Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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When I was become more accustomed to the speech of Master Ludwig I was able to make out that all the isle is divided principally onto three parts, being the Elders, which ha e power to col- lect re enue and to build hillocks, and the Schole- masters, whose chief charge is the educating of the students, which do comprise the third and greatest part of the populace. The students are divided yet again into four smaller parts called classes, accord- ing to the number of years they have dwelt in the i.sle. . o the students do govern themselves after a fashion by a certain Council, consisting of mem- bers duly elected from the bod - politick, and these members do sit on committee with the Scholemasters and do conduct trials of their fi ' llows according to the Honour S stem. of which I will speak later.

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Now as I could make little sense of his speech I did ask straitway for an audience with the king of the isle, whereupon Master Ludwig did inform me with much exuberance that he himself was erily the king, or leastwise king over one part of the inhabitants, and yet this kingship was not like to any I ever did hear of. After some time in converse and with considerable pains, I was able to obtain .some knowledge of the natural hierarchy of the isle and of the laws by which its people are governed, and were these latter not so contrary to those of mine own country I should be tempted to say a little in their justification, but I shall treat of them presentl) ' , and .so much for now. )i . •fy

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During my stay was Master John Coleman chief of the Elders, and he as called strangely now Jack, now President Coleman, and anon Masked Man, and many other names too which decencv ' prevents me write here, though such names were sometime writ in the publick prints of the isle for the sake of Honesty and most especially of Candour. And while I did reside in the isle these students did sit upon the Council: Masters Curris, and Faust the Elder, and Wilcox, and Helme, and Masters Geiss, and Cook, and Weckstein, and Master Cross, who was a great writer of outlines and programs, and Master Erb, and Faust the Younger, aiid Master Schotz. And at the head of the Council Master Ludwig did sit. Many of these students did write in the publick prints, whose chief author was Master Stern, and all did take a part in the railing of the sessions called Splenary.