Mr. Moor's grant contains about two acres of pafturing, a small house and fhop; for the use of which from the first I have received about £. 4 lawful money, clear of the charge of repairing. which is not equal to the money I have paid to physicians which is not charged.

I have profeffed to have no view to making an estate by this affair: what the singleness and uprightness of my heart has been before God, he knows; and also how greatly I stand in need of his pardon.

My accompt with the school has been charged after the following manner, viz. For the whole expence of cloathing, boarding and tutoring the boys from December 18th. 1754, to November 26th. 1760. at the rate of £. 16 lawful money per annum, for each; but when their number was fo increased I found it neceffary to come nearer to the true value of it, and have since used greater exactness; but have never charged higher than at the lowest money price for what they have had of me, and for what I have bought for them of our traders, shoemakers, taylors, &c. I have charged just what I have given, and no more. I have charged for their tuition, as for English fcholars, i. e. for Latin scholars, and fuch as were favage and needed much care and inftruction, at 2 . L. M. per week, or £.4 10. per annum; and for others proportionably. The whole school, one year with another, has not quite cleared my expence for the master. Last year it did a little more; and fince the 27th of May laft, it has over-done my expence for the master 15 f. 8 d. besides the tuition of the girls. I have charged for the girls but 4 d. per week, i. e. for one day's fchooling and dinner; and the whole expence for their education will be but little more than their cloathing.

The total amount of all my disbursements in this whole affair, for near eight years, that is, fince December 18. 1754, to November 27. 1762, charged in the manner, and after the rate before-mentioned, is, (errors excepted) £. 566 2. 5d. sterling. And the total amount of all the donations before-mentioned, together with smaller ones, which I fuppofe needlefs to mention particularly, received within the said term, is, (errors excepted) £. 509 2. 5d. fterling.

And as this school was fet up when there was no fcheme devised, or plan laid, which this could be in opposition to; so it is not continued in oppofition to any other measures which are proposed or pursued by others.

And, bleffed be God that he has put it into the hearts of a number of gentlemen of ability in and near Boston, to contribute fo liberally towards the furtherance of the general defign. And is it not a pity that Christians of all denominations fhould not unite their utmost endeavours for the accomplishment of it; and espe

cially now while the door is fo widely opened for it? And what a pity is it that any time fhould be loft? And how exceeding mean, and infinitely beneath those noble sentiments, and that generous love to the fouls of men, and to our king and country, which true religion infpires, will it be to fall into parties; and on account of differing opinions refpecting the most probable methods for accomplishing the end, to obftruct and hinder one another therein ? There is enough for all to do; and the affair is of fo great importance, that it calls for the trial of every method that has the leaft probability of fuccefs; and different methods may greatly fubferve and affist one another.

And I would take this opportunity to exprefs my gratitude for thofe generous benefactions whereby this infant institution has been hitherto fupported; and I hope through the bleffing of God upon our endeavours, thofe pious benefactors will have occafion for the most easy and comfortable reflections, as having made an offering acceptable to God, and bestowed it well for the advancement of the kingdom, and glory of the great Redeemer: And that the bleffing of many of our American heathens, who shall in the present and fucceeding generations, reap the benefit thereof, may come upon them: And that others understanding that this fchool still lives, under God, upon the charity of good men, will be moved to open their hands to minister further, and necessary fupplies for it.

Eleazar Wheelock, the noble teacher of the Indians in the last century and the founder of Dartmouth College, was born in Windham, Conn., in 1711, graduated at Yale College in 1733, and was ordained over the Second church in Lebanon, Conn., in 1735. He worked for a time with such zeal that he preached in one year "a hundred more sermons than there are days in the year.' He took pupils into his house to educate, and in 1743 received Samson Occom, a Mohican Indian. He now conceived the plan of an Indian missionary school, and by 1762 he had nearly twenty Indian youths under his charge, supported by the contributions of benevolent people. Joshua Moor, a Mansfield farmer, gave the school a house and two acres of land in Lebanon, in 1754, and the school took the name of Moor's Indian Charity-school. In 1766, Occom and Rev. Nathaniel Whitaker went to England, and by their exertions an endowment of about £10,000 was obtained. A list is still preserved of subscriptions made from two hundred places in Great Britain. The Earl of Dartmouth became the president of the board of trustees. In 1770 the school was removed to Dresden (now Hanover), N. H., that place being chosen for its healthfulness and also on account of the large landed endowment proffered by Governor Wentworth; and a college for general higher education was added, named for Lord Dartmouth, although he and the other trustees of the Indian school were opposed to its establishment, and the two institutions remained nominally separate until 1849. Wheelock became president of the college, with the privilege of naming his successor. He died in 1779, during the Revolution, which blighted the prospects of the Indian school, as many tribes adhered to England, although the Oneidas were probably kept from doing so by the influence of the school. Dr. Wheelock published several "continuations of his narrative of the Indian school, those of 1771 and 1772, describing the removal to Hanover and the hardships attending the opening of the school in the wilderness, -for Hanover was then a wilderness, and the motto on the seal of Dartmouth College is Vox clamantis in Deserto,- being especially interesting. Wheelock's work for the education of the Indians is conspicuous in our colonial history. But the student should read of the effort at Henrico, in Virginia, in 1619, of the early efforts at Harvard, the first brick building on the grounds at Harvard was the Indian College, for the education of Indian youth, and in this building Eliot's Indian Bible was printed, plans of Robert Boyle and Bishop Berkeley, etc..

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The Petition exhibited to His Majesty by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, concerning divers Rights and Liberties of the Subjects, with the King's Majesty's Royal Answer thereunto in full Parliament.

TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

Humbly show unto our Sovereign Lord the King, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled, that whereas it is declared and enacted by a statute made in the time of the reign of King Edward the First, commonly called, Statutum de Tallagio non concedendo', that no tallage or aid shall be laid or levied by the King or his heirs in this realm, without the goodwill and assent of the Archbishops, Bishops, Earls, Barons, Knights, Burgesses, and other the freemen of the commonalty of this realm: and by authority of Parliament holden in the five and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the Third, it is declared and enacted, that from thenceforth no person shall be compelled to make any loans to the King against his will, because such loans were against reason and the franchise of the land; and by other laws of this realm it is provided, that none should be charged by any charge or imposition, called a Benevolence, or by such like charge, by which the statutes before-mentioned, and other the good laws and statutes of this realm, your subjects have inherited this freedom, that they should not be compelled to contribute to any tax, tallage, aid, or other like charge, not set by common consent in Parliament:

Yet nevertheless, of late divers commissions directed to sundry Commissioners in several counties with instructions

This is now held not to have been a statute. See Gardiner's Docu ments of the Puritan Revolution, page 1

have issued, by means whereof your people have been in divers places assembled, and required to lend certain sums of money unto your Majesty, and many of them upon their refusal so to do, have had an oath administered unto them, not warrantable by the laws or statutes of this realm, and have been constrained to become bound to make appearance and give attendance before your Privy Council, and in other places, and others of them have been therefore imprisoned, confined, and sundry other ways molested and disquieted: and divers other charges have been laid and levied upon your people in several counties, by Lords Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, Commissioners for Musters, Justices of Peace and others, by command or direction from your Majesty or your Privy Council, against the laws and free customs of this realm:

And where also by the statute called, 'The Great Charter of the Liberties of England,' it is declared and enacted, that no freeman may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his freeholds or liberties, or his free customs, or be outlawed or exiled; or in any manner destroyed, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land:

And in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the Third, it was declared and enacted by authority of Parliament, that no man of what estate or condition that he be, should be put out of his lands or tenements, nor taken, nor imprisoned, nor disherited, nor put to death, without being brought to answer by due process of law:

Nevertheless, against the tenor of the said statutes, and other the good laws and statutes of your realm, to that end provided, divers of your subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause showed, and when for their deliverance they were brought before your Justices, by your Majesty's writs of Habeas Corpus, there to undergo and receive as the Court should order, and their keepers commanded to certify the causes of their detainer; no cause was certified, but that they were detained by your Majesty's special command, signified by the Lords of your Privy Council, and yet were returned back to several prisons, without being charged with anything to which they might make answer according to the law:

And whereas of late great companies of soldiers and mariners have been dispersed into divers counties of the realm, and the inhabitants against their wills have been compelled to receive them into their houses, and there to suffer them to sojourn, against the laws and customs of this realm, and to the great grievance and vexation of the people:

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And whereas also by authority of Parliament, in the 25th year of the reign of King Edward the Third, it is declared and enacted, that no man shall be forejudged of life or limb against the form of the Great Charter, and the law of the land: and by the said Great Charter and other the laws and statutes of this your realm, no man ought to be adjudged to death; but by the laws established in this your realm, either by the customs of the same realm or by Acts of Parliament: and whereas no offender of what kind soever is exempted from the proceedings to be used, and punishments to be inflicted by the laws and statutes of this your realm: nevertheless of late divers commissions under your Majesty's Great Seal have issued forth, by which certain persons have been assigned and appointed Commissioners with power and authority to proceed within the land, according to the justice of martial law against such soldiers and mariners, or other dissolute persons joining with them, as should commit any murder, robbery, felony, mutiny, or other outrage or misdemeanour whatsoever, and by such summary course and order, as is agreeable to martial law, and is used in armies in time of war, to proceed to the trial and condemnation of such offenders, and them to cause to be executed and put to death, according to the law martial :

By pretext whereof, some of your Majesty's subjects have been by some of the said Commissioners put to death, when and where, if by the laws and statutes of the land they had deserved death, by the same laws and statutes also they might, and by no other ought to have been, adjudged and executed:

And also sundry grievous offenders by colour thereof, claiming an exemption, have escaped the punishments due to them by the laws and statutes of this your realm, by reason that divers of your officers and ministers of justice have unjustly refused, or forborne to proceed against such offenders according to the same laws and statutes, upon pretence that the said offenders were punishable only by martial law, and by authority of such commissions as aforesaid, which commissions, and all other of like nature, are wholly and directly contrary to the said laws and statutes of this your realm:

They do therefore humbly pray your Most Excellent Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament; and that none be called to make answer, or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined, or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same, or for refusal thereof; and that no freeman, in any such