Plain Dealing: Or, News from New EnglandJ. K. Wiggin & W. P. Lunt, 1867 - 211 páginas |
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Página 63 - ... our allegiance binds us not to the laws of England any longer than while we live in England, for the laws of the parliament of England reach no further...
Página xxvii - ... of this case the Note-book shows that Lechford gave much attention. 1 On the trial before a jury, at the Quarter Court in September, his zeal for his elients betrayed him into an indiseretion (to use no harsher term) which subjected him to the deserved censure of the court, and gave occasion—not wholly displeasing to the magistrates, perhaps — to prohibit him from the exercise of the profession of an advocate, to which, as has already been intimated, he does not appear to have had any legitimate...
Página 61 - ... and marked papers are numbered, and, according to the major part of either, the man in nomination stands elected or rejected. And so for all the Assistants. And after every new election, which is, by their patent, to be upon the last Wednesday...
Página 116 - ... presently. They have all black haire, that I saw. In times of mourning, they paint their faces with black lead, black, all about the eye-brows, and part of their cheeks. In time of rejoycing, they paint red, with a kind of vermilion. They cut their haire of divers formes, according to their Nation or people, so that you may know a people by their cut; and ever they have a long lock on one side of their heads, and weare feathers of Peacocks, and such like, and red cloath, or ribbands at their...
Página 59 - Now the most of the persons at New England are not admitted of their Church, and therefore are not freemen, and when they come to be tried there, be it for life or limb, name or estate, or whatsoever, they must be tried and judged too by those of the Church, who are in a sort their adversaries. How equal that hath been or may be, some by experience do know, others may judge.
Página 36 - It is counted a matter of danger to the State to limit Prerogatives; but it is a further danger, not to have them limited...
Página xviii - Note-book we gather some — but scanty and unsatisfactory — knowledge of his domestic relations. His wife is mentioned in 1639 and afterwards ; and, as no evidence has been discovered of his marriage on this side of the water, we infer that she accompanied him from England ; but he nowhere gives any information of her family, nor even introduces her Christian name. In July, 1640,1 he writes : " I have not yet here an house of my owne to put my head in, or any stock going.
Página xxx - ... is not written"] I for my part, though I hear things are at an ill -way in our native country, could yet wish myselfe there, or else in some other place of his Majestie's dominions, considering the errors and disorderlie proceedings we run into and persist in dayly here, as sheep without a shepherd. I know my friends desire to know whether I am yet of any better mind than some of my actions about the time of my coming away did show me to bee. I doe professe that I am of this mind and judgment,...
Página 120 - For their religion they do worship two Gods, a good God and an evil God : The good God they call Tantum, and their evil God whom they fear will doe them hurt, they call Squantum.
Página xxxi - Boston in 1638-40, in a letter to a friend in England, July 28, 1640, thus writes: — I am loath to hear of a stay [in New England], but am plucking up stakes, with as much speed as I may, if so be I may be so happy as to arrive in Ireland, &c.