Oratio in funere vivi venerabilis Henrici Flynttj, Arm. habita in Sacello Holdeniano Coll. Harvard. Cantab. Novang. A Jacobo Lovell. A.M., Anglica Versione [per Ignotum] additâ.

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Oratio in funere vivi venerabilis Henrici Flynttj, Arm. habita in Sacello Holdeniano Coll. Harvard. Cantab. Novang. A Jacobo Lovell. A.M., Anglica Versione [per Ignotum] additâ.

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Manuscript copy of Lovell's Oratio copied by Isaac Mansfield (Harvard AB with the Latin version on the verso of each page, and the English on the accompanying recto. Lovell's glowing funeral oration provides little concrete information about Flynt's life, and instead praises Flynt's role as an educator, declaring, "In the whole House of Learning in New England He ought to be acknowledged the Head of the Family."

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