. The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six . n general, as the majority of those who order theprudentials of the town should direct. Mr. Corlett had tolook to the parents for his pay, but his fees from this sourcewere so meagre that the town from time to time came tohis rescue. Once it sold some land for his benefit, withoutprejudice to the cow common; occasionally it levied a taxof a few pounds for his encouragement; and in 1684, whenhe had grown old in the Service, — it was only two years beforehis death, — it voted to pay him annually twenty pounds solong as he should continue schoo
. The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six . n general, as the majority of those who order theprudentials of the town should direct. Mr. Corlett had tolook to the parents for his pay, but his fees from this sourcewere so meagre that the town from time to time came tohis rescue. Once it sold some land for his benefit, withoutprejudice to the cow common; occasionally it levied a taxof a few pounds for his encouragement; and in 1684, whenhe had grown old in the Service, — it was only two years beforehis death, — it voted to pay him annually twenty pounds solong as he should continue schoolmaster in this place. TheGeneral Court made similar grants for Mr. Corletts relief, sothat his heart was touched, as he himself once quaintly said,by their remarkable gentlenes and very tender dealingswith a sad, afflicted, weake man, inconsiderate and rash some-times. The early grammar school which was required by law of 1647in every town of one hundred families was not a grammar schoolin the modern sense. It was Latin grammar and not English.
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