4. We will conclude our catalogue of the graduates in this colledge, with the elegy, which the venerable Mr. JOHN WILSON made upon its founder.

In pientissimum, reverendissimumq; virum,
JOHANNEM HARVARDUM,

è suggesto sacro Caroloensi ad cœlos evectum,
Ad alumnos Cantabrienses literatos, poëma.

Johannes Harvardus.

Anagr.

Si non (ah!) surdâ aure.

En, mihi fert animus, Patroni nomine vestri
(Si non, (ah!)'surdâ spernitur aure) loqui.

Sic ait.

Me Deus, immenso per Christum motus amore,
Ad cœlos servum jussit abire suum.
Parebam; monituque Dei præeunte parabam
Quicquid ad optatum sufficiebat opus.
Me (licet indignum) selegit gratia Christi,
Fundarem Musis qui pia tecta piis.

(Non quòd vel charâ moriens uxore carerem,
Aut hæres alius quòd mihi nullus erat :)
Hæredes vos ipse meos sed linquere suasit,
Usque ad dimidium sortis opumque, Deus.
Me commune bonum, præsertim gloria Christi,
Impulit, et charæ posteritatis amor :

Sat ratus esse mihi sobolis, pietatis amore
Educet illustres si Schola nostra viros.
Hæc mihi spes (vitâ morienti dulcior olim)
Me recreat, cœli dum requiete fruor.
At si degeneres liqueat vos esse (quod absit!)
Otia si studiis sint potiora bonis:

Si nec doctrinâ, nec moribus estis honestis
Imbuti, (fastu non leviore tamen)

Grata sit aut vobis si secta vel hæresis ulla,

Vos simul inficiens, vos, Dominique gregem:
Hæc mihi patrono quàm sunt contraria vestro!
Atque magis summo displicitura Deo!
Nec tamen ista meo sic nomine dicier opto,
Mens quasi promittat non meliora mihi!

Gaudia cœlorum vix me satiare valerent,
Si tantâ orbatus speque fideque forem.
Ille Deus vobis, vestrisque laboribus, almam,
Et dedit, et porrò suppeditabit opem.
Ejus in obsequio, sic, O! sic, pergite cuncti,
Ut fluat hinc major gloria lausque Deo.
At si quis recto malè sit de tramite gressus
(Quod David, et Solomon, et Petrus ipse queat),
Hic sibi ne placeat, monitus neque ferre recuset,
In rectam possint qui revocare viam.
Sic grati vos este Deo! vestrique labores,
Quos olim in Christo suscipietis, erunt.
Utque Vetus meruit sibi Cantabrigia nomen,
Sic nomen fiet dulce feraxque Novæ.

JOHANNES WILSONUS.

Verba Doct. Arrowsmith, in Orat. Antiweigelianâ.

Faxit Deus optimus, maximus, tenacem adeò veritatis hanc academiam, ut deinceps in Angliâ lupum, in Hibernia bufonem, invenire facilius sit, quàm aut Socinianum, aut Arminianum in Cantabrigià. [Ibid. B. IV. p. 139.]

No. XII. (p. 28.)

SOME of their [the Indians] sons have been brought up scholars in Harvard Colledge, and I was told that there was but two Fellowes in that Colledge, and one of them was an Indian; some few of these Christian Indians have of late apostatized and fallen back to their old superstition and course of life. [Josselyn's Voyages to New England, p. 149. London, 1675. Reprinted in Mass. Hist. Coll. III. Third Series, pp. 310, 311.]

(p. 2.)

At the bottom of the bay the river begins to be narrower, half a quarter of a mile broad; by the north side of the river is Newtown, three miles from Charles-town, a league and half by water, it was first intended for a city, the neatest and best compacted town, having many fair structures and handsom contrived streets; the inhabitants rich, they have many hundred acres of land paled with one common fence a mile and half long, and store of cattle; it is now called Cambridge where is a Colledg for students of late; it stretcheth from Charles river to the southern part of Merrimachriver. lbid. pp. 164, 165.

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(p. .)

Harvard Colledge founded with a publick library.

Ministers bred in New England, and (excepting about 10) in Harvard Colledge one hundred thirty two of which dyed in the countrey ten, now living eighty one, removed to England forty Ibid. p. 262.

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No. XIII. (p. 9.)

THE following is the first class of Harvard College, as it stands in the catalogue:

1642.

Benjamin Woodbridge, Mr. Oxon. S. T. D.

GEORGIUS DOWNING, Eques, Oliv. Crom. et Caro. II. Leg. apud

Resp. Bat.

Johannes Bulkley, Mr.

Gulielmus Hubbard, Mr.

SAMUEL BELLINGHAM, Mr. M. D. Lugd.

Johannes Wilson, Mr.

HENRICUS SALTONSTALL, M. D. Patav. et Oxon., Soc.

TOBIAS BARNARD.

Nathanael Brewster, Th. Bac. Dublin.

Account of the first class of Graduates.

[Of these graduates the following particulars have been collected from various sources, by the Editor.]

1. Mr. Benjamin Woodbridge was educated partly at Magdalen college, Oxon, and then went to New England, where he finished his academical studies. He was the first graduate of Harvard college. In the language of Dr. Calamy, he was the first fruits, and lasting glory of that institution, as bishop Usher was of Dublin. In the catalogue of our college he is a doctor of divinity. Neither Dr. Calamy nor Dr. Mather mention this. It must have been under the reign of Cromwell, at the university of Oxford, for under no other administration could a puritan divine receive this honorary distinction from that place. He was one of King Charles's chaplains in ordinary after the restoration, and had the choice of being canon of Windsor, if he would conform; and of ejectment, if he would not. He preferred the latter. He had succeeded the famous Dr. Twiss at Newbury, where he continued preaching after he was silenced. In 1671, by King Charles's indulgence, he preached more publicly. Though he was favored more than Nonconformists in general, yet he suffered a great deal, and met with enemies, who had some influence, though of little worth. He

died in the year 1684, having been minister of Newbury above forty years, and a great part of his time being able to attend his duty.

His character for learning, piety, and moderation, and activity in the line of his profession, highly deserved praise. It must give pleasure to the alumni of the college to hear of his good name, as he was the eldest son of our alma mater. He was truly a great As a preacher, a christian, a casuist, a scholar, he had more than common reputation. He was called a charming preacher, his voice was remarkable, and his manner graceful. It is said, that his temper was cheerful, his behaviour genteel and obliging. His catholick spirit was manifested when he was one of the commissioners at Savoy. He was very desirous of an accommodation; and concerned to find that his endeavours were fruitless. — [Eliot's Eccles. Hist. in Mass. Hist. Coll. X. p. 32, note.]

Benjamin Woodbridge was brother to the Rev. John Woodbridge of Andover, Massachusetts, and son of the Rev. John Woodbridge of Wiltshire, England; he was born at Highworth in 1622. After completing his education, he returned to England, was settled at Salisbury, Nov. 16, 1648, and afterwards succeeded Dr. Twiss, as above stated, at Newbury, where he gained a high reputation, as a scholar, a preacher, a casist, and a christian. After he was ejected, in 1662, he continued to preach privately. He died at Englefield, Berks, Nov. 1, 1684, aged 62, and was buried at Newbury. He received the degree of Doctor in Divinity at Oxford. [Farmer's Hist. Coll. III. p. 183; and Genealogical Register of the first Settlers of New England, by the same author, art. Woodbridge.] "Though inclined to presbyterianism, to use Mr. [Samuel] Mather's words, not malignantly affected."-[Hutch. Hist. I. p. 111, note.]

2. George Downing went into the army, and was scout-master general of the English army in Scotland. He was afterwards in great favor with Cromwell, who sent him ambassador to the States, and upon the restoration he turned with the times, and was sent or kept by the King in the same employ, had the merit of betraying, securing, and sending over several of the regicides (he had been captain under one of them, Col. Okey) was knighted and in favor at court, and died in 1684. His character runs low with the best historians in England; it was much lower with his countrymen in New England; and it became a proverbial expression, to say of a