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hall be empowered to prevent any person from coming into the town that may be suspicious of burden or damage to said town. This vote of Medford looked at a case then existing. April 1, 1685, the selectmen protest as follows:-- Whereas William Burges, of Cambridge, hath lately intruded himself, with his family, into the town of Meadford, contrary to law, without the approbation of the town or townsmen, and he having been warned to be gone, and yet continues in said town without liberty, we, as selectmen, do hereby, in behalf of said town, protest against him, said William Burges, and his family, as being any legal inhabitants of the town of Meadford. The first person who threw himself on the charity of Medford, and caused legislation in the town, was John Man, who seemed a standing irritant to the parsimonious, and a convenient whetstone to wits. Seven cities now contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread. Whether any thing of this sort ha