 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 500 pages
...body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politft, but sdch as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." Thus was the... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 pages
...secondary to the church. ... It was ordered that ' no man should be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches.' — North American Revlew, No. 12S. — Gammell's Life of Roger Williams. chiefly narrated by his most... | |
 | 1856 - 542 pages
...ordered and agreed that for time to come noe man shalbe admitted to the freedome of this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitts of the same." No man, therefore, could hold any civil office, or vote in civil affairs, except... | |
 | 1856 - 534 pages
...ordered and agreed that for time to come noe man shalbe admitted to the freedome of this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitts of the same." No man, therefore, could hold any civil office, or vote in civil affairs, except... | |
 | 1857 - 654 pages
...specimens: " It is ordered that henceforth no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this Commonwealth, but such as are members of some of the Churches within the limits of this Commonwealth." May, 1631.—(Mass. Bay Col. Laws, Ch. xi i \. Sec, L) "This Court doth order and... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - 1857 - 552 pages
...ordered and agreed that for time to come noe man shalbe admitted to the freedome of this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitts of the same." No man, therefore, could hold any civil office, or vote in civil affairs, except... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - 1857 - 562 pages
...ordered and agreed that for time to come noe man shalbe admitted to the freedome of this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitts of the same." No man, therefore, could hold any, civil office, or vote in civil affairs, except... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - 1857 - 546 pages
...and agreed that for time to come noe man shalbe j admitted to the freedome of this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitts of the same." No man, therefore, could hold any civil office, or vote in civil affairs, except... | |
 | Alvah Hovey - 1858 - 396 pages
...language of authoritative documents. In 1631, the General Court of Massachusetts "ordered and agreed that, for time to come, no man shall be admitted to...some of the churches within the limits of the same." Four years later, the elders and brethren of every church within the jurisdiction were entreated to... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - 1858 - 678 pages
...good men: It is ordered that henceforth no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this commonwealth, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of this jurisdiction." Charters, &c., p. 117 (see post, laws 1660, 1665). 1 Analogous to this were tho... | |
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To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the... 
