The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century: The chartered colonies. Beginnings of self-government

Capa
Macmillan, 1904
Thorough history of legal, institutional and administrative aspects of life in the colonies. For contents, see Author Catalog.
 

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Página 57 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia.
Página 193 - No man's life shall be taken away, no man's honor or good name shall be stained, no man's person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, nor any...
Página 199 - This liberty is the proper end and object of authority and cannot subsist without it; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.
Página 370 - That our royall will and pleasure is, that noe person within the sayd colonye, at any tyme hereafter, shall bee any wise molested, punished, disquieted, or called in question, for any differences in opinione in matters of religion, and doe not actually disturb the civill peace of our sayd colony...
Página 399 - Pascataquack, were not received nor called into the confederation, because they ran a different course from us both in their ministry and civil administration; for they had lately made Acomenticus (a poor village) a corporation, and had made a taylor their mayor, and had entertained one Hull, an excommunicated person and very contentious, for their minister.
Página 153 - Articles which are the ends wee have propounded, and dissembling with our God, shall fall to embrace this present world and prosecute our...
Página 205 - ... we desire you would be pleased to take notice of the principals and body of our Company, as those who esteem it our honor to call the Church of England, from whence we rise, our dear mother ; and cannot part from our native country, where she specially resideth, without much sadness of heart and many tears in our eyes...
Página 214 - It is the duty of the magistrate to take care of matters of religion, and to improve his civil authority for the observing of the duties commanded in the first, as well as for observing of the duties commanded in the second table.
Página 337 - Holliman and such others as the major part of us shall admit into the same fellowship of vote with us; as also I do freely make and pass over equal right and power of enjoying and disposing...
Página 72 - When our people were fed out of the common store and laboured jointly together...

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