An humble proposal, for the inlargement of university learning in New England, by the trustees hereafter named, to whom the management of this affair is committed.

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"We the governor, and General Court of the Massachusets in New England ... do request, constitute and authorize you Nathaniel Bacon, Esq; [and six others] and every of you as trustees, for raysing and managing a revenue in England ... And in testimony hereof, we have hereunto offered the seal of our colony, this eleventh day of May, one thousand six hundred fifty and nine."--from the authorization given the trustees, as cited in the text. Ascribed by Evans, Ford, and Wing to the press of Samuel Green of Cambridge, Mass., but likelier a London imprint.