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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. 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 ⟨p. 14⟩may be avoided: It shall be lawful for the Judges in every town, with the consent of the free Burgesses, to appoint certain select men, to set a reasonable rate upon all commodities, and proportionably to limit the wages of work-men and labourers, and the rates agreed upon by them, and ratified by the Judges to bind all the inhabitants of the town. The like course to be taken by the Governor and Assistants, for the rating of prices throughout the country; and all to be confirmed (if need be) by the general Court.
Sect. 3. To the intent that all oppression in bying and selling ⟨p. 14⟩may be avoyded: It shall be lawfull for the Judges in every town, with the consent of the free Burgesses, to appoint certain select men, to set a reasonable rate upon all commodities, and proportionably to limit the wages of work-men and labourers, and the rates agreed upon by them, and ratified by the Judges to binde all the inhabitants of the town. The like course to be taken by the Governour and Assistants, for the rating of prices throughout the country; and all to be confirmed (if need be) by the generall Court.