Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

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.

It was moreover Considered, That if the Judgment against the Old Charter had been fully Reversed by Act of Parliament, (which Mr. Mather had so much Laboured for,) the Massachuset-Colony would, for all that, have been reduced into Miserable Circumstances.

The Province of Main, as to the Government, would have been taken from them. Hampshire and Plymouth would have been put under a Governor sent from England. This Governor would have had the Power of the Militia, as well ⟨p. 140⟩