ton: Printed by Richard Draper, Printer to his Excellency | the Governor and the Honorable his Majesty's Council. 1763. . Royal arms, George III. 1302. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | Francis Bernard, Esq;. A Proclamation for a public Thanksgiving. [December 8.] Dated, November 3, 1763. Boston: Printed by Richard Draper, Printer to his Excellency the Governor and the Honorable his | Majesty's Council. 1763. Evans, 9436. AAS 1303. Pay warrant, issued by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council. MHS 1304. Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. [Royal arms.] The Honourable Harrison Gray, Esq; Treasurer. (Tax warrant). Dated, November 21, 1763. ΕΙ 1305. Province of the | Massachusetts-Bay. | Francis Bernard, Esq;... Military commission, engraved. Dated, [March 3.] 176 [3.] AAS 1306. Omnibus Christi Fidelibus ad quos Literae Praesentes | pervenerunt. (Ship's papers.) 1307. (No. 5.) To MHS | Your Province Tax. | Lawful Money. Your Town and County Rate. | Lawful Money. Dated, 1763. PC SAVAGE, SAMUEL PHILLIPS. 1308. [I] Promise to pay unto Samuel Phillips Savage, or Bearer. . . on Demand, being for Value received by a Premium of Insurance MHS 1309. A Valedicion, For New-Year's Day. 1763. Signed "Philanthropos." † PHS This may not be a Boston issue, though the typographical ornaments would show it to be more than probably one. 1764 1310. Buy the Truth, | and | sell it not. [Cut.] MHS An issue of the poem was made in 1764 in Providence, by William Goddard, "by particular Request of a worthy honest old Gentleman, who is zealous for the Cause of Truth, and anxious for the Welfare of his Fellow-Creatures." A copy is in the John Carter Brown Library. DORCHESTER. 1311. Tax bill. HARVARD COLLEGE. 1312. Catalogus. 1313. Theses. Evans, 9689, 9690. GREAT BRITAIN. MHS HC 1314. Two Acts of Parliament, | One passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Second: | For Encouraging the Trade of the British Sugar | Colonies. | The other, passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Third: For Granting certain Duties in the British Colonies. [Royal arms.] London: Printed by the King's Printer. | Boston, N. E. Re-printed by Richard Draper, Prin- | ter to His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable | His Majesty's Council of the Province of Massachusetts | Bay. M.DCC.LXIV. †AAS pp. 459-477. Two editions of these pages of the Acts and Laws (1759 and additions) were issued, one without a title and the other as cited above. They also differ "in the captions on pages 459, 464, in the Royal arms on pages 459, 464, and in the arrangement of lines; and in one edition the W in 'Whereas,' the first word of the Act beginning on page 459, is a plain four-line letter, while in the other edition it is an ornamental initial letter." There are also variations in paging. In some copies pages 460, 461, and 462 are correctly given, in others they are 160, 161, 162, or 160, 161, 164; also pages 464-479 are in some correctly numbered, in others, they are misnumbered 469 to 477, and in others pages 470, 473, 474 appear as 670, 463, 674. See Ford-Matthews, Bibliography of the Laws of Massachusetts-Bay, 454. Evans, 9682. 1315. An Account of the Fire at Harvard-College, | in Cambridge; with the Loss sustained thereby. Dated, January 25, 1764. Boston: Printed by R. and S. Draper. | 1764. BPL. MHS KENNEBECK PROPRIETORS. 1316. Deed. pp. 2. MASSACHUSETTS-BAY PROVINCE. MHS 1317. A Bill, Now pending in the House of Representatives, and published by their Order, for the Consideration of the several Towns in this Province. | A Bill intituled, An Act for regulating the Whale Fishery. MHS pp. 3. See Journal of the House of Representatives, November 3, 1764. 1318. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; A Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court (to April 18). Dated, March 10, 1764. Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, March 15, 1764. 1319. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | Francis Bernard, Esq;. A Proclamation for a General Fast, (April 12.) Dated, March 14, 1764. Boston: Printed by Richard Draper, Printer to his Excellency the Governor and the Honorable his Majesty's Council. 1764. Evans, 9729. BA. AAS 1320. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; A Proclamation For proroguing the General Court (to April 25). Dated, March 31, 1764. Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, April 5, 1764. A Proc 1321. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; lamation For Proroguing the General Court (to September 5). Dated, July 9, 1764. Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, July 12, 1764. 1322. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; . . . A Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court (to October 10). Dated, August 15, 1764. Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, August 16, 1764. 1323. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; A Proc lamation (on enforcing law on trading with the Indians.) Dated, August 16, 1764. Printed in the Massachusetts Gazelle, August 23, 1764. 1324. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; . . . A Proc An Account of the Fire at Harvard-College, in Cambridge; with the Lofs fuftained thereby. CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 25. 1764. L -All the Fathers, Greek and Latin, in their best editions. A great number of tracts in defence of revealed religion, wrote by the most mafterly hands, in the laft and prefent century Sermons of the most celebrated English divines, both of the established national church and protellant diffenters :-Tracts upon all the branches of polemic divinity The donation of the venerable Society for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts, confisting of a great many volumes of tracts against Popery, published in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II. the Boylean lectures, and other the moft cfteemed English fermons :-A valuabe collection of modern theological treatifes, prefented by the Right Rev. Dr. Sherlock, late Lord Bishop of London, the Rev. Dr. Hales, F. R. S. and Dr. Wilfon of London :-A vast number of philological trafts, containing the rudiments of almoft all languages, ancient and modern :-The Hebrew, Greek and Roman antiquities.-The Greek and Roman Claffics, prefented by the late excellent and catholic-fpirited Buhop Berkeley, most of them the best editions:-A large Collection of History and biographical tracts, ancient and modern.-Differtations on various Political fubjects AST night HARVARD COLLEGE, fuffered the most ruinous lofs it ever met with fince its foundation. In the middle of a very tempestuous night, a fevere cold florm of snow attended with high wind, we were awaked by the alarm of fire. Harvard Hall, the only one of our ancient buildings which fill remained, and the repository of our most valuable treasures, the public LIBRARY and Philofophical APPARATUS, was feen in flames. As it was a time of vacation, in which the students were all difperfed, not a single perfon was left in any of the Colleges except two or three in that part of Malachujetts most distant from Harvard, where the fire could not be perceived till the whole furrounding air began to be illuminated by it: When it was difcovered from the town, it had rifen to a degree of violence that defied all oppofition. It is conjectured to have begun in a beam under the hearth in the library, where a fire had been kept for the ufe of the General Court, now refiding and fitting here, by reafon of the Small-Pox at Bolton: from thence it burft out into the Library. The books cafily fubmitted to the fury of The Tranfactions of the Royal Society, Acathe flame, which with a rapid and irrefiflable pro- demy of Sciences in France, Acta Eruditorum,' grefs made its way into the Apparatus Chamber, Mifcellanea curiofa, the works of Boyle and Newand fpread thro' the whole building. In a very ton, with a great variety of ether mathematical fhort time, this venerable Monument of the Piety and philofophical treatifes.-A collection of the of our Ancestors was turn'd into an heap of ruins. molt approved Medical Authors, chiefly prefented. The other Colleges, Stoughton-Hall and Mala by Mr. James, of the iffand of Jamaica, to which chusetts Hall, were in the utmost hazard of tha- Dr. Mead and other Gentlemen made very ring the fame fate. The wind driving the flaming confiderable additions: Alfe Anatomical cuts cinders directly upon their roofs, they blazed out and two compleat Stons of different fexes. forerst dies in different prices," nor could they I his collection would have been very ferviceable have been faved by all the help the Town could to a Profeffor of Phyfic and Anatomy, when the afford, had it not been for the affiftance of the revenues of the College thould have been fufficiGentlemen of the General Court, among whoment to fubfift a gentleman in this character.-A his Excellency the Governor was very active; few ancient and valuable Manufcripts in different who, notwithstanding the extreme rigor of the languages.-A pair of excellent new Globes of the feafon, exerted themselves in fupplying the town largest fize, prefented by Andrew Oliver, jun. Engine with water, which they were obliged to Efq;-A variety of Curiclities natural and arififerch at laft from a diftante, two of the College cial, both of American and foreign produce-A pumps being then rendered ufelefs. Even the font of Greek types (which, as we had not yet new and beautiful Hollis-Hall, though it was on a printing office, was reported in the library) prethe windward fide, hardly efcaped. It flood fo fented by our great benefactor the late worthy near to Harvard, that the flames actually feized Thomas Hollis, Efq; of London; whofe picture, it, and, if they had not been immediately fupprefled, as large as the ate, and inflitutions for two Promust have carried it. fefforihips and ten Scholarships, perifhed in the flames --Some of the mult confiderable additions that had been made of late years to the libra ry, came from other branches of this generous Family. But by the Bleffing of God on the vigorous efforts of the affiftants, the ruin was confined to Harvard Hall, and there, befides the destruction of the private property of those who had chambers in it, the public lols is very great, perhaps, irreparable. The Library and the Apparatus, which for many years had been growing, and were now judged to be the best furnished in America, are annihilated. But to give the public a more diftinct idea of the lofs, we shall exhibit a fummary view of the general contents of each, as far as we can, on a fudden, recollect them. Of the LIBRARY. IT contained-The Holy Scriptures in almoft all languages, with the most valuable Expofitors and Commentators, ancient and modern-The whole Library of the late learned Dr. Lightfoot, which at his death he bequeathed to this College, and contained the Targuins, Talmuds, Rabbins, Polygot, and other valuable tracts relative to oriental literature, which is taught here: The library of the late eminent Dr. Theophilus Gale: • Harvard-Hall, 42 feet broad, 97 long, and four torics high, was founded A. D. 1673. The library contained above five thousand volumes, all which were confumed, except a few books in the hands of the members of the houfe; and two donations, one made by our late honorable Lieutenant Governor Dummer, to the value of 501. fterling; the other of 56 volumes, by the prefent worthy Thomas Hollis, Efq, F. R.S. of London, to whom we have been annually obliged for valuable additions to our late library: Which donations, being but lately received, had not the proper boxes prepared for them; and fo efcaped the general ruin. As the library records are burnt, no doubt fume valuable benefactions have been omitted in this account, which was drawn up only by memory. Of the APPARATUS. WHEN the late worthy THOMAS HOLLIS, Efq; of London founded a Profefforfhip of Mathematics and Philofophy in Harvard-College, he fent a fine Apparatus for Experimental Philofo phy in its feveral Branches. No. 1315. Under the head of Mechanics, there were machines for experiments of falling bodies, of the centre of gravity, and of centrifugal forces :-the feveral mechanical powers, balances of different forts, levers, pulkes, axes in peritrochio, wedges, compound engines, with curious models of each in brafs. In Hydrostatics, very nice balances, jars and bottles of various fizes fitted with brafs caps, veffels for proving the grand hydrostatic Paradox, fiphons, g'afs models of pumps, hydrostatic balance, &c. In Pneumatics, there was a number of different tubes for the Torricellian experiment, a large double-barrell'd Air-pump, with a great variety of receivers of different fizes and thapes; fyringes, exhaufting and condensing, Barometer, Thermometer-with many other articles. In Optics, there were feveral forts of mirrors, concave, convex, cylindric; Lenfes of different foci; inftruments for proving the fundamental law of refraction; Prifms, with the whole apparatus for the Newtonian theory of light and colors; the camera obscura, &c. And a variety of inftruments for mitcellaneous purposes. THE following articles were afterwards fent us by Mr. Thomas Hollis, Nephew to that ge nerous Gentleman, viz. an Orrery, an armillary Sphere, and a box of Microfcopes; all of exquis fite workmanship. For Afrenemy, we had before been fupplied with Telescopes of different lengths, one of 24 feet; and a brass Opadrant of 2 fret,radius, carrying a Telescope of a greater length's which formerly belonged to the celebrated Dr. Halley. We had alfo the moft of ful inftruments for Dialling and for Surveying, a brafs femicircle, with plain fights and magnetic needle. Alf), a curious Telefcope, with a complete apparatus for taking the difference of Level; lately prefented by Chrittopher Kilby, Efq; Many very valuable additions have of late years been made to this apparatus by feveral generous benefactors, whom it would be ingratitude not to commemorate here, as no veftiges of their conations remain. We are under obligation to mention particularly, the late Sir Peter Warren, Knt. Sir Henry Frankland, Bart. Hon. Jonathan Belcher, Efq, Lt. Governor of Nova Scotia; Thomas Hancock, Efj, James Bowdoin, Elij, Ezekiel Goldthwait, Efq; John Hancock, A. M. of Bofton, and Mr. Gilbert Harrifon of London, Merchant. From thefe Gentlemen we received fine reflecting Telescopes of different magnifying powers; and adapted to different obfervations; Microfcopes of the feveral forts now in ufe; Had. ley's Quadrant fitted in a new manner; a nice Variation Compafs, and Dipping needle, with inftruments for the feveral magnetical and electrical experiments-all new, and of excellent workmanfhip.. ALL DESTROYED ! Cambridge, Jan. 126. 1764. As the Genetal Affembly have this day chearfully and unanimoufly voted to rebuild Harvard Hall, it encourages us to hope, that the LIBRARY and APPARATUS will alfo be repaired by the private munificence of thole who with well to America, have a regard for NewEngland, and know the importance of literature to the Church and Star BOSTON: PRINTED BY R. AND S, DRAPER: 1754. ་ 2 2 Liberty, Property, and no Excife. A Poem, Compos'd on cccafion of the SIGHT feca on the GREAT TREES, (fo called) in L BOSTON, NEW-ENGLAND, on the 14th of AUGUST, 1765. ET bien's fons in praise their tongues employ Neo-England (mile, and Bale fhout for joy! ipice of kasves, their policies and wit, She fill enjoys her LIBERTY and PITT. Derides their plots, and fees their overthrow And foon thall fee the wretch completely cur'd Let Chores raile his cars and long-boat rake, Let them in very own the powers below." Our Sovereign lives and God fupports his thront: Then I beheld amazing wonders there, Saw human fhapes and moofters in the air. A fately elma appear before my eyes; Whose lofty branches feem'd to touch the kies) It's limbs were bent with more than common fruit, It bore the Devil, Che, and B. Well then, fad I, my doubts are wholly Bed, I find the truth of what the father fak But while I food to gaze upon the tree, Another and another carne to serv Each moment I beheld a diffrent face, And there a champion of gigantic fee This pleating profpect entertains the throng, 1- With DGC, and thus begin their Song grateful joy, O Beten, now behold ❤ 1 dose truths fulbid, which lately were faghold b Wah thankful hearts now fer the villains wing Who hate their country, and would fell the king: **Behold the man, wheft beart was fer on gara And view the wretch, who wish'd fome tyrant ga la longs and chat they paft the hour away i And now a hero lifts his voice aloud, Stretches has hand, and speaks to "il the cróval, w 10 carib, and STAMP 'em in the " A third pesclaims, Let these be rft convey'd The road to hond and immortal fame? And bend their course for the appointed Z this they haste and quickly leave the ort Noise could of, and nothing dare oppofe, This from their courfe, but foon, they down with this, Low is duft, they made the Rructure Then STAMPT the bricks, and bore the wood away, Up to the and raise the funfal fire * Suppuind to be inalt in STOP-OFFICE |