A34660:3
London: printed for F. Coules and W. Ley, 1641
AN ABSTRACT Of the Laws of New ENGLAND.AN ABSTRACT Of the Lavves of Nevv ENGLAND.
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.
Thirdly, Out of the ablest men and most approved amongst them.
Fourthly, 1Out of the rank of Noble men or Gentlemen among them, the best that God shall send into the Country, if they be qualified with gifts fit for Government, either eminent above others, or not inferior to others.
Fourthly, 1Out of the ranck of Noble men or Gentlemen among them, the best that God shall send into the Countrey, if they be qualified with gifts fit for Government, either eminent above others, or not inferior to others.
2 The Governor hath power with the Assistants to govern the whole Country, according to the Laws established hereafter mentioned; He hath power of himself, and in his absence the Deputy Governor, to moderate all public actions of the Common-wealth, as
2 The Governor hath power with the Assistants to governe the whole Countrey, according to the Laws established hereafter mentioned; He hath power of himselfe, and in his absence the Deputy Governor, to moderate all publike actions of the Common-wealth, as
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.
3 The power of the Governor with the rest of the Counsellors, is
