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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
London: printed for F. Coules and W. Ley, 1641
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. II. Of the free Burgesses and free Inhabitants.
1 First, All the free Burgesses excepting such as were admitted men before the establishment of Churches in the Country, shall be received and admitted out of the members of some or others of the Churches in the Country, such Churches as are gathered or hereafter shall be gathered with the consent of other Churches already established in the Country, and such members as are admitted by their own Church unto the Lords-Table.
1 FIrst, All the free Burgesses excepting such as were admitted men before the establishment of Churches in the Countrey, shall bee received and admitted out of the members of some or others of the Churches in the Countrey, such Churches as are gathered or herafter shall be gathered with the consent of other Churches already established in the Countrey, and such members as are admitted by their own Church unto the Lords-Table.
2 These free Burgesses shall have power to choose in their own Townes fit and able men out of themselves, to be the ordinary Judges of in feriour Causes, in their own Town, and against the approach of the General Court to choose two or three, as their Deputies and Committees, to join with the Governor and Assistants of the whole Country, to make up and constitute the General Court.
2 These free Burgesses shall have power to choose in their owne Townes fit and able men out of themselves, to be the ordinary Iudges of in feriour Causes, in their own Town, and against the approach of the Generall Court to choose two or three, as their Deputies and Committees, to joyne with the Governour and Assistants of the whole Countrey, to make up and constitute the Generall Court.