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An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirror may be seen…An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirrour may be seen…
An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirror may be seen the wisdom & perfection of the government of Christs kingdom accommodable to any state or form of government in the world that is not antichristian or tyrannical / collected and digested ... by John Cotton ... ; and now published after his death by William Aspinall.An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirrour may be seen the wisdome & perfection of the government of Christs kingdome accomodable to any state or form of government in the world that is not antichristian or tyrannicall / collected and digested ... by John Cotton ... ; and now published after his death by William Aspinall.
London: printed by M.S. for Livewel Chapman, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sect. 8. As God in old time in the Common-wealth of Israel, forbade the alienation of lands from one Tribe to another. Numb. 36. 7. So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: So to prevent the like inconvenience in the alienation of lands from one Town to another, it were requisite to be ordered.
1. That no free Burgess or free inhabitant of any Town, shall sell the lands allotted to him in the Town, but to some one or other of the free Burgesses or free inhabitants of the same Town. Unless the free Burgesses of the Town give consent to such sale, or refuse to give a due price, answerable to what others offer without fraud.
1. That no free Burgesse or free inhabitant of any Town, shall sell the lands allotted to him in the Town, but to some one or other of the free Burgesses or free inhabitants of the same Town. Unlesse the free Burgesses of the Town give consent to such sale, or refuse to give a due price, answerable to what others offer without fraud.
2. That if such lands be sold to any other, the sale shall be made with the reservation of such a rent-charge to be paid to the Town-stock, or Treasury of the Town, as either the former occupiers of the land were wont to pay, towards all the public charges thereof, whether in Church or Town: or at least, after the rate of 2d. the acre, or some such like proportion.
2. That if such lands be sold to any other, the sale shall be made with the reservation of such a rent-charge to be paid to the Town-stock, or Treasury of the Town, as either the former occupiers of the land were wont to pay, towards all the publick charges thereof, whether in Church or Towne: or at least, after the rate of 2d. the acre, or some such like proportion.