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(Apr., 1894), pp. 256-258. JOURNAL OF THE MEETINGS OF THE PRESIDENT AND MASTERS OF WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE. VI. [57-58] At a Meeting of ye President & Masters of W. & M.C., March 24, 1756: Present Ye Revd Thomas Dawson A.M. President ye Revd Tho Robinson A.M.W. Preston, A.M.R. Graham A.M. Jhn Camm A M, & Em: Jones Gent: A.B. Resol: Yt ye young gentlemen wn they leave ye Grammar School, shall be obliged to appear in an academical Dress. Resol: Yt ye Chaplain for ye week be ye Dean for ye Week. THOMAS DAWSON President. May ye 3, 1756. At a Meeting of ye President & Masters &c. Present: Ye Rev: Tho: Dawson A.M. President ye Rev: Tho: Robinson, A.M.W. Preston A.M.R. Graham A M & Em Jones A.B. Resol: unanimously, Yt Cole Digges(1) & Matthew Hubard(2) be expelled ye College of W. & Mary not only for ytr remarkable Idleness & bad Behaviour in general, but particularly for whipping ye little Boys in ye Grammar School - for Obstinacy & Disrespect to ye Grammar Master, & refusing to answer before ye President & Masters ye complaints made agt ym. Resol: unanimously, Yt any young Gentlemen, who shall keep Company with ye said Cole Digges & Matthew Hubard, or shew ym any countenance, shall be looked upon as their abettors & punished accordingly. Resolved unanimously, Yt ytr Parents be acquainted with ye above Resolves, & desired to keep ym fm coming within ye College Bounds, otherwise ye Society will cause them to be punished by ye Civil Magistrate _______________________________________________ (1) Cole Digges must have been the son of Dudley Digges and Mary Hubard, his wife, and probably a cousin of Matthew and James Hubard (the usher), as Cole Digges, son of Col. Edward Diggs, would have been only eleven years, and Cole Digges, son of Dudley Digges of the council, was but seven years. If so, he must have died early. See QUARTERLY for January, 1893. (2) Probably son of Matthew Hubard, clerk of York county, who died in 1745, leaving sons, James, Matthew and William, wife Jane, dau Elizabeth. Page 257. [59] James Hubard the Usher of the College having in the Case of Digges & Hubard behaved to the President & Masters in a most scandalous, impudent, & unheard of Manner, by breaking into the Room, where the said President & Masters consult upon Business, & thence, when they were examining upon account of his bad Behaviour, forcing away his Brother in opposition to every known Rule of the College, nay even of common Decency & good Manners; was this Day sent for to appear before the said President & Masters to know what he had to alledge in Extenuation of a Crime, which tended entirely to destroy the good Government of the College. Upon his Appearance he pleaded the Heat of Passion excited by brotherly Affection that he was very sorry for what had happen'd, and asked Pardon sincerely of the Society for so heinous a crime, which he again assur'd them was not the Effect of Deliberation, but of Madness the Height of Passion. [60] At a Meeting of the President & Masters of Wm & Mary College, September 27, 1756. Present the Revd Thomas Dawson A.M. President, The Revd T. Robinson A.M. R. Graham A.M. J Camm A.M. E Jones A.B. Resol: that E Jones be appointed clerk to this meeting. Whereas all the Masters are fully satisfied that Mr Hubard continues to behave very ill in his Office, and is the chief occasion of the present Disorders in the College notwith- standing his Promises of better & more respectful Conduct some Time ago upon which he was pardon'd for a very flagrant Affront to the President & Masters assembled in Meeting; we therefore think it necessary for the Quiet and Good of the College that he be remov'd from the ushership, & he is accordingly remov'd. Resol: that Mr Stringer(1) be appointed Usher of the College. [61-64 blank] [65] Wednesday February 15th 1758. Present The Revd Mr Thomas Dawson President & Mr Emanuel Jones Mr of the Indian School. The President having in pursuance of an Order of the Visitors of the 14th December past, appointed the Revd Mr William Davis _________________________________________________________ (1) John Stringer. Page 258. to be Master of the Grammar School in the room of Mr. Robinson lately deprived by the Visitors until the Arrival of the Master expected from England, he qualified himself according to the Statutes, by subscribing his Assent to the 39 Articles of the Church of England in the following words. Ego infra-scriptus Gulielmus Davis clericus, Magister Ludi-- Grammaticalis Collegii Gulielmi et Mariae in Virginia [&c. here follow the words of the oath given on p. [48]. - EDITOR.] And then Mr President and Mr Jones administered to Mr Davis the following oath: [66] In Fidem dabis te Munus Ludi Magistri Scholar Grammaticalis fideliter administraturum secundum Statuta Collegii: ita Deus te ajuret tactis Sacrosanctis Xti Evangelis. He likewise Subscribed to the three Articles in the 36th Canon. vid pag. [28] [29] Friday, April 7, 1758. Present The Revd Mr. Thomas Dawson, President & Emmanuel Jones Master of the Indian School. The Revd Mr Gronow Owen(1) being elected by the Visitors and Governors Master of the Grammar School, and having enter'd on the said Office the 5th instant did this Day subscribe his Assent to the Articles of the Church of England as in Page 19th, and did also take the Oath de fideli Administratione &c. He likewise subscrib'd to the three Articles in the 36th Canon. Vid: p. [28] [29]. THOMAS DAWSON P. _____________________________________________ (1) Goronwy Owen, son of Owen Goronwy and Sian Parri, was born January 1, 1722, in Anglesea, Wales. Studied at Jesus College, Oxford, and Became deeply versed in Latin and Greek. Was curate of Pwllheli and Walton, and in 1758 came to Virginia as Master of the Grammar School at the college. He was too fond of liquor, and in one of his merry frolics he and Mr. Jacob Rowe, Professor of Moral Philosophy, headed the collegians in a fray with the young men of Williamsburg. For this, and, it is said, other improprieties they were forced to resign by the Visitors. He next became minister of St. Andrew's Parish in Brunswick, then a frontier county. His first wife was Ellen, the daughter of Owen Hughes, by whom he had two sons, Robert and Goronwy, who were educated at the college, but died without issue; his second was Mrs. Clayton, sister of President Dawson, who died within a year without issue, and his third was Joanna Simson, of Brunswick, by whom he had John and Richard B. Owen. John moved to North Carolina. Richard B. Owen was educated at William and Mary College, and had eight children. One of Page 259. these, William E. Owen (1790-1866), was a colonel in the Mexican war, and father of Dr. Whyte Glendower Owen, of White Castle, La. George W. Owen, another grandson of Professor Owen, settled in Mobile, Ala., and was a member of Congress, and left an only son, Richard B. Owen, who has children living in Mobile. There are in the South numerous descendants of Professor Owen by his last marriage. (See Life and Poems of Goronwy Owen, by Rev. Robert Jones (1876); also sketch in the Columbia, Wilkesbarre, Penn., of him and his descendants, by Whyte Glendower Owen). The name Goronwy was also written Gronow as in the text. In the opinion of Welsh critics he ranks first among the poets of Wales. A tablet in the cathedral at Bangor commemorates his genius. But his fame was a posthumous one. He was neglected in Wales and forgotten in Virginia. An admirer writes: "Goronwy, the darling of the Nine, How big with thought his soul divine. His works the Cambrian bards shall own The brightest gems in Wallia's crown. Nor shall the hand of self-devouring time Erase his verse - fair print of thoughts divine".