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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.
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.
By it, the Massachuset-Government had no more power than the Ordinary Corporations have in England; But those Corporations have no power in Capital Cases. Though Corporations have Power given them in Criminal, yet they have not in ⟨p. 139⟩Capital Cases, except it be Expressly Declared; which it was not here.
By it, the Massachuset-Government had no more power than the Ordinary Corporations have in England; But those Corporations have no power in Capital Cases. Though Corporations have Power given them in Criminal, yet they have not in ⟨p. 139⟩Capital Cases, except it be Expresly Declared; which it was not here.
The Old Charter directed not an House of Deputies, or Assembly of Representatives.