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An abstract or the laws of New England as they are now establishedAn abstract or the lawes of New England as they are novv established

Name: An abstract or the laws of New England as they are now established
Author: John Cotton

John Cotton 1584–1652London: printed for F. Coules and W. Ley, 1641

[2], 15, [2] p. · 5.4k words · Wing C6408 · ESTC R9081

Title page: John Carter Brown Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

AN ABSTRACT Of the Laws of New ENGLAND. › Chapter 1: Of Magistrates.AN ABSTRACT Of the Lavves of Nevv ENGLAND. › Chapter 1: Of Magistrates.

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.

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Secondly, To order and ransack all actions in the Court where he sitteth: as, to gather Suffrages and Voices, and to pronounce Sentences according to the greater part of them.

Secondly, To order and ransacke all actions in the Court where he sitteth: as, to gather Suffrages and Voyces, and to pronounce Sentences according to the greater part of them.

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3 The power of the Governor with the rest of the Counsellors, is

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First, ¹To consult and provide for the maintenance of the State and People.

1Num. 11.4 to 16.

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Secondly, ¹To direct in all matters wherein Appeal is made to them from inferior Courts.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. II. Of the free Burgesses and free Inhabitants.