consulted in the case of the Goodwin children, in 1688, says Doctor Thomas Oakes "found himself so affronted by the Distempers of the Children, that he concluded nothing but an hellish Witchcraft could be the Original of these Maladies."

In 1689 he was Representative from Boston to the Legislature, and the same year was made Speaker of the House.

In 1690 he and Elisha Cooke, H. U. 1653, were sent to England by the General Court to join Sir Henry Ashurst and Increase Mather, H. U. 1656, in maintaining their charges against their oppressors, as well as in soliciting the restoration of the charter. When Mather found the restitution of the old charter impossible, Sir Henry Ashurst joined him in all his measures to preserve as many of the privileges contained in it as he could. Cooke and Oakes were for the old charter. Oakes, however, signed the petition for a new charter, although Cooke refused. Oakes returned to Boston 23 October, 1692.

After embarking for England he was chosen Assistant, and continued so till the arrival of the new charter, when he with others was left out by William and Mary, under the dictation of Increase Mather, who probably expected that they would appear in opposition to it.

In 1702 Governor Joseph Dudley, H. U. 1665, at the first election after his arrival, struck his name from the list of Councillors elect. "Oakes was of the House," Hutchinson says, "and, notwithstanding the negative as a councellor, remained there; and, if he could be of any consequence, this would add to his weight." In 1705 Dudley, again disapproving the choice of him as Speaker, directed the House to make another election and they refused. The next day he declared "it to be her majesty's prerogative to allow or disallow the choice of a speaker, but he would not delay the assembly by disputes, when

the affairs of the war were so pressing, saving to her majesty her just rights at all times." rights at all times." He continued to

be Representative and Speaker till 1707.

Probably to gratify his son Josiah, H. U. 1708, born 3 May, 1689, he removed to the part of Eastham now Wellfleet, on Cape Cod, where he died 15 July, 1719. His wife Martha, at the age of 70, died at Boston on the 19th of the preceding April, and was buried at Cambridge.

AUTHORITIES. - S. G. Drake, History of Boston, 464, 486, 524. J. Dunton, Life and Errors, 134. J. Farmer, Genealogical Register, 210. W. T. Harris, Cambridge Epitaphs, 60. Harvard College Steward's Account-Books, i. 374. T. Hutchinson, History of Massachusetts Bay, i. 393; ii. 136, 149. Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, xii. 105; xx.

25-27; xxxviii. 368. C. Mather, Late Memorable Providences, 3. W. Newell, Church-Gathering, 55. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, viii. 345. L. R. Paige, History of Cambridge, 61. J. G. Palfrey, History of New-England, iv. 27. J. Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, iii. 302, 303.

Carolo Chauncæo

SS. THEOL. BAC. Præfide Col. HARVARD. Cantabrigiæ, Nov-Angl. IN COMITIIS PER INCEPTORES IN ARTIBUS, DIE DECIMO QUARTO SEXTILIS

II.

Cur tot Doctores mala, quæ sunt, facta, tuentur,
Discendi finis si bona praxis, erat?
Ingenuas quia non didicêre fidelitèr artes,
Nec pravum ingenium dedidicêre suum.

Ergò

Solvant artifices sua discipulis benefacta,
'EvopáτTew illis discipuliq; dabunt.

U Trum

Trum Malum sit privativum.

Affirmat Respondens Thomas Mighell,

Quæ mala naturæ, morum, pænæq; videto:
Per se que mala sunt, sunt hominive mala.
Id privativum, quod mores inficit, esto:
Pravum privatum est, exuiturq; bono.
Nempe negativè mala, sunt non entia: fælix
Namq; status noster sic foret absq; malis.
Insunt (heu!) nobis, sed non sunt, esse reali:
Obsunt, quod nihil est, id nec obesse potest.
Ergò

Ne privêre bonis, aufer mala: non sapit ille,
Qui bona nancisci quærit agendo mala.

SAMUEL SYMONDS.

Died 1669.

SAMUEL SYMONDS, B. A., a native of Ipswich, Massachusetts, was son of Deputy-Governor Samuel Symonds, probably by his second wife, who is said to have been Martha Read, widow of Daniel Epps. He died in 1669, probably unmarried, as in his will, dated 18 December,

1668, just before going to England for his health, he mentions no wife or children, but mentions his sisters, Elizabeth Epps, who was the child, not of his father but of his mother, by a former marriage, Martha Denison, Ruth Emerson, Mary Duncan, and Priscilla, who married, 26 March, 1672, Thomas Baker of Topsfield.

AUTHORITIES.-W. S. Appleton, Ancestry of Priscilla Baker, 87. C. H. Dall, Letter, 1873, October 3.

J. B. Felt, History of Ipswich, 93, 159, 332. J. Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, ii. 125; iv. 246, 247.

SAMUEL COBBET.

Died 1715.

SAMUEL COBBET, B. A., of Ipswich and Lynn, Massachusetts, of Bristol, Rhode Island, and of Fairfield, Connecticut, was the eldest son of the Reverend Thomas and Elizabeth Cobbet. He was born while his father was preaching at Lynn, though he removed to Ipswich three years before the son entered college, for which he was fitted at the Ipswich grammar school, taught by the famous Ezekiel Cheever.

The son was admitted freeman 11 March, 1673-4; joined the church in Ipswich in 1674; "removed to Lynn; perhaps," by Sarah, his wife, "there had Margaret, born 17 August, 1676, who died next month."

September 7, 1682, the town of Bristol, which was then a part of the County of Plymouth, instructed the Selectmen to "look out a Grammar School Master and use their endeavor to attain 5 pd of the Cape Money' granted

The General Court of Plymouth, in June, 1670, “did freely giue and graunt all such proffets as might or

should annually acrew or grow dew to this collonie,... for fishing with netts or saines at Cape Codd... to