 | William Carlos Martyn - 1867 - 486 pages
...preserved of honest and good men' — so runs the old text— 'it is ordered and agreed that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom...as are members of some of the churches within the corporate limit.' This rule stood unchanged until after the Restoration. Thus was the elective franchise... | |
 | 1867 - 830 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 ' See North American Review, Izxxiv., p. 453. f Monrt's Relation, p. 3. \ Mau. Col. Rtc., i., 73. lymitts... | |
 | 1868 - 802 pages
...several! of the inhabitants of the county of Midlesex, doe declare and order, that no man whosoever shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic but such as are members of some church of Christ,-and in full communion, which they declare to be the true intent of that anncient... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1869 - 630 pages
...ch. II. § C ; ch. IX. § 2, and ch. XV. ; 3 Mass. R. 180 ; 9 Mass. R. 297.) 1631, which required, " that, for time to come, no man shall be admitted to...some of the churches within the limits of the same." (1 Mass. Rec. 87.) It should be remembered that by the charter the whole civil power lay practically... | |
 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - 1869 - 868 pages
...very first meeting after the transfer of the " Charter," on the mutter of suffrage in the Colony — " no man shall be admitted to the freedom " of this...some of the Churches within the limits of the " same "—and if William Frederic Poole was in the audience, as we have excellent reasons for believing he... | |
 | 1869 - 468 pages
...matter of suffrage in the Colony — " no man shall be admitted to the freedom " of this body-politic, but such as are members of " some of the Churches within the limits of the "same " — and if William Frederic Poole was in the audience, as we have excellent reasons for believing... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1869 - 510 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." Can we lay our hands upon our hearts, and say, that all our laws regulating suffrage... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1869 - 102 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." Can we lay our hands upon our hearts, and say, that all our laws regulating suffrage... | |
 | John D. Minor - 1870 - 434 pages
...arrival, they 'ordered and agreed that, for time to come, no man should be admitted to the freedom of the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.' u It was the aspiration of the Puritans to form a Christian republic after the model of the Jewish... | |
 | 1866 - 694 pages
...conscience." " 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." fl " It is therefore ordered by this Court, and the authority thereof, that whosoever... | |
| |
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... 
