| William Dodge Herrick - 1878 - 612 pages
...the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was likewise ordered and agreed, that for time to come, no man shall be admitted to...some of the churches, within the limits of the same." In 1636, it was ordered, "that no person, being a member of any church, which shall hereafter be gathered,... | |
| John Richard Green - 1879 - 526 pages
...it was ordered and agreed that for the time to come no man shall l»e admitted to the freedom of the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the bounds of the same." But the fiercer mood which persecution was begetting in the Puritans only welcomed... | |
| R. H. Howard, Henry E. Crocker - 1879 - 512 pages
...the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, no man is to be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches of the same." ; As, by the terms of the charter, the lands they held they deemed exclusively their... | |
| 1856 - 938 pages
...good men, it was ordered and agreed that, for thé time to corne, no man shall be admitted to thé freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of thé churches within thé limils of thé same. » (î) Hildieth, liv. 11, chap. 7. 598 REVUE DES DEUX... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1948 - 350 pages
...declaring that "* * * for time to come uoe man shall he admitted to the freedom of this body pollitlcke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitts of the sapie." and that in the colonial period from which the country was then but just 'emerging,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 - 1965 - 506 pages
...law in 1G31 providing : "To the end the body of commons may be preserved of honest and good men * * * no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body...but such as are members of some of the churches." However, the governing authorities did not always stick to the regulations. When a town needed a physician... | |
| Avihu Zakai - 2002 - 280 pages
...commons may be preserved of honest and god men," the Massachusetts General Court ordered "that for the time to come no man shall be admitted to the freedom...but such as are members of some of the churches." 17 A similar belief was implicit in the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut that were drawn up in 1638/39.... | |
| New England Historic Genealogical Society - 1994 - 436 pages
...end that the body of the commons may be honest and good men, it wns ordered and a-reed, that for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of «ome of the churches within the limits of the same." By thus limiting the right of suffrage to the... | |
| J. F. Maclear - 1995 - 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. C. An Act of March 4, 1635:1 Whereas complainte hath bene made to this Court that... | |
| Stephen Innes - 1995 - 432 pages
...men," the General Court ordered that "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."62 Church members were admitted into the ranks of freemen, thereby giving them... | |
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