The foregoing items are taken from two pages of the sheet. By inverting the paper two other pages may be inspected, an 1 these I think were intended to be classified under the heading By Bro. Green." On the first, in the order in which I place them, estimates concerning the following publications are to be found: Sinod Books.1 Mr. Danforth's Katechism.? The Psalm Book.3 The last and only remaining entry on the first page, devoted to Green's publications, reads as follows: On the Second of these pages we have estimates of the following publications: Mr. Mather's booke, 7 sheetes &;"5. The Indian Primer;" and "Almanacks and Thesis 5 years."7 1A Platform of Church Discipline &c 1649. Transactions Am. Ant. Soc., Vol. VI. p. 319. Mr. Haven has placed this before the Laws and Liberties, in his chronological sequence. The Laws and Liberties was apparently credited to Daye. The Synod Book bears Green's imprint. *The comment made with reference to Norriss's Catechism applies to this. $1650. The Psaims, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testament, &c., &c. Transactions Am. Ant. Soc., Vol. VI., p. 311. *The Laws" agreed upon to be printed" by order of the General Court, Oct. 15, 1650. Transactions Am. Ant. Soc., Vol. VI., p. 311. If the theory be accepted that these titles are arranged chronologically ac cording to their publication, then we have no difficulty in identifying this title as the "Lawes, 5 sheets." $1652. Mather, Richard, The Summe of Certain Sermons upon Genes. &c &c. Transactions Am. Ant. Soc., Vol. VI., p. 311. *This is not so easy of identification, but applying the test of chronological sequence, it seems probable that the Indian Primer" was John Eliot's "Catechism in the Indian Language," printed 1653-4. Transactions Am. Ant. Soc.. Vol. VI., p. 311. The Massachusetts Commissioners were authorized to print an edition of 500 or a thousand copies. See Hazard's State Papers II. 299 & 300. 7 Green's publications began in 1649. The titles of only two almanacs are preserved-in the years 1649-1655-and not a single thesis is mentioned. When we reflect that the "Book of Laws and Liberties," published in 1648, by author The foregoing list, although far from complete, if intended to include all the publications at Cambridge during the period which it covers, nevertheless adds a catechism and a spelling book to the books known to have been published by Daye, and it adds to the list of books published by Green, a catechism and three almanacs. If the identification of the Indian primer with Eliot's Catechism be not accepted, then that also must be added. The "Thesis" coupled with the Almanacs in the list may have referred to a single thesis, or it may have meant that there was a thesis with each almanac. In the titles of the two almanacs which have been preserved, there is no mention made of College Theses. Perhaps the most singular feature of this collection is that so many books are omitted of whose publication by Daye or Greene during this period we have indisputable evidence. In the course of the legal controversies between Dunster and the Glover Estate, the counsel of the Glovers left no stone unturned in their search for charges which could be piled up against Dunster. On the other hand he filed accounts against the various members of the Glover family of the most minute and detailed character. The omission of these books must have been intentional. For some reason or other their publication had netted Dunster no profits to which the Glover Estate could lay claim. Unsatisfactory as are deductions made from inadequate premises like the fragmentary annotations in this memorandum from the Dunster-Glover suits, the ephemeral character of the publications of the Cambridge Press compels us to welcome information even from such sources as this. ity of the General Court, is not extant, we can easily conceive that the greater part of publications like Almanacs and Thesis, to which only a transient interest attached, would probably disappear. Thomas expresses the opinion that at least one almanac was published each year. This entry tends to show that he was right. There is a curious entry in the Old Steward's Account Book already referred to which bears closely on this point. Bulkley is charged on the 11th of the 4th, 1652, as follows: Payd to Sam Grean for aps (?) book alminackes and cutting his haire 35 8d If the Steward had realized the value of this entry he might perhaps have been more specific. Capt Lawes 33. 0.0 15. 16. 3 13. 0.0 Printed by Mr Day Law Booke Remains 141: 13:4 42:10:0 7:10:0 Freeman's Oath 191:13. 4 Pap* 35. 05. 0 collated 108: 13:04 Spent 116 Rheams papr 29: 0: 0 79: 13:04 Narragansett 61. 16. 3 791304 ESTIMATE OF DUNSTER'S PROFITS, SHOWING THE MANNER IN WHICH THE ITEMS ARE ENTERED. THE LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE ORDINANCE OF 1787. BY JOHN M. MERRIAM. IT is the purpose of this sketch to show the progress, step by step, of the congressional action which culminated in the Ordinance of 1787." The Continental Congress, even before those lands which later became the subject of the Northwest Ordinance were ceded to the United States, committed itself to a policy which determined (1) that the lands in the Northwest should be held as the common property of all the States, and (2) that ultimately they should be divided into States and admitted into the Union on equal terms with the original States. Maryland refused to ratify the articles of confederation unless the western country which was unsettled at the beginning of the Revolution and was claimed by the British crown, and "had been wrested from the common enemy by the blood and treasure of the thirteen States," should be ceded, by the States claiming title to it, to the United States to be held for the general good of all.1 New Jersey, in the act to authorize her delegates to ratify the Articles of Confederation, declared that every separate and detached state interest ought to be postponed to the general good of the Union"; and Delaware expressed the same conviction.2 It was in response to these expressions on the part of the different States, and especially as an answer to the determined demand of Maryland, that Congress, on the 1 Journals of Congress III. 282. 2 Journals of Congress III. pp. 135, 201. "Joss. Glover" whose name is recorded as a benefactor of the college, sailed in 1638 for New England, bringing with him a printing press, types and a practical printer. Glover died on the passage. Dunster married his widow, and it is through this circumstance that a doubt is raised about the ownership of the press. We can trace the types into the hands of the college through the entry above quoted. Stephen Daye, the practical printer, came to Cambridge and worked the press. In this collection of papers we have the bond given by him to "Josse Glover" for the return of moneys advanced by Glover. In the information. given by the Corporation and Overseers to the General Court in 1655, we have the statement that the "College hath as appears by the Inventory thereof, a few utensils with the press." We also know from the same source that the press was then in the President's house; that the revenue from it was small, and that the working of the press was not only inconvenient but was considered hurtful and dangerous. There would be no reason to doubt that the college was the owner of the press were it not for the papers in the suit of " Glover against Dunster," in which the jury by their verdict charged Dunster with the following item, "The Presse & the P'fitt of it £40." At a later period in the controversy, all matters in dispute between Dunster and those who were interested in the Joss. Glover estate were submitted to the court and in the decision of the court Dunster was charged with the following item: "To printing presse & paper £50."1 1 Among the papers on file at East Cambridge, in the suit of John Glover against Henry Dunster, there is a paper headed Mr Dunster acknowledge to receive." One of the items of the paper is "Presse & p'tit £40.00.00." Stephen Daye also made an affidavit as to the value of the press, as follows: "I Steven Day aged 62 years do attest that the charges weh Mr Glover expended in Engl. for the pleuring of the Printing Presse was besides fraight & other petty expenses at least twenty pounds the wch Presse hath been imp'ved by order of Mr Dunster as appeareth by another testimony I have given in, also I do attest that the same materials that were brought over hither as above said are worth in this place at least 40lb. Sworn in court. 2 (2) '56 THO. DANFORTH, Recorder." 1 |