the only obstruction to the passing the Charter was Sir Henry Ashurst's refusing to allow of a clause for a visitation by the King or his Governor." A letter from Lord Bellamont to Mr. Stoughton upon this subject deserves notice,

"New York, 31st May, '98.

"Sir, I received a letter from the reverend President of Harvard College, by Mr. White, Fellow of the said College, together with a copy of an Act of the Assembly for incorporating the College. And I am of opinion, that his Majesty will not give his royal approbation to that act as it stands worded, because it differs very materially from the terms of incorporation proposed by their excellencies the Lords Justices of England, viz. that the King and his Governors should be the visitors, whereas the Act of Assembly vests the power of visitation of that College as well in the Council as Governor, which his Majesty may probably think derogatory to his prerogative. And I am apprehensive also, that those noble Lords who, under the title of Lords Justices of England, lately exercised the royal authority, will confirm his Majesty that it will be a diminution to the prerogative of the crown, to make the Council co-ordinate in the power of visitation with the King's GovFor my own part I have a very great respect for the King's prerogative, but I could wish a way were found to secure

ernor.