He was not a very conversable man, but so much we screwed out of
him, with the added fact that the tuition of that school was no
longer free. It came to some five guineas a year, no great sum,
but perhaps sufficient to keep the school, with the other
influences, select enough for the patronage to which it had
fallen. It was a pleasant place, with a playground before it,
which in the course of generations there must have been a good
deal of schoolboy fun got out of.
V
There remained for us now only the Guildhall to visit, and we had
left that to the last because it was the thing that had mostly
brought us to Boston. It was the scene of the trial and
imprisonment of those poor people of the region roundabout who
were trying to escape from their "dread lord," James the First,
and were arrested for this crime, and brought to answer for it
before the magistrates of the town. Their dread lord had then
lately met some ministers of their faith at Hampton Court, and
there browbeaten, if not beaten, them in argument, so that he was
in no humor to let, these people, who afterward became the
Pilgrim Fathers, get away to Holland, where there was no dread
lord, or at least none of King James' thinking.
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