 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
