declare the above written to be his last will and testament, and that then he was of a disposing mind. And John Jackson another of said witnesses subscribed on the 9th of October 1693 personally appearing made oath that he was personally present and saw the said Richard Cutter deceast sign and seal and heard him publish and declare the above written to be his last will and testament, and that when he so did he was of a disposing minde and of good understanding and that he saw John Pratt and James Hubert sign the same by setting their hands together with himself as witnesses thereunto. Exd per SAM" PHIPPS, Reg' Juratur Cora. An Inventory of the estate of Richard Cutter late of Cambridge deceased, taken by us whose nams are vnder written July 3: 1693. the whole aprized as mony. Item fiue Acres & halfe of bastard medow lying in charlstowne bounds Item the corne upon the ground Item house & Barne & home stall with its Rights & priuiledges & a quarter of an Acre at the end of the home lott leading to Charlstowne Road Item sixtene Acres of wood-land and thre Acres The ttotall sume 229 17 04 Attests, Jams Hubert, Stephen Willis, John Whitmore. ELIJAH CORLET, M. A. "Tis Corlet's pains, and Cheever's, we must own, Elijah Corlet, the husband of Barbara Cutter, was the son of Henry Corlet, of London. He was admitted to matriculation in Lincoln College, Oxford, 16th March, 1626; came to Cambridge as early as 1641; and was admitted freeman of the Colony, May, 1645.t Immediately after his arrival he was installed teacher of Cambridge Grammar School. In "New England's First Fruits," published in 1642, is the following passage: "By the side of the Colledge a faire Grammar Schoole, for the training up of young schollars, and fitting of them for Academical learning, that still as they are judged ripe, they may be recieved into the Colledge of this Schoole: Master Corlet is the Mr. who hath very well approved himself for his abilities, dexterity, and painfulnesse in teaching and education of the youths under him.” How carly this school was established does not appear, but it seems to have been nearly coeval with the town, and an object of uncommon solicitude. Great exertions were made for the master's steady and permanent support; and some years after its founding it was liberally endowed by Governor Hopkins of Connecticut, whose donation constituted eventually a very respectable fund. For his "extreordinary pajnes" with the tuition of the Indian scholars, who were intended for the College, Corlet received compensation from the Society for Propagating the Gospel, and was repeatedly and very honorably mentioned in the accounts transmitted from New England to that association. Nov. 12, 1659, the General Court decree that, "In ans' to the peticon of Daniell Weld and Elijah Corlett, schoolem", the Court, con *Cotton Mather, Poetical Essay on the Memory of Ezekiel Cheever. + Colonial Records, ii. 294. Edward Hopkins, Esq., died in England, 1657. For the encouragement of these "Foreign plantations," for the "breeding up of hopeful youth in a way of learning, both at the Grainmar School and College, for the public service of the country in future times," he bequeathed £500 to the college and grammar school in Cambridge, which sum was laid out in real estate in the town of Hopkinton. According to the donor's instructions, three-fourths of the income of this was applied to the maintenance of five resident Bachelors of Arts at Harvard, and the other fourth to the "Master of Cambridge Grammar School," in consideration of his giving instruction in "Grammar Learning' to five boys, nominated by the faculty of the college and by the minister of Cambridge, whom the will constituted "Visitors of the said School," their annual visitation occurring the week previous to Commencement, when they were to see if the provisions of the gift were fulfilled, and note the proficiency of these scholars in learning. Afterwards the Massachusetts Legislature made such addition to this fund that "six bachelors might reside at the college," and seven boys receive instruction at the Grammar School.-Holmes, Hist. Cambridge, 22, 23. Nov. 13, 1648: " It was agreed at a meeting of ye whole towne, that there should be land sold of ye Common for ye gratifying of Mr. Corlet for his pains in keeping a school in ye Towne, ye sum of ten pounds, if it can be attained; provided it shall not prejudice ye Cow Common.-Cambridge Records. sidering the vsefullnes of the peticóners in an imployment of so comon concernment for the good of the whole country and the little incouragement that they have had from theire respective townes for theire service and vnweared pajnes in that imployment, doe judge meet to graunt to each of them two hundred acres of land, to be taken vp adjoyning to such lands as haue binn already graunted and lajd out by order of this Court." Having directed" Mr Corletts farme" to be laid out "in any place not legally taken up," the Court judged meet to allow his allotment to be taken "of the farme of fiue hundred acres" of "Mrs Margery Flynt," by her order. This tract, located in Framingham, was known by his name even as late as 1750, when it was delineated on a survey of the town.* November 7, 1668: "In ans" to the peticon of Mr Elijah Corlett, the Court hauing considered of the peticon and being informed the peticóner to be very poore, and the country at present having many engagements to sattisfy, judge meete to grant him five hundred acres of land where he can find it according to lawe.” † In 1679 each Colonial town was required by law to render an account to the General Court of the number of families and male persons," rateable to the country," residing therein, with the annual allowance to their pastor, with their schools, and also their tythingmen. In such a statistical return for the town of Cambridge, signed by Samuel Andrews and John Watson, who were chosen by the town to make the record, occurs this item: "30. 1. 1680. Our Latin Schoolmaster is Mr. Elijah Corlitt; his scholars are in number 9 at present."+ A letter from the Commissioners of the United Colonies to the Corporation in England, dated at Hartford, 7th Sept., 1659, states: "There are fiue Indian youthes att Cambridge in the lattin Scoole; whose dilligence and profisiency in theire studdies doth much encourage vs to hope that god is fiting them and preparing them for good Instruments in this great and desirable worke wee haue good Testimony from those that are prudent and pious that they are diligent in theire studdies and ciuell in theire carriage; and from the Presedent of the Colledge; we had this testemony in a letter directed to us the 23 of August 1659, in these words; the Indians in Mr Cor Corlet, by permission of the Court, May 22, 1661, had set off to him a farm of 320 acres of land, belonging to Netus, Indian, at Nip Nap, "for the sattisfaction of a debt.”— Barry, Hist. Framingham, 6, 7. + Under this resolve it appears that he found it on the southerly and easterly side of "Flint's Pond," in Grafton, Mass. The land, surveyed in 1674, was bounded East by the river running from the pond, and extended more than half around it on the cast and west sides. The Boston and Albany Railroad passes through this territory. It is not known whether Corlet made any improvements on this territory, nor why he made this selection. King Philip's war ended all attempts at colonization. It certainly did not relieve Corlet's poverty.-Vide Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1867-69, 137; Colonial Records, iv. I. 397, 404, II. 6, 16, 284, etc.; v. 413. N. E. Geneal. Register, v. 117. lett's Scoole were examined oppenly by myselfe att the publicke Comencement; conserning their growth in the knowlidge of the lattin toungue; and for theire time they gaue good satisfaction to myselfe and alsoe to the honored and Reuerent ouerseers."* Corlet was deservedly eulogized for his learning and fidelity. He was author of "some lines" which Cotton Mather introduces at the close of his "Life of Mr. Thomas Hooker, the Light of the Western Churches; the Renowned Pastor of Hartford Church, and Pillar of Connecticut Colony," with the following tribute: † "Or, for a more extended epitaph, we may take the abridgement of his Life as offered in some lines of Mr. Elijah Corlet, that memorable old schoolmaster in Cambridge, from whose education our colledge and country has received so many of its worthy men, that he is himself worthy to have his name celebrated in no less a paragraph of our church history, than that wherein I may introduce him, endeavouring to celebrate the name of our great Hooker unto this purpose: Si mea cum vestris valuissent vota, Nov-Angli, Morte Tua Infandum Cogor Renovare dolorem, Tu Domus Emanuel, Soror Augustissima, Mater Bella, quod in Christum Toto Rebellis crat. Proh Pudor! Ereptum te vivi vidimus, et non Sed Frustra hæc meditor!— Lustra per HOOKERUS ter quinque Viator erat; jam *Colonial Records, x. 217. "To Mr. Corlett Scoolmaster att Cambridge for dieting John Stanton for some time not reconed formerly and for his extreordinary paines in Teaching the Indian Scollars and Mr. Mahew's son about two yeares-£22." "To Mr. Corbett for teaching the Indians att Cambr and the charge of an Indian that died in his sickness and funerall-£16. 9. 4." "To Mr. Corlett for teaching Mr. Mahews son and the four Indians remaining with those that died last spring-£14." "To Mr. Coulett for teaching 4 Indians and Mathew Mahew-£12."-Colonial Records, x. 206, 219, 246, 263. + Magnalia (Hartford, 1853), i. 351-2. [TRANSLATION ACCOMPANYING.] If to our prayers the boon we ask were given, The thought will come, when o'er him thus we moan, Worthy wert thou to stem the flight of Time, To spread afresh the triumphs of thy worth, Emanuel College! who dost fitly shine And happy Chelmsford! brought most near to heaven, Bear witness to that excellence, which grew In daily beauty to your raptured view. Yet did his country spurn his hallowed life; Stricken in heart, in foreign climes to roam; A gentle friend, a pastor true and kind, Rich in the gifts of heart and tongue and mind. Yet, save with prayers and tears that wrung the heart, Thy struggling, thine emancipated soul. For seventy-five long years he lingered here, A weary pilgrim on this earthly sphere: Now to his father's mansions" is he come, Corlet probably continued master of the grammar school until his decease, 25th February, 1686-7, at the age of seventy-eight. Rev. Nehemiah Walter, of Roxbury, published an elegy on his death in blank verse. With Barbara, his wife, he was member of Cambridge church in full communion.† * Harris, Camb. Epitaphs, 174; Allen, Biog. Dict. "Mr. Elijah Corlet, Schoolemaster, and Barbara, his wife, both in f. c. Their children, Rebeccah, Hephzibah, and Ammi Ruhamah, all baptized here."-Newell, Camb. Chh.Gathering, 54. Barbara Cutter's Confession. "The Lord let me see my condition by nature out of xvi. of Ezekiel, and by seeing the holiness of the carriage of others around my friends; and the more I looked upon them the more I thought ill of myself. "I embraced the motion to New England, and went through many miseries and sad passages by sea. Stumbling blocks at last remained, and after I came hither I saw my condition more miserable than ever-knew not what to do, and spake to none, knowing none like me. "Yet hearing, 2 Cor. v. 19, God was in Christ;' and then what need there was of coming to Christ-what need of him to take away iniquity and cleanse our robes-thereby I saw my |