. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. ively as the farmers. Theselatter, with the fragment still adhering to the skirts of the an-cient village, had their meeting-house and the College, whichthey still kept free from heresy, — not, however, without con-tinual w^atchfulness, nor without attempts on the part of theEpiscopalians to obtain a foothold. It w^as believed before the Eevolution that the Ministryseriously contemplated the firmer establishment of the Churchof England by creating bishoprics in the colonies, — a measurewhich was warmly opposed by the Congregational clergy in andout
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. ively as the farmers. Theselatter, with the fragment still adhering to the skirts of the an-cient village, had their meeting-house and the College, whichthey still kept free from heresy, — not, however, without con-tinual w^atchfulness, nor without attempts on the part of theEpiscopalians to obtain a foothold. It w^as believed before the Eevolution that the Ministryseriously contemplated the firmer establishment of the Churchof England by creating bishoprics in the colonies, — a measurewhich was warmly opposed by the Congregational clergy in andout of the pulpit. Tithes and ceremonials were the bugbearsused to stimulate the opposition and arouse the prejudices ofthe populace. Controversy ran high, and caricatures appeared,in one of which the expected bishop is seen taking refuge onboard a departing vessel, while a mob on the wharf is pushingthe bark from shore and pelting the unfortunate ecclesiasticwith treatises of national law. The large square wooden house which stands on Main. A DAY AT HARVARD. 197 Street, directly opposite Gore Hall, was built by the Rev. EastApthorp, D. D., son of Charles Apthorp, an eminent Bostonmerchant of Welsh descent. It was probably erected in 1761,the year in which Dr. Apthorp was settled in Cambridge, andwas regarded, on account of its elegance and proximity to theUniversity, with peculiar distrust by May hew and his orthodoxcontemporaries. It was thought that if the ministerial planwas carried out Dr. Apthorp had an eye to the Episcopate, andhis mansion was alluded to as the palace of one of the humblesuccessors of the Apostles. So uncomfortable did his antag-onists render his ministry, that Dr. Apthorp gave up his chargeand removed to England in the latter part of 1764. The pleasant old house seems next to have been occupied byJohn Borland, a merchant of the capital, who abandoned it onthe breaking out of hostilities, and took refuge in Boston, wherehe died the same year (1775) from
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