 | SAMUEL GREENE ARNOLD - 1859 - 594 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...some of the churches within the limits of the same. 7 ' 1 This extraordinary law continued in force until the dissolution of the government, 2 and the... | |
 | Samuel Greene Arnold - 1859 - 606 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...members of some of the churches within the limits of the same."1 This extraordinary law continued in force until the dissolution of the government,' and the... | |
 | Samuel Greene Arnold - 1859 - 602 pages
...commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that for the time to tome, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body...members of some of the churches within the limits of the same."1 This extraordinary law continued in force until the dissolution of the government,8 and the... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1859 - 674 pages
...that, for the time to come, no ° . Religious man shall be admitted to the freedom of this test for the body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." l The men who laid this singular foundation for the commonwealth which they were instituting, had been... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1859 - 686 pages
...Religious man shall be admitted to the freedom of this i<«t forth. ___... _ _ _ franchise. body pol1tIc, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." l The men who laid this singular foundation for the commonwealth which they were instituting, had been... | |
 | Charles Hudson - 1862 - 584 pages
...As early as 1631, they ordered that " no man shall be admitted to the freedom of the Commonwealth, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of this jurisdiction." This law operating hardly against some recent emigrants, it was so modified in... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1864 - 432 pages
...ordered and agreed that for time to come noe man shalbc admitted to the freedome of this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymltts of the same." — (.May 18, 163!,) Jia-ords of the Colony of Matt. liny, vol. I., p. 87. Tlie... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - 1865 - 350 pages
...ordered and agreed that for time to come noe man slmibe admitted to the freedome of this bojy polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the ly mitts of the same." —(May 1S, 1031,l Records ofthe Colony of Mass. Bay, voi, i, p. S7. The Connecticut... | |
 | 1866 - 690 pages
...1631, as one of their « Bancroft's "History of the United States," i. 338. fundamental laws, " that no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body...some of the churches within the limits of the same."* As the churches were all of one kind — the Independent or Congregational, — and as the magistrates... | |
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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... 
