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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 Old Charter directed not an House of Deputies, or Assembly of Representatives.
Nor did it give Power unto the Governor and Company to Impose Taxes on any but the Free-men.
Nor did it give Power unto the Governour and Company to Impose Taxes on any but the Free-men.
And it knew not Courts of Admiralty; So that if the New Charter have them not, it is not the Loss of the Old One that has Lost them. Yea, The Deficiencies were so many, That the Kings Attorney General declared, the Two Lord-Chief Justices and Solicitor General Concurring with him; That Supposing the Judgment against the Massachuset-Charter to be Reversed, yet, if the Government should exert such Powers as before the Quo Warranto against the Charter they thought it necessary to do, there would now be a Writ of Scire facias issued out against them in Westminster Hall, and their Charter-Privileges would undoubtedly be taken from them.
And it knew not Courts of Admiralty; So that if the New Charter have them not, it is not the Loss of the Old One that has Lost them. Yea, The D•ficiencies were so many, That the Kings Attorney General declared, the Two Lord-ChiefJustices and Sollicitor General Concurring with him; That Supposing the Judgment against the Massachuset-Charter to be Reversed, yet, if the Government should exert such Powers as before the Quo Warranto against the Charter they tho't it necessary to do, there would now be a Writ of Scire facias issued out against them in Westminster Hall, and their Charter-Privileges would undoubtedly be taken from them.