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first Board of Overseers. He wrote about twenty books and tracts, and many of his letters were printed during his lifetime in the English journals of the day. Everything he wrote has a certain historical value, and, apart from his official relations with Harvard, deserves a place in some corner of the College Library. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and took his degree of A.M. in 1622. As preacher of a monthly lecture at Sepulchre's, London, he attracted crowds of people, but the authorities of the established church forced from him a written submission to their discipline. Again he found himself in trouble. This time we read:

Master Hugh Peter was apprehended by a Pursevant, imprisoned for a time in the New-prison, silenced here from his Ministry, and forced into Holland by the Arch-bishop, onely for praying at Sepulchers Church for the Queen, in these words, That as shee came into a Goshen of safety, so the light of Goshen might shine into her soule, that shee might not perish in the day of Christ; as himselfe and sundry others will depose.1

When in Holland he wrote the first book that has come to our notice. It is a little catechism, of which there were many in those days before they were superseded by the Westminster Assembly's Longer and Shorter Catechisms. As no bibliographical description of the volume has yet appeared, and as it is of undoubted rarity, I venture to lay it before you for examination and comment.

Milk for Babes, / And / Meat for Men. / Or/Principles necessary, to bee known/ and learned, of such as would know / Christ here, or be known of him/hereafter. /[5 lines from Bible]/[Printer's mark] / [3 lines from Bible] / Imprinted Anno 1630.

Collation: Title-page, verso blank, 1 leaf; "Epistle to those . . . I... hold deere in Sepulchers London," etc., 1 leaf; "Epistle to those whom my ministry," etc., 1 leaf; text, pp. 1-39; verso of p. 39 blank.

Signatures: A-B in eights, C in seven (copies in original binding probably have a blank leaf, completing C in eight). "D4" is a misprint for C4. [6]+39 p. 24 mo. No place or name of printer.

The two Epistles follow:

Epistle.

To those, whom I have reason to hold deere in Sepulchers London, & elswhere in England, where I have spent the poore Talent, the Lord hath lent mee.

1 William Prynne, Canterburies Doome, London, 1646, p. 421.

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LORD

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London, Printed by William Du-Gard, by the appointment of the Council of State, Anno Dom. 1651,

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