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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
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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.
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⟩as the Courts of Admiralty, in the Massachuset-Colony.
The Province of Main, as to the Government, would have been taken from them. Hampshire and Plymouth would have been put under a Governour sent from England. This Governour would have had the Power of the Militia, as well ⟨p. 140⟩as the Courts of Admiralty, in the Massachuset-Colony.
How much of its Trade had Boston Lost? What an Insignificant Atom had the Colony been Squeezed into! If they had Exerted Powers, without which they could not have Comfortably or Tolerably Subsisted, Perpetual Complaints would have been made against them. Its probable They would have been at more Charge every Year, to answer Complaints, than they would have been to Support their Governor. And how long must they have lain under their Impotency, Saying, Sir, I have no Man to help me!
How much of its Trade had Boston Lost? What an Insignificant Atom had the Colony been Squeez•d into! If they had Exerted Powers, without which they could not have Comfortably or Tolerably Subsisted, Perpetual Complaints would have been made against them. Its probable They would have been at more Charge every Year, to answer Complaints, than they would have been to Support their Governour. And how long must they have lain under their Impotency, Saying, Syr, I have no Man to help me!