The lieutenant-governor, who had formerly
been for it, now (not without great ebullition of unaccountable prejudice
and ingratitude) appeared, with all the little tricks imaginable, to
confound it. It had for all this been carried, had not some of the council
been inconveniently called off and absent. But now the whole affair of the
college was left unto the management of the Earl of Bellamont, so that all
expectation of a voyage for my father unto England, on any such occasion,
is utterly at an end." [Footnote: _History of Harvard_, i. 484-486,
App. x.]
During all these years the legislature had been steadily passing
resolutions requiring the president to go into residence; and in 1698 they
went so far as to vote him the liberal salary, for that age, of two
hundred pounds, and appointed a committee to wait upon him. Judge Sewall
describes the interview:--
"Mr. President expostulated with Mr. Speaker ... about the votes being
alter'd from 250 [L.?]." ... "We urg'd his going all we could; I told him
of his birth and education here; that he look'd at work rather than wages,
all met in desiring him.... Objected want of a house, bill for corporation
not pass'd ... must needs preach once every week, which he preferred
before the gold and silver of the West-Indies. I told him would preach
twice aday to the students.
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