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Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…
Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr. Increase Mather. Who expired, August 23. 1723. : [One line from II Kings]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Nathaniel Belknap, 1724
Title page typeset from the transcription.
REMARKABLES OF Dr. Increase Mather. › Article 26: ARTICLE XXVI. The History of the NEW CHARTER.
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.
The Lawyers declared, That a passive Submission here, had nothing of a Surrender in it; for here was nothing of Hand and Seal in the Case. Besides, Judgment was already Entered and Recorded against the Old Charter. And a taking up with the New Charter, did not render the Colony uncapable of recovering their Old Privileges if there should be a favourable Opportunity to Solicit for it.
The Lawyers declared, That a passive Submission here, had nothing of a Surrender in it; for here was nothing of Hand and Seal in the Case. Besides, Judgment was already Entred and Recorded against the Old Charter. And a taking up with the New Charter, did not render the Colony uncapable of recovering their Old Privileges if there should be a favourable Opportunity to Sollicit for it.
At present, there was no Possibility of getting a Reversion of the Judgment against the Old Charter.
Yea, and it was considered, That the Old Charter was on more Accounts than One, so very Defective, that without a Grant of Additional Privileges, it would have left the Colony under Insupportable Infelicities.
Yea, and it was considered, That the Old Charter was on more Accounts than One, so very Defective, that without a Grant of Additional Privileges, it would have left the Colony under Insupportable Infaelicities.