"It being," says the law, "one chief project of Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scripture by persuading from the use of tongues, to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.

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." *k Here follow clauses establishing schools in every township, and obliging the inhabitants, under pain of heavy fines, to support them.

Schools of a superior kind were founded in the same manner in the more populous districts.