Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…

It mentioned not, an House of Deputies, or, an Assembly of Representatives; the Governor and Company had thereby (they said) no Power to impose Taxes on the Inhabitants, that were not Freemen, or to erect Courts of Admiralty. Without such Powers, the Colony could not subsist, and yet the best Friends that New-England had, of Persons most learned in the Law, professed, that suppose the Judgment against the Massachuset-Charter might be Reversed, yet, if they should again Exert such Powers, as they did before the Quo Warranto against their Charter, a new Writ of Scire Facias would undoubtedly be issued out against them.

It mentioned not, an House of Deputies, or, an Assembly of Representatives; the Governour and Company had thereby (they said) no Power to impose Taxes on the Inhabitants, that were not Freemen, or to erect Courts of Admiralty. Without such Powers, the Colony could not subsist, and yet the best Friends that New-England had, of Persons most learned in the Law, professed, that suppose the Judgment against the Massachuset-Charter might be Reversed, yet, if they should again Exert such Powers, as they did before the Quo Warranto against their Charter, a new Writ of Scire Facias would undoubtedly be issued out against them.

It was yet further argued, That if an Act of Parliament should have Reversed the Judgment against the Massachuset-Charter, without a grant of some other Advantages, the whole Territory had been, on many Accounts, very miserably Incommoded: The Province of Main, with Hampshire would have been taken from them; and Plymouth would have been annexed unto New-York; so, that this Colony would have been squeezed into an Atom, and not only have been rendered Insignificant in it's Trade, but by having it's Militia also, which was vested in the King, taken away, it's Insignificancies would have become, out of measure, humbling; whereas now, instead of ⟨p. 60⟩seeing any Relief by Act of Parliament, they would have been put under a Governor, with a Commission, whereby ill Men, and the King's and Country's Enemies, might probably have crept into Opportunities to have done ten thousand ill Things, and have treated the best Men in the Land, after a very uncomfortable Manner.