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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.
CHAP. V. Of Commerce.
Sect. 1. IT shall be lawful for the Governor, with one or more of the Council to appoint a reasonable rate of prices of all such commodities, as are (out of the Ships) to be bought and sold in this Country.
Sect. 1. IT shall be lawfull for the Governour, with one or more of the Councel to appoint a reasonable rate of prices of all such commodities, as are (out of the Ships) to be bought and sold in this Country.
Sect. 2. In trucking and trading with the Indians; no man shall give them, for any commodity, of their silver or gold, or any weapons of war, neither guns, gun-powder, nor swords, nor any other munition, which might come to be used against our selves.
Sect. 2. In trucking and trading with the Indians; no man shall give them, for any commodity, of their silver or gold, or any weapons of warre, neither gunnes, gun-powder, nor swords, nor any other munition, which might come to be used against our selves.
Sect. 3. To the intent that all oppression in buying and selling